Nerve Net Noise is the synthesizer duo of Tsuyoshi Nakamaru and Hiroshi Kumakiri, who confused and irritated just about everyone with thier CD "160/240", published by the Meme label several years ago. Each Nerve Net Noise album is an astoundingly thorough exploration of one aspect of what thier rough and barely controllable homemade synthesisers can do. "Meteor Circuit" explores rhythms and beats, but it's no minimal glitch album, and neither is NNN a "noise" band; they are after something much more ellusive and beautiful than mere obvious full-bore screech. With a strange new angle on electronic improvisation, they twisted knobs until their machines produced rhythmic pulses, then hit record and let the instruments decide what would happen next. The "natural" imperfections of the synthesizers' circuitry determined how each piece would evolve with little or no interaction from the artists. They then editted the works into a coherent, intense and (it must be said bluntly) immensely bizarre album. There isn't anyone else doing quite what Nerve Net Noise is doing, and no convenient genre or style that they fit into, which is why they are one of Intransitive's very favorite groups and why we are especially proud to present "Meteor Circuit" to you now.
Following two albums on Kazunao Nagata's cult Zero Gravity label and last year's stunning "Various Amusements" CD on Hronir (and, of course, the infamous "160/240" on Meme), "Meteor Circuit" is the first Nerve Net Noise CD published in the US. Nakamura records more accessible techno-pop under the alias Tagomago. He also records using the alias Toki-Meki Science for Nobukazu Takemura's Childisc label. The band describes their sound as "electric noise music, but not academic, not mere noisy sound. We think that our music is not so much noise music as new kind of pop music".
1 #1 3:05
2 #2 6:02
3 #3 5:58
4 #4 9:21
5 #5 18:32
6 Long Mail To Boston 4:29
Artwork [Design] ? Richard Chartier
Liner Notes ? Hiroshi Kumakiri
Mastered By ? Kazunao Nagata
Mixed By, Effects, Effects [Treatment] ? Tagomago
Synthesizer [Original] ? H. Kumakiri
Recorded Spring 2001 at Tagomago Studio.
Comes with 4-page booklet.
Comes in an edition of 500 handnumbered copies.
