Japanese post-punk noiseniks Nisennenmondai make it back to Berlin for yet another Festsaal show. This Tokyo three-piece, whose name translates as “computer bug problem of 2000 year”, look like decent, friendly folks, the kind you wouldn’t think would transmutate into ass-kicking, shark-eating, crocodile-punching badasses when they pick up their respective instruments…but that’s exactly what happens when Nisennenmondai take the stage, you have been warned, they’re astonishingly awesome. As 2 wrote of them last May:
Compared to bands such as This Heat, Pop Group, Sonic Youth, DNA and Neu, Nisennenmondai are for you if you’re into tantric bass loops underneath ferocious drumming that you can somehow still dance to.
Thanks for that 2 and here’s what you can expect at Festsaal:
Support is Oneohtrix Point Never and the great Chris Corsano, a later addition to the original line-up to make it even more appealing, here’s a live one of his with Thurston Moore:
