This version has 4 bonus-tracks, mostly instrumental.


X∞Multiplies
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×∞Multiplies 
 
EP by Yellow Magic Orchestra 
Released 5 June 1980 (10", Japan) 
Genre Electropop 
Length 30:16 
Label Alfa Records 
Producer Haruomi Hosono 
Professional reviews 
 

×∞Multiplies (増殖, Zōshoku?, lit. "multiplication") was a mini-album by Yellow Magic Orchestra released in 1980. It contains a mixture of songs and instrumentals by YMO (including a humorous reworking of Archie Bell & the Drells' "Tighten Up"), interspersed with comedy sketches. These sketches are performed by Snakeman Show in both Japanese and English, with YMO participating in some of them.

 Release history
×∞Multiplies was released in several formats worldwide. The original Japanese pressing came on 10" vinyl. The United States pressing compiled tracks from both this record and from Solid State Survivor, which had not been released there, while dropping the comedy sketches. The United Kingdom released ×∞Multiplies with additional tracks culled from Yellow Magic Orchestra. All re-issues from 1999 onward reverted to the original Japanese tracklisting.

The tracks differ slightly between the Japanese and US versions: In the original release Nice Age has an abrupt ending and other tracks are crossfaded between the Snakeman Show sketches; in the US version these have clean intros and endings and Jingle 'YMO' is listed as part of the Nice Age track.

Region Date Label Format Catalog 
Japan 5 June 1980 Alfa Records 10" LP YMO-1 
United States 29 July 1980 A&M Records LP SP4813 
Japan 5 September 1980 Alfa LP (as above US version, with obi) ALR-28004 

Track listing
Japan version
Side one 

1. "Jingle 'YMO'"   Yellow Magic Orchestra 0:21 
2. "Nice Age"   Chris Mosdell/Ryuichi Sakamoto/Yukihiro Takahashi 3:46 
3. "Snakeman Show"   Snakeman Show 1:56 
4. "Tighten Up (Japanese Gentlemen Stand Up Please!)"   Archie Bell/Billy Butler 3:41 
5. "Snakeman Show"   Snakeman Show 2:05 
6. "Here We Go Again ~ Tighten Up"   Bell/Butler 1:07 

Side two 

1. "Snakeman Show"   Snakeman Show 1:26 
2. "Citizens of Science"   Chris Mosdell/Sakamoto 4:29 
3. "Snakeman Show"   Snakeman Show 2:08 
4. "Multiplies"   Elmer Bernstein/Yellow Magic Orchestra 2:58 
5. "Snakeman Show"   Snakeman Show 3:44 
6. "The End of Asia"   Sakamoto 1:32 

US version
Some pressings included "Tighten Up" as the opening track for Side A.

Side one 

1. "Nice Age"   Chris Mosdell/Ryuichi Sakamoto/Yukihiro Takahashi 3:55 
2. "Behind the Mask"   Chris Mosdell/Sakamoto 3:36 
3. "Rydeen"   Takahashi 4:26 
4. "Day Tripper"   Lennon/McCartney 2:40 

Side two 

1. "Technopolis"   Sakamoto 4:14 
2. "Multiplies"   Elmer Bernstein/Yellow Magic Orchestra 2:58 
3. "Citizens of Science"   Chris Mosdell/Sakamoto 4:29 
4. "Solid State Survivor"   Chris Mosdell/Takahashi 3:58 

 European version
On this pressing, the first "Snakeman Show" is actually "Jingle 'YMO'", while the second "Snakeman Show" is the "Japan is #1" skit from the Japanese pressing.

Side one 

1. "Technopolis"   Ryuichi Sakamoto 4:14 
2. "Absolute Ego Dance"   Haruomi Hosono 4:37 
3. "Behind the Mask"   Chris Mosdell/Sakamoto 3:36 
4. "Computer Game 'Theme from The Circus'"   Yellow Magic Orchestra 1:48 
5. "Firecracker"   Martin Denny 4:50 
6. "Computer Game 'Theme from The Invader'"   Yellow Magic Orchestra 0:43 

Side two 

1. "Snakeman Show"   Yellow Magic Orchestra 0:21 
2. "Nice Age"   Chris Mosdell/Sakamoto/Yukihiro Takahashi 3:46 
3. "Multiplies"   Elmer Bernstein/Yellow Magic Orchestra 2:58 
4. "Snakeman Show"   Snakeman Show 2:05 
5. "Citizens of Science"   Chris Mosdell/Sakamoto 4:29 
6. "Tighten Up (Japanese Gentlemen Stand Up Please!)"   Archie Bell/Billy Butler 3:06 

Personnel
Ryuichi Sakamoto: keyboards, electronics, percussion, orchestration
Yukihiro Takahashi: vocals, drums, percussion, electronics
Haruomi Hosono: Bass, electronics, keyboards, arrangements
Chris Mosdell: Lyrics
Hideki Matsutake: Computer programming
Snakeman Show: Comedy sketches
Makoto Ayukawa: Guitar on "Day Tripper" and "Solid State Survivor"
Sandii: Voices on "Absolute Ego Dance"

References
1.^ http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/nenkan1980_a.html