Susumu Yokota’s Greenpeace & Fruits of the Room LPs get first reissue

Voyaging across deep house, jungle, dub, psychedelic downbeat and beyond.

Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist Susumu Yokota’s Greenpeace & Fruits of the Room albums under his Stevia alias are being reissued for the first time, via Glossy Mistakes this June.

Yokota wrote and produced both albums during 1997, aiming to reflect on the broad culture of dance music in Japan from the early to mid-nineties.

Stevia aka Susumu Yokota – Greenpeace by Stevia aka Susumu Yokota

Across Greenpeace he drew on deep house, street soul, jungle, and d’n’b, while Fruits of the Room saw him working with loops, breaks, and psychedelic downbeat.

Stevia aka Susumu Yokota – Fruits of the Room by Stevia aka Susumu Yokota

The reissues come as Yokota’s Symbol album also returned to vinyl, via Lo Recordings in April.

Pre-order Greenpeace here, and Fruits of the Room here, in advance of their 10th June release; check out the artwork and tracklist below.

Greenpeace

2. Cherry Girl

3. Cubehead

4. Astral Spirits

5. Wheat Field

6. Freak Butterfly

7. Dream People

8. Black & White

9. La La La Psyche

10. Requiem

Fruits of the Room

2. Fruits of the Planet

3. Little Comets

4. Flying Sheep

5. Some Questions

6. Paint it

7. Penguin on Desert

8. Sensitive Plant

9. Sunny Side

10. Zebra Tone

11. The Way

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VF Team

Published on

April 19, 2022