Acid Mt. Fuji
1994 studio album by Susumu Yokota
Acid Mt. Fuji is the second studio album by Japanese electronic producer Susumu Yokota, and the first using his full birth name. Originally released in 1994 on the Japanese label Sublime Records and later remastered and reissued in 2018 on Midgar. It is notable as being one of his first records to engage with techno music, as well as its psychedelic and atmospheric sound.
Background and composition
Acid Mt. Fuji was Yokota's first record to demonstrate his capability as a techno music producer. As well as this, the record makes use of oscillating manipulated sounds like forest field recordings and electronic percussion, especially drum machines that serve as backing, which prominently appear as echoes. The sample at the beginning of track 11, "Tanuki", is supposedly the voice of American neuroscientist and psychonaut John C. Lilly. The record ends with a field recording of the ocean, apparently one by Mount Fuji itself.
The literal translation of the Japanese title on the cover, 'Red Fuji', references Edo period artist Hokusai's wood block print "Fine Wind, Clear Morning"; the artwork is a manipulated version of it.
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