For the first Hip Hop record on The Tender Playground, I present to you WC and the Maad Circle - Curb Servin'

This album, No One Can Do It Better, has to be in my top 3 hip hop records of all time.The D.O.C. Started out in Houston, Texas, but soon moved to Los Angeles after Eazy-E asked him to be a part of his Ruthless Records label. Take the Mainliner LP Psychedelic Polyhedron - those of you expecting the ridiculo-amped in-the-red speed-metal riffing of Mainliner’s two American CDs on Charnel House (Mellow Out and Sonic) may be nonplussed by the approach on Psychedelic Polyhedron: exquisite lost-in-space death-blues psych-meandering in the form of two eighteen-to-twenty-minute tracks that wander wherever they damn well please, and it’s a ride worth taking. Take the Mainliner LP Psychedelic Polyhedron - those of you expecting the ridiculo-amped in-the-red speed-metal riffing of Mainliner’s two American CDs on Charnel House (Mellow Out and Sonic) may be nonplussed by the approach on Psychedelic Polyhedron: exquisite lost-in-space death-blues psych-meandering in the form of two eighteen-to-twenty. Psychedelic Polyhedron, an Album by Mainliner. Released in 1997. Genres: Noise Rock. Featured peformers: Makoto Kawabata (guitar), 南条麻人 Asahito Nanjo (bass, akatext vocal roleid 1001.akatext, producer), 吉田達也 Tatsuya Yoshida (drums).

. I must have picked this cd up about a year ago at good old Amoeba, and I've been bumpin' it in the jeep ever since. Hailing from LA, WC is a member of hip hop supergroup Westside Connection. This was the Maad Circle's second cd, and in my opinion their best. Whether it's the hilarity of WC, the brief appearance of Coolio (!!!!), or just the supreme funkiness of the music, this cd will make you smile. Perfect for chilling out, driving, whatever. Check it haut
TrAAck Listing:
1. Intro - 1:39
2. West Up! (ft. Ice Cube and Mack 10) - 4:44
3. Granny Nuttin' Up - 0:22
4. The One - 3:52
5. Crazy Break, Pt. 2 - 0:36
6. Put on tha Set - 3:59

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7. In a Twist (ft. Coolio!!!) - 4:19
8. Homesick - 4:29
9. Feel Me - 4:25
10. Curb Servin' - 4:17
11. Stuckie Mack - 0:33
12. Wet Dream - 2:55
13. Taking Ova - 3:39
14. Kill a Habit - 4:01
15. Reality Check - 0:49

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16. Creator - 5:12
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MAINLINER / Psychedelic Polyhedron / CD Fractal 030 / LP Fractal 001

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MAINLINER / Psychedelic Polyhedron / CD Fractal 030

Mutant Sounds (Blog - Tuesday, June 5, 2007) / USA
This was theirstorming sophmore release and featured the legendary heavy psychedelictrio : Asahito Nanjo (bass, vocal), Makoto Kawabata (guitar), TatsuyaYoshida (drums). Warning: this is true revolutionary reverberating rockmusic for the adventurous traveller.Comparisons between Makoto Kawabataand Frank Zappa have been flying around ever since the Japanese guruhas caught the ear of the international underground, but rarely has hebeen coming this close to the American guitar hero than on the openingminutes of 'Show the Cloven Hoof' His electric wah-wah playing isextremely reminiscent of Zappa's work circa 'Chunga's Revenge', minusthe extra reverb and distortion. And the rhythm section isn't badeither! Actually, as far as Japanese supergroups go, Mainliner was oneof the most powerful, drawing equally from the heaviness of High Rise'sAsahito Nanjo's bass, Acid Mothers Temple's Kawabata's freak-out guitarplaying, and Ruins's Tatsuya Yoshida's impossibly complex drumming.'Show the Cloven Hoof' is a side-long psychedelic rock suite, withsolid segments that could have been written down and noisier jams.'Cardinal Virtues' also a side-long number, delves further intoexperimentation, with Kawabata exploring noisy textures and Yoshidaoften playing offbeat.

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Aquarius Record website - List n°203, 17 December 2004 (USA)

The new cd from Japanese psychedelic power trio MAINLINER is actually a reissue of their previously vinyl-only Psychedelic Polyhedron LP from back in '97, which was MAINLINER's second album, though a lot of folks never saw it. At last it's now on cd for all you MAINLINER fans who missed out on that long-gone import vinyl. Huh? No, I'm not shouting at you. It's just that putting MAINLINER in all-caps seems like a fitting way to indicate how loud and distorted and blown-out and in-the-red these guys are. But you know that already. Alongside bassist Asahito Nanjo's other band High Rise these guys are the kings of Japanese garage acid fuzz speedfreak heavy psych, pretty much. Though, actually, on this record, the original two side-long cuts, 'Show The Cloven Hoof' and 'Cardinal Virtues', were slightly less bludgeoning than usual Mainliner fare, being dark, meandering improvs closer to another of Nanjo's projects, Ohkami No Jikan, than to the pedal-to-the-metal rock insanity of, say, Mainliner's perversely titled debut Mellow Out. But compared to almost anything else they're certainly over-the-top. And this compact disc reish includes a bonus third track also from '97, a riffier ten-minute rocker called 'Solