Conversation so far:
What has Sakamoto produced?
Sakamoto's production credits represent a prolific career in this role.
In 1983, he produced Mari Iijima's debut album Rose.
Did Rose do well as an album?
CANNOTANSWER.
What other albums did he produce?
1994 album A Place In The Sun.
Besides Rose and A Place in the Sun, did he produce others?
CANNOTANSWER.
What else is significant about his production work?
He's got this reputation as a boffin, a professor of music who sits in front of a computer screen.
How did he get that reputation?
screen.
But he's more intuitive than that, and he's always trying to corrupt what he knows.
Why else is that reputation not deserved?
Halfway through the day in the studio, he will stop and play some hip hop or some house for 10 minutes.

Question: Why does he take that break and play hip hop?
Self-contained rewrite: Why does Ryuichi Sakamoto take that break and play hip hop halfway though the day in the studio?