The 23 tracks that make up IDM Collection 21-25 / The Structure of Silence create a sonic fortress of shadow and light, featuring many rooms with complex infrastructure and sharp angles. There are geometric rhythms throughout, like gears that wind up, dismantle and reconfigure themselves, warmed by vapors of tone that slip through the cracks. As a sound designer and producer, Miyashita displays a masterful understanding of space.
Tag: Yu Miyashita
Allis :: ♾️ / 〇 EP (The Collection Artaud) — [concise]
Sporadic broken beats and dark ambient strands collide in Allis’ twin cuts, where deconstructed electronics pulse with shadowy futurism and restless, splintered rhythm.
Yaporigami :: AE–10 EP (Adepta Editions)
On this two-tracker for Adepta Editions, Yaporigami (aka Yu Miyashita), a master sound sculptor, wraps distressed melodic landscapes with such strongly engulfing electronic structures that decompose before our very eyes.
Yaporigami :: Chaos Swallower EP (Analogical Force)
With a consistency for high calibre productions and inventively homaged compositions yet with a contemporary spin, this 5-tracker from Yaporigami feels right at home alongside their peers and is very much on brief for a release with the label.
Yaporigami :: IDMMXXI-R (The Collection Artaud)
IDMMXXI-R flexes all manner of sound sources—broken, shattered, and retrofitted with a dense consistency.
Yaporigami :: IDMMXX (The Collection Artaud)
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 […]
Yaporigami :: We Dance Alone (Detroit Underground)
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 Rotation :: Multi-view (June 2017)
In rotation for the past few weeks, this multi-view reveals the latest sonic landscape from five talented musicians. Plenty of brittle, glitch, abstract, noisy, mechanical and […]
Techno’s Outer Limits :: July 2015
Latest postcard from Techno’s Twilight Zone—recent 12″s/EPs/LPs + notes in the margins. Scroll down for Soundcloud set of selections. France first, where Dement3d, prime suspect in some […]
Yaporigami :: Drudged Torn Routine (Detroit Underground)
Drudged Torn Routine sounds less like the classic Detroit techno of yore yet props are given and that old techno sound is clearly represented by […]

















