We Dance Alone breathes life—once again—into the ever-expanding exp-electronic music genre. Fans of Kaer’Uiks, Touched Music, and Central Processing Unit should easily find a slot in their music library for this release as it inches its way into our Best of 2019 list.
Yaporigami (aka Yu Miyashita) has always been one to create visceral electronic and rhythmic sub-structures. On this 9-track release there is a plethora of melodic strains tethering each beat together—moments of solitude are linked to upbeat Detroit-inspired synth lines. And there’s a whole lot less glitch’n bits now replaced with more percussive shuffling that captures the heart and mind on We Dance Alone.
Miyashita noted about this release that he “decided to change things up and revisit my roots—the melodious music that inspired me at the beginning of my journey.” This is not to say that there aren’t the usual arcane moments, quite the contrary. The talented audio sculpture flourishes in left-field braindance and brittle IDM layers that somehow flow start to end. He also describes that he was “overcome with the feeling that too-technologically-driven music can sound dated and frivolous, rather quickly. However, we cannot totally ignore the cutting edge side of music; change is inevitable.”
We Dance Alone expands and contracts with wide-open low rumbling spaces that are fully inhabited where fans of Clark, Plaid, Funckarma, and Richard Devine will find to be a cozy listening experience. Merging abstract tendencies of the artists’ back-catalog with forward-thinking sound design, We Dance Alone breathes life—once again—into the ever-expanding exp-electronic music genre. Fans of Kaer’Uiks, Touched Music, and Central Processing Unit should easily find a slot in their music library for this release as it inches its way into our Best of 2019.
We Dance Alone is available on Detroit Underground.
