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Mainliner – Imaginative Plain
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Artist……………: Mainliner
Album…………….: Imaginative Plain
Genre…………….: Rock
Source……………: CD
Year……………..: 2001
Ripper……………: Adobe Audition 1.5 & Asus CD-S520
Codec…………….: LAME 3.98
Version…………..: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality…………..: Extreme, (avg. bitrate: 295kbps)
Channels………….: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
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Review / Description
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Tiny Mix Tapes: Until experiencing Mainliner’s Imaginative Plain, I’d never heard an album compressed within an inch of collapsing into a black hole, so dense that only pure distortion could escape. Less a collection of songs than a seismic experience, Imaginative Plain delivered sub-dictaphone fidelity with the force of a sledgehammer. It’s fierce for sure, but for Japanese psych-garage godfather Nanjo Asahito, it’s business as usual. In the early ’90s, bassist Nanjo assembled Mainliner as a sequel to his legendary band High Rise. To expand on his old power-trio’s atomic potential, Nanjo recruited a rotating roster of dynamite drummers (including Ruins’ Yoshida Tatsuya) and a then-unknown six-string strangler named Kawabata Makoto.
Back then, Kawabata was a small fry next to noise giants like Nanjo and Haino Keiji. But as the Acid Mother superior, Kawabata became the polestar of Japanese psychedelia, and his playing in Mainliner is indicative of why. The stoner-rock workouts are little more than a launching pad for Kawabata’s explosive guitar explorations, channeling whole supernovas through strings and fuzzboxes. True, as founder and mayor domo, Nanjo wrote all the songs, but the riffs are so Stooges-simple that the White Stripes sound like Tool by comparison. Tracks like the inappropriately-titled “Soft Line” were conceived more as mood-setting sonic templates (think Blue Cheer by way of nuclear fission) to enable endless improvising and serious instrument abuse. Back to the mastering: the mixes were so overblown that the rhythm section is reduced to a tectonic texture, crushed under the juggernaut assault of Kawabata’s Ragnarok-inducing guitar.
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Tracklisting
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1. (00:04:23) Mainliner – Imaginative Plain
2. (00:07:46) Mainliner – Soft Line
3. (00:04:44) Mainliner – Static
4. (00:16:43) Mainliner – Ride Blue
5. (00:03:21) Mainliner – Attack
Playing Time………: 00:36:57
Total Size………..: 79.06 MB
NFO generated on…..: 12/3/2010 6:10:39 PM