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These two Stevia albums are a happy medium between Susumu's more experimental music and his house offerings. Each track offers a tour down Susumu's memory lane.
Favorite track: Flower.
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Bundle: Greenpeace + Fruits of the Room | Limited Color Editions
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Bundle of the both Double LPs on their limited edition versions: Fruits of the Room (Green) + Greenpeace (Purple).
Remastered for vinyl by Damian Schwartz.
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Test Pressing | GreenPeace
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Test Pressing of GreenPeace (12" x 2).
Only two are available.
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Bundle: Fruits of the Room + GreenPeace | Black Vinyl
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Remastered for vinyl by Damian Schwartz.
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Greenpeace: Double LP - Limited Edition - Purple
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited Edition Double LP in purple color.
Only 100 available.
Remastered for vinyl by Damian Schwartz.
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Includes unlimited streaming of Stevia aka Susumu Yokota - Greenpeace
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Greenpeace: Double LP - Black Standard
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited Edition (500) Double LP in black
Remastered for vinyl by Damian Schwartz.
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Includes unlimited streaming of Stevia aka Susumu Yokota - Greenpeace
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In 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-COM, they were Yokota-san’s homage to the foundational days of club music in Japan.
This 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 Greenpeace sees Yokota-san conjuring up a heady concoction of dusty loops, sampledelic breaks, kraut-rock and psychedelic downbeat. A remarkable listening experience based on the inspired era of a genius.
When 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.
By 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.”
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released June 10, 2022
Remastered by Damian Schwartz in Madrid.
Artwork by Masaho Anotani.
Design by Paper Paper Studio in Milan.
Exclusive official license by MusicMine Inc.
License coordination by Ken Hidaka.
Words by Martyn Pepperell.