Tokyo Beat Playlist

Collecting the daily ritual of Hideyuki Kuromiya

After two days running posts of elegant beats by Tokyo-based Hideyuki Kuromiya, I corresponded with him, and asked if he might put together a playlist of his beats, so they’re all in one place and easy to follow. He graciously did just that, and he added a new beat for today, “hb24,” in which the vocal sample is more evident than in the prior two. That vocal is a bit of moaning melisma that is crunched between sandpaper percussion, vinyl-skip plosives, and a sharp short-circuit shock. I’m covering these three days in a row because while I occasionally report on regular woodshedding projects by folks like [Madeleine Cocolas](https://disquiet.com/2014/01/24/is-it-solo-piano-when-there-is-noise/), [Taylor Deupree](https://disquiet.com/2009/12/15/deupree-one-sound-december/), and [Marcus Fischer](https://disquiet.com/2015/01/03/first-new-marcus-fischer-track-of-the-year/), featuring such work in an immediate sequence does a better job of making an impression of the effort involved, which in Kuromiya’s case is daily.

Set of beats originally posted at [soundcloud.com/kuromiya-hideyuki](https://soundcloud.com/kuromiya-hideyuki/sets/daily-beats-hb). More from Kuromiya, who is based in Tokyo, Japan, at [twitter.com/hideyukitchen](http://twitter.com/hideyukitchen).

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