'' B-2 Unit '' is the second solo

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album by Japanese musician

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, released in 1980. The lead single "Riot in Lagos" was a highly influential

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, significant to the development of electro,

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and

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music, and considered one of the most important tracks in the history of

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. It is also one of the first albums to feature the influential

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drum machine, which "Riot in Lagos" is credited for introducing to clubs.

Production

The then brand new Roland TR-808, prior to the

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's official release in 1980, was rented out to Sakamoto's band

Yellow Magic Orchestra Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated to YMO) was a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals, occasional keyboards) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, ...

(YMO). Sakamoto's solo album ''B-2 Unit'' was one of the first albums to use the 808, while its lead single "Riot in Lagos" was one of the first tracks featuring the 808. Sakamoto drew inspiration from

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music, notably

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ians such as

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and Tony Allen, reinterpreting the genre's rhythmic structures in the context of electronic music. During production, Sakamoto was travelling between Japan, England and Germany. After working at

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's studio in Germany, Sakamoto then travelled to

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where he recorded the lead single "Riot in Lagos" at

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producer

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's new studio before it had been fully built. Bovell, who was a fan of Sakamoto and YMO, recalled that Sakamoto brought over various new

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, including a Prophet-10

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before it was officially released. Bovell also rented a 3M 24-track

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and

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equipment from producer

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, who Bovell's friend knew. Sakamoto played the drum track, which he had previously written down on

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sheets, while telling Bovell when to start and stop recording. After recording, he then asked Bovell to "cut it up" and dub the track using his prior experience with

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. The song was produced and recorded in several hours.

Reception and impact

The album, and its lead single "Riot in Lagos" in particular, had a significant influence on the development of electro, hip hop and techno music in the 1980s. "Riot in Lagos" was a cult hit in nightclubs around the world. The track is considered an early example of electro music (also known as electrofunk), as it anticipated the beats and sounds of electro. The track is also credited with putting the influential Roland TR-808 drum machine "in the clubs for the first time" with "a new body music" that "foretold the future" of music according to

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. The track was listed by ''

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'' as one of the 50 key important events in the history of

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, listing it at number six. Early electro and hip hop producers, such as

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and

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, were influenced by the album—especially "Riot in Lagos"—Bambaataa and Mantronik cited the track as a major influence, especially on the former's seminal " Planet Rock" (1982) and the latter's formation of electro hip hop group

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. Sakamoto's use of squelching bounce sounds and mechanical beats was incorporated in a number of early American electro and hip hop tracks, such as " Message II (Survival)" by

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and Duke Bootee (1982), " Magic's Wand" (1982) by

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and

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, "Electric Kingdom" (1983) by Twilight 22, and '' The Album'' (1985) by Mantronix. ''

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'' said the track "Riot in Lagos" anticipated the sounds of

and

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, and that it inspired numerous artists from cities such as

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and

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. Peter Tasker of ''

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'' said it was influential on techno, hip hop and

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. "Riot in Lagos" was later included in Playgroup's

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''Kings of Electro'' (2007), alongside other significant electro compositions, such as

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's "Al-Naafyish" (1983). Hip hop producers such as Bambaataa and Mantronix, as well as electronic producers such as

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and

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, drew inspiration from the song and album. "Riot in Lagos" also influenced

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creators, with similarities to early

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productions such as Cybotron's " Clear" (1983). British

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and

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DJ Fabio also cited "Riot in Lagos" as an early influence on his career, calling it "the most incredible tune." In the United Kingdom, the track was

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by drum and bass group Foul Play, as well as Denise Motto,

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, M-D-Emm and

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during the 1980s to 1990s. The track "Differencia" has, according to ''

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'', "relentless tumbling beats and a stabbing

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that foreshadows

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by nearly a decade". Some tracks on the album also foreshadow genres such as IDM,

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, and

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, and the work of producers such as

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and

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. According to''

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'', "''B-2 Unit'' still sounds futuristic" with tracks such as "E-3A" looking "ahead to

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’ idyllic ’90s

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." According to Logan Takahashi writing for ''

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'', "E-3A" is "offering a hint of the decade to come with its IDM-leaning cut-up complexities" and the "main arpeggiating thumb piano also wouldn’t sound too out of place in the club today in both its sound quality and swing."

Legacy

According to ''

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'', the album "proved influential for the artists developing the sound of hip-hop" in the early 1980s. According to ''

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'', the album is often cited as a key text in the history of techno, demonstrating "future directions of electronic sound that might now be recognised as Chicago footwork,

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’ ‘ mutant disco’ and early

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." According to ''

'' and ''

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'', the album anticipated the sounds of

and

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(IDM). According to ''

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'', "the entire album eschewed traditional song structures for atmosphere and tone, anticipating the rebellious wave of 1990s IDM and electronic music a full decade beforehand." According to ''

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'', the album predated Kraftwerk's ''

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'' (1981), Bambaataa's " Planet Rock" (1982) and Aphex Twin when it came to "spinning yarns that were both descriptive and prescriptive, sketching the musical world that he alone lived in, and in the bargain, shaping the world around him into something bigger, something humming with possibility." According to ''

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'' in 2023, "the future-facing record sounded like nothing else at the time, and still sounds fresh and experimental four decades later." According to ''

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'', the "album sounds so current and fully electronic that you can stump people who simply will not believe that they are hearing something made forty-three years ago." ''

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'' listed "Riot in Lagos" as one of the best techno songs of all time. According to

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, "Riot in Lagos" along with other Sakamoto and YMO works "became a guiding light for the burgeoning hip-hop and techno communities." According to ''Resident Advisor'', the track was "a collection of bleeps and bloops that predicted both rap and techno" and "straight-up envisioned the shape of

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to come, its series of strange, mallet-like instruments and huffing drum machines inspiring legions" of "artists from Tokyo,

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, Detroit and beyond." According to '' AV Club'', the track was "an early electro song that helped lay the groundwork for modern dance music." According to ''Music Radar'', it was "a visionary synth jam that influenced Afrika Bambataa and Kurtis Mantronik, helping to lay the groundwork for the birth of electro and hip-hop in the United States." According to ''

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'', "Riot in Lagos" left "its mark on the spheres of electro and drum and bass." ''The Baffler'' described the track as "Afrobeat becomes

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becomes skittering android

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." According to Raphael Helfand and Jordan Darville of ''

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'', the track "prefigured the next 20 years of dance music." According to '' GQ'' in 2023, "Riot in Lagos" along with other Sakamoto works "shaped the way music sounds today" in addition to influencing

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s defined by "blips and bloops" including

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, computer interfaces and

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. According to Alexis Petridis of ''The Guardian'', "Riot in Lagos" had a long-lasting impact that "cast a considerable shadow over" dance music, "helped shape the sound of electro and turned the head of hip-hop producers" while still remaining "an astonishingly timeless and effervescent piece of electronica: if you didn’t know it and were told it was released last month, rather than 42 years ago, you’d believe it."

Track listing

Personnel

– music, composer, producer, arranger, engineer *Tadashi Kumihara – music * Kenji Omura – music *

Andy Partridge Andrew John Partridge (born 11 November 1953) is an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer best known for co-founding the band XTC. He and Colin Moulding each acted as a songwriter and frontman for XTC, with Partridge writing a ...

– music *

Hideki Matsutake Hideki Matsutake (born August 12, 1951 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese composer, arranger, and computer programmer. He is known for his pioneering work in electronic music and particularly music programming, as the assist ...

– programmer, computer programming *

– engineer *Mitsuo Koike – engineer * Yasuhiko Terada – engineer

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1980 albums Ryuichi Sakamoto albums