I think someone (possibly me) brought this
release to our attention before. Well here's
the press-details from DEI.
quoted 141 lines SUSUMU YOKOTA>SUSUMU YOKOTA
>Magic Thread
>BAY11CD / BAY11V (limited double LP)
>UPC: 1753-32679-2
>
>"This is the sort of music you put on while you're doing the washing up
>only to find it has taken control of your very soul" Ben Thompson, Mojo, on
>'Image 1983-1998'
>
>Though probably better known for his funked-up techno and house (and jazz,
>disco, drum & bass, etc), Susumu Yokota received fulsome praise for the
>Image 1983-1998 album released by The Leaf Label in September 1999. March
>2000 sees the first release outside Japan of the now ridiculously scarce
>Magic Thread album. The album was actually released in Japan before Image,
>in a limited edition of just 500 copies on CD - the very first release on
>Yokota's own Skintone label.
>
>Magic Thread has a more electronic feel to it than Image, but is still
>possessed of the plaintive melodies and haunting minimalist dynamics that
>made Image such an unexpected treat.
>
>After Ken Ishii, Yokota was the first techno artist to release music in
>Europe (1992's Frankfurt-Tokyo Connection on Harthouse). Since then he has
>enjoyed a prolific career as both a DJ and recording artist, working under
>a host of pseudonyms, including 246, Ringo, Prism and Stevia. With his star
>currently very much in the ascendant in his native Japan and continental
>Europe, Yokota has begun to make an impression in the UK with his two most
>recent albums on Sublime, 1998 and 1999. He has sold in excess of 90,000
>records worldwide.
>
>Due to popular demand, we are pleased to announce that the release of this
>album will be complemented by the belated release of his last Skintone
>album, Image 1983-1998, on limited edition 180g vinyl (BAY 9V).
>
>Yokota's next release on Leaf will be a 4-track EP of deep house remixes
>(more in keeping with his more familiar work on Sublime) of tracks taken
>from Image, Magic Thread, and the third album in the Skintone series,
>Sakura, which will also be released through Leaf later this year. He will
>also contribute to the forthcoming Invisible Soundtracks : Macro 3, and is
>to release his first ever mix album on Skintone, using only music from The
>Leaf Label. We wait with baited breath...
>
>CD: LP:
>
>1. A1. Weave
>2. A2. Reflux
>3. A3. Unravel
>4. B1. Circular
>5. B2. Spool
>6. C1. Potential
>7. B3. Fiber
>8. C2. Metabolic
>9. D1. Stitch
>10. D2. Blend
>11. D3. Melt
>
>
>Reviews of Image 1983-1998:
>
>"sexy and funny...Image's micro mood engineering is pure phantasmal pop, a
>compelling tour of musical dustworlds. It makes you itch to hear whatever
>ivory dice Yokota rolls out next" Ian Penman, The Wire
>
>"the Japanese dream forger has proved that minimalism in all spheres has a
>transfixing meeting point. Captivating" Kevin Martin, Top
>
>"sublime" The Times
>
>"evocative and beguiling" Alternative Press
>
>"spine-tinglingly beautiful moments" Wax
>
>"wonderfully imaginative" Sleazenation
>
>"beauty incarnate" 7
>
>==============================
>
>
>SUSUMU YOKOTA
>Image 1983 - 1998
>BAY9V (limited edition 180g LP vinyl)
>
>Susumu Yokota has been earning heaps of praise for his super-funky blend of
>house, techno, disco, jazz and breaks, with releases on Japan's Sublime
>Records, among others. "[He] has more ideas in the space of one album than
>most house producers have in their entire careers" said Mixmag of 1999, his
>most recent album on Sublime.
>
>The Leaf Label has licensed Image 1983-1998, a collection of mainly
>acoustic and oddly moving instrumental and vocal pieces from Yokota's own
>Skintone label, a very personal project, representing a very different side
>to his musical persona to the one you may already be aware of. There are
>already another two Skintone albums ready to go, both in very different
>styles. Yokota is proving increasingly difficult to pin down, which can
>only be a good thing as far as we're concerned.
>
>Already synonymous with dance music in Japan, Yokota first attracted
>worldwide attention back in '92 with 'Frankfurt-Tokyo Connection' on
>Harthouse. Since then he has enjoyed a prolific career as both a DJ and
>recording artist, working under a host of pseudonyms, including 246, Ringo
>and Prism (for Sublime and Reel Musiq) and Stevia (for NSCom). He has sold
>in excess of 90,000 albums worldwide.
>
>Yokota will be making DJ appearances in the UK in late October, in whatever
>guise he sees fit. Keep your eyes peeled...
>
>track listing:
>
>1. Kaiten Mokuba
>2. Tayutafu
>3. Fukoro No Yume
>4. Wani Natte
>5. Sakashima
>6. Morino Gakudan
>7. Nisemono No Uta
>8. Daremoshiranai Chiisanakuni
>9. Kawano Hotorino Kinoshitade
>10. Yumekui Kobito
>11. Amai Niyoi
>12. Enogu
>13. Amanogawa
>
>
>"An astounding record that works it's way in through your lungs as much as
>your ears. Instrumentals of the best kind with changing sounds (although
>clouded keyboards and strings are primary) and real emotional weight pulled
>around by virtue of the noise itself. Choose one for each song: choruses of
>robot and human voices, pocket circus music, looped acoustic guitar trills
>and samples as if played by real fingers, music boxes, sighs, 70s electric
>piano, digital harmonicas. No beats to speak of anywhere, but a pulse flows
>through the CD nonetheless -- it's as if ambient music had a focus instead
>of being an agent of dilution. Metaphorically, Yokota connects this music
>to kona: the Japanese word for powder, or, an assemblage of particles. From
>the liner notes: "Accumulate some white kona and blow on them. They will
>scatter, can never be replaced exactly in their original form. Like the
>vagueness of memories." While Yokota has concurrently made creative acid
>house and techno music for the last decade, every so often he obviously
>stopped, gathered together those life sounds and experiences that didn't go
>into the techno, and made these tracks. This CD is where he inhales,
>deeply, reflectively." [RE / Other Music]
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