Skintone Edition - Vol. 1 [Import]

FEATURES

• Available on 13 x 12" Color Vinyl Box Set
• Long sought-after reissues of Susumu Yokota’s most seminal work
• 6 double LPs and one single LP, all color vinyl
• Each Disc is Housed in a Printed Inner with PMS Print, Finished with Spot Gloss Printing. Each Sleeve Features an Abstract of the Original Album’s Artwork
• 4-Page Booklet with Liner Notes
• Poster Included
• Designed by award-winning graphic design duo Non-Format

DESCRIPTION

Lo Recordings is honoured to announce the release of the seminal works of the Japanese electronic and ambient musician Susumu Yokota. Yokota redefined ambient music with a series of 14 extraordinary albums, released from 1998 through to 2012.

Skintone Edition commemorates the singular talent of this music pioneer with the re-release of all of his albums released via his own Skintone label.

Over a 20-year period, Yokota released 30 albums and countless 12s under a variety of aliases, across more than a dozen pre-eminent labels. Yokota received domestic and international acclaim as a house and techno DJ and producer throughout the nineties. Part of the vanguard of the Tokyo scene, his influential release Acid Mt. Fuji inspires techno artists to this day.

In 1998 though, at the height of his success, he established his Skintone imprint, which came to eclipse all of his previous achievements.

Skintone shone a light on the diverse new directions in which his creativity had blown, from delicate, cyclical tape-loop meditations to neo-classical compositions. It also gave him the autonomy to combine his visual and music-making practices and, importantly, to create at his own pace. The label was a great success and his experiments proved foundational in the global 00s ambient canon.

Skintone shone a light on the diverse new directions in which his creativity had blown, from delicate, cyclical tape-loop meditations to neo-classical compositions. It also gave him the autonomy to combine his visual and music-making practices and, importantly, to create at his own pace. The label was a great success and his experiments proved foundational in the global 00s ambient canon.

Skintone Edition will be available as 2 box sets - the first volume coincides with the 10th anniversary of Yokota’s untimely death and the 30th year of Lo Recordings. All music has been fully re-mastered. This edition is presented with the generous assistance of the Yokota family.

TRACKLIST

1. Weave
2. Reflux
3. Unravel
4. Circular
5. Spool
6. Fiber
7. Potential
8. Metabolic
9. Stitch
10. Blend
11. Melt
12. Kaiten Mokuba
13. Tayutafu
14. Fukoro No Yume
15. Wani Natte
16. Sakashima
17. Morino Gakudan
18. Nisemono No Uta
19. Daremoshiranai
20. Chiisanakuni
21. Kawano Hotorino Kinoshitade
22. Yumekui Kobito
23. Amai Niyoi
24. Enogu
25. Amanogawa
26. Saku
27. Uchu Tanjyo
28. Hagoromo
29. Genshi
30. Gekkoh
31. Kirakiraboshi
32. Kodomotachi
33. Hisen
34. Tobiume
35. Naminote
36. Shinsen
37. Azukiiro No Kaori
38. I Imagine
39. King Dragonfly
40. Card Nation
41. Balloon In A Cage
42. Lapis Lazuli
43. Cherry Blossom
44. Sleepy Eye
45. Love Bird
46. Fearful Dream
47. Tears Of A Poet
48. Flying Cat
49. So Red
50. Lost Child
51. Level 21
52. Alpine Nation
53. Red Door
54. Illusion River
55. Pegasus Man
56. Black Sea
57. Pony Tail
58. Rabbit Earring
59. The Colour Of
60. Pomegranates
61. Live Echo
62. Fairy Link
63. Secret Garden
64. Grass Tree And Stone
65. Rose Necklace
66. Plateau On Plateau
67. Red Swan
68. Beans
69. Future Tiger
70. Thread Leads To Heaven
71. Blood And Snow
72. Rising Sun
73. Lost Ring
74. Gong Gong Gong
75. Grey Piano
76. Iconic Air
77. Light Of The Sun
78. Trip Eden
79. 23 Degrees Dream
80. Hidden Love
81. True Story
82. Dragon Place
83. I Am Flying
84. Dizzy Echo
85. Heart By Heart
86. Hyper On Hyper

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