Yutaka Kimura Speaks ~ Japanese City Pop Masterpieces 100: Yukihiro Takahashi & Ryuichi Sakamoto -- Elastic Dummy

Number: 017

Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto

Arrangers: Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi

From Takahashi's 1978 album: "Saravah!"

 "Elastic Dummy" is a funky instrumental tune with help from Haruomi Hosono（細野晴臣）and Sakamoto（坂本龍一）which stands out for its compressed essence of 1970s Tokyo City Pop. If you listen to this song, you should be able to understand how rapid the change from City Pop to Technopop was (the first YMO album came out a mere 5 months after this). That wonderful guitar solo at the end was by Tsunehide Matsuki（松木恒秀）.

The above comes from "Disc Collection Japanese City Pop Revised" (2020).