Super Roots 5
Divesting itself of anything rhythmic, Super Roots 5 consists of one 64 minute freak-out called 'Go!!' and is the centerpiece of the entire Super Roots series. 'Go!!' is a sublime, sublimated crash for the end times, and m‚lange of churning guitar, electronics, crashing cymbals and bowed percussion. The track is endlessly inventive and in its subtle shifting and unflagging intensity; it's a warm, maximalist rock spin on Japan's then-burgeoning 'power electronics' scene; a massive, molten copper disc absorbing all of the power of the sun. It's this piece that most connects to their future psych/trance/drone-based efforts such as 1999's Vision Newsun or 2004's Seadrum/House of Sun.