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Unreleased Works 94' - 97' compiles eight acid techno and ambient compositions the late Japanese musician Susumu Yokota wrote during the titular period. The German label and record store Transmigration recovered each track from a collection of DAT tapes that Yokota's Mantaray collaborator, Ray Castle, gifted him. Every track has been restored and remastered with support from Berlin's Sound Metaphors. The first single from the record, "Dust," is out now. 

A prolific producer, Yokota released over thirty albums between 1993 and 2012, many of them on his own label, Skintone. His body of work—which spanned acid techno, trance, ambient, downtempo, and more—has seen reissues on Low Recordings, MUSICMINE and Glossy Mistakes, among other imprints. He died in 2015 at the age of 54 following an illness. — (via Resident Advisor)

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Lovers of Susumu Yokota’s mid-‘90s ‘Acid Mt. Fuji’ era will be licking their lips for this previously unheard ruck of slow-to-quicksilver acid and psychedelic techno trips par excellence, on David Fogarty’s retronaut label Transmigration.

Salvaged from a set of DATs given the label by Ray Castle, who received them from the Japanese acid maestro circa 1994’s ‘AcidMt. Fuji’ and ‘Zen’ as Ebi, these eight gems have evidently lost none of their lustre over the last 30 years. They plug heads directly into a classic phase of acid, techno, and ambient experimentation whose durable results prevail to resonate contemporary ‘floors, and should be filed up there with sterling examples from Plastikman to Ø, AFX and Tin Man.

For our ¥ the most choice cuts are the opening, slow storms of acid harnessing his Roland boxes to dreamiest traction, as with the 9 min meld of shoreside sounds, whining sine waves and chime trees that precipitate the creamiest slow acid in ‘Dust’, and again with the sexiest writhe in ‘Wave’, both acutely recalling Vladimir Ivkovic’s sets of decelerated Goa trance or the type of throwbacks conjured by Full Circle. 

But that’s not to discount the rest, which also impresses at higher velocities ready for full club flight. His ‘Obsession’ and ‘Thirteen’ surely hark to peak Analogue Bubblebath, and the clinically clean and spacious floatation device ‘Dove’ is a sure prototype for Tin Man decades down the line. Farther up the BPMs ‘No Way Back’ rides jabbing 303 and singing hi-hats at 135BPM, and ‘Fortune’ keeps the ticker up with urgent groove and chattering choral motif bound to get the yoghurt weavers going at 5am. — (via Boomkat)

Vinyl tracklist:
A1 Dust
A2 Wave
B1 Obsession
B2 Dove
C1 Thirteen
C2 No Way Back
D1 Extra Terrestrial
D2 Fortune

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Label: Transmigration 
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Released: 2025 / Recorded: 1994-1997
Genre: Electronic
Style: Acid, Techno, Ambient, Dub

File under: Electronic // Japanese Electronic
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