Released: 2005

a remembrance of Ali's life through known highlights and B-sides from his catalog

no shotgun marriage of styles

far from being a simple tool to promote their albums

He began hanging out with two fellow heads from the British hip-hop scene

Yellow Magic Orchestra - X∞Multiplies blues Released: 2005Japanese electropop band, formed in 1978. The principal members are Haruomi Hosono (bass), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards). The band was originally conceived as a one off studio project by Hosono, the other two members being recruited session musicians the idea was to produce an album fusing orientalist exotica (cf their cover version of Martin Denny's Firecracker) with modern electronics. However the first album (with its