Japanese youth culture subverted the word "gaijin" (foreigner, outsider) in order, as can be found throughout cultures ffrom Kingston to the Paris banlieue, to avoid comprehension by the object of the term. This artist's adoption of the moniker is an apt description of his style, which sits just outside numerous genres and movements without ever quite fitting in. Jingai began composing aged 14, assembling multitrack pieces in concrete fashion using cannibalised household items- two tape decks became a recording system with an infinite number of available tracks...

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