The album experimented with different styles, such as 'Thousand Knives' and 'The End of Asia'-in which electronic music was fused with traditional Japanese music-while 'Grasshoppers' is a more minimalistic piano song. Sakamoto released his first solo album Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto in mid-1978 with the help of Hideki Matsutake-Hosono also contributed to the song 'Thousand Knives'. Sakamoto's composition 'Technopolis' (1979) was credited as a contribution to the development of techno music, while the internationally successful 'Behind the Mask' (1978)-a synthpop song in which he sang vocals through a vocoder-was later covered by a number of international artists, including Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton. He also sang on several songs, such as 'Kimi ni Mune Kyun' (1983). Sakamoto was the songwriter and composer for a number of the band's hit songs-including 'Yellow Magic (Tong Poo)' (1978), 'Technopolis' (1979), 'Nice Age' (1980), 'Ongaku' (1983) and 'You've Got to Help Yourself' (1983)-while playing keyboards for many of their other songs, including international hits such as 'Computer Game/Firecracker' (1978) and 'Rydeen' (1979). The group's work has had a lasting influence across genres, ranging from hip hop and techno to acid house and general melodic music. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as electropop/technopop, synthpop, cyberpunk music, ambient house, and electronica. After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) in 1978.

In 1975, Sakamoto collaborated with percussionist Tsuchitori Toshiyuki to release Disappointment-Hateruma.

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