From the album "LTFT Syndrome"
LTFT Syndrome is inspired from "Lizard Telepathy, Fox Telepathy" by Yoshinori Henguchi.

Full Streaming
https://birdfriend.bandcamp.com/album/ltft-syndrome

YPY - A Day In The Lizard Life

A2 - MMFF-DM

A1 - nmnhn sp 3

Mastered by Nisikawa Bunsho
Designed by YPY

releases February 10, 2016 

06 - The Million Dollar U.F.O

05 - The Bended U.F.O

04 - The Mindedness U.F.O

03 - The Second Hand U.F.O

02 - The Nerdy U.F.O

01 - The Damo U.F.O

Bad Life

YPY 'Manse', taken from the forthcoming LP '2020'

Release date 10.02.17
Preorder : wheretonow.bandcamp.com/album/2020

YPY is the work of Osaka based Koshiro Hino. Having recently released on labels such as Nous, his own label BirdFriend, and the legendary EM records Koshiro now presents the 7 track LP ‘2020’ for Where To Now? Records.

The LP leads with the slow building, off kilter title track ‘2020’, where flurries of eastern horns skitter beneath evolving layers of wonked yet beautifully balanced percussive movements, coming off like a technoid homage to the fourth world works of Eno & Hassel. As is the case with much of Hino’s music, as the piece develops it takes on heavier and heavier modes of experimentation and excitement – turbines whirr and fizz alongside layers and layers of percussion, constantly teetering on the edge of No-Wave breakdown whilst never losing sight of the rhythmic backbone, recouping from every moment of collapse with total grace.

Hino swings from this cacophony of rhythms on ‘2020’ to the playful, straight-laced ghetto tech burn of ‘Soup’, using layer upon layer of low key jazzed melody and percussion to gather pace and momentum, showing another side of the YPY palette with a deep groove and melody indebted to the work of Carl Craig as Psyche/BFC and the like.

Hino creates a musical world that veers from the frantic to the sublime seamlessly and appears to ground his interest in the potential harmony of these two states – or more specifically, how the two can exist in a way which keeps heads down and bodies moving in a dancefloor capacity whilst challenging the listeners expectations at every turn. Whilst obviously this is not a new concept, it is Hino’s own historic steeping in experimental drone, improvisation, and his work with his intense, hypnotic, minimalist psych outfit Goat which allow him to hold a unique position in this electronic realm.

Yusaku Shigeyasu (Juno Plus) further conveys this aura of Hino’s work in a YPY feature piece for Juno Plus, writing - “Intensity is a common thread that runs through all of Hino’s sprawling productions. It isn’t necessarily synonymous with a boisterous, forceful sound. He eschews conspicuous structures or overt arrangements and brings a sonic potential out of sober materials, creating deceptively stark pieces with a dramatic impact that capture and hold the attention from the off.” - Yusaku Shigeyasu / Juno Plus

Hino’s more rockist influences are perhaps most pertinent on ‘Ash’ which embodies this improvisational and stark approach to rhythm. ‘Soup’ is a doomy, sludge hybrid of fizzing electronics and stoner swagger, owing as much to contemporary artists such as Earth and Om, as it does to the first wave of Japanese and German experimental psych of the early 70’s. It’s a piece which is unlike anything else on the record, a vital piece of the puzzle when understanding where Koshiro is coming from, yet leaving no clues as to where he is going.

2020

YPY - Manse

Aurora(オーロラ) - 即興曲サルジニア
Riuichi Sakamoto ‎- Riot In Lagos
Rupert Clervaux, Beatrice Dillon - X
John Baker ‎- Troes Y Gareg
DJ Po(DJ方) - あー
Lena Willikens - Orutu Run
Carre - Lftm #2
Compuma Meets Haku ‎- Compuma Re-edit
Phew - A New World
YPY - unreleased track
Jamal Moss - The Digital Afterlife
amephone - Spring Thunder
Namaeganai(なまえがない) - つむじがふたつ

NTS RADIO - JAPAN BLUES W/ KOSHIRO HINO - 9TH JUNE 2017

moody...

May 28 on sale. Pre-order here
http://emrecords.ocnk.net/product/203

YPY is back with his third full-length album, his second on EM Records, following his 2016 debut “Zurhyrethm”. YPY is the solo alias of Osaka-based Koshiro Hino, who has honed his rhythmic instincts as leader of the acclaimed Japanese band “goat” and the sound installation/theatre project “GEIST” and “Virginal Variations”. His preoccupation with propulsion is on full display here, across five tracks of varying density and intensity, all thoroughly beat-oriented, with skeins of synthesized and sampled sound stretching to the horizon, rising from a bedrock of minimal drum machine pulses, all lovingly embraced in a cassette-borne sonic fug. The cover image and title hearken back to Hino’s past, with the image obscurely referencing his yesteryear green mohawk, and the title derived from Talking Heads, but this effervescent album, though recorded using cassette technology, is not a sad tale of nostalgia, rather a look at a present/pleasant reality. Available on digital, 12-inch vinyl and CD.

YPY - Be A Little More Selfish

01. Guilty Pants (10:43)
02. It's Not So Bad I Think (1:39)
03. Resom Plants (7:31)
04. All Wounds (13:09)
05. Games #2 p-type (6:34)

All tracks composed and produced by Koshiro Hino 
Cello on “All Wounds” by Yuki Nakagawa 
Mastering: Takuto Kuratani (Ruv Bytes) 
Cover drawings: NAZE 
(c) Koshiro Hino 
(p) 2019 EM Records

Selling Price: US$13.99

And goat LP will be repressed and price down. It also start selling on 28 May.
http://emrecords.ocnk.net/product/171

YPY - Be A Little More Selfish(EM RECORDS)

BLACK SMOKER RECORDSよりYPYの新作CD『Compact Disc』が発売される。
その中に収録されている“China Dynamic"のセルフリミックスと未収録曲”Black Night of Hundred Songs”の2曲が収録された完全限定生産10インチダブプレート。CD、ダブプレート共に8/8発売予定。

Very limited 10 inch dubplate.
It includes self-remix from forthcoming album "Compact Disc" from BLACK SMOKER RECORDS, and also unreleased track "Black Night of Hundred Songs".
CD and dubplate will be out on 8 Aug, 2020.

Black Night of Hundred Songs (excerpt)

Cat Dynamic (excerpt)

YPY a.k.a Koshiro Hino

EU/UK booking : yuko@setten-agency.com

contact : birdfriendjp@gmail.com

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OTHER PROJECTS:
goat
bonanzas
Virginal Variations
GEIST
HINOSCH(YPY&Stefan Schneider)

https://ypy.theshop.jp/

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