Horizon Records SP-736 Stereo 1978

Yellow Magic Orchestra is the first album by Japanese electropop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. Originally released in Japan in 1978, the album was re-released in the United States the following year with new cover art, a more American-friendly mixing (highlighting a punchier equalization and the use of reverb) and without the closing track of "Acrobat". Both would later be re-issued in 2003 as a double-disc format, with the American version as the first disc.

The album was intended to be a one-off project for producer and bass player Haruomi Hosono and the two session musicians he had hired: drummer Yukihiro Takahashi and keyboard player Ryuichi Sakamoto; the trio were to recreate Martin Denny's hit "Firecracker", as well as other original compositions, with modern electronics. The project proved highly popular, culminating in a career for the three musicians; one that would last until 1983, before successful solo careers and reunions over the decades to come.

"Firecracker" was released as a single under the name "Computer Game". As such, on early US pressings of the album, "Computer Game 'Theme from The Circus'" and "Firecracker" were combined as one track, while the firecracker sound effect at the end of the track was indexed by itself as "Firecracker". This was corrected on later pressings. Both "Computer Game" tracks proper contain the same audio and were made to sound as if both games were being played in the same room; each track being from the perspective of its titular game unit.

Side 1.

1. "Computer Game 'Theme from The Circus'"
2. "Firecracker"
3. "Simoon"
4. "Cosmic Surfin"
5. "Computer Game 'Theme from The Invader'"

Side 2.

1. "Yellow Magic (Tong Poo)"
2. "La femme chinoise"
3. "Bridge Over Troubled Music"
4. "Mad Pierrot"