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 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 finishes with ‘Misyuku’, its treated guitar lick sounding like it was stolen from Daft Punk, woven into dense interlacing drums.
| 1 | Omiyage |
| 2 | Yasuragi |
| 3 | Michi No Eki |
| 4 | Ari Ari |
| 5 | Shiboritate |
| 6 | Hoshikuzu Tenboudai |
| 7 | Shikaku No Sekai |
| 8 | Food Court |
| 9 | Gallery Cafe |
| 10 | Numachi |
| 11 | Parking Area |
| 12 | Iriguchi |
| 13 | Aji Fly |
| 14 | Sanhashi |
| 15 | Minsyuku |
