WFMU: Radio Ravioli with Olivia: Playlist from April 3, 2023

Listener comments!
	2:58pm G: Rave-ioli
	3:00pm lazy pierogi: Rad-violi
	3:01pm Acid Cazh: I could use some spiked ravioli right now
	3:02pm listener james from westwood: Howdy, Olivia and all!
	3:02pm G: What shape are freeform ravioli?
	3:02pm Phillippe: Howdy! Carb forward!
	3:02pm Krys O.: ↳ G @3:02 Fractal
	🍝 3:02pm Destroit: Mmm ravioli
	3:03pm Chris Hiatt: Make sure the water to boil is as salty as the sea.
	3:03pm olivia: hey everybody! grateful to be here wit yall!
	3:04pm DjLorraine: Deep in ravioli
	3:04pm Andres: Good aft, Olivia and all. Ravioli for dinner tonight. Is it coincidence? I’m not sure.
	🍝 3:06pm Ken From Hyde Park: April showers bring ravioli flowers!
	3:06pm winston legthigh: The word "Ravioli" is derived from an old Italian word i.e. riavvolgere, which means "to wrap."
	3:06pm Zulnutt: RIP to an absolute titan. Thanks for highlighting Sakamoto today!
	3:09pm olivia: ↳ Zulnutt @3:06 Yes, RIP. This news made me sad, but trying to view it as an opportunity to sit with his inspiring music for the afternoon.
	3:13pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ olivia @3:09 Looking forward to this, because I am not as familiar as I should be and now he's gone. Saw a bunch of movies long ago that he did music for, but I'm sure there's a lot more.
	3:14pm joe mulligan: ↳ olivia @3:09 thanks for the Ryuichi tribute, Olivia, been praying for him over the recent months and knew he was struggling, so yes now we should celebrate all the great contributions he made to new and exciting music
	3:15pm olivia: ↳ joe mulligan @3:14 Sad but true, at least he's not in pain anymore.
	3:16pm joe mulligan: true! he went out like David Bowie, with a swansong release in 2023 and also a remote live performance recently, making music until the very end. always contributing.
	3:17pm Ironside: ↳ Chris Hiatt @3:13 A good recent gateway to Sakamoto is the documentary about him called Coda. It's an incredible and beautiful film and will give you a decent overview of his career, both with YMO and solo.
	3:17pm ?: Hello Olivia and fellow ravioli lovers!
	3:18pm olivia: ↳ Ironside @3:17 I've never watched that! Thanks for the rec, Ironside!
	3:18pm olivia: ↳ @3:17 yo!!
	3:19pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Ironside @3:17 Thanks for the rec!
	3:23pm Marie In Queens: ↳ @3:17 I AM "?" !
	3:23pm olivia: ↳ Marie In Queens @3:23 ahh heyy Marie :-)
	3:24pm Jesse Dorris: Love this Justin Strauss mix. He left a really beautiful appreciation on his IG.
	3:28pm olivia: ↳ Jesse Dorris @3:24 hey JEsse! Oh I didn't see that, I gotta check it out
	3:28pm olivia: ↳ olivia @3:28 will you be doing a tribute later tn?
	3:33pm Jesse Dorris: ↳ olivia @3:28 Yes I think so! If I can get it together. Loving yours! Also a tribute to Seymour Stein, probably, RIP. Giants falling kind of weekend!
	3:33pm Michael 98145: Just regained the Interweb to find this great set
	3:34pm olivia: ↳ Jesse Dorris @3:33 ooof! ugh! yes </3
	3:36pm Tim S: I had never heard of Sakamoto, these tracks are great. Thanks for the tribute
	3:39pm ?: ↳ Song: "Love Is The Devil" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" this song is so juicy sounding. I thought something was leaking under the sink here
	3:39pm Michael 98145: head on fire
	3:43pm olivia: ↳ @3:39 I like the idea of describing something as sounding "juicy"
	3:45pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "Replica" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" I'd be psyched to play this bass clarinet line over and over. Therapeutic.
	3:46pm ?: ↳ olivia @3:43 Maybe it’s my speakers but my brain is hearing bloopy bubbles and spritzing instead of sparks and fire.
	3:47pm olivia: ↳ @3:46 nah its definitely bloopy bubbles and spritzing! my head felt on fire cuz it was just pulsing with energy from all the beats. but you're right, it was wet and juicy!
	3:49pm http_dot_biz: Hii Olivia thanks for playing Ryuichi <3
	3:50pm olivia: ↳ http_dot_biz @3:49 hi hi hi! of course <3
	3:54pm fred: ↳ olivia @3:18 There's also a much older doc called Tokyo Melody: youtu.be... It's from the Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia era and features him showing off his brand new sampler (with those old big floppy disks)
	3:56pm olivia: ↳ fred @3:54 oh nice! I wanna watch it. Thanks for letting me know
	3:56pm DjLorraine: ↳ fred @3:54 Nice find! Thanks Fred
	4:00pm Hunterian: This music is amazing—thanks so much for your tribute
	4:01pm Zulnutt: Phew
	4:01pm DjLorraine: I think there is a white Bronco on tv being followed/s.
	4:04pm Hunterian: ↳ fred @3:54 Thanks, Fred!
	4:07pm http_dot_biz: i just watched Tokyo Melody it is a fun watch - from french tv specials on music artists. it is where all the funny meme looking image grabs of him are coming from. talking about debussy lolol
	4:09pm T GRavel: THanks so much for this Olivia Wonderful to bask in the Sakamoto
	4:10pm fred: I have so many personal memories tied to his music...
	4:11pm olivia: ↳ T GRavel @4:09 ha, I like that way of phrasing it "basking in sakamoto"
	4:13pm Jesse Dorris: This Fennesz remodel is such a swoon
	4:17pm Jill Kroesen: So glad you’re playing this!!
	4:20pm Ike: Greetings, humans!
	4:20pm Rich in Washington: Little Marcy records are super easy to come by in thrift stores up here. I think I have something like 30 of them.
	4:23pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Rich in Washington @4:20 and they're all cursed. Every one of them.
	4:24pm Gary: Thank you for sharing all this wonderful music.
	4:25pm Jesse Dorris: ↳ Song: "Rare Force 2 meg mix" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" Gotta dig this 12" out of my stacks, there are some really good mixes though this is the best
	4:27pm olivia: ↳ Jesse Dorris @4:25 god that was SO GOOD
	4:27pm Rich in Washington: I'm listening to two shows at once and commenting on the wrong one. Jeezus. Sorry.
	4:30pm jelena: Japanese David Bowie, thank you.
	4:31pm olivia: that's iggy pop on vocals! he sounds great
	4:32pm Barefoot Jimmy G: You are breaking my heart.
	4:33pm TDK60: Good afternoon, Olivia DJ.
	4:33pm officina: Thanks for a great show Oli.
	4:35pm Marie In Queens: Hey, really enjoying the show. I know almost nothing about Sakamoto. I just heard about him for the first time because he was up for an Oscar for a soundtrack score. BTW, I am having kind of a ravioli for dinner--a bean and cheese burrito
	4:36pm chresti: Hi Olivia and raviolis! Listening and after work decompressing..
	4:37pm JtotheK: Enjoying the show today, thanks for all the Sakamoto tunes.
	4:39pm DjLorraine: Earlier i was thinking the vocal was Peter Murphy ish (who had a Japanese bassist, i think)
	4:40pm JtotheK: And! When I saw the news come through yesterday, I thought of an article in the Times from a few years ago, about how he offered (at no charge!) to put a playlist together for one of his favorite restaurants because he thought there was room for improvement on the current playlist. And the level of effort / intention in really trying to match the music to a mood/environment.
	4:42pm DjLorraine: ↳ Rich in Washington @4:20 Ya had me checking the song list, which is good
	4:42pm olivia: ↳ JtotheK @4:40 I love this story hahaha.
	4:43pm JtotheK: ↳ olivia @4:42 The article I referenced: www.nytimes.com...
	4:43pm geegee vindaloo: I was a huge YMO fan back in the 80s, will miss him
	4:46pm Jill Kroesen: What an astonishing variety of styles!! Lots of beauty!
	4:46pm Bernardo: Sakamoto did the Revenant soundtrack which is full of some pretty dreamy / trippy atmospheric sounds
	4:48pm joe mulligan: ↳ Song: "Risky" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" loved "Risky", they played that a lot on WKDU Drexel radio in 1987 while i was a freshman in college.
	4:49pm northguineahills: please tell me i didn't miss sakamoto w/ alva noto!
	4:50pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Salty (feat. Ryuichi Sakamoto)" by "KAZU" Kazu Makino!!!!!??!!!!
	4:50pm TDK60: This is Kazu from Blonde Redhead, eh?
	4:50pm northguineahills: (never heard her do solo work).
	4:50pm northguineahills: ↳ TDK60 @4:50 yes!!!
	4:54pm olivia: ↳ northguineahills @4:50 yes!!
