Susumu Yokota - Magic Thread (Skintone Edition) [Gold 2x12" Vinyl]

Format: 2 x 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: Lo251
Release Date: 01 Aug 2025
Genre: Ambient / Experimental

- Limited edition gold 2x12” vinyl LP.
- Housed in 2 x PMS printed inner sleeves, featuring custom fonts by No Format and spot gloss abstraction of the original album artwork. 
- Accompanied with a double sided 2-panel insert and double sided 4 panel poster.
- All sleeved in a custom PMS 7mm wide spine reverse board outer sleeve with die cut square centre panel and belly band.

a1. Weave
a2. Reflux
a3. Unravel
b1. Circular
b2. Spool
b3. Potential
c1. Fiber
c2. Metabolic
c3. Stitch
d1. Blend
d2. Melt
 
Magic Thread is Susumu Yokota’s deeply soothing and delicate debut release on the Skintone label. With a spartan palette of sounds and textures, Yokota taps into a fundamentally human need to fuse and connect disparate fibres, magically forming work which glistens and pulsates with life.

Magic Thread originally came out in 1998 as a limited-edition CD release of 500 copies. Initially intended for the Japanese market, it came without any artwork in a standard transparent CD case adorned only by a sticker containing essential album information and a quote:

‘Somewhere in the process of evolution, the spinning and weaving of thread became possible for humankind. How did this come to pass? It can only be that the thread is possessed of magical properties.’ – Yokota, 1998.