YACHT

Y.A.C.H.T是Young Americans Challenging High Technology.的缩写。这只成立于2002年的独立电子风格乐队目前的成员由：来自美国德克萨斯州的Jona Bechotolt以及俄勒冈德州的Claire L.Evans组成。
Y.A.C.H.T，在音乐风格上涵盖着众多与众不同的音乐元素且变化无穷。他们的歌曲常常是在悦耳的合成器音色下伴随着充满梦幻色彩的流行旋律成分，总之会让你不由自主地想跟随他们一起立体地摇摆起来！身处Y.A.C.H.T的演出现场，你能深刻体会他们在身体力行地“表演音乐”，全部的想像力将跟随他们夸张纯粹的肢体表演，自说自话的舞台告白，奇幻眩目的多媒体影像之中自由的穿越.......
2009年，这支被新锐独立厂牌DFA备佳推崇的乐队将带上了自己的全新专辑来到中国，除了表现Y.A.C.H.T变幻莫测的电子乐之外，崇尚自由的他们还会在现场告诉你：Y.A.C.H.T不仅仅是一个乐队，它更是一种团队意识，也关于每个独立的个体。
by Mark Deming
YACHT is one of the many creative alter egos of Jona Bechtolt, a musician and multimedia artist who embraces an eclectic but playful blend of electronics, acoustic percussion, and noises of all sorts. Bechtolt took up music as a teenager, dropping out of high school to play drums in a touring punk band with his brother, and in the latter part of the '90s, he began working with electronics. Bechtolt teamed up with vocalist and performance artist Khaela Maricich to form the Blow, whose upbeat blend of beats and off-kilter melodies won them a loyal following after releasing the first of several albums for K Records in 2002. In 2003, Bechtolt unveiled YACHT, his solo project, with the largely instrumental album Super Warren MMIV, released by States Rights Records. A year later, Bechtolt teamed with the Marriage label for a 10" vinyl YACHT album Mega 10, which was re-released as a CD with accompanying DVD of Bechtolt's digital filmmaking. The third YACHT album, I Believe in You. Your Magic Is Real, arrived in the spring of 2007. When not occupied with YACHT or the Blow, Bechtolt has worked as a collaborator and/or accompanist for Devendra Banhart, Bobby Birdman, Mirah, Little Wings, the Microphones, and many others, as well as remixing tracks for Architecture in Helsinki and White Rainbow. Bechtolt is also the founder of the Urban Honking blog collective, helmed the online reality-show satire The Ultimate Blogger, and has created performance pieces under commission to New York City's New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art.