	4:55pm joe mulligan: one cool thing is that many of us were probably first introduced to Ryuichi Sakamoto in the early 80s through "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" because it was commonly selected for olympic ice skater routines.
	4:57pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ olivia @4:31 Yah totally in good voice.
	4:57pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Monomom" by "Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto" and, i did miss alva noto w/ sakamoto (have this album), saw them live once together.
	5:01pm DjLorraine: ↳ DjLorraine @4:39 Oops, was from the band Japan, Mick Karn.
	5:01pm Imgur: Love this version of Tong Poo!
	5:02pm fred: ↳ joe mulligan @4:55 My introduction was weirder: I was skipping classes in college and went to a record store where he happened to be signing Beauty. I hadn't heard of him at all, took a chance and got that record signed, and got my mind blown at no extra charge
	5:03pm joe mulligan: ↳ Song: "Tong Poo" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" definitely hear Ryuichi's influence on Chilly Gonzales on this track
	5:04pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Tong Poo" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" It’s all been great but this is incredible!!
	5:04pm joe mulligan: ↳ fred @5:02 very cool, what city was that in Fred?
	5:05pm northguineahills: ↳ fred @5:02 yep, fred usually has cooler/weirder stories than i.
	5:06pm Chris Hiatt: Skimming Sakamoto's bio, what a cool guy. And mad prolific!
	5:06pm joe mulligan: ↳ Andres @5:04 so life affirming it can drive you to tears knowing what he went through
	5:06pm fred: ↳ joe mulligan @5:04 Paris, France
	5:07pm northguineahills: I have to admit, the first sakamoto record (ok, cd) I got (that wasn't a piece on a comp), is when I got a record goodie bag from some record label while djing. It was one of the few times I got something cool from one of those...
	🍝 5:07pm diciassette: Ahoy Olivia and listeners. Thank you for making me realize I should be listening to Ryuichi Sakamoto all day and drinking Green Eyebrow tea.
	5:07pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Storm" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" lol!
	5:08pm fred: In Tokyo Melody there's a scene when he plays Tong Poo on piano with his then wife Akiko Yano
	🍝 5:10pm diciassette: ↳ fred @5:08 ‼️ :0
	5:10pm Michael 98145: This truly -is- a show for the Archive !
	5:13pm fred: ↳ Song: "the end of europe" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" One of my all time faves (of which I have a lot, granted)
	5:14pm Malcontent: Olivia, check out the tune "Chinsagu No Hana" on the "Next Wave New Music America 10th Anniversary" compilation. An ensemble of samisens... will break your heart.
	5:16pm fred: ↳ Malcontent @5:14 It's the last track on Beauty, and I love it so much (first track I listened to when I heard the news)
	5:17pm tim from washington: Hi Olivia! Just tuning in. I obviously need to go right back to the beginning after the show.
	5:20pm Marie In Queens: I was just thinking, maybe an AI chatbot could be programmed to be loving (I don't mean sexual) but just loving in its tone. Bet it would be popular
	5:21pm Marie In Queens: thought above after listening to "We Love You" @)
	5:21pm olivia: dang i love how he includes the sound of the feet and the page rustling
	5:21pm Michael 98145: ↳ Marie In Queens @5:20 It is probably already out there ...
	5:21pm Marie In Queens: ↳ Michael 98145 @5:21 I'd say you're right
	5:22pm Marie In Queens: It would have a love algorithm
	🍝 5:23pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "lamento" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" ah! 💔
	5:23pm Marie In Queens: ↳ Song: "lamento" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" (heart)!
	5:24pm fred: ↳ Song: "Chinsagu No Hana" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" Thanks!!!
	5:27pm Jill Kroesen: Great job on this tribute, Olivia!!! ❤️❤️
	5:27pm olivia: ↳ Jill Kroesen @5:27 Thanks Jill! <3 <3
	5:29pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Chinsagu No Hana" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" Beautiful.
	5:30pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Chinsagu No Hana" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" "Beauty" indeed
	5:34pm Malcontent: ↳ Song: "Chinsagu No Hana" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" Thanks Olivia. There's now a puddle of tears at my feet. Five years ago, I was doing some ethnographic work in Nakano City, the ward of Tokyo where Sakamoto is from. Low level Yakuza on every corner, bars stacked two or three high, crowded, busy, noisy. The idea that such a noisy neighborhood could produce such a beautiful sensibility stayed in my mind the whole trip.
