END OF LEVEL BOSS
Inside the Difference Engine
(Exile On Mainstream)

ISOLE
Bliss of Solitude
(Napalm)

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE
& THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O
Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo
(Ace Fu)

O'DEATH
Head Home
(Ernest Jenning)

TRAP THEM
Seance Prime
(Deathwish)

DYSRHYTHMIA/ROTHKO
Fractures 

(Acerbic Noise Development)

THE FIRE THE FLOOD
Truth Seekers

(No Sleep)

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The time may be coming for Japan's Acid Mothers Temple; their extensive experimentations, trance-like chants and mind fucking drones may very well start to sound somewhat settled amongst the new wave of drone bands brewing mostly in the US, Europe and their own homeland of the rising sun. The hip success of bands like drone gods Sunno))) is only bound to open more doors to these cultish veterans and material as psychologically appealing as Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo is definitely destined to make matters easier. Of course, as fucked up as this music sounds it will remain inevitably marginal in its appeal. Take this into consideration; Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo is one song divided into nine parts. The space between them almost null and isolating each track by itself definitely lessens the experience.

The first part for instance slowly builds until it converts into this lethargic acid drenched and dream-like Christmas-like carol, while the second part repeats a doom-paced drumbeat and lays psychedelic noise and feedback aside a perfectly wavy guitar solo. The track is mesmerizing and it's also the Acid Mothers Temple at its most stripped down. The full recording is sure to please fans of psychedelic rock; but beware, this ensemble takes matters to the extreme. It is also kind of hard to notice when one part ends and the next one begins; the songs, movements or 'parts’, as they are listed in the sleeve, segue into each other with no blanks in between making the record more of an uninterrupted experience. The whole thing clocks in at fifteen seconds past the sixty-five minute mark, not before passing through acoustic oceans and Sun Ra-like jazz fuckery.

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