About....
Utabi's cute sawtooth tones and often abrasive, crisp-friend beats combine into an Atari dreamlands where everyone is on weird drugs and raving their arse off. At least that's true for most of the album – sometimes things slow down a bit – when the raver-sprites jump onto a floating cloud platform of a chill-out room.
Undoubtedly, Utabi has borrowed existing ideas from some of the giants of the genre. The ironic Technicolour over-saturation of Kid606 is a definite influence, as well as the vocal chop-ups of Amon Tobin's Verbal, but Utabi's vocabulary of bleeps and tones is an undoubtedly original one. As is his use of (as the album's title suggests) far-Eastern melodies, played on soft synths and even more ridiculous for it.
And sure he allows his beats to descend into a glorious glitchy mess once in a while, but vitally, things are kept listenable, sometimes even bordering on cutesy electro-pop, but never without a background itch of dancey rhythmiy