	5:35pm fred: I think Esperanto was the soundtrack to a dance show. As a contemporary dance freak, I would have loved to see that
	5:40pm Marie In Queens: So creative he was
	5:41pm alanr: This is called excellent curating of the large body of work, with all the emotion it deserves. Gracias. Adios Ryuichi.
	5:41pm Frank Damnit: Shit is fire
	5:44pm Borg9: Spellbound by your show, Olivia.
	5:46pm fred: Later in my college years, I had my mother knit a sweater with a YMO logo in front and the band members names in the back (in kanji). I still have it, of course
	5:49pm Michael 98145: ↳ fred @5:46 - wow -
	5:49pm Mike From Brooklyn: Thanks for all of the Ryuichi Sakamoto music Olivia.
	5:49pm Zulnutt: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
	5:50pm Chris Hiatt: Wow he left us with a treasure trove of good sounds. Amazing...
	5:51pm efd: this has been an amazing show, Olivia!
	5:51pm fred: I once saw a concert by Yellow Magic Harpsichord. That project is exactly what the name implies
	5:52pm joe mulligan: thanks for the wonderful tribute Olivia, this is exactly what I needed to hear today
	5:54pm northguineahills: beautiful, thanks, Olivia!
	5:54pm Bernardo: yeah wow thanks....i had no idea the vast body of work he created...going to have to be on a Sakamoto jag rest of the week!
	5:55pm alanr: And it will remain in the archive to listen again and share. I love WFMU!
	5:55pm Marie In Queens: Thanks for the great show, Olivia!
	5:55pm Michael 98145: That was -phenomenal- thank you, Olivia
	5:56pm lazy pierogi: <333
	🍝 5:56pm diciassette: Brava Olivia! Thank you thank you
	5:57pm Michael 98145: Now. What was i -supposed- to be doing today??
	5:57pm chresti: Thanks olivia!
	5:58pm Juli: ↳ Song: "Moving On" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" I missed it due to work Beautiful work
	5:58pm Matt: Wonderful show. Thank you Olivia!
	🍝 5:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Olivia. Good thing Techtonic is next because my spy-a-ma-phone knows what I'm listening to and recommends a Cheese Ravioli With Lemon-Artichoke Sauce recipe. 🍽️
	5:58pm listener james from westwood: Exquisite. Thanks, Olivia!
	5:58pm Juli: Thanks Olivia
	5:59pm t Gravel: Thanks Olivia!
	5:59pm Zulnutt: Thank you Olivia! A beautiful tribute.
	5:59pm merl ravenscroft: sad but I favd this one! thank you
	5:59pm listener 126464: Thank you, Olivia.
	5:59pm Juli: It’s not weird to be sad I think it’s weird not to feel :::)
	6:00pm Hugh: Thx for all the Sakamoto choonz!
	6:01pm Michael 98145: ↳ Juli @5:59 Exactly
	🍝 6:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Sorry, how gauche! Here is: www.tastingtable.com...
	9:28am ifeelfatnsassy: Just dropping this here for posterity... this is a youtube playlist of the songs compiled by Ryuichi Sakamoto to be played at his funeral: www.youtube.com...

Radio Ravioli with Olivia: Playlist from April 3, 2023

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Intimate electronics, bad poetry, tender murk, and tired humans making the best of it. Features live sound collaging, too.

