While the Japanese producer’s early music was grounded in footwork, he relegates rhythm to the margins on his latest EP, arranging his samples into wild abstractions and warped folk songs.
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Foodmanâs music assembles tiny sounds into intricate grooves. Short clicks and pops, clipped gurgles and swishes, and miniscule snippets of synth arrange themselves into tangled rhythms that reference different types of electronic music, from house and footwork to classic video-game soundtracks, but always feel skewed and toylike. Often it sounds like a miniature approximation of dance music, as if heâs built a club out of a colorful assortment of Legos, just waiting for the tiny figurines to come alive and find their groove. It is a swirl of joy and creative energy, leaving an unmistakable impression of the Japanese producerâs wonder as he discovers the answer to the question âWhat happens if I do