In a lot of ways, this review feels completely irrelevant. I mean, it?s KK Null. The guy has over 100 albums and makes electronic noise. What?s there to discuss? Wikipedia says he likes Butoh dancing… so there?s that. But basically, Tokyo?s Kazuyuki Kishino (aka KK Null) is an entity unto himself when it comes to sonic expression. And a prolific one at that. So far, according to the discography page on his website, he?s already got two records out in 2009, including a collaboration with Los Angeles noise composer John Wiese. I?m sure there are others to come or not yet listed.

2008?s Oxygen Flash is not Kazuyuki?s first album for Neurot. The label also handled 2003?s Atomik Disorder and the 2001 offering from his more straightforwardly musical band Zeni Geva, 10,000 Light Years. Kazuyuki also has his own label, Nux Organization, and has put out albums on Important Records, Crucial Blast, Alternative Tentacles and many others over the course of his career, and while Oxygen Flash borders on unlistenable, the experimental drive behind it (and I mean really experimental, not just putting guitar riffs in awkward time signatures) is admirable. The nine unnamed tracks go from aurally welcoming to punishingly abrasive, with high pitched electronic frequencies urging a visceral response from any and all who hear them. It?s one of those records that, were you to hear it under the influence of any sort of hallucinogen, you?d end up ripping your eyes out of their sockets.

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