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April 3, 2023: RIP Ryuichi Sakamoto

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Olivia	welcome "welcome" by "Olivia"		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	fullmoon "fullmoon" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	async	0:02:46 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	The Garden of Poppies	Left Handed Dream	0:07:53 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	The End of Asia "The End of Asia" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	Thousand Knives Of Ryuichi Sakamoto	0:13:24 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	You Do Me (the Justin Strauss remix)	12"	0:19:19 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	A Wongga Dance Song	Esperanto	0:27:59 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	Love Is The Devil	Love is the Devil Soundtrack	0:33:16 (Pop-up)

Ryuichi Sakamoto	Replica "Replica" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	Soundbytes	0:40:09 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	Salvation "Salvation" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	Discord	0:45:15 (Pop-up)

Ryuichi Sakamoto	20211201 "20211201" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	12	0:59:24 (Pop-up)
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto	Monomom	Monomom	1:04:38 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto / Fennesz	Amore - Fennesz Remodel	To the Moon and Back	1:10:32 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Taylor Deupree	Ghost Road	Disapperance	1:14:48 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	Rare Force 2 meg mix	Anger / Grief	1:21:31 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	Risky "Risky" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	Neo Geo	1:26:35 (Pop-up)
Ryuchi Sakamoto	Bibo No Aozora "Bibo No Aozora" by "Ryuchi Sakamoto"	Smoochy	1:32:27 (Pop-up)

Ryuchi Sakamoto	Little Buddha "Little Buddha" by "Ryuchi Sakamoto"	Cinemage	1:40:29 (Pop-up)
KAZU	Salty (feat. Ryuichi Sakamoto)	Adult Baby	1:47:02 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	Moving On "Moving On" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	Moving On Remixes	1:53:11 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	Variety Show "Variety Show" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	Futurista	1:56:09 (Pop-up)

Ryuichi Sakamoto	Tong Poo "Tong Poo" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	Back To Basics	2:01:02 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	Storm "Storm" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	L.O.L. (Lack of Love)	2:06:03 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	the end of europe	B-2 Unit	2:09:34 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	We Love You (Remix)	Beauty	2:14:20 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	lamento "lamento" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	Chasm	2:19:19 (Pop-up)

Ryuichi Sakamoto	Chinsagu No Hana	Beauty	2:23:07 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	The Last Emperor - Theme Variation 1	The Last Emperor Soundtrack	2:30:08 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	A Carved Stone "A Carved Stone" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	Esperanto	2:32:25 (Pop-up)
Yellow Magic Orchestra	Simoon "Simoon" by "Yellow Magic Orchestra"	Yellow Magic Orchestra	2:41:06 (Pop-up)
Yellow Magic Orchestra	Technopolis	Solid State Survivor	2:47:17 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	Firewater "Firewater" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	Out of Noise	2:51:29 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	Tamago 2004 "Tamago 2004" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto"	Three	2:55:44 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	2:58pm G: Rave-ioli
	3:00pm lazy pierogi: Rad-violi
	3:01pm Acid Cazh: I could use some spiked ravioli right now
	3:02pm listener james from westwood: Howdy, Olivia and all!
	3:02pm G: What shape are freeform ravioli?
	3:02pm Phillippe: Howdy! Carb forward!
	3:02pm Krys O.: ↳ G @3:02 Fractal
	🍝 3:02pm Destroit: Mmm ravioli
	3:03pm Chris Hiatt: Make sure the water to boil is as salty as the sea.
	3:03pm olivia: hey everybody! grateful to be here wit yall!
	3:04pm DjLorraine: Deep in ravioli
	3:04pm Andres: Good aft, Olivia and all. Ravioli for dinner tonight. Is it coincidence? I’m not sure.
	🍝 3:06pm Ken From Hyde Park: April showers bring ravioli flowers!
	3:06pm winston legthigh: The word "Ravioli" is derived from an old Italian word i.e. riavvolgere, which means "to wrap."
	3:06pm Zulnutt: RIP to an absolute titan. Thanks for highlighting Sakamoto today!
	3:09pm olivia: ↳ Zulnutt @3:06 Yes, RIP. This news made me sad, but trying to view it as an opportunity to sit with his inspiring music for the afternoon.
	3:13pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ olivia @3:09 Looking forward to this, because I am not as familiar as I should be and now he's gone. Saw a bunch of movies long ago that he did music for, but I'm sure there's a lot more.
	3:14pm joe mulligan: ↳ olivia @3:09 thanks for the Ryuichi tribute, Olivia, been praying for him over the recent months and knew he was struggling, so yes now we should celebrate all the great contributions he made to new and exciting music
	3:15pm olivia: ↳ joe mulligan @3:14 Sad but true, at least he's not in pain anymore.
	3:16pm joe mulligan: true! he went out like David Bowie, with a swansong release in 2023 and also a remote live performance recently, making music until the very end. always contributing.
	3:17pm Ironside: ↳ Chris Hiatt @3:13 A good recent gateway to Sakamoto is the documentary about him called Coda. It's an incredible and beautiful film and will give you a decent overview of his career, both with YMO and solo.
	3:17pm ?: Hello Olivia and fellow ravioli lovers!
	3:18pm olivia: ↳ Ironside @3:17 I've never watched that! Thanks for the rec, Ironside!
	3:18pm olivia: ↳ @3:17 yo!!
	3:19pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Ironside @3:17 Thanks for the rec!
	3:23pm Marie In Queens: ↳ @3:17 I AM "?" !
	3:23pm olivia: ↳ Marie In Queens @3:23 ahh heyy Marie :-)
	3:24pm Jesse Dorris: Love this Justin Strauss mix. He left a really beautiful appreciation on his IG.
	3:28pm olivia: ↳ Jesse Dorris @3:24 hey JEsse! Oh I didn't see that, I gotta check it out
	3:28pm olivia: ↳ olivia @3:28 will you be doing a tribute later tn?
