But his 1974 album Snowflakes are Dancing was the bravura use of new electronic resources, even more so than his predecessors Robert Moog and Walter/Wendy Carlos.
Tomita thought a lot about the relationship of sound to space. He was an early user of quadrophonic sound, and knew how to use it properly. And he did it the old-fashioned way -- he created polyphony through analog taping of one voice at a time, and then synching them all up together. To anyone who's attempted this kind of thing, it is nearly impossible, and certainly stroke-inducing, akin to weaving a spaceship out of nettles.
He wrote Zatoichi soudtracks, and the them for "Kimba the White Lion" !
Of course, as teens we all stoned out to his trippy muzak. But he did make us rethink what was possible sonically! And we went on to experiment in sound . . .