To Rococo Rot "The Amateur View" CD

Berlin's answer to Chicago in the late 90s! The 1999 album "The Amateur View" by the cutting-edge electronics group "To Rococo Rot" is being reissued in a Japanese-only format with as many bonus tracks as possible!

This album was one of the first to incorporate the famous Gigi Mashin song "Clouds," which is also famous as the source material for Nujabes and Bjork, and its mellow sound added color to the hard style of "electronica."

To Rococo Rot is a post-rock/electronica group that has been active in Berlin, Germany since the mid-1990s. With a lineup of bass/drums/electronics, their basic style was minimal and flat, but their third album, The Amateur View (1999/City Slang), is a significant work that introduced electronica to listeners of a wide range of genres with its minimalist yet mellow sound that incorporates sequences with plenty of ups and downs! In particular, the material for track 10, "Die Dinge Des Lebens," is taken from the famous song "Clouds" by Gigi Masin, which is also known as the source material for Bjork's "It's In Our Hands" (2001-2) and Nujabes' "Latitude" (2002), and this is a representative song that shows the outstanding sense of the group that first made it known to the world! In addition, this work includes five tracks from the singles "Telema" and "Cars" released in the same year that were not included on the album, as well as four tracks that were included on the 2012 reissue by City Slang, for a total of nine additional tracks, made up of exclusive specifications for the 2018 Japanese version!

■Track list