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Staff Pick: Susumu Yakota - Acid Mt. Fuji

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What they say: This latest reissue marks the thirtieth anniversary of Sublime (Ken Ishii’s Reference To Difference, released on the same day as Yokota’s record, is also being reissued for the occasion). Listening to Acid Mt. Fuji in 2024, it’s hard to escape that there’s a lot of music being made now which seems to reach for the places Yokota did in 1994. The organic overlaid with sci-fi. Contemporary technology used to create something which sounds explicitly pastoral. - The Quietus

What we say: Originally released in 1994, Susumu Yokota's Acid Mt. Fuji is a landmark album of minimalist ambient techno. Sparse atmospherics and echoing hardware based rhythms evoke the austereness of the mountain that serves as the record's inspiration and namesake. Remastered and given a deluxe 3 LP treatment, this record will carry you to another place, another time. - Jake