Gosanke: Techno Gosanke（テクノ御三家）

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The whole thing about starting this Gosanke（御三家...The Big Three） file in the first place was on finding out about the Techno Gosanke as I was about to write an article on the technopop band Hikashu（ヒカシュー）for the first time back in October. Seeing how I already knew about the original Gosanke and the Shin-Gosanke and then discovering that there was a Techno Gosanke, I was inspired to find out whether there were other media-inspired gosanke trios for easy identification.

As I mentioned in Hikashu's "Atarashii Buzoku"（新しい部族）, the Techno Gosanke included the three bands Hikashu, P-Model and The Plastics（プラスチックス）. Why Yellow Magic Orchestra hadn't been included remains a mystery to me (although perhaps they were seen as being too big to belong in any conglomeration), but the fact that I could identify those other three bands easily now is fine to me. In any case, whereas The Plastics got their start as a band in 1976, P-Model and The Plastics debuted in 1979, so I will go with that year as a source year. Though the media may have coined the label of the Techno Gosanke for them, I don't think that the name was ever used in any promotions for them to show up together on TV shows and the like.

Plastics -- Top Secret Man

P-Model -- Art Mania

Hikashu -- Atarashii Buzoku（新しい部族）