Some seconds albums did not really do much damage to their musicians, they actually enriched them. For instance, Ryuichi Sakamoto basically outdid whatever synthpop was doing at the time with B-2 Unit. However, we mustn't forget he didn't merely continue what he did with Yellow Magic Orchestra, he went further – the track on the link shows many IDM musicians paid attention –, though I ask myself how the West saw him at that point. We cherish Sakamoto now for what he represented, yet the early 80's weren't really a period where a musician from Japan achieved that much prominence. Sure, he did get ther in the later part of the period, yet how did the West see him at the point of B-2 Unit? He basically invented techno, yet does the West acknowledge that?
