While there are many well-executed sonic ideas spread throughout, these are truly blissful IDM’esque passages worth adding to your catalog, coming from a sound sculptor who continues to fine-tune his craft.
Truly blissful IDM’esque passages
The Collection Artaud, a music label based in Berlin run by Yu Miyashita aka Yaporigami has shifted audible pixels for a few years, and this time around we see IDMMXX spread its electrical tentacles in several directions. Known for his abstract electronic tendencies with releases on Detroit Underground, Virgin Babylon, Kaer’Uiks, and several others, Yaporigami is synonymous with quality production.
Ten tracks spread over 52-minutes, here we see a wide range of musical bliss shattered into hundreds of pieces. From the soothing downtempo musings of the opening track “Lotus Bloom” to the emotively charged “Sacred Tree Ring,” to the effervescent and electrically charged flow of “Diced Garden,” to the cascading beauty and glitch breaks of “8,000,000,” IDMMXX runs its course through a myriad of soundscapes and doesn’t let up. Elsewhere you’ll find lullaby melodies and broken beats on pieces like “Cherub, Eve and Adam” and “Music Box Film” as well as shuffling percussion on “Infinity Under Palace” and “Dual Feathers.” Yaporigami brings it all home with a nod to Aphex Twin (perhaps?) on “I Care Because (I Sense) You Do” where ambient ice blossoms flicker as a serene landscape of emotion passes by our field of vision.
IDMMXX is all of the above, and just a little bit more if you let it simmer. While there are many well-executed sonic ideas spread throughout, these are truly blissful IDM’esque passages worth adding to your catalog, coming from a sound sculptor who continues to fine-tune his craft.
IDMMXX is available on The Collection Artaud. [Bandcamp]
