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[Posted Tuesday, September 16th, 2003 04:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

In one of the more misappropriate pairings of recent memory, the eternally prolific and applaudably experimental Acid Mothers Temple are pairing up with Seattle quartet Kinski to release a collaborative split EP on Sub Pop come October 7th. If you're unfamiliar with the flaccid stylings of the latter band, the previously stated summarization of the Acid Mothers is also applicable-- provided that you live in some alternate future where "prolific" is high-tech code for "mediocre," "applaudably experimental" is cyberpunk street slang for "abhorrantly derivitive," and mankind is for whatever reason ruled by a warrior race of super-intelligent cobras. It eases the mind to conjecture that, in this bleak and presumably apocalyptic future, our reptilian overlords have as much of a distaste for mediocrity as we do, and Kinski are most likely stationed in the dreaded Fecal Mines of New Seattle.

According to the Sub Pop website, this collaboration began way back in the erstwhile ending month of 2001. The two bands were touring the Acid Mothers' homeland of Japan at the same time and wound up recording a jam session. "Months and months later," Kinski's Chris Martin explains in the liner notes of the upcoming EP, "I sat down with the tapes and began mixing what seemed to be the most interesting ten minutes of the session, which became 'It's Nice to Hear Your Voice.' Kawabata [Makoto] wanted to overdub onto my mix (along with Tsuyama, Acid Mothers' bassist, who wasn't at the original sessions) and the results are 'Planet Crazy Gold.' 'Fell Asleep on Your Lawn' and 'Virginal Plane 5:23' are new Kinski and Acid Mothers Temple tracks, respectively." Martin, having effectively superceded my duty of reporting the EP's tracklist, then immediately returned to making out with Gwenyth Paltrow.

In other Acid Mothers news, Important Records has compiled the band's long-out-of-print Magical Power from Mars series, formerly three separate EP's, onto one action-packed megadisc. According to the Important website (by nomenclature alone one of the most consequential sites of the 21st century), this new aggregation will not be a limited pressing, contains a bonus fourth track and has deluxe packaging complete with glorious "3-D lenticular covers." I'm not sure what 3-D lenticular covers entail, exactly, but I do know that I'm wild on the Caribbean for them. Magical Power from Mars is available now, go put on those polarized glasses.