Nisennenmondai means 'Year 2000 Problem' and is an instrumental Japanese girl trio from Tokyo. Visits to Tokyo by Lightning Bolt, Battles, No Age and others have unearthed these three girls with the mammoth sound. With song titles such as 'This Heat,' 'Sonic Youth' and 'Pop Group,' one understand which musical territory the band comes from, and if you add Black Flag, DNA, Neu! and Pere Ubu you are pretty close to Nisennenmondai's sound. It's raw and repetitive (post) punk instrumentals, at the same time as    [ read more ]

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'A Tokyo-based all-female instrumental trio that makes music that's equally raw and danceable, Nisennenmondai formed in the late '90s and took their name from the Japanese translation of the then-current phrase 'Y2K bug.' Guitarist Masako Takada, bassist Yuri Zaikawa, and drummer Sayaka Himeno met at a club near their university and formed the band soon after, taking as much inspiration from the cool kids at school as they did from experimentalists like This Heat, Pop Group, Sonic Youth, DNA and Neu! Their   [ read more ]

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