Japanese Technology Shaped Dance Music – Attack Magazine

Interesting related bit of info: Charanjit Singh made arguably the first acid house music album, 'Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat', in large part due to the fact that he bought one of the first synths while shopping in Singapore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charanjit_Singh_(musician)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT64B6vs9Mc

Without setting out to do so, I've managed to fill my music room (not talented enough to call it a studio) exclusively with Japanese gear. I don't know if it's the cost, the genre associations, or if the stuff is just plain better, but I'm infinitely more interested in Korg/Roland than the likes of Moog, Sequential, EMS, etc.

I credit Korg in particular with making analog accessible again. I wouldn't trade my MS-20 mini for anything.

When I read the title, I think of Ryuchi Sakamoto. I'm no musician, or musical historian, but that man is a genius in a similar way to Mozart, or Scott Joplin.

Italo Disco and Eurobeat were result of these revolutions.