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2020 reissue, 12″ LP, We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want.
If there’s one thing that the recent spate of Motohiko Hamase reissues proves, it was that the Japanese jazz bassist turned ambient experimentalist was impressively versatile. So while 1988’s “Notes of Forestry” saw him explore pastoral sounds, miminalist motifs and new age synthesizers, by 1993 he’d moved on to making hypnotic blends of leftfield house and techno. “Technodrome”, then, is a highly unusual but must-check set: an album in which his free-jazz bass and guitar solos weave in and out of hypnotic lo-fi drum machine rhythms, ghostly chords, minimalist techno motifs and bubbly, mind-altering electronic motifs. The album has been described as “ambient house” before, but that really doesn’t do justice to its inventiveness and complexity. Recommended. – Juno