Wednesday 27 March 2019, 7.30pm
“Foodman - aka Takahide Higuchi - is a truly singular Japanese producer linked to the local footwork scene, though his music is often detached from the genre’s conventions. He strives to transcend the rules of dance music, through various risk-taking experiments with rhythm and timbre, clever juxtaposition and bright, colourful sample pallettes that make his music cheerful and accessible, despite radical deconstruction techniques.” – Unsound
食品まつり a.k.a foodman a.k.a Takahide Higuci is an electronic music producer and visual artist based in Tokyo. His renaissance-like take on and knowledge of music is probably the most positively disconcerting trait of his work. He actively deals with several types of song forms, techno, house, pop, raw electronic percussion, concretism, footwork, ambient, with an incredibly creative, musical and wild take on melody, harmony, timbre and syncopation. Having said that, his work is not about variety as fetish or gratuitous imposition, but a profoundly cultured, intuitive and open take on the possibilities of all vocabularies that he observes and masters and deals with with precision.
Jaeho Hwang is a London/Seoul-based DJ, producer, and visual artist. As a producer, he recontextualizes traditional Korean instrumentation and brings it into the contemporary club music scene. As a DJ, he has been recognised for forward-thinking mix styles including Techno, Bass, Hard dance, Reggaeton, Post-Club, Experimental with Asian sounds.
After releasing his first EP on Chinabot in 2019, he has been featured in DJ Mag, The Wire magazine, BBC Radio 6 Music, 4:3 Boiler Room, Boiler Room, NTS Radio, XLR8R, DUMMY Magazine, Nowness, and Mixmag Korea, Coeval Magazine. He is a member of Chinabot but also he is one of founders of Seoul-based collective called “Fragmented Service” that represents Seoul’s sub-club scene and curates shows with International artists in Seoul such as ZULI, ENDGAME, Dis Fig, X/O and etc. Recently, based primarily in Seoul, he is involved with Seoul’s underground club scene such as Cakeshop, Visla FM and Seoul Community Radio, etc.
“Hwang incorporated traditional Korean instrumentation into the familiar palate of post-apocalyptic underground London club music...While the whole EP is excellent, this relentlessly visceral finale is its best track” – The Wire magazine
“It’s a remarkable mixture, and the result is an intense rush of sounds that converse at a ferocious pace; thunderous kicks propel sweet-yet- sharp melodies, disjointed voices and wild FX into a dazzling orbital motion.” – DJ MAG
https://www.chinabot.co/jaehohwang
https://linktr.ee/jaeho111111
