I will note that I have a particular interest in the way #N/A uses drum tracks. Nisennenmondai, though, are more interested in the slow deconstruction of the loop. The loops are long and intricate - not unlike The Field. A part of me wonders if a number would have given away too much about their intentions, because each track is remarkably dense and refuses to easily give away meaning. Rather than giving each track a name, Nisennenmondai simply give them a number.
The group takes their time exploring ideas.Īnd exploration is certainly want the album is about. It’s only five tracks long, but it’s around fifty minutes. The results are oddly memorable, and perhaps one of the year’s strongest efforts yet from any artist in any genre. #N/A takes electronic music to its brink, rarely slowing down, intent on taking a well-established genre in new directions. Like Arca, Nisennenmondai can hardly be described as dance music anymore. Nisennenmondai’s style is hard to define: for a while, their music was part of Japan’s club and dance culture, much in the same way that Arca’s was in the United States before he went on to explorer weirder and stranger horizons.
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