BTTB (album)

BTTB
Studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Released	February 2, 1999 (Japan) January 2000 (Europe) February 8, 2000 (US)
Studio	Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Mouri Artworks Studio and Victor Aoyama Studio (Tokyo)
Genre	Classical
Length	63:04
Label	Sony Classical
Producer	Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto chronology
Discord (1997) BTTB (1999) Comica (2002)
Singles from BTTB
"Ulla BTTB" Released: May 26, 26

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

BTTB is a 1999 piano solo album by Ryuichi Sakamoto. The album title is an acronym for "Back To The Basics". A maxi single was released on May 26, 1999 and featured the tracks "Energy Flow", "Put Your Hands Up", and "Railroad Man". The single peaked at number four on the Japanese singles chart.^[2]

Track listing

All tracks written by Ryuichi Sakamoto. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Energy Flow"	4:36
2.	"Put Your Hands Up"	4:51
3.	"Railroad Man"	4:42
4.	"Opus"	4:27
5.	"Sonatine"	3:38
6.	"Intermezzo"	3:44
7.	"Lorenz and Watson"	3:57
8.	"Choral No. 1"	2:27
9.	"Choral No. 2"	2:05
10.	"Bachata"	8:14
11.	"Chanson"	2:23
12.	"Prelude"	4:08
13.	"Uetax"	0:26
14.	"Aqua"	4:29
15.	"Tong Poo"	5:03
16.	"Reversing"	3:58

Personnel

• Ryuichi Sakamoto – piano

Technical

• Fernando Aponte – engineer
• Naoto Shibuya – engineer, mixing
• Masaki Sekiguchi – assistant engineer
• Ted Jensen – mastering
• Hideki Nakajima – direction

References

1. Vallier, John. BTTB at AllMusic
2. "1999年　シングル年間TOP100". Yahoo! GeoCities (in Japanese). Yahoo!. Archived from the original on May 23, 2015. Retrieved January 24, 2016.