Symbol (remastered) vinyl

Sample-based music can be many things to many people. Few would ever expect it to sound quite as beautiful as this, though. For his latest addition to an increasingly weighty and extensive back catalogue, Susumu Yokota looks to hit the nail on the head in terms of answering the question 'what does Susumu Yokota sound like?'

On Symbol the bedroom composer takes a selection of often familiar, sometimes odd and relatively unknown classical movements, cuts them up and pastes them back together, creating brand new rhythms. In a lot of ways it's the epitome of sample music, but we've not heard many records that pull off the task and wind up with something that doesn't really sound as looped or fixed as it is, largely achieving this with original work that's a century old, if not (much) more.

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