S-F-X

S-F-X
Studio album by Haruomi Hosono with Friends Of Earth
Released	16 December 1984 (1984-12-16)
Genre	Electronic
Length	33:10
Label	Teichiku Non Standard
Producer	Haruomi Hosono

S-F-X (stylized with interpuncts as S･F･X) is a 1984 album by Japanese electronic musician Haruomi Hosono. The album is his first solo album after Yellow Magic Orchestra. 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 are 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
Total length:		16:35

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
Total length:		16:35

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
Total length:		47:26

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