Sound on Sound
(Starlight Furniture Company) LP $14.00
Originally released by Japan’s G.R.O.S.S. label as a cassette in a limited edition of 88 copies in late 1994, Loop Circuit’s Sound on Sound joins Akifumi Nakajima (also known as prolific noise artist Aube) with Dub Murashita together in an all-electronic self-hypnosis seminar. The duo limits their source materials to purely electronic sounds, loops and effects, creating a mesmerizing, constantly shifting mosaic.
“tranced-out mesmerism” is how our friends at naturestrip summarize this Akifumi Nakajima / Dub Murashita collaboration. “layer upon layer of brittle sonics stacked & decayed across 40 mins of hypnosis, recorded in ’94…, startlingly ahead of the curve, if not out on its own one entirely, this kind of sounds like a proto-skaters in a way, billowing masses of small sounds that slide in & around each other to the trippiest effect, taking aube’s usage of sounds verging on the otoacoustic (sections here take on an amacher-esque ear effery that simply needs to be heard) & tethering them to structures in a state of perpetual collapse, a perverted soundsystem beat pressure arising in parts, heaving rhythms built out of scraps subsumed by yet more gunk dredged up from the beyond…. a constant temporal slip, like falling upwards & backwards simultaneously, supremely solid & deadly effectual but very much a 'hall of mirrors' kind of deal, suitably ending on two locked grooves looping out into the eternal.”