Pulse Of Defiance, by Yoshinori Hayashi

Pulse Of Defiance

by Yoshinori Hayashi

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TigerTorakio Has something of the flavor of '90s techno, blending delicate ambience with the more assertive and anti-establishment sounds of hip hop and jungle. It's an album that's got ideas, ideas about homogeneity and intolerance, and it invites you to stand well away from the crowd. Favorite track: Flow.

World of Echo Flat-out phenomenal and richly creative electronic music. Pushing things forward! So good!

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1.	Callapse 02:17	buy track
2.	Make Up One’s Mind 03:30	buy track
3.	Luminescence 02:40	buy track
4.	Touch 08:33	buy track
5.	Twilight 03:25	buy track
6.	Go With Us 05:43	buy track
7.	Morning Haze 05:56	buy track
8.	Frequency 02:37	buy track
9.	Flow 05:30	buy track
10.	Shut Up 05:22	buy track
11.	Gallop 05:26	buy track
12.	I Believe In You 07:24	buy track

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"Fusing elements of free jazz, breakbeat, acid house, dub, ambient, and more, the Tokyo producer’s second full-length album is simultaneously comforting and destabilizing." Pitchfork

"Combining left-field techno with “piano drama”, Hayashi finds inspiration in free jazz rhythms on this journey, to create a far-out romp through his current creative spirit." The Vinyl Factory

Pulse of Defiance is the latest and most fascinating step in Hayashi's still-blooming career—a half-decade of fantastically quixotic output that's established him as one of electronic music's most fascinating aural conjurers. After a string of releases on esteemed labels like Lovers Rock, Going Good, and JINN, Hayashi made his Smalltown Supersound debut with 2019's Ambivalence, his first full-length album. An immersive and fascinating work, Ambivalence submerged Hayashi's sound in distant, underwater textures that added layers of allure to its loose, jazzy confines; it was followed up by last year's Y, a four-tracker that splayed drum-machine freakouts and wobbly low-frequency textures across techno's brittle framework.

Earlier this year, space disco masterminds Prins Thomas and Bjørn Torske offered lush remixes of Ambivalence cuts that emphasized just how musically fluid Hayashi's style is—and Pulse of Defiance is more concrete proof that he's working without limitations. Within the opening third of the album's enticing sprawl, the listener's treated to gorgeous jazzy hip-hop breaks, upward-scaling piano drama, and cavernous techno reminiscent of rave-era greats like Orbital and Underworld. From noise-bursted drum'n'bass to rapid-fire club music, there simply is nothing Hayashi can't do.

Indeed, such virtuosic and diverse-sounding music collected in a single statement brings to mind myriad reference points; but Pulse of Defiance is also a work that could only come from him at this point, the latest delightfully surprising release from a musician that continues to chart his own path.

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released April 9, 2021

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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
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Nov 2019
Ambivalence

Oct 2018

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