Somoku Hodo (LP)

Hakushi Hasegawa is a musician/singer-songwriter based in Tokyo, Japan, and the first Japanese artist signed to the Brainfeeder label. Consistent with Brainfeeder's ethos of seeking out artists operating outside the confines of genre since the label started in 2008, Hakushi's music is tricky to categorise as it straddles a few genres: alternative, electronic, jazz, pop/J-pop. Sometimes it's pretty, at times it's very intense and fast-paced.

Somoku Hodo was Hakushi's debut release in 2018 as a teenager, featuring fan favourites 'Somoku' and 'Doku' - a hyperspeed junglist jazz workout that makes early Squarepusher material sound positively pedestrian.

Their debut album Air Ni Ni followed a year later in 2019, cementing their reputation as one of Japan's most exciting, adventurous artists.