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The connection between vintage electronic music on either side of the Pacific reflects the otherworldly ethos Mauthes is searching for."I really like science fiction and cyberpunk," he says."I guess part of the reason I got into the '80s sound and synths is that they automatically sound sci-fi to me. I think they kind of evoke that outer space sound and atmosphere."
Retro tunes of a certain age transport him to the glittering Neo Tokyo of his imagination, particularly the old video game and anime soundtracks from the '80s and '90s."A lot of them have that sound," he notes."Since I grew up in the '90s, I guess I'm kind of nostalgic for it even though some of that stuff is before my time."
Mauthes was a bass guitarist before electronic music lured him away from stringed instruments."Listening to old bands like Yellow Magic Orchestra got me into that sound and I branched off from there," he explains."Eventually I kind of got interested in synthesizers...and analog synths. I started doing a little bit of that more as a solo thing, and it kind of just took off."
He creates his music at home with a compact studio setup, which mostly consists of a laptop and some MIDI keyboards."I useas my main workspace; I like the synths in there a lot," he says, as well as"a lot of plug-in emulations of '80s synthesizers. So I moved pretty much entirely [away] from hardware. I have my little group of sounds that I like and I make stuff with that palette. I feel like the sound is pretty close.
As he chased futuristic atmospheres in his studio, Mauthes's"little bit" of a solo thing morphed into Neo Tokyo Philharmonic in 2015. He's been releasing albums under that moniker every couple of years or so, but otherwise the music stayed in his apartment until last year:"I actually didn't start playing live with this project until pretty recently." Mauthes explains that after years of experimentation and development the time suddenly seemed to be right.
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