Mr YT - Brand New Day

Today’s listening is Mr YT (Yuji Takenouchi)’s Brand New Day.

The first song, ‘Morning’, is just unbelievable. Such a journey. ’Nite’ is a close second. For both it’s quite hard to put a finger on which time they really belongs in. Could be because Takenouchi scored some iconic and futuristic video games for Sony, which must’ve conjured up otherwordly scenes in his mind on a daily basis.

The other songs are cool housey danceable tunes, which hint at the album’s creation time (1997) way better. Also very cool.

For composing his personal projects, he really missed having specific scenes or images as inspiration. Therefore, for this album he used pictures in the theme of ‘A day of new environment’. Probably that theme translates a bit hard from Japanese to English. I really like to envision what the images behind this album must’ve looked like.

As a bonus: When writing this I found out he scored one of my favorite games (Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception). I played it endlessly on my PSP as a kid. I wouldn’t be surprised if my early exposure to his work somehow made Brand New Day ‘click’ for me on first listen. Here’s some cool stuff + true rave material from that game.

Anyway, enjoy this awesome other-wordly album.

~ Mark

Check out the album on Spotify or Bandcamp.