Disco Pogo

Skintone Edition Vol.1 commences a project that involves reissuing 14 albums from Yokota's Skintone label, originally released between 1998 and 2012. These albums represent Yokota's most seminal work, and are highly sought after, with most of the albums not seeing a repress until now. These fourteen albums will come out individually over the next 18 months, along with two boxsets, each containing 7 of the albums. As well as vinyl there will also be a CD release for each album + 2 CD box sets.

Skintone Edition commemorates the singular talent of this music pioneer with the re-release of all of his albums released via his own Skintone label. Over a 20 year period Yokota released 30 albums and countless 12s under a variety of aliases, across more than a dozen pre-eminent labels. Yokota received domestic and international acclaim as a house and techno DJ and producer throughout the nineties. Part of the vanguard of the Tokyo scene, his influential release Acid Mt. Fuji inspires techno artists to this day.

In 1998 though, at the height of his success, he established his Skintone imprint, which came to eclipse all of his previous achievements. Skintone shone a light on the diverse new directions in which his creativity had blown, from delicate, cyclical tape-loop meditations to neo-classical compositions. It also gave him the autonomy to combine his visual and music-making practices and, importantly, to create at his own pace. The label was a great success and his experiments proved foundational in the global 00s ambient canon.

Skintone Edition will be available as 2 box sets - the first volume coincides with the 10th anniversary of Yokota’s untimely death and the 30th year of Lo Recordings. All music has been fully re-mastered. This edition is presented with the generous assistance of the Yokota family.

Format:

• Linen Paper, Foil Printed Box Set
• Includes 6 Double LPs + 1 Single LP
• All LPs Pressed on Colour Vinyl -Each Disc is Housed in a Printed Inner with PMS Print, Finished with Spot Gloss Printing. Each Sleeve Features an Abstract of the Original Album’s Artwork
• Also included are a 4 page Insert + Poster

Albums Included:

Magic Thread [1998] Image 1983-1998 [1998] Sakura [1999] Grinning Cat [2001] Will [2001] The Boy and the Tree [2002] Laputa [2003]

Viva Acid House Limited Edition Print.

A collaboration between renowned graphic artist Anthony Burrill and Disco Pogo.

Disco Pogo's 'Viva Acid House' rallying cry since the early 90s reimagined via Anthony Burrill's iconic typographic style.

Signed and numbered (by Anthony Burrill) limited edition of 100 prints.

Hand screen-printed using traditional printmaking techniques by Harvey Lloyd, Wadhurst, Kent.

Two colour print with varnish on type area.

Trimmed size: 50x70 cm

Paper: Shiro Echo 270 gsm Recycled Stock

Unframed - print will arrive rolled in a tube.

About Anthony Burrill:

Graphic artist Anthony Burrill combines a knack for simplicity that packs a punch with analogue craft skills and powerful, positive messages. Burrill frequently collaborates with other forward-thinking creatives across disciplines spanning music, architecture, curation, education and more; pushing his traditional discipline of choice, letterpress printing, into bold new territories.

Words, gentle humour, no-nonsense communication and people are at the heart of Burrill’s practice and his distinctive brand of upbeat messaging: its core DNA is one created through a longstanding passion for creativity without limitations, the power of simplicity and an innate curiosity about the world and people in it.

His work is held in the permanent collections of the V&A and The Design Museum in London, The Cooper-Hewitt in New York and has been exhibited in galleries around the world including The Barbican Gallery in London, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The Triennale in Milan and The Stedelijk Museum in Breda.