Nisennenmondai - N' flac album

. -1' . -2' . -4 . '(Shackleton Remix) . -1'(Shackleton Remix) it became obsessive listening. and the beautiful guitar atmosphere over-washes. This album is a reworking of that material and it is way strong enough to take it without any feelings of overt deja-vu.

Nisennenmondai (にせんねんもんだい) are a Tokyo, Japan-based instrumental rock trio who make music that's both raw and danceable in equal measure. They formed in 1999 and took their name from the Japanese translation of the then-current phrase "Year 2000 Computer Bug". Guitarist Masako Takada, bassist Yuri Zaikawa, and drummer Sayaka Himeno met at a club near their university and formed the band soon after. The band have mostly released music on their own Bijin label.

Genre: Minimal Techno. Or consider a donation? End of year lists.

Nisennenmondai's obsession with repetition and minimalism reached almost meta levels on the releases that came after their breakthrough N: N' reworked the album's songs and included a pair of Shackleton remixes that underscored their commitment to "organic techno," while Live at Cloud Hills reaffirmed the album's precision wasn't the result of studio trickery.

Nisennenmondai - Nisennenmondai have been around for 15-odd years, but for a growing section of their audience they're a recent discovery. The shift started in 2011, when the Japanese trio began to introduce a dance music influence into their noisy, kosmische-inspired rock. Sherwood is bolder with the FX, too, his rippling background textures making for the album's most psychedelic moment. These short tracks hint at the more compact and engaging album could've been. But on " the collaborators show they can also pull off long-form. This one has the clearest structure, with a motorik groove emerging steadily out of arid gusts of guitar noise.