Newly remastered and reissued as part of Lo Recordings’ campaign to excavate all Susumu Yokota‘s Skintone releases, Image 1983-1998 might be the most revelatory of the lot.
It’s not the Japanese artist’s most enjoyable record by any means, but it contextualizes everything he’d go on to create in the years that followed, from Magic Thread to Sakura. The earliest material dates from 1983 and 1984, and it’s rudimentary stuff, jammed on guitar and organ. And here’s where it gets interesting – over a decade later, between 1997 and 1998, Yokota recorded a response to those early miniatures, and that’s where we get to hear exactly how his process evolved. In the interim of course, he came in contact with acid house, which led him towards electronic…

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