Susumu Yokota (1960–2015) was a Japanese electronic musician, DJ, and composer whose work moved between club music and more contemplative ambient sounds. On the club side, he emerged in the early 1990s with acid house and techno bangers like this monster 17-minute EP. Sometimes under aliases such as Frankfurt Tokyo Connection, Ebi, and Stevia, or here as Tenshin with his friend Makoto. Behind the big slugging beats and frantic Noirish stabs of cheap synths you can already hear the shifting, building, cascading, looping, Musique concrete of Yokota's more mature ambient music. Hypnotic big beat acid house right there when raves and EDM were blowing up for the first time. Not that I was there but I can hear the energy; experimental dance music energy. Rocking out, getting down, etc, universal musical languages.
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