	3:33pm Jesse Dorris: ↳ olivia @3:28 Yes I think so! If I can get it together. Loving yours! Also a tribute to Seymour Stein, probably, RIP. Giants falling kind of weekend!
	3:33pm Michael 98145: Just regained the Interweb to find this great set
	3:34pm olivia: ↳ Jesse Dorris @3:33 ooof! ugh! yes </3
	3:36pm Tim S: I had never heard of Sakamoto, these tracks are great. Thanks for the tribute
	3:39pm ?: ↳ Song: "Love Is The Devil" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" this song is so juicy sounding. I thought something was leaking under the sink here
	3:39pm Michael 98145: head on fire
	3:43pm olivia: ↳ @3:39 I like the idea of describing something as sounding "juicy"
	3:45pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "Replica" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" I'd be psyched to play this bass clarinet line over and over. Therapeutic.
	3:46pm ?: ↳ olivia @3:43 Maybe it’s my speakers but my brain is hearing bloopy bubbles and spritzing instead of sparks and fire.
	3:47pm olivia: ↳ @3:46 nah its definitely bloopy bubbles and spritzing! my head felt on fire cuz it was just pulsing with energy from all the beats. but you're right, it was wet and juicy!
	3:49pm http_dot_biz: Hii Olivia thanks for playing Ryuichi <3
	3:50pm olivia: ↳ http_dot_biz @3:49 hi hi hi! of course <3
	3:54pm fred: ↳ olivia @3:18 There's also a much older doc called Tokyo Melody: youtu.be... It's from the Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia era and features him showing off his brand new sampler (with those old big floppy disks)
	3:56pm olivia: ↳ fred @3:54 oh nice! I wanna watch it. Thanks for letting me know
	3:56pm DjLorraine: ↳ fred @3:54 Nice find! Thanks Fred
	4:00pm Hunterian: This music is amazing—thanks so much for your tribute
	4:01pm Zulnutt: Phew
	4:01pm DjLorraine: I think there is a white Bronco on tv being followed/s.
	4:04pm Hunterian: ↳ fred @3:54 Thanks, Fred!
	4:07pm http_dot_biz: i just watched Tokyo Melody it is a fun watch - from french tv specials on music artists. it is where all the funny meme looking image grabs of him are coming from. talking about debussy lolol
	4:09pm T GRavel: THanks so much for this Olivia Wonderful to bask in the Sakamoto
	4:10pm fred: I have so many personal memories tied to his music...
	4:11pm olivia: ↳ T GRavel @4:09 ha, I like that way of phrasing it "basking in sakamoto"
	4:13pm Jesse Dorris: This Fennesz remodel is such a swoon
	4:17pm Jill Kroesen: So glad you’re playing this!!
	4:20pm Ike: Greetings, humans!
	4:20pm Rich in Washington: Little Marcy records are super easy to come by in thrift stores up here. I think I have something like 30 of them.
	4:23pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Rich in Washington @4:20 and they're all cursed. Every one of them.
	4:24pm Gary: Thank you for sharing all this wonderful music.
	4:25pm Jesse Dorris: ↳ Song: "Rare Force 2 meg mix" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" Gotta dig this 12" out of my stacks, there are some really good mixes though this is the best
	4:27pm olivia: ↳ Jesse Dorris @4:25 god that was SO GOOD
	4:27pm Rich in Washington: I'm listening to two shows at once and commenting on the wrong one. Jeezus. Sorry.
	4:30pm jelena: Japanese David Bowie, thank you.
	4:31pm olivia: that's iggy pop on vocals! he sounds great
	4:32pm Barefoot Jimmy G: You are breaking my heart.
	4:33pm TDK60: Good afternoon, Olivia DJ.
	4:33pm officina: Thanks for a great show Oli.
	4:35pm Marie In Queens: Hey, really enjoying the show. I know almost nothing about Sakamoto. I just heard about him for the first time because he was up for an Oscar for a soundtrack score. BTW, I am having kind of a ravioli for dinner--a bean and cheese burrito
	4:36pm chresti: Hi Olivia and raviolis! Listening and after work decompressing..
	4:37pm JtotheK: Enjoying the show today, thanks for all the Sakamoto tunes.
	4:39pm DjLorraine: Earlier i was thinking the vocal was Peter Murphy ish (who had a Japanese bassist, i think)
	4:40pm JtotheK: And! When I saw the news come through yesterday, I thought of an article in the Times from a few years ago, about how he offered (at no charge!) to put a playlist together for one of his favorite restaurants because he thought there was room for improvement on the current playlist. And the level of effort / intention in really trying to match the music to a mood/environment.
