Yellow Magic Orchestra were the Kraftwerk of Japan, they too balanced themselves between soulful blips and cool spatial ambience, between serious music and satirical nonsense who were able to absorb almost any musical style and respin it to humorous danceable effect. They like Kraftwerk rode the wave of the sarcastic fascination with cyber beings who somehow manage to exist with more soul than most humans. Sakamoto first found fame within the YMO with their "Computer Game" single. "One thousand Knives" was his first solo album that was only released in the Netherlands. Slowly the work dropped the gleam and smoothness of technology and began to take on the full-blown presence of emotional music when he began to compose film soundtracks beginning with "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and winning an Oscar for his grand soundtrack for Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor" , also "The Wild Palms" and most recently for "Love is The Devil".