The electronic project Contagious Orgasm of the Japanese Jaroshi Hashimoto has become a living legend by now, with a career of more than 20 years in electronic industrial avantgarde music. Hashimoto released his music on many labels over the course of the years but he kept on coming back to Ant-Zen too. The new album Ripple is also released on this prestigious German label. The music of Contagious Orgasm to something far distant from consumer focussed music with prepared structures in measured doses and is best described as sonic art. On Ripple you'll hear beat oriented idm and noise with elements of ambient, distorted ethnic Indian chants and much attention to found sounds and unusual samples. It all resulted in a very fun and adventurous electronic album that perhaps will not only appeal to fans of electronic avantgarde, idm and industrial noise but too connoisseurs of free jazz too. The album has spoken word of Kenji Siratori in the track 'Tragedy Creature'. Worth mentioning is also the splendid cover artwork with replacable photograps which can be placed behind the transparant front cover.