Yukihiro Takahashi

Websitehttp://www.room66plus.com Twitterhttps://twitter.com/room66plus Yukihiro Takahashi was a Japanese musician who was best known as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra. Yukihiro Takahashi first came to prominence as the drummer of the Sadistic Mika Bandhttps://anilist.co/staff/346838and later released a solo album before joining Ryuichi Sakamotohttps://anilist.co/staff/104643/SakamotoRyuuichi and Haruomi Hosonohttps://anilist.co/staff/134697 in 1978 to form Yellow Magic Orchestrahttps://anilist.co/staff/348229/. After Yellow Magic Orchestra disbanded in the mid 80s Takahashi continued his solo careerbut would also participate in temporary reunions of both the Sadistic Mika Band Yellow Magic Orchestra. In 2002 Takahashi would reunite with YMO bandmate Haruomi Hosono to form the duo Sketch Showwhich later performed live shows with their other YMO bandmate Ryuichi Sakamoto under the name Human Audio Sponge. They would reform in 2007 taking the name HASYMO or HAS/YMO combining the names of Human Audio Sponge and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Their first single under this name Rescue was written for the anime film Appleseed EX Machina. In 2014 Takahashi would form the supergroup METAFIVE initially known as Yukihiro Takahashi Metafivethe bands first single Split Spirit would later serve as an ending theme for Ghost in the Shell: Arise Takahashi died from brain cancer on January 14 2023 at the age of 70.