Ryan
Yoshimoto, better known as YOSHIMOTO, is a music producer, composer, singer,
songwriter, creative director and a respected audio-visual artist with a 10
year career as a Visual FX Supervisor. His first and most popular track "Du What U Du" was nominated
in 2006 at the Winter Music Conference
in Miami for Best Underground Song, and up to this day the track is still very
well known and acclaimed in Europe, Mexico and South America.
Yoshimoto was raised in Northern California, in the foothills of the Santa Cruz'
mountains. He showed an early interest in music, playing the violin, French
horn, piano and guitar from the age of five and enjoying
his mother's penchant for playing and listening to classical music. As an
adolescent, he was entranced by electronic music for the first time listening
to his brother's Harold Budd and Brian Eno albums. Also later was influenced
and inspired by Depeche Mode, New Order, Yaz and
all the great techopop groups of the eighties.
He received his first formal training in music theory, film and digital media
production at The De Anza School of Film and San Francisco State University,
while working as an audio visual artist in the burgeoning San Francisco art and
music scene and experimenting with artificial intelligence, music and design.
He created along with a band of inspired young artists some of the most
advanced audio-visual installations and events in the city. After touring the
world with such diverse acts such as jazz master Ornette Coleman and electronic
group The Crystal Method as a visualist, Yoshimoto moved to LA, where he began
his most personal and formal excursions in music.
In 2005, once established in LA, is when
Trentemoller remixed Yoshimoto's original track "Du What U Du". The track garnered alot of attention
throughout the global dance scene and was nominated in 2006 at the Winter Conference in Miami for Best Underground
Dance Track. The initial release on Andy
Caldwell's UNO RECORDINGS label began a long chart topping run of
the single to sell over 100,000 copies and was subsequently licensed to dozens
of compilations and sub Labels.
With his first release Yoshimoto has become a very well known artist in the
world of underground music as well as in the electro house genre.
Yoshimoto is releasing this winter 2009, a new series of songs, of which the
first release is called "Surrender",
with a beautiful electro house remix by the masterful Eugene Noiz.
Despite the
fact that he is not truly a DJ and does not claim to be, Yoshimoto (and his "Du What U Du" track) has
often appear on the lists of the world's top DJs, and is often invited to
appeared in different venues and events around the world. "Du What U Du” is going to be part
of a new Pacha Ibiza compilation including the best tracks of the last 20
years.
His love for creating media has since propelled him into collaborations
in feature film, creative development, artificial intelligence and music.
This winter, beginning in December 2009, Yoshimoto is
starting a world tour, for "Ecobeat" in Brazil and throughout Mexico.
