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Acid Mt. Fuji - Susumu Yokota (1994)
Yokota was one of the big names in Japanese electronica. He’d end up establishing himself as a creator of smooth, hypnotic beats with tons of texture.
On this early record, he weaves beats and soundscapes that are by turns punishing, expansive, and sublime.
This isn’t quite an angry record but it’s not just a pretty one either. The industrial fuzz beats still borrow heavily from big beat techno that was coming out at the time. There are also traces of house beats and ambient-style sounds of chimes and tablas.
It doesn’t sound much like what he would go on to do but it is an interesting listen. He takes us on a phchedelic journey to the center of…. something.
