itsu jitsu is based in Glasgow, Scotland.

As much as we don’t like categories we understand that they help to give a sense of what something is, so in order for you to better understand us and the music/sound which we like, here are some descriptive tags: experimental, ambient, dark ambient, shoegaze, industrial, avant-garde, weird, outsider, DIY, fun, serious, sound art, isolationism, twinkly tweek, post-punk, noise, space rock, samplitude, plunderphonics, ass-jazz, the sound of broken things, sociopolitical, nonsense, glib, hashy, surrealist, not quite right, (f)art rock.

Nobody likes to download something only to be told that they have to listen to it on their own, at home, in the dark, with the sound down really low just in case a passer by happens to hear it. So all of our digital downloads carry a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. That particular license allows you, the listener, to share the music which you download with whomever you choose and we’d really like it if you did.

Do: embed releases on your blog, invite friends over and have an itsu jitsu party, send a CDr of itsu music to your Auntie Mabel.

Don’t: chop, sample, re-mix, repackage and/or feed our music to your cat without first asking us*, we’re really rather nice folk and can no doubt work something out.

*In fact don’t ever feed our music to your cat, she won’t thank you for it given that most cats are Jazz purists.

Demo Policy

Due to certain constraints (life mostly) we don’t have an unlimited amount of time to devote to itsu jitsu, however if you’d like to release some of your work with us and are happy for that release to take place on a “Yeah chief, we’ll sort that out when we have a minute” basis then please feel free to email a link to mrtfrook@gmail.com and we will indeed get back to you when we have a minute.