Collapseland

Koji Tano was a man of many talents — besides making some of the best Japanese noise as MSBR (Molten Salt Breeder Reactor), he also drew manga, and edited his own music magazine, Denshi Zatsuon. There’s a clutch of sublime MSBR — both volumes of Ultimate Ambience; Structured Suicide; Metal Stricken Terror Action — but I find myself returning, often, to Collapseland. It has a hallucinatory ‘thickness’ to much of its sound that Tano never quite achieved elsewhere with such clarity and precision. Plenty of Collapseland passes by at high velocity, but the overarching sense, here, is one of psychedelic depth and intensity.