"THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN"
(IF? RECORDS - IF057)
We have a knock-out release this week, and it's the debut EP from Japanese cut-up/IDM/broken piano artist, Alone Together.
Also known as Yuki Ota, he’s one of the truly innovative (nice) guys here in Tokyo, and even Toshiyuki Yasuda thinks Yuki’s unique and crazy. We consider his stuff wild, scattered, amazing, eccentric, and way way cool—precisely IF?’s cup o’ tea.
Some people are already comparing his music with Yasuda, Si Begg, Cassetteboy, Dsico, Kid 606 and Luke Vibert.
In other words it's bloody brilliant.
Yuki remains deceptively low-key about his occasionally madcap electronic sounds. “I am a broken piano player,” he says on his MySpace site. “I practice Broken Piano theory in Alone Together.”
Available exclusively as a digital download through Addictech here (with bonus sample sound stuff):
http://ifrecords.addictech.com/
Tracklisting:
1 The Beginning Of Human (4:09)
2 Gold And Twilight (5:39)
3 Bara No Kodoku (8:22)
SNEAK PREVIEW VIDEO-CLIP
Alone Together "The Beginning Of Human"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obu3SilGuFw
