Dreamer
Volume 2 - Album 7
An album that covers all Yokota's favourite bases from deep immersive ambience to rollingbreaks, deep house and sampladelic experimentalism.
A1: Human Memory
A2: Flitting Ray
A3: Subconscious Globe
B1: Inception
B2: Double Spot Image
B3: Quiet Room
C1: Animation of the Airy
C2: Renounce the World
D1: Brainwashing and Senses
D2: A Day at the Planet
D3: Legendary Stream
Including an essay by Rob Young in the liner notes...A2: Flitting Ray
A3: Subconscious Globe
B1: Inception
B2: Double Spot Image
B3: Quiet Room
C1: Animation of the Airy
C2: Renounce the World
D1: Brainwashing and Senses
D2: A Day at the Planet
D3: Legendary Stream
... “Dreamers, more often than not, are romantic outsiders defined by their refusal to engage with the material, practical, threatening world. You could argue that was also true of Susumu Yokota in the final years of his life, when he largely removed himself from public appearances and the club/festival scene. The stripping out of beats from his music coincided with a growing interest in music's ethereal, atmospheric, sampladelic experimentalism. 'Dreamer', released three years before his death, keeps its feet in both camps. 'Human Memory' starts the album on the (alternative) dancefloor, but the whole thing – if indeed it was made as a piece, and we'll never know for sure – drifts towards an enchanted place of disembodied meditation. 'Dreamer' is a sanctuary.”...