{"title":"Foodman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTakahide Higuchi, better known as *Foodman*, is a Japanese footwork artist hailing from Yokohama, Japan. With his unique sound and energetic beats, he has gained recognition in the music industry. His music combines elements of footwork, experimental electronic, and traditional Japanese sounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne interesting fact about Foodman is that his stage name, *Shokuhin Maturi*, translates to \"Food Festival\" in Japanese. This reflects his playful and eclectic approach to music production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoy artists such as *Toiret Status*, *Jana Rush*, or *Jlin*, then Foodman's music will surely captivate your ears. His style resonates with fans of footwork legends like *RP Boo* and *DJ Rashad*. Additionally, if you appreciate the innovative sounds of artists like *Giant Claw* or the experimental vibes of *Laurel Halo*, Foodman's music will be right up your alley.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"shokuhin-2","title":"Shokuhin","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the release of Foodman’s debut album Shokuhin in 2012, the music of this Japanese artist has found ever larger audiences, developing along its own inimitable path, as heard on a growing pile of albums and single releases, as well as at concerts all around the world. Now, more than ten years later, it is worth going back to the fascinating beginning, which sounds as refreshingly weird today as it did back then. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Foodman’s music has often been described as a sort of lopsided relative of the Chicago-based footwork, it doesn’t really resemble anything else, and this idiosyncratic approach was evident right from the start. Here, by being cut and diced into strange rhythmic structures, samples gain a dreamlike life of their own, simultaneously alien and charming, and without any resemblance to the real world from which they came. With this re-release of Shokuhin, the album is not only being reintroduced to new Foodman fans, it is also being released on LP for the first time, in a collaboration between Orange Milk and the new label Xtroplast, which is focusing on vinyl releases of electronic music hitherto not availab\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orange Milk","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50384044654923,"sku":"2049534","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Foodman__Shokuhin_25a36118_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726284396"},{"product_id":"yasuragi-land","title":"Yasuragi Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eFoodman 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. \u003ci\u003eFood Court\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u0026amp;B. The album ends on ‘Misyuku’, with a treated guitar lick sounding like it was stolen from Daft Punk, woven into dense interlacing drums.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hyperdub","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50455841898827,"sku":"1120306","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50455843766603,"sku":"1120305","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c80356f4-c313-4507-85a5-e1f242ab2962_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727194422"},{"product_id":"hikarigasashikomu","title":"HIKARIGASASHIKOMU","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHIKARIGASASHIKOMU\u003c\/em\u003e translates as ‘Light Shines In’, a Japanese phrase conveying a sense of hope in a difficult place. Opening new creative possibilities for Foodman, this astonishing album is an introspective yet hyperactive body of work, representing the clarity and light found after a period of self-exploration. While this is a deeply personal record, it also captures the now-universal sound of a brain stretched between 500 open tabs, multitasking into oblivion in a world in which attention deficit is a global media environment, not merely a privatized psychological malaise.Focusing more on the use of voice, the album incorporates Foodman’s own looped vocals, singing elements of Japanese children’s songs and playground rhymes, and his everyday thoughts. Despite its charm and innocence, this soundworld leaps around manically, fractures and dissolves. Foodman’s voice repeats, disassembles, speeds up and down and is bounced around deliriously, as sound elements call and respond around him.Structurally and vocally, influences are drawn from footwork, ghetto house, and baile funk, all of which are maximally abstracted into bursts of spiralling psychedelic effects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hyperdub","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57592971264331,"sku":"R5376-9340","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/foodman_hikariga_HDBLP075_packshot_3000.jpg?v=1781619588"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_6b04e1d3_thumbnail_4096_9c403798-253c-4bda-b119-f8b978a658a1.jpg?v=1726284377","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/foodman.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}