Bandcamp / Buy Like so many forces of electronic musicâsee Warp co-founders Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell, or Kelly Lee OwensâJapanese producer Yoshinori Hayashi spent formative years working in a record store. Hayashiâs time at Tokyoâs Face Records comes through in his genre-melding music, which overflows with the encyclopedic passion of an enthusiastic cratedigger. Yet his sounds extend far beyond fandom or homage. His new album, Pulse of Defiance, takes styles forged by othersâfree jazz, breakbeat, acid house, dub, and other unclassifiable strands of electronic soundâand fills them out into complete worlds of his own.