	4:42pm DjLorraine: ↳ Rich in Washington @4:20 Ya had me checking the song list, which is good
	4:42pm olivia: ↳ JtotheK @4:40 I love this story hahaha.
	4:43pm JtotheK: ↳ olivia @4:42 The article I referenced: www.nytimes.com...
	4:43pm geegee vindaloo: I was a huge YMO fan back in the 80s, will miss him
	4:46pm Jill Kroesen: What an astonishing variety of styles!! Lots of beauty!
	4:46pm Bernardo: Sakamoto did the Revenant soundtrack which is full of some pretty dreamy / trippy atmospheric sounds
	4:48pm joe mulligan: ↳ Song: "Risky" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" loved "Risky", they played that a lot on WKDU Drexel radio in 1987 while i was a freshman in college.
	4:49pm northguineahills: please tell me i didn't miss sakamoto w/ alva noto!
	4:50pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Salty (feat. Ryuichi Sakamoto)" by "KAZU" Kazu Makino!!!!!??!!!!
	4:50pm TDK60: This is Kazu from Blonde Redhead, eh?
	4:50pm northguineahills: (never heard her do solo work).
	4:50pm northguineahills: ↳ TDK60 @4:50 yes!!!
	4:54pm olivia: ↳ northguineahills @4:50 yes!!
	4:55pm joe mulligan: one cool thing is that many of us were probably first introduced to Ryuichi Sakamoto in the early 80s through "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" because it was commonly selected for olympic ice skater routines.
	4:57pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ olivia @4:31 Yah totally in good voice.
	4:57pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Monomom" by "Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto" and, i did miss alva noto w/ sakamoto (have this album), saw them live once together.
	5:01pm DjLorraine: ↳ DjLorraine @4:39 Oops, was from the band Japan, Mick Karn.
	5:01pm Imgur: Love this version of Tong Poo!
	5:02pm fred: ↳ joe mulligan @4:55 My introduction was weirder: I was skipping classes in college and went to a record store where he happened to be signing Beauty. I hadn't heard of him at all, took a chance and got that record signed, and got my mind blown at no extra charge
	5:03pm joe mulligan: ↳ Song: "Tong Poo" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" definitely hear Ryuichi's influence on Chilly Gonzales on this track
	5:04pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Tong Poo" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" It’s all been great but this is incredible!!
	5:04pm joe mulligan: ↳ fred @5:02 very cool, what city was that in Fred?
	5:05pm northguineahills: ↳ fred @5:02 yep, fred usually has cooler/weirder stories than i.
	5:06pm Chris Hiatt: Skimming Sakamoto's bio, what a cool guy. And mad prolific!
	5:06pm joe mulligan: ↳ Andres @5:04 so life affirming it can drive you to tears knowing what he went through
	5:06pm fred: ↳ joe mulligan @5:04 Paris, France
	5:07pm northguineahills: I have to admit, the first sakamoto record (ok, cd) I got (that wasn't a piece on a comp), is when I got a record goodie bag from some record label while djing. It was one of the few times I got something cool from one of those...
	🍝 5:07pm diciassette: Ahoy Olivia and listeners. Thank you for making me realize I should be listening to Ryuichi Sakamoto all day and drinking Green Eyebrow tea.
	5:07pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Storm" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" lol!
	5:08pm fred: In Tokyo Melody there's a scene when he plays Tong Poo on piano with his then wife Akiko Yano
	🍝 5:10pm diciassette: ↳ fred @5:08 ‼️ :0
	5:10pm Michael 98145: This truly -is- a show for the Archive !
	5:13pm fred: ↳ Song: "the end of europe" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" One of my all time faves (of which I have a lot, granted)
	5:14pm Malcontent: Olivia, check out the tune "Chinsagu No Hana" on the "Next Wave New Music America 10th Anniversary" compilation. An ensemble of samisens... will break your heart.
	5:16pm fred: ↳ Malcontent @5:14 It's the last track on Beauty, and I love it so much (first track I listened to when I heard the news)
	5:17pm tim from washington: Hi Olivia! Just tuning in. I obviously need to go right back to the beginning after the show.
	5:20pm Marie In Queens: I was just thinking, maybe an AI chatbot could be programmed to be loving (I don't mean sexual) but just loving in its tone. Bet it would be popular
	5:21pm Marie In Queens: thought above after listening to "We Love You" @)
	5:21pm olivia: dang i love how he includes the sound of the feet and the page rustling
	5:21pm Michael 98145: ↳ Marie In Queens @5:20 It is probably already out there ...
