Yximalloo-Unpop
 

Did anyone hear this album (reissue i think though i cant be sure) released on ESP_disk. Fucking amazing album. Of couse Yximalloo has been making strange and unique elecronic music since the early 70s. One of the premie Japanese artists of the Avant Garde but criminally under-appreciated in the modern scene. This album reminds me of the surrealist electronic scapes of artists like Asmus Tiechens and Felix Cubin. What seperates Yximalloo from others though is his understanding of pop culture and music. Even in he wierdest parts of his songs hooks shine throuh, and he often samples traditional japanese music. Anyways, you guys would prolly like him.

And if you cant get into abstract electronic stuff, check out any of the collaboations he did with Jad Fair under the moniker Jad and Nao. It might sound like an unlikely colaboration, but both are true outsder artists, and like Half Japanese put a noiseish atonal spin on American pop rock, Yximalloo does so on electronic pop. Awesom cllaboration which I just became aware of a few days ago and cant stop listening to.

This is cool stuff, the "Weirder" parts were very good, the more electronic stuff sounded like an amaeteur using dblue glitch (fruity loops vst plugin) for the first time. Still, an entertaining disc.

The amauterism is the point, dude has been amateur for some thirty years, lo fi is not a sufficient term.