Details:
Artist: YURI SUZUKI
CAT: CDN008
Type: Digital, Vinyl
Date: Nov 30, 2020
Tracklist:
- Come to me 04:51
- Lie 06:02
- Slave to the sound 05:25
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Release biography:
When Yuri Suzuki moved to the UK, he was welcomed by the Rephlex crew, including DMX Krew. Influenced by them, Yuri’s musical tastes shifted from techno to acid house, including the ph (the elemental symbol for acid) in the label name. At the same time he became aware of the cultural value of acid house and became more and more absorbed in it.
The neo-acid rave revival was sweeping London at the time. As he watched the legendary party “Bangface” and various artists like Luke Vibert, Ceephax Acid Crew, Cylob and many more, the desire to create his own acid house was born.
For this release, we’ve selected three songs from the past ten years of his work, both old and new.
All of the songs were written using the same hardware that DMX Krew taught me, and all of the songs were written without the use of computers and using the same equipment that acid house was using at the time: Roland TR-808, TB-303, MC-202, SH-101, TR-727 and E-MU SP1200.
The sampled material was sampled from a film, with a large amount of songs inspired by acid house and sci-fi films during the heyday of Second Summer of Love.
So he, too, was drawn to the film, having lived in Pittsburgh for some time, and created the music.
The release was named “CIVIC-SP”, after the cable TV song run by the film’s main character.
Artist biography:
Born in Tokyo in 1980 and lives in Margate, London.
He is a sound-artist who explores the possibilities of sound through his elaborately crafted works of art.
From 1999, he spent 6 years as a researcher at Meiwa Denki, an art unit, where he explored the world of music and technology.
In 2005, he moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art.
Since then, he has continued to create works that question the relationship between sound and human beings and how music affects us, and his exhibitions have spread around the world.
In 2014, two of his works, “OTOTO” and “Color Chaser”, were selected for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and his reputation has spread at an accelerated rate.
Since then, he has presented “The Visitor” (2015), a drum machine commissioned by Jeff Mills, won the Swarovski Designers of the Future award (2016), was in charge of Audi’s installation at the Salone del Mobile in Milan (2017), and was a member of Pentagram He has been a partner (2018) and in 2019 he announced a record cutting machine in collaboration with Gakken called the “Toy Record Maker”, and the list goes on and on.
Recently, he made headlines when he launched “808303.studio” with Roland to create an electronic music platform that allows users to compose music in a web browser using the TB-303 and TR-808.
On the musical front, he is also devoted to Acid House, and has released a number of releases on Müller Records and Breakin’ Records as a DMX Krew collaborator, among others; in 2019, he will be released on the UK’s He produced a protest 7″ record against leaving the EU, “Acid Brexit”, which was selected for the London Design Museum’s permanent collection.