Fourth 'real' album (after two on Charnel Music, and the anomalous Psychedelic Polyhedron on Fractal, and discounting a ton of self-released cassettes and CD-Rs on the existentially dubious La Musica label) from Tokyo underground freaks Mainliner. The group's leader, legendary Tokyo speed freak Asahito Nanjo is best known as the bass-playing, shades-wearing polymath behind High Rise and Musica Transonic. Stylistically, this is just where you would want it to be -- exactly half-way between the acceleration-...   [ read more ]

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Eight songs that take apart rock music atom by atom so that you're left with just a skeleton of sound. Sightings still use the tools of the trade -- guitar, bass and drums -- to take both the rock and the roll out of rock 'n' roll. Reference weirdo deconstructo outfits like Einsturzende Neubauten, (mid-period) Black Dice, and Mainliner. This is the sound between the guitar strings, inside the bass amp, and within a drumstick. Yes, the truth. If punk rock used to mean fucking shit up and doing it your own w...   [ read more ]

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"Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Live" recording was made in Japan in December '01 using digital 16-channel recording (so the sounds aren't like the last two live LPs; this is more like studio recording quality). This live performance uses twin drummers: IchirakuYoshimitsu (ex-AMT/Nishinihon/ISO) and Koizumi Hajime (the original drummer in AMT; he also was the original Mainliner drummer who played on "Mellow Out"). This concert was Ichiraku's last performance in AMT. The line up was Cotton...   [ read more ]

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