Tetsu Inoue - Automatic Motion
What can I say about Tetsu Inoue that has not already been said by more succinct and intelligent minds than my own?
His music will be listened to by future denizens of Earth and classified as “completely ahead of its time,” I have no doubt.
Most people go on and on about Ambiant Otaku (and the misspelled name has always bugged me), but, for me, Slow and Low is where it’s at (and, to a lesser extent, Organic Cloud). It’s easy to forget that Fax records was releasing some mindblowing stuff once upon a time.
This track has it all—it stretches both into Inoue’s past, with the lovely synth echoes, and into his future with the strangely soothing DSP noise. While Inoue’s recent output has been a little too microsound for my tastes, these last ten years, it’s easy to imagine myself playing Slow and Low in 2040 and still being calmed by the gentle futurism.