Foodman

Foodman may be the Westernized saving alias of Japan experimental electronic manufacturer Takahide Higuchi, who’s known in his local country seeing that Shokuhin Maturi (“Meals Festival”). Located in Yokohama, his music is certainly a deconstructed undertake Chicago’s juke/footwork audio, additional mutating its frenetic bass and off-kilter, rapid-fire examples. His monitors feature extremely unconventional rhythms and periodic bursts of sound. His using sterile, MIDI-like digital musical instruments and sporadic components of J-pop possess drawn evaluations to vaporwave aswell as the Computer Music label. Foodman initial made a direct effect in 2012, when his monitors circulated through the entire worldwide juke underground, and Orange Dairy Records released his debut cassette Shokuhin. Immediately after, extra tapes made an appearance on Noumenal Loom, Digitalis, and Individual Sounds Intl., aswell as many online produces, including a divide EP with SELA. In 2015, Japanese label Melting Bot released Couldwork, a brief compilation including monitors from a few of Foodman’s digital produces. In 2016, Orange Dairy issued Foodman’s vinyl fabric debut full-length, Ez Minzoku, including a vocal cameo from Bo Ningen vocalist Taigen Kawabe.