​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ryuichi Sakamoto (born January 17, 1952) is an Academy Award-winning Japanese musician, composer, record producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo. He plays keyboards in the influential Japanese electropop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. His 1999 musical composition "Energy Flow", also known as the alternative title of the single disc Ura BTTB, is the first number-one instrumental single in Japan's Oricon charts history. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryuichi Sakamoto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.