We live on the edge of a body of water

Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder Haruomi Hosono is being written about again in Western mainstream media because of his soundtrack for Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d'Or winner Shoplifters but in other better parts of the world his influence is as constant as that of Ralf and Florian. In a 1980 interview with an astonished Rolling Stone Hosono said of YMO's use of technology: "If we put it in a very Oriental way, it’s none of these, not positive and not negative". The pioneering electronica musician does not however call himself as a pioneer:

"I've never tried to be a pioneer, I just did what I wanted to do. But for these 40 or 50 years, as I've started doing all these different types of music, the world gradually caught up with what I was doing and I slowly built up a fan base. But all this time I've just being doing what I wanted to do. I haven't had to answer to anyone or tried to be a pioneer or anything like that, just play my own music."

Hosono's 1978 album Pacific is a mish-mash of Dennis Wilson, surf bands, Hawaiian music and ambient shoegaze not a million miles away from where Khruangbin are now. Medicine Compilation - From The Quiet Lodge ‎(1993) sits nicely alongside Chicane.

Hosono has a new/old album out soon.