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Foodman is Takahide Higuchi, from Nagoya, in central Japan. After remixing Jessy Lanza’s ‘Alexander’ last year, ‘Yasuragi Land’ is his first release for Hyperdub, alive with Footwork-inspired musical freedom and the sense that everything is a rhythm.Unusually, ‘Yasuragi Land’ has no bass. Instead, the album is breezy and refined; hyper-rhythmic music, made with a few simple tools, dances around your head.
'Yasuragi’ and ‘Parking Area’ feel like gently deconstructed acoustic jazz, while ‘Ari Ari’ is deep house splattered with a cartoonish hiccup. ‘Hoshikzu Tenboudai’ and ‘Shiboritate’ bounce around the speakers like trance-inducing polyrhythmic updates of the New York minimalists, programmed past human limits. ‘Food Court’ is busy with mechanical rhythm and naive melodies, ‘Gallery Café’ pairs a cute wooden flute melody with micro edited wooden drums, ‘Michi No Eki’ is like a digital take on Magma's complex rock, and ‘Sanbashi’ indirectly approximates 80s R&B. The album ends on ‘Misyuku’, with a treated guitar lick sounding like it was stolen from Daft Punk, woven into dense interlacing drums.
Tracklist
A1. Omiyage
A2. Yasuragi
A3. Michi No Eki ft Taigen Kawabe
A4. Ari Ari
A5. Shiboritate
A6. Hoshikuzu Tenboudai
A7. Shikaku No Sekai
B1. Food Court
B2. Gallery Café
B3. Numachi
B4. Parking Area
B5. Iriguchi
B6. Aji Fly
B7. Sanbashi ft Cotto Center
B8. Minsyuku
Soundwave
https://youtu.be/5qUCYUI1IqA