''S-F-X'' (stylized with

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s as ''S･F･X'') is a 1984 album by Japanese electronic musician

Haruomi Hosono , sometimes credited as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is considered to be one of the most influential musicians in Japanese pop music history, credited with shaping the sound of Japanese pop for ...

. The album is his first solo album after

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. Credited also is "Friends of Earth", as Hosono would later form a band with this name. The album is the first album released by label Non Standard, a record label created between Hosono and Teichiku Records to release the technopop/hip-hop styled material he worked on. The 1988, 1993 and 2001 reissues of ''S-F-X'' contain tracks from ''Non-Standard Mixture'', an EP created by Hosono the same year as the album.

Track listing

Vinyl/Cassette Version

CD Version

Personnel

*Haruomi Hosono – vocals, lyrics, synthesizer, engineer *Miharu Koshi – vocals *Curtis Knapp – vocals *Makoto Kubota – vocals *Sandii – vocals *Yasuhiko Terada – engineer *Takashi Itoh – engineer *Matsutoshi Nishimura – bass {{DEFAULTSORT:Sfx 1984 albums Haruomi Hosono albums