{"product_id":"stevia-aka-susumu-yokota-fruits-of-the-room","title":"Stevia aka Susumu Yokota Fruits Of The Room","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1997 and 1998, the late great Japanese composer, producer, and DJ Susumu Yokota released two of the most eclectic albums of his decades-long career, Fruits of The Room and Greenpeace. Recorded under his Stevia alias for Tokyo Techno pioneer DJ Miku’s Newstage Records\/NS-\u003cspan class=\"caps\"\u003eCOM\u003c\/span\u003e, they were Yokota-san’s homage to the foundational days of club music in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis year, Glossy Mistakes are proud to present the first official vinyl editions of Fruits of The Room and Greenpeace, originally released on CD during the golden days of the format. Packaged in reimagined cover artwork created by the celebrated Japanese visual artist Masaho Anotani, these two albums perfectly capture the diversity at the heart of Yokota-san’s oeuvre. Across Fruits of The Room, he takes us on an expansive odyssey through his personal visions for deep house, street soul, jungle\/drum \u0026amp; bass, digital dub and the slipstream moments between genres. A totally inspired dancefloor exploration. \u003cbr\u003e\nWhen Yokota-san wrote and produced the music on Fruits of The Room and Greenpeace in 1997, he was reflecting on the broader culture that surrounded dance music in Japan in the early to mid-nineties. It was an era when the psychedelic culture of late sixties America, the afterglow of UK acid house\/rave, the new age movement and cyberpunk dovetailed together. Within DJ Miku and Yokota-san’s social circles, the thinking of Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs electrified the air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy 1996, the moment, brilliant and blinding as it was, was over. “We all felt that the rave scene fizzled out,” DJ Miku says. As he puts it, there was a collective feeling around him that it had all become too much. From the calm that followed, DJ Miku, Yokota-san and their open-eared peers made the decision to switch tracks and start from scratch. DJ Miku believes that with his Stevia releases, Fruits of The Room and Greenpeace, Yokota-san wanted to express the sweet and sour nature of the passing of those wild early days and his wish for true peace. “At the time, we saw eye-to-eye, with an implicit understanding of each other,” he explains. “Even now, twenty-five years later, I am confident it was like that.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eSusumu Yokota previously vinyl unreleased electronic explorations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eRemastered by Damian Schwartz on a double LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eArtwork reimagined by celebrated visual artist Masaho Anotani\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e GLOSSY010 -Artist-Stevia aka Susumu Yokota\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal ID: JIT\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling Note: **Please allow an additional 5 business days for this item's shipment.**\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 4\/27\/22\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: 2LP Black\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Stevia aka Susumu Yokota","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53427020759224,"sku":"L1AK0A-KUBV-L9","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9222\/8280\/files\/stevia-aka-susumu-yokota-fruits-of-the-room_QZj26.jpg?v=1777645421","url":"https:\/\/musicrecordshop.com\/products\/stevia-aka-susumu-yokota-fruits-of-the-room","provider":"Music Record Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}