How Chicago house music kickstarted a music revolution in Japan
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By Cat Woods
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For a decade, Nagoya-based producer Takahide Higuchi has made the electronic music genre of juke his own. His albums, including
Ez Minzoku in 2016 and
Aru Otoko No Densetsu in 2018 are chock-full of whimsy, scattered beats, kick drums and snares, flutes, horns, woodwind and snipped-up samples that build into a cartoonish, immersive sonic collage. His wonderfully strange music has been embraced by culture tastemakers
Pitchfork (naming
i-D (which commissioned a DJ mix in 2017).