Review:
'Mikami, Ryota'
'Buddha, Mozart and the Ladies (EP)'
- Genre: 'Dance'
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Ryota Mikami seems like an interesting sort. Born in Tokyo in 1988, he continues to live and work there as a solo artist, composer for dance performances and fashion shows and as a remixer while also working with The Vegetables, a project he began with Japanese artist Paffgen. But if you’re expecting some ultra-chic urban grooves that air-kiss ‘fabbalas, dahling’ on this, his debut EP, you’re going to be in for a shock, and I’m not talking about the cover, striking as it is (Walmart wouldn’t like it!).
A relentless loop of brain-gnawing noise herald’s the EP’s arrival before frenetic tribal rhythms and stuttering loops replace the cacophony with another one, and I’m very quickly beginning to think this wasn’t the best choice of listening for 8am on the first Monday after Christmas. He fucks with the time signatures, scratching, jamming and scraping away at the brief samples spliced together. In terms of samplism, it’s actually fairly crude, but it’s effective. Barking dogs and chattering monkeys stammer over eastern hieroglyphs and juddering beats to create one unholy racket. Precisely how seriously he intends it to be taken is perhaps debatable, and the incongruity and plain bizarreness of some of the sounds suggests a tongue in cheek humour is at play in Mikami’s mash-ups.
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Ryota Mikami Online
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author: Christopher Nosnibor
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