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YT//ST was founded in late 2007 by performance artists alaska B and Ruby Kato Attwood, born from the ashes of the late Lesbian Fight Club. Armed with mixed-race identities, mad illustration skills and a whole pile of home-brew junk electronics, alaska and Ruby wrote and performed the first mini ‘Noh-Wave’ Opera, ‘YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN I’ in April 2008. YT//ST continued to perform short homebrewed operas, eventually forming a network of Asian and Indigenous artists through collaboration and formed the current YT//ST collective. Montrealers had come to know YT//ST by their dazzling musical theatre performances in giant monochrome paper sets, sometimes in far out places, like the Montreal Eaton Centre Food Court at 2AM. Aesthetically, they blend the poorly appropriated styles of Noh, Chinese Opera, Chinese, Japanese and First Nations Mythology, Black & White Television, Psychedelia & Rock Operatics into a sensory feast of nigh-monochromatic costuming, unique hand-built musical instruments and their own mangaesque cardboard ‘NEVERFLAT’ style of 2.5D set design.
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  • averyrealfear

    flawless in my honest opinion

    yesterday afternoon
  • conformitos

    fuck you crew

    Sunday afternoon
  • djgizmoe

    @Fickle_Friend - Some of Afrirampo's stuff is in the same neighborhood, but they're a bit more primal and punkier...

    13 days ago
  • djgizmoe

    Super dooper.

    16 days ago
  • johnny-mnemonic

    blonde redhead meets boredoms meets deep purple ... great stuff

    21 days ago
  • Fickle_Friend

    This is amazing is there really nothing else out there that sounds remotely similar to this group? I mean sure there's Boredoms and Oneida but that can't be all there is.

    22 days ago
  • sleepsleepwake

    I want more!

    last month
  • ashriels

    I hope they get huge in 2012. They deserve it. Oh, and cross your fingers for a North American tour!

    last month
  • LutinGrognon

    Has great potential.

    last month
  • e8ghtmileshigh

    i'm pretty sure i read about this a while back, but once and a while Hype Machine comes through

    last month
  • pcrobbitt

    Exactly what does "mangaesque cardboard ‘NEVERFLAT’ style of 2.5D set design" mean??

    last month
  • mathcore16

    album is significantly better than i was expecting

    last month
  • duplicatedcopy

    good stuff, I love the album's pacing

    last month
  • jesusson420

    sound nothing like boris or melvins. at all. in the slightest

    last month
  • damnruckus

    Omgad. Love

    last month
  • lewisco_91

    wonderful

    last month
  • helloimjoshua

    cool stuff

    last month
  • amaann

    Pitchfork brought me here too. Pretty different stuff, starting to grow on me.

    December 2011
  • gingermustache

    this is intriguing. & thanks pitchfork [2]

    December 2011
  • icannot

    thanks pitchfork

    December 2011
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