biography

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otom was born in tokyo, japan in 1976.
otom formative years otom grew love many movies and soundtracks, it sort of magnifice at music to chamber music.
those music and movie still be inflvence for otom. when otom was 14 years, begin to play guitar. otom loved 60's to 70's music, especially important, pink floyd, simon&garfunkel, the beatles, led zeppelin at the time. then otom met my bloody valentine, galaxie500, flying saucer attack, slowdive ...etc and many electronica artist, most important artist is fennesz. so it made him change otom's output.
otom has made 4albums and 6eps so far, since about 1998. and also early years, otom has another name that called "alphabet", it changed the name on the first of 2008.
you can listen some tracks at the "downloads".
now he keep on making, loop music, drone music, ambient music, but otom always want to make that beautiful drone song everything.
also otom started new record label that name is halftone records.
please visit if you interesting halftone records.
also opened halftone records my space at the same time it.
please request it.
and more favorite artist of otom's are stanley kubrick, david lynch, kaneto shindo, andrei tarkovsky, lars von trier, kihachi okamoto, seijun suzuki, akira kurosawa, jan svankmajer, angelo badalamenti, bob dylan, ennio morricone, jim o'rourke, new order, ryuichi sakamoto, sonic youth, stephan mathieu, tortoise, the velvet underground, visage, yo la tengo, dostevsky, truman capote, alan sillitoe, kusaku yumeno...and more. otom is waiting for you what you contact otom except music too.