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| Pitchfork |
 Ten years ago it would have been ridiculous to use the word "formula" when talking about the music of Osaka's Boredoms. In 1999, they were riding a wave of creativity the likes of which most bands can only dream about. In the year prior they'd released both Super Roots 7, which on better days sounds like the final word on the visceral power of rock'n'roll repetition, and Super Ae, on which they revealed themselves as masters of playful trance-inducing psychedelia with spiritual underpinnings. And they were about to put out Vision Creation Newsun, boasting a gentler but no less immediate vision that seemed, especially after Yamantaka Eye's Rebore Vol. 0 re-working a bit later, to suggest that the musical possibilities in the decade to follow would be endless. All of this came after 10 previous years of painful noise, bad punk, hilarious song titles, pointless screams, and occasionally unmatched rock power. You couldn't pin this band down.But in the decade since Vision Creation Newsun, Boredoms have interrupted long periods of quiet with absurdly grand gestures (the 77 Boadrum and 88 Boadrum events) and a couple of records that referenced or expanded upon past glories but never came close to matching them. Seadrum/House of Sun, from 2005, had two 20-minute-plus tracks that were not nearly as beautiful as the advance word made them sound, even if they managed to summon inspiring amounts of energy. (We heard talk of Eye leading his percussion-toting followers to the edge of the sea to record, conjuring images of the greatest drum-circle jams since the twilight of the Pleistocene.) And then 2007's Super Roots 9 was a 40-minute monster for drummers and pitch-shifted choir that took one thing the Boredoms did well-- gradual builds to ecstatic climaxes-- and let it play out forever. Tracks going on for far too long filled with ideas that were beaten into the ground 10 times over has always been part of the band's M.O. But when releases are so rare, they don't serve the same prankster function that they once did. Now it kind of sounds more like the Boredoms doing that one thing the Boredoms do. Again. Which, if you happen to freaking love that one thing, isn't so terrible. A new Boredoms release is still an event, even if you no longer feel the need to rush out and tell all your friends about it. Super Roots 10 snuck up on people when it appeared for sale on a website in Japan earlier this year (by which time it was already sold out-- I'm reviewing this from downloaded mp3s). It is, with one huge exception I'll get to in a second, just the Boredoms being their post-VCN drum-happy, DayGlo-streaked, build-up-and-breakdown selves. After a short intro of bassy static, we hear a track called "Ant 10", which exists in a nine and a half-minute original mix and is then spun off into four different remixes that mostly flow one into the next. So it turns out to be essentially another 40+-minute track. The main features of the original version are layered tribal drums, an analog synth out of early-70s Tangerine Dream running scales, and Eye, sounding as joyful as ever, singing/shouting /chanting "Ah-u!" and "Hey!!!" and layering his voice in all sorts of fun ways. Toward the end there's some tape manipulation and huge cymbal-rushes, and then everything breaks down to silence, leading into "Estero 10", a remix by Japanese producer Altz....full text |
| Prefixmag |
| Japanese noise-rock megastars the Boredoms have released the next installment of their Super Roots series of EPs, Super Roots 10, but good luck and happy hunting if you plan on finding yourself a copy. Apparently, it's already sold out in Japan, and Thrill Jockey has not yet announced plans for an American release, so it looks like you'll have to make friends with some ultra-hip Japanese tourists if you want to hear it. It's too bad, too, as the EP features remixes by Lindstrom and someone who goes by the moniker "DJ Finger Hat." Track list: 1. Super Rooy 2. Ant 10 3. Ant 10 / Estereo 10 (Remix by Altz) 4. Ant 10 (Remix by DJ Finger Hat) 5. Ant 10 (Remix by DJ Lindstrøm) 6. Ant 10 / Mineral Dub Break (Remix by Altz) ...full text |
| Wemakestuffgood |
| Ever since 1998’s Super AE, Boredom’s output has concentrated more on extended sun-worshiping psychedelia and intricate afrobeat drumming than cut up collages of hardcore punk, a trend that Super Roots 10 continues. Rather than being a full-blown album, SR10, like previous Super Roots, focuses on one theme or idea. Aside from the opening nearly-sub-audible bass of ‘Super Rooy’, the EP comprises of a new track, ‘Ant 10′ and remixes from DJ Altz, Lindstrøm and one from DJ Finger Hat (who is most likely eYe himself). The main track opens just like St Peter’s gates; massive, awe-inspiring and full of light and from there only gets better (and weirder). African syncopation meets synth-tastic disco as the Vooredoms drum circle propel the track up to some sort of drugged up cosmic euphoria. Nobody can scrape the sky quite as convincingly as Boredoms. The remixes are all excellent and varied, with each DJ reinventing the track convincingly. Particularly impressive is Lindstrøm’s remix, which slowly morphs from dance-y space jam into the cheesiest disco track this side of Boney M....full text |
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