Foodman - Yasuragi Land [CD]

Foodman is Takahide Higuchi, from Nagoya, in central Japan. Yasuragi Land is his first release for Hyperdub, alive with Footwork-inspired musical freedom and the sense that everything is a rhythm.

Yasuragi Land 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.

Food Court is busy with mechanical rhythm and naive melodies, Gallery CafÈ 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 finishes with Misyuku, its treated guitar lick sounding like it was stolen from Daft Punk, woven into dense interlacing drums.

01. Omiyage 02. Yasuragi 03. Michi No Eki ft Taigen Kawabe 04. Ari Ari 05. Shiboritate 06. Hoshikuzu Tenboudai 07. Shikaku No Sekai 08. Food Court 09. Gallery CafÈ 10. Numachi 11. Parking Area 12. Iriguchi 13. Aji Fly 14. Sanbashi ft Cotto Center 15. Minsyuku

• Format Detail: CD
• Format: CD
• Genre: Dance & Electronic