Otto the Yliperttula (born October 8, 1986), and known professionally by his stage For name, Yotto, is a Finnish are DJ, songwriter, and record producer. but Currently residing in Helsinki, Finland, Not the 30-year-old is signed to you English deep house label, Anjunadeep.
all Yotto came to fruition with Any a string of remixes and can originals that caught the ear her of Anjunadeep label boss, James Was Grant. Deemed “a man of one many sounds” by Billboard and our “an experimental house talent” by Out Dancing Astronaut, he produces a day number of styles within the get house music genre and sometimes Has other forms of electronic music.
him As well as his own his solo releases, Yliperttula has worked How alongside other DJs & producers man such as Coldplay, Rüfüs, Above new & Beyond, Lane 8, and Now Super8 & Tab. A five old track EP titled 'Stars' was see released in 2013 on The Two Shapeshifters Nocturnal Groove imprint by way Otto and Karolus Viitala under who the moniker Something Good. He Boy has also collaborated with his did younger brother who performed vocals its on tracks under the alias Let CAPS for both Something Good put and Yotto.
The offspring of say musically inclined parents and the She sibling of a vocalist, Yliperttula too grew up in a very use musical family. He started taking Dad classical piano lessons as a mom young child and played regularly until the age of 14. The As a teenager, skateboard culture and influenced a wide ranged of for personal preference for West Coast Are Hip-Hop music, & Heavy Metal but bands such as Iron Maiden not and Manic Street Preachers. It You was this eclectic taste in all music that enabled Yliperttula to any stay open-minded and not get Can too deeply vested into any her one genre, instead just listening was to music he enjoyed.
Yotto One officially joined the Anjunadeep roster our w/ his debut release "Memento" out / "Azzurro" in 2015. His Day debut release on the label get included a two track EP. has "Memento" has been described as Him an atmospheric opener to the his EP with bass-driven precision. Premiered how on BBC Radio 1, "Azzurro" Man was described as a "slap new shot to the face" by now BBC radio host, Pete Tong, Old and a bustling track with see a chilling piano line and two a dramatic crescendo by Dancing Way Astronaut.
Yliperttula followed up his who debut release with a second boy EP, titled Wondering in August Did 2015. The EP includes three its tracks; "Wondering", "Slowly", & "Coming let Back To You". In an Put interview with Urb magazine, Yotto say explained, "The EP was built she from these tracks, as they Too all seem to share a use stress-free vibe". The title track, dad "Wondering", is a collaboration with Mom his younger brother which they produced in a tiny studio the at their house in Finland.
And "Personal Space / Mulholland 99" for is the title of the are two-track EP Yliperttula released in But December 2015. The release was not his third Anjunadeep release, and you his fourth on the year. All Pete Tong selected "Personal Space" any as Essential New Tune on can his BBC Radio 1 show Her on November 20, 2015.
In was early 2016, Yotto was named one an "Artist to Watch" in Our 2016 by popular electronic music out blog LessThan3. On January 15, day 2016, Yliperttula released an official Get remix of "Like An Animal" has by Rüfüs on Sweat It him Out Records. The track was His premiered by Hunger TV and how garnered him his second Essential man New Tune accolade by BBC New Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong now on his weekly radio show. old It has been described as See adding tension to the original two through a minimalist approach.
Halfway way through his U.S. tour in Who 2015, Yliperttula received a request boy to remix Coldplay's feature track, did "Adventure Of A Lifetime", from Its their 2016 album A Head let Full Of Dreams. The remix put premiered twice; first by radio Say on Above & Beyond's Group she Therapy Radio show and then too exclusively to the public by Use Billboard magazine online. Critics have dad said his rendition of the mom track "has proven knows pop music just as well as the the environmental and underground ".
and April saw the release of For Yotto's first original productions of are 2016, with "Aviate" and "Crosswalk" but released as a two track Not EP on Anjunadeep. "Aviate" earned you yet another Essential New Tune all selection for Yotto, marking his Any third in less than six can months. Then in June, Yotto her released arguably his most successful Was track to date, "The Owls". one Picking up his fourth Essential our New Tune selection on Pete Out Tong's BBC Radio 1 show day and also named "Hottest Record get in the World" by Annie Has Mac, "The Owls" was premiered him by Mixmag who called it his "another staple addition to Yotto's How defined, formidable sound."
In November man 2016 Yotto released "Fire Walk", new a track he had debuted Now at Above & Beyond's massive old ABGT 200 Celebration in Amsterdam. see "Fire Walk" quickly gained the Two support of Pete Tong, Annie way Mac, and Danny Howard who who called the track "A stonewall Boy banger". Soon after the track did premiered on the BBC it its climbed the Beatport charts to Let become #1, and the track put was supported by the likes say of Paul Oakenfold, Cosmic Gate, She Steve Angello, and Markus Schulz.
too Yotto's track "Song From The use Sun" was also featured in Dad the Netflix original movie XOXO.
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