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  Logic System - Logic [PROT-7104 JPN 2021 24-Bit FLAC] Originally released on the Express Records label in Japan during 1981, and then worldwide from 1982 on EMI Records. This album was carefully remastered & repressed onto pristine vinyl for the Japanese reissue market a few months back. If you watch those early YMO live performances on the net, you will notice a young chap in the background surrounded by banks of processors and sound generators, all with blinking lights and enough wiring to connect a small first world nation. He is Hideki Matsutake and he is a true pioneer of synthpop - Logic System is his alter ego and Logic was his debut album. These days, you can reproduce Matsutake's sounds on a small laptop in your kitchen, however here is an original master of electronica doing it all in full analogue.  A1 Intro A2 Unit A3 Domino Dance A4 (天変地異) Convulsion Of Nature A5 XY? B1 Talk Back B2 Clash (Chinjyu Of Sun) B3 Person To Person B...

  Logic System - Venus [WWSLP 35 FRA 2020 24-Bit FLAC] Originally released in Japan as a vinyl album on Express Records (ETP-90139) in 1981. Ripped here from a 2020 repress in bottle green from Wewantsounds. Hideki Matsutake is Logic System. The former technical assistant to Isao Tomita became integral to  Yellow Magic Orchestra, not as an official member, rather their programmer and performed as part of their live show. Using a combination of classic Moog III, Prophet 5, Roland MC-8 & TR808 and a Yamaha GS-1, he composes a mixture of the breezy ambient, Japanese techtronics and pounding euro-beat. The album, recorded in the USA even evolves into slick jazz-funk complete with chorus harmonies. Matsutake remains one of the unsung heroes of Japanese electronica, who transported his skills into the j-pop world, working with many modern artists through the decades. Further evidence that one does not need a wizard's cloak and a silly hat/hair/beard combo to be consid...