Ryuichi Sakamoto‘s “Riot In Lagos” is an important touchstone for electronic music and still sounds strikingly modern almost 40 years later.
Japan
Daft Punk have offered the coolest of the 259 music-related pieces up for auction by EMI Family for Japan relief efforts: the 1987 Ferrari 412 used in their feature-length film Electroma. I’m not usually one for 80s-era industrial design, especially automotive design (too many fetishized sharp angles), but this black Ferrari is an exception.