We started saying the genre like techno or techno-pop was our invention. We were in the same generation, but they started earlier than us.” He also adds Giorgio Moroder to his list of contemporaries, but along with this core group of pioneers, he was creating a completely new kind of music. We just lost Isao Tomita who was a true pioneer of synthesizers. So he created his music on keyboards, setting out for waters where only a very few had sailed before. It really hurts.” He shows me with a pen he has handy, and, indeed, like everything he does, his style of writing is totally unique. “My style of holding a pencil is so strange. He tells me, “It hurts.” I wonder to myself what exactly hurt, was it the metaphysical pain of self-expression. That’s why I switched to technopop.” I ask him what exactly it is about writing music that he had difficulty with. Sakamoto puts it this way: “I was studying very serious contemporary music at university, but I really hated writing music. Beginning at the beginning, Sakamoto started out as a music composition student, but apparently some of the inspiration for his legendary career turn toward technopop had to do with wanting to avoid writing music.
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