There's a certain kind of repetition in Aoki Takamasa's music that refuses to be boring. It's punchy and danceable as it is experimental and abstract. There's hip hop, there's techno, there's house, there's that sterile glitch 'n' hum. Takamasa is a Japanese artist from Osaka that's been producing his brand of processed electronics for more than ten years with releases on a collection of labels, notably one-sided vinylists SVAKT from Switzerland, Ryuichi Sakamoto's (of Yellow Magic Orchestra) Commons label, Berlin think-tank Stroboscopic Artefacts and Alva Noto's lab over at Raster-Noton.
For a taste of what Takamasa is up to currently, look no further than this live and improvised set recorded in August at Nagoya's Club Mago in Japan. Enjoy.