Album Notes

[English]
(Japanese is below)

This is Sunao Inami's 4th full solo album comes from his own label,electr-ohm.
It has live recorded at his EU tour on March 2006.
IDM,break beat,abstract rhythmic noise or dark electro music had improvised by live performance.
His live performance is more aggressive than his studio recordings,it are heavy complicated rhythmic beats,but It is not violent at all, and it is IDM side with high knowledge of real time sound processing.
and also his all sounds generated by NI Reaktor and his vintage analog synths.
Sunao used Reaktor 5 and Live 5 on Powerbook G4.

Audio Track:
11tracks, 49min07sec total.
Live recorded at Belgium and Switzerland in March 2006.

Data Track:
And extra bonus track is 45min15sec mp3 file,this is audience recorded official bootleg live track.
Live recorded at RIC'S ART BOAT in Brussels,17th March 2006.

Over 94min total live tracks on a CD!

Released 2006 by electr-ohm
http://www.electr-ohm.com
contact@electr-ohm.com

[REVIEWS]

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Igloo Magazine

http://www.igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1486&category=reviews

Sometimes I get an album that just tickles the back of my brain in the right way. You know, that area of the brain where you get your sense of sharpness and the feeling of hypnosis from. Fair enough, I'm hardly a qualified brain surgeon and my cranial geography may be off kilter but still I'm pretty sure you know what I mean.
Used Up And Empty is a live recording created and improvised by Sunao Inami and if I could afford the plane fare from Japan I'd get him to come over to Leeds and play in my front room. The recording ends up as one very tasty long track that subtly changes through hypnotic IDM to noise to breakcore and even funky techno at the end, all very pleasingly segued together using Reaktor and analog equipment. It's perfect for closing your eyes and letting the music take you on a journey and spark your synapses into life. Not unlike a more IDM Silk Saw in the 4th Dividers era, which is praise indeed as that's one of my favourite albums, the sound having that lovely grindiness you get from mild time-stretching and samples being torn to pieces.

Sunao manages to perfectly balance hypnotic and dynamic keeping everything going long enough to be mesmerizing but changing enough so it flows and never becomes boring. A talent in itself.

And then as if that wasn't enough, you also get a bootleg MP3 featuring another 45 minute live performance. This makes me a very happy man. I like bootleg recordings as there's something supremely honest about them. You'll never get any overdubs on a bootleg, and the sound of the room adds nicely to the performance.

This being my introduction to Sunao Inami, and Electr-ohm, for that matter, it's safe to say it's got my interest piqued. If he ever plays Britain I'll be right down at the front!


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Connexion Bizarre

http://www.connexionbizarre.net/reviews/r_sunaoinami_uuae.htm

Live albums. They either work, or they don't. When they work they can be just the most amazing experience close to seeing it in person, at its worse it just doesn't come across as well as the recorded music. With "Used up and Empty", this is as good, if not better than Sunao Inami's recorded material.
Recorded early 2006 in Belgium and Switzerland, this release shows amazing depth and style. At first it starts off rather slowly, almost unassumingly so with some glitch and ambient sounds, then as soon as tracks "Marker 3" and "Marker 4" kick in, a noise and a rhythm just come from out of nowhere, to disappear just as suddenly again. Sunao Inami really does take experimental music somewhere else.
Glitch, Electronica, IDM, Noise, he's got it all covered. "Marker 10" is actually bordering on dance with a great, uncomplicated rhythm - and I defy anyone not to dance to it! The way he uses noise is rather special. It's not constant but when it does come along it really does surprise the listener and grabs the attention 100%. Perhaps the only way one can classify this is as being 'Intelligent Noise' - maybe that's what Sunao Inami really is?
An added bonus to this release is the inclusion of a data track with a 45 minute MP3 file, recorded by a fan at one of Sunao's performances in Belgium. An 'official bootleg' (after a fashion) which makes this release even more worth the acquisition.
All in all this is a great release from an artist who really should be a lot bigger than he presently is. A live CD that actually makes me want to go and see this live in person. Excellent work.


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[Japanese]

稲見淳のソロ第4弾は2006年3月のヨーロッパツアーの模様を収録したライブアルバム。
いわゆるジャンルでいうところのIDM、ブレイクビート、アブストラクト、リズミックノイズ、ダークエレクトロが融合したサウンドはすべて即興により構築されている。
アルバムDELAYED、An Impulse of Acousticの延長線上にあるサウンドは、スタジオレコーディング比べてビートが大胆に強調され、そしてラップトップのみの演奏でありながらそのビートが複雑に絡み合い有機的な鼓動を刻む。

NI ReaktorとLive 5を使用し、音源となるサンプルはReaktor、そして彼のコレクションでもあるヴィンテージシンセから生成されている。

オーディオトラックにはゲント(ベルギー)とジュネーブ(スイス)での演奏を収録。全11曲、49分07秒。
そしてデータトラックにはブリュッセル(ベルギー)でのオーディエンス録音による公認ブートレグをmp3にて収録。45分15秒。

合計94分以上の演奏がこの1枚に！

Released 2006 by electr-ohm
http://www.electr-ohm.com
contact@electr-ohm.com