To begin with the conclusion: I’m very sorry that I wasn’t at Frontline (Gent, Belgium), l’Usine (Geneva, Switzerland) or at Ric’s Art Boat (Brussels, Belgium) when Sunao Inami made the recordings for the release “Used Up And Empty”. Because his IDM is delightfully hypnotizing and worked up.

Sunao Inami is from Kobe , Japan and he has been making music for quite some years now. This release is presented by electrohm, a label he himself started and the disc comes in a funny half DVD case. And you are correct, that is the reason why the artwork is tilted.

The recordings from the first two gigs were used to make the eleven tracks that are pressed on this disc. The recordings at Ric’s Art Boat are present as a live datatrack (with the appropriate background noises).

After a slow and soft start, the cracks and clicks take over. Slowly these sounds transform into steady rhythms and beats and thus the listener is witnessing the beautiful evolution of crackling into heavy IDM-dance music. The further down the tracklist of “Used Up And Empty” you go, the heavier, more hectic, more worked up and overwhelmed one gets by the noises, sounds and beats.

This is also the only, but nevertheless a significant, minor: it is almost impossible to start listening to this release at any other point than the opening track. Actually, “Used Up And Empty” can be seen as one extended track and there are only a few moments where one can stop or begin listening. This is very well done to my opinion, but it does make it an album you don’t put into your stereo that often.

Once Sunao Inami thumbs through your boxes, you are obliged to listen to the whole album.

Sunao Inami at Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sunao