Leaf Newsletter #28
February 23rd 2000
NEW RELEASE
SUSUMU YOKOTA - Magic Thread
release date: Monday 13th March 2000
format: CD (BAY 11CD) and limited edition double LP (BAY 11V)
mail order price: CD: £10.00 (+p&p) / LP: £8.00 (+p&p) - available from us now at this price!!
barcode: LP: UPC 0666017009919 / CD: UPC 0666017009926
STOP PRESS: straight into 7 magazine's Zzub chart at #7 this week!
³This 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 soul² Ben Thompson, Mojo
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 Yokota¹s 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 (1992¹s 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, UPC 0666017005812).
Yokota¹s next release on Leaf will be Mix, a 4-track EP of hi own 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...
The tracklisting for Magic Thread is as follows:
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:
³sexy 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 next² Ian Penman, The Wire
³the Japanese dream forger has proved that minimalism in all spheres has a transfixing meeting point. Captivating² Kevin Martin, Top
³sublime² The Times
³evocative and beguiling² Alternative Press
³spine-tinglingly beautiful moments² Wax
"wonderfully imaginative" Sleazenation
"beauty incarnate" 7
also available:
OSMOSIS - low price sampler
CD BAY 10CD now
³Steal of the month as one of the UK's finest, most consistently challenging labels showcases its future releases... Osmosis puts other compilations in the shade² Muzik
SUSUMU YOKOTA - Image 1983-1998
limited edition 180g vinyl BAY 9V March 13
CD BAY 9CD now
³this 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 soul² Mojo
FAULTLINE - Closer Colder
limited edition 180g vinyl BAY 12V now
CD BAY 12CD now
Gilles Peterson - Top 10 Album Of The Year 1999
Esquire magazine - Top 10 Album Of The Year 1999
³a quite breathtaking, visionary album that promises to take listeners to places they've never been before... one of the finest experimental albums this year² DJ, 9/10
EARDRUM - Last Light
limited edition 180g double vinyl BAY 7V now
CD BAY 7CD now
³this dark and powerful drum-fest draws on the harder side of jazz funk, Afrobeat and dub reggae... it carries some mighty grooves and swings too much to resist² Mojo, Avant-Garde Album of the Month
310 - The Dirty Rope
limited edition 180g vinyl BAY 6V now
CD BAY 6CD now
³stunning, unclassifiable music... deeply emotive music that can make you feel both comfortable and threatened within the same piece² Ben Wilcox, Straight No Chaser
coming soon:
BEIGE - I Don¹t Either
limited edition 180g vinyl BAY 5V May
CD BAY 5CD May
I Don¹t Either is the debut album by Cologne's ultrafunk protegé Oliver Braun. Composed of compulsive, playful electronica and skeletal house music. Influenced as much by P-Funk and the clipped R&B of Timbaland as it is by the fractured Cologne sound, this is the real future funk.
INVISIBLE SOUNDTRACKS : Macro 3
CD REEL 4CD soon
confirmed contributors to include 310, Beige, Broadway Project, Cathars, Druckwelle, Rob Ellis, Faultline, B Fleischmann, Freeform, Manitoba, Ian Masters, Lee Norris, Pan American, Kieron Phelan & David Sheppard, Rothko, Susumu Yokota and more tbc. All exclusives.
SUSUMU YOKOTA - SAKURA
CD BAY 13CD summer
LP BAY 13V summer
the third installment...
EARDRUM - remix EP
12" single DOCK 19 summer
remixes by Ashley Beedle, Freeform, Monolake and Sofa Surfers
FOUR TET v POLE - Pole v Four Tet EP
12" split single DOCK 20 summer
finally...
In the next few weeks, Posteverything (a brand new mail order operation), will be brought to you by Leaf, Swim and leading web designers Kleber (Creation, Warp, etc). Which will mean our website will finally be up and running, and we will be able to offer credit card facilities, both on the web, and by mail and telephone. More news as soon as we have it!
worldwide distribution:
UK & export: SRD. AUSTRALIA: Siren. BENELUX: Lowlands. FRANCE: La Baleine. GERMANY: EFA.
ITALY: White & Black. JAPAN: Cisco. NEW ZEALAND: Flavour. POLAND: TamTam. PORTUGAL: AnAnAnA. SCANDINAVIA: Border. SPAIN: Paranoid. USA: Dutch East India
LIVE
Many of our artists are available for live and remix work - get in touch if you want more information. We are currently seeking European shows for 310 and Eardrum for 2000, and DJ dates for Tony Morley.
If you need artwork or photos of any Leaf artists for use in magazines, websites, etc, please get in touch.
MAXIMUM ROTATIONS
chart by Tony Morley (The Leaf Label) 23/2/00
position. artist - title - label (country)
1. Bernd Friedmann/Atom Heart - Nonplace EP 1 - Nonplace (Ger)
2. Lambchop - Up With People (Zero 7 mix) - City Slang (UK)
3. Chicks On Speed - Will Save Us All (LP) - Chicks On Speed (Ger)
4. Tarwater - new album - Kitty Yo (Ger)
5. Sean Paul/Mr Vegas - Tiger Bone - Call Me $ham$ (Jam)
6. 7-Hurtz - Audiophiliac (LP) - Output (UK)
7. Pole - Rondell 2 - PIAS (UK)
8. Primal Scream - Exterminator (LP) - Creation (UK)
9. Tiny Trendies - The Sky Is Not Crying (Swag Mix) - Nuphonic (UK)
10. P¹Taah - Compressed Light - Ubiquity (US)
11. Icarus - UL-6 - Output (UK)
12. Jamelia - Money - Parlophone (UK)
13. King Britt & Ursula Rucker - Circe (Jazzanova Mix) - Guidance (US)
14. Balanceman - Well Balanced Meal (LP) - Deluxe (US)
15. various - Fresh Records Presents (LP) - Fresh (UK)
16. Mum - Walk Ten Miles - Klein (Os)
17. Kelis - Caught Out There - Virgin (UK)
18. Laurent Garnier - Unreasonable Behaviour (LP) - F Comm (Fr)
19. Jürgen Paape - Belleville - Gadgets (Ger)
20. Mika - Tomorrow - Klein (Os)
21. obatzdaBeats - contraBeat - Gomma (Ger)
22. Laika - Good Looking Blues (LP) - Too Pure (UK)
23. Gonzales - Gonzales Über Alles (LP) - Kitty Yo (Ger)
24. The Kingsbury Manx - The Kingsbury Manx (LP) - Overcoat Recordings (US)
25. Broadway Project - Confession - Memphis Industries (UK)
Thanks for listening. Get in touch!
The Leaf Label
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