Ambivalence, by Yoshinori Hayashi

Ambivalence

by Yoshinori Hayashi

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TigerTorakio Superb debut album that refuses to be any one thing, combining and layering genres and samples in playful, strange, yet low key and comfortable electronica, very much in tune with the thoroughly ahead-of-its-time Japanese ambient and avant techno scene of the '80s. Favorite track: Palanquin Bearing Monkey.

Andrew Jervis As this Tokyo-based producer's musiquarium proves, Smalltown Supersound are on fire in 2018.

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1.	Overflow 07:35	buy track
2.	III Chose 00:36	buy track
3.	Palanquin Bearing Monkey 06:09	buy track
4.	Bit Of Garden 06:08	buy track
5.	Downstream 05:35	buy track
6.	0208 13:24	buy track
7.	Flexible Mono 06:26	buy track
8.	Spasm 05:17	buy track
9.	Geckos 05:13

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Smalltown Supersound is proud to be releasing Yoshinori Hayashi’s debut album, Ambivalence, on October 26th. Previous work by the Tokyo-based producer has been called “a complex patchwork of studio gear, live instruments, dusty jazz records and smartly cut library sounds, whose textures are soft and inviting. But its arrangements are constantly ruffled, squeezed, brushed and pinched—which is to say, nothing stays still for long” (Resident Advisor).

Hayashi presents his self-described “collage expression” throughout Ambivalence, which he produced and played in its entirety. Album opener, “Overflow,” is a club track inspired by Cecil Taylor. It’s freeform nature sets the tone for the album’s cosmic, hypnotic, and almost ritualistic approach.

Hayashi has studied under Japanese avant-classical composer Mica Nozawa. When not DJing, he works in a record store in Tokyo. Thus far, Hayashi has released a string of 12”s on labels including Going Good Records, Jinn Records, Lovers Rock, Gravity Grafitti and Moscoman’s Disco Halal.

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released October 26, 2018

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Yoshinori Hayashi Tokyo, Japan

New album out April 9th on Smalltown Supersound!

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Pulse Of Defiance

Apr 2021
γ

Nov 2019
Ambivalence

Oct 2018

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