Murdered by the Music
Murdered by the Music, also known as Ongaku Satsujin in Japan, is the second studio album by Japanese multi-instrumentalist Yukihiro Takahashi, released on June 21, 1980 by Seven Seas via King Records. Murdered by the Music was released whilst Takahashi was an active member of the Yellow Magic Orchestra. As well as his YMO bandmates Ryuichi Sakamoto and Haruomi Hosono, and longtime YMO collaborator Hideki Matsutake, the album also features contributions from Sandii and Makoto Ayukawa of Sheena & the Rokkets.
In Japan, the album reached No. 12 on the general Oricon chart, and No. 14 on the Oricon LP chart.
Personnel
- Yukihiro Takahashi - Producer, Arranger, Lead Vocals, Vocoder, Drums, Percussion
- Ryuichi Sakamoto - Synthesizers, Synthesizer Programming, Electric & Acoustic Piano, Vocoder
- Haruomi Hosono - Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar
- Sandii - Backing Vocals
- Hideki Matsutake - Computer Operator
- Kenji Omura - Electric Guitar
- Makoto Ayukawa - Electric Guitar
- "Teppei" Kasai - Engineer
- Toshiro Itoh - Engineer
- Seiichi Chiba - Recording Engineer
- Chris Mosdell - Lyrics, Quasimutanic voice
- Mitsuru Torii - Art Direction
- "Bricks" - Costume
- "Donbay" Nagata - Equipment Co-ordinator
- Mikio Honda - Hair & Make Up
- Hiroshi Okura - Management
- Yoichi Itoh - Production Co-ordinator
- Kenji Ando - Recording Director
- Masayoshi Sukita - Photography