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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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1	Queens	248
2	Hoshi Neko	188
3	Oak of Guernica	168
4	Raccoon Song	157
5	Reverse Crystal // Murder of a Spider	145
6	A Star Over Pureland	124
7	Crystal Fortress Over the Sea of Trees	109
8	Hoshi Neko (Single Version)	7
9	Reverse Crystal//Murder of a Spider	6
10	Crystal Fortress of the Sea of Trees	4
11	Reverse Crystal / Murder of a Spider	2
11	08 - Hoshi Neko - Single Version (Bonus Track)	2
13	Reverse Crystal Murder of a Spider	1
13	Reverse Crystal - Murder of a Spider	1
13	Queens (Remix)	1

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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

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damnruckus

Omgad. Love

last month
lewisco_91

wonderful

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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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Mar 9 ATP curated by Jeff Mangum Butlins Holiday Resort, Minehead, United Kingdom
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May 31 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco CA, United States
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