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Susumu Yokota's vision of techno - house, lovingly collected in collaboration with Space Teddy and the Yokota family. The collectors version of 2 previously re-issued EPs on Transmigration. Now available as one double LP complete with Obi strip and insert. Presented with linear notes in English and Japanese with archival photos from Uwe Reineke and Mijk Van Dijk. All tracks have been remastered by Steffen Müller. 

""During a dinner in Tokyo," writes Van Dijk in the record's insert, "Yokota-san explained why he chose the project name "Ebi" (Japanese for "shrimp"). He understood the shrimp as the equivalent of House music: the tail is the bass drum, the tickling feet are the hi-hats, the tentacles are the claps and snare, and so on. Yokota-san's music was sometimes colourful and joyous and sometimes monochrome and introvert. Not many musicians are able to express so many emotions only through electronic sound. When he tragically deceased he left a huge gap—not only in the Japanese music scene—which may never be filled again". — (via Resident Advisor)

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The late, great Susumu Yokota produced under numerous aliases over the years, though few are quite as revered as Ebi, an alias he used to release heady house tracks, acid-fired electronica and inspired ambient techno during the mid 1990s. This must-have compilation from Transmigration draws together some of the most interesting and sought-after Ebi tracks of the '90s, offering a chance for all those who missed out first time around to grab some of the most intoxicating tracks in Yokota's catalogue. Our picks of an incredibly strong bunch include the deep acid shuffle of 'Sou', the tribal-tinged ambient techno haziness of 'Tsuru', the picturesque melodies and psychedelic TB-303 manipulations of 'Hi', the mind-bending early morning chug of 'Zen' and the melancholic, string-laden brilliance of 'Sei'. — (via Juno)
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Susumu Yokota’s glyding mid ‘90s acid works for Dr. Motte and co’s Space Teddy revived for a 30 year anniversary reissue with Transmigration, dovetailing their interests in early Goan dance and ‘90s trance with this double album set of lush, SAW-like bubblers.

Replete with liner notes by top flight ‘90s trance producer Mijk Van Dijk, the ‘Space Teddy Collection’ scans a seam of Susumu Yokota’s work circa his albums for Harthouse and the legendary ‘Acid Mt. Fuji’ for Sublime. This posthumous retrospective hails his purest acid works, inflected with the rhythmelodic lilt and aerodynamic elegance that distinguished Yokota’s work from his contemporary milieu. Sifted from two albums, ‘Zen’ (1994) and ‘ten’ (1996), the nine cuts are all characterised by a pursuit of hypnotic club sensuality, and scale between FM feathered ambient acid house and more urgent acid trance. 

Beginning slow and spacious with the resonant 303 tweaks and wide open pads of ‘Sou’, the set toggles the intensity of Susumu’s Ebi output between the lip-smacking upness of ‘San’ to the sand-trample triplet wiggle of ‘Tsuru’ and proper yoghurt-weaver tackle in ‘Hi’. At the set’s core he takes the longview with the near 9 minute slow mo drug chug of ‘Zen’ and the Plastikman-esque ambient acid crawler ‘Chuu’, saving the beatific bliss of ‘Kaze’ and ‘Tsuki’ to play out on the back of fluttering eyelids. — (via Boomkat)

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Label: Transmigration
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Compilation
Released: 2021
Genre: Electronic
Style: Acid, Ambient, Techno, IDM

File under: Japanese Electronic
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