Warp20, Warp Records‘ 20th anniversary film and music extravaganza, is touching down in New York between September 3 and 6, after passing through Paris, Sheffield, London, and Tokyo. Taking place at Terminal 5, Winter Garden, and the New Museum, the multimedia experience will feature Battles, !!!, Prefuse 73, Clark, Pivot, and Hudson Mohawke, along with Warp films and DJs.

The Warp20 box set, which will be released in September, is available for pre-order and lovingly displayed above; get one for yourself here.

Tyondai Braxton, he of Battles fame and offspring of avant-garde jazz musician Anthony Braxton, is releasing a solo album. Utilizing an array of sonic elements ranging from guitar and voice to looping and delay pedals to some found objects, Central Market, which sounds like it might sound like Battles, is dropping via Warp Records on September 15th. But for those of you out there that like your rock jams dizzied, there’s a stream waiting for you riiiigh chea.

Ok, this is less of an exclusive (I think we got it up first), and more about me begging to post a track from Nisennenmondai’s upcoming long player (although only 5 songs, it’s 44 minutes) Destination Tokyo. Well, my persistence payed dividends, because today we can share with you the title track. This is the best thing I’ve heard all week.

I’ve been following this three-piece, all-girl Japanese noise-pop group since first witnessing them at CMJ 4 years ago. Yet, due to language barriers and the fact they live half way around the world, communication — let alone getting the chance to see them perform again — has been nearly impossible. So when it was announced that their records would be made available for worldwide consumption by the venerable Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound, I was filled with a pleasant satisfaction. At least I would get easy access to their music.

Legendary tales of them playing shows in Japan with the likes of Hella, Lightning Bolt, Battles and No Age have built their credo to near-legendary status. Prefuse 73 has been talking about them for years as well, quoted in Dazed & Confused as saying, “John Stanier from Battles had told me they were sick. . . They started to play and the drummer was as big as my hand. She started to play 16th notes on her hi-hat for about 15 minutes. Next thing you know, these three tiny diminutive women were making us look like idiots because they were so incredible.”

Consisting of Sayaka Himeno (drums), Yuri Zaikawa (bass) and Masako Takada (guitar), Destination Tokyo will be their second official release outside of Japan — their fist being a combination of their Neji andTori EPs on one disc. And while glimpses of their frenetic, post-punk past can still be heard, Destination Tokyo sounds more clean, and more minimal and repetitive than the EP collection. As the press release would like to boast, it “could be described as a mix of the groovy krautrock of Neu! and New York 1980’s no wave/disco created by bands such as Sonic Youth, DNA, and ESG, infused with elements of the instrumental Black Flag of The Process Of Weeding Out and the avant/post-punk of This Heat.”

Destination Tokyo will be released worldwide on August 11, 2009.

Nisennenmondai – “Destination Tokyo”