Audio Sports - Era of Glittering Gas

In honor of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to the Japanese -- "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature" and "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" -- we offer this piker of a gem, which similarly explores the fundamental building blocks of the universe, albeit in super-groovy form.

Per Last.fm: Audio Sports was founded in 1990 as a collaborative hip-hop project between Yamatsuka Eye of Boredoms, electronic composer Aki Onda and then-battle DJ Nobukazu Takemura. The trio released one album in 1992, Era of Glittering Gas, before essentially disbanding and passing sole control of the project to Onda. Takemura went on to release his first solo album under the moniker DJ Takemura, while Eye returned to focus on his noise-rock outfit Boredoms.

Originally liberated from the Tower Records on Clark Street in Chicago in 1992 or 3, this CD has miraculously withstood the test of time (i.e., the ravages of frequent sellbacks to crosscoast retailers for pocket drug money). And for good reason. I plan to be buried with this record. Yamatsuka Eye, like Johnny Cash, is internationally recognized as a prince among men.


And, as a special subatomic bonus, we have thrown in the "Eat&Buy&Eat" single. m-m-m-m!




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