Mainline This
* Mainliner: Black Sky (23.0 mb)
From Mellow Out : Riot Season : REPOSECD01
This one is truly mind blowing. Don’t be fooled by the name of this album. There is nothing about this music that is mellow. Started by Asahito Nanjo of High Rise fame (look here) and Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple fame (look here, here and here) in 1995. Mainliner quckly proceeded to obliterate everyone and everything in their path with their overdriven, white hot, distorted take on psychedelic rock.
Accompanied by drummer Hajime Koizumi, Nanjo and Kawabata hit maximum velocity from the off and sustain it over the 35 pounding minutes of its three tracks, “Cockamamie”, “Black Sky” and “M”. For all its crushing momentum, the music’s impact is still more exhilarating than oppressive, as Kawabata’s self-described motorpsycho guitar weaves gnarled and knotted webs of thundering reverb, briefly illuminated with brilliant magnesium flashes of notes, that alternately absorb the impact and catch the fallout of Nanjo’s demolition bass.
(from Wire Magazine)
So, don’t forget to turn this up real loud and prepare yourself for the rock and the roll.
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Tom said,
July 27, 2005 @ 5:32 pm
“Demolition bass”. I like that! I will appropriate/steal (delete as appropriate) and use it as much as possible. Nice to see a return to that basic mirror eye foundation of crazy Japanese psychedelic shenanigans. Ironic album titles are the bees knees aren’t they?
cb said,
July 31, 2005 @ 10:24 pm
yeah. I love the ironic titles
I like to switch things up every once in a while, but i’ll always be posting music by those crazy psychedelic Japanese folks.
-cb