Yaporigami, or Yu Miyashita to his mother, drops a short and very sweet collection of sci-fi sounding loops here on HZ Records. Revealing a careful attention to detail, each loop features mainly glitched out drilled textures, with gentle synth pads occasionally making a sneaky appearance. The entire edition of 15 cuts is all over and done with in a very modest 31 minutes; indeed, the longest track clocks in at 2 minutes 46 seconds, making this release a must have for the ADD generation.
Kicking straight from the gate, “Loop 1.01” (each piece is simply titled “loop 1.0 something, so for the sake of immediacy, I’ll only use the numbers from now on) shows Yaporigami’s hand quite clearly: lots of slicing, editing, drilling, cutting and layering. Not that this is a bad thing. He manages to pull it off very well, mainly due to the fact that each piece is as short as it is. Quite often material that moves at the pace of this work get very fatiguing quite quickly, so concise length is always a blessing. On “1.06” the pace gets knocked up a notch or two, glitches and white noise blasts whirling together in a blender of IDM fused delight. “1.08” dips very nicely into an almost minimal house vein, as solid kick drums are feathered by clicks and rapidly panning synth mayhem. “1.11” sounds for all intent and purpose like a recording from the frontline of a robot battlefield: stomping kicks fire off like canons as distorted washes sweep back and forth in the din. “1.12” takes the cake for bowing at the Autechre shine; short as it is, it’s a pure quantised delight. Stepping back into minimal territory on “1.13”, the pace remains relatively restrained for the remaining two tracks, as “1.15” closes the release with a long fade into silence.
Seeing as this is essentially a collection of loops, I couldn’t see any conceivable reason why any producer working within the glitch/idm field wouldn’t hunt this down. What’s even tastier is given that this Creative Commons release is free from hz-records.com, you’re strongly recommended to get it, before i beat you down with a pile of Squarepusher vinyl.
Nick Giles
