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5 unusual facts about Yann Tomita


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Yumiko Ohno of the Japanese group Buffalo Daughter is known in Japan for singing on several electronic avant-garde albums with Yann Tomita under the pseudonym Caroline Novac.

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Yann Tomita

Besides Doopees, he has also worked with a variety of music artists, including Grandmaster Flash, Boredoms, Kahimi Karie, Ippu-Do, Cymbals, Koizumi Kyoko, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Hiroshi Fujiwara.

One of his acclaimed works is his Space age pop concept album Doopee Time (1995), which followed members Suzi Kim and Caroline Novac of the fictitious Japanese vocal duo "Doopees".

He also mixed, arranged, and co-produced Seiko Ito's MESS/AGE (1989) album, which has been cited as one of the pioneering works in Japanese hip hop.



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