	5:21pm Marie In Queens: ↳ Michael 98145 @5:21 I'd say you're right
	5:22pm Marie In Queens: It would have a love algorithm
	🍝 5:23pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "lamento" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" ah! 💔
	5:23pm Marie In Queens: ↳ Song: "lamento" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" (heart)!
	5:24pm fred: ↳ Song: "Chinsagu No Hana" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" Thanks!!!
	5:27pm Jill Kroesen: Great job on this tribute, Olivia!!! ❤️❤️
	5:27pm olivia: ↳ Jill Kroesen @5:27 Thanks Jill! <3 <3
	5:29pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Chinsagu No Hana" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" Beautiful.
	5:30pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Chinsagu No Hana" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" "Beauty" indeed
	5:34pm Malcontent: ↳ Song: "Chinsagu No Hana" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" Thanks Olivia. There's now a puddle of tears at my feet. Five years ago, I was doing some ethnographic work in Nakano City, the ward of Tokyo where Sakamoto is from. Low level Yakuza on every corner, bars stacked two or three high, crowded, busy, noisy. The idea that such a noisy neighborhood could produce such a beautiful sensibility stayed in my mind the whole trip.
	5:35pm fred: I think Esperanto was the soundtrack to a dance show. As a contemporary dance freak, I would have loved to see that
	5:40pm Marie In Queens: So creative he was
	5:41pm alanr: This is called excellent curating of the large body of work, with all the emotion it deserves. Gracias. Adios Ryuichi.
	5:41pm Frank Damnit: Shit is fire
	5:44pm Borg9: Spellbound by your show, Olivia.
	5:46pm fred: Later in my college years, I had my mother knit a sweater with a YMO logo in front and the band members names in the back (in kanji). I still have it, of course
	5:49pm Michael 98145: ↳ fred @5:46 - wow -
	5:49pm Mike From Brooklyn: Thanks for all of the Ryuichi Sakamoto music Olivia.
	5:49pm Zulnutt: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
	5:50pm Chris Hiatt: Wow he left us with a treasure trove of good sounds. Amazing...
	5:51pm efd: this has been an amazing show, Olivia!
	5:51pm fred: I once saw a concert by Yellow Magic Harpsichord. That project is exactly what the name implies
	5:52pm joe mulligan: thanks for the wonderful tribute Olivia, this is exactly what I needed to hear today
	5:54pm northguineahills: beautiful, thanks, Olivia!
	5:54pm Bernardo: yeah wow thanks....i had no idea the vast body of work he created...going to have to be on a Sakamoto jag rest of the week!
	5:55pm alanr: And it will remain in the archive to listen again and share. I love WFMU!
	5:55pm Marie In Queens: Thanks for the great show, Olivia!
	5:55pm Michael 98145: That was -phenomenal- thank you, Olivia
	5:56pm lazy pierogi: <333
	🍝 5:56pm diciassette: Brava Olivia! Thank you thank you
	5:57pm Michael 98145: Now. What was i -supposed- to be doing today??
	5:57pm chresti: Thanks olivia!
	5:58pm Juli: ↳ Song: "Moving On" by "Ryuichi Sakamoto" I missed it due to work Beautiful work
	5:58pm Matt: Wonderful show. Thank you Olivia!
	🍝 5:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Olivia. Good thing Techtonic is next because my spy-a-ma-phone knows what I'm listening to and recommends a Cheese Ravioli With Lemon-Artichoke Sauce recipe. 🍽️
	5:58pm listener james from westwood: Exquisite. Thanks, Olivia!
	5:58pm Juli: Thanks Olivia
	5:59pm t Gravel: Thanks Olivia!
	5:59pm Zulnutt: Thank you Olivia! A beautiful tribute.
	5:59pm merl ravenscroft: sad but I favd this one! thank you
	5:59pm listener 126464: Thank you, Olivia.
	5:59pm Juli: It’s not weird to be sad I think it’s weird not to feel :::)
	6:00pm Hugh: Thx for all the Sakamoto choonz!
	6:01pm Michael 98145: ↳ Juli @5:59 Exactly
	🍝 6:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Sorry, how gauche! Here is: www.tastingtable.com...
	9:28am ifeelfatnsassy: Just dropping this here for posterity... this is a youtube playlist of the songs compiled by Ryuichi Sakamoto to be played at his funeral: www.youtube.com...

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