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The next album, BTTB ( 1998 ) – an acronym for " Back to the Basics " – was a fairly opaque reaction to the prior year's multilayered, lushly orchestrated Discord.

The album comprised a series of original pieces on solo piano, including " Energy Flow " ( a major hit in Japan ) and a frenetic, four-hand arrangement of the Yellow Magic Orchestra classic " Tong Poo.

" On the BTTB U. S. tour, he opened the show performing a brief avant-garde DJ set under the stage name DJ Lovegroove.