A skittering 16-minutes of rejuvenated glitch-hop and beat making that will intrigue fans who appreciate both the American and European takes on instrumental and sample led mixtapes.
Rejuvenated glitch-hop and beat making
Yama Calling, is the debut EP from 20-year old German producer, musician and artist, Noah Berger (aka Noayama). A skittering 16-minutes of rejuvenated glitch-hop and beat making that will intrigue fans who appreciate both the American and European takes on instrumental and sample led mixtapes.
Sweetly chopped vocals combined with grooving percussion and an overlay of broken beat are the common ingredients required to cook up an instrumental. What is intrinsically baked in these tracks and elevates is the flow that medicates its own bars for freedom of thought. The overall sound is homage to turn of the century undertones; soundtracks to 4IIVM skate videos or Adult Swim animations—part Low End Theory/Brainfeeder and perhaps it is merely the concoction of nostalgia and European styled sampling, but there is a wisp of Ed Banger Records in these cuts. Noayama is son of label founder Michael Fakesch (aka one half of pioneering electronic / glitch-hop duo Funkstörung), so I can only imagine their household has a plethora of electronic music playing at all times which must of made strong early influences.
The timing of this EP has also aligned perfectly with the relaunch of the Musik Aus Strom™ label—originally established in 1996 by Funkstörung and active until 2007, now being relaunched by Fakesch for 2022 with the first ever digital reissue of the entire original MASTM archive, as Noayama spearheads the next generation of new MASTM artists and projects for 2022 and beyond.
Noayama is currently working on his debut LP which will be released summer 2022 on Viennese label Affine, and promises to expand even more on what his debut EP teases, with an extensive range of additional vocal appearances too.
Yama Calling is available on Musik Aus Strom™. [Bandcamp]
