About

Shinichi Atobe is a Saitama-based producer who has been making house and techno music since he was 27 years old. His sound has evolved from abstract, dubby minimal techno to brighter, more melodic deep house. Originally appearing in 2001 with a 12-inch EP titled Ship-Scope (2001), which came out on the cult-favorite dub techno label Chain Reaction. Copies subsequently changed hands for triple-digit U.S. dollar amounts. Atobe disappeared for over a decade and during the early 2010s, Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty of Demdike Stare managed to track down the Japanese producer and convinced him to release Atobe’s first full-length album, Butterfly Effect (2014), on their record label DDS.

In the years since, Atobe has been relatively prolific, releasing a slew of LPs including World (2016), From The Heart, It’s a Start, A Work of Art (2017), Heat (2018), Yes (2020), and Love of Plastic (2022). For his entire career, Atobe has been referred to as a mysterious figure due to the lack of biographical information available online. He has, however, performed live: he had a DJ set in 2017 at KGR(n) in Shinjuku, and he had a live electronic music set in 2023 at WWW in Shibuya. — via Label

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Label: DDS
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Repress, Black Vinyl
Reissued: 2024 / Original Release: 2014
Genre: Electronic
Style: Minimal, Ambient, Techno, Abstract, House

File under: House / Electro / Techno
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