S·F·X (album)

S・F・X
Studio album by Haruomi Hosono with FRIENDS OF EARTH
Released	December 16, 1984
Genre	Electronic
Length	33:17
Label	Teichiku Records/Non Standard
Producer	Haruomi Hosono

S・F・X is a 1984 album by Japanese electronic musician Haruomi Hosono. The album is his first solo album after Yellow Magic Orchestra and the first Japanese album to have been recorded with digital synthesizers. 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

All tracks written by Haruomi Hosono, except "Body Snatchers" and "Strange Love", with lyrics translated by Peter Barakan. 

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Body Snatchers"	5:49
2.	"Androgena"	4:52
3.	"SFX" (instrumental)	5:54

Side B
No.	Title	Length
4.	"Strange Love"	5:52
5.	"Alternative 3" (第3の選択 Dai San no Sentaku) (instrumental)	5:08
6.	"Dark Side of the Star" (地球の夜にむけての夜想曲 Chikyū no Yoru ni Mukete no Yasōkyoku) (instrumental)	5:35

CD Version

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Non-Standard Mixture" (instrumental)	7:04
2.	"Body Snatchers" (Special Mix)	5:49
3.	"Androgena"	4:52
4.	"SFX" (instrumental)	5:54
5.	"Strange Love"	5:52
6.	"Alternative 3" (第3の選択 Dai San no Sentaku) (instrumental)	5:08
7.	"Dark Side of the Star" (地球の夜にむけての夜想曲 Chikyū no Yoru ni Mukete no Yasōkyoku) (instrumental)	5:35
8.	"Medium Composition; #1" (instrumental)	1:13
9.	"Medium Composition; #2" (instrumental)	2:11
10.	"3・6・9" (instrumental)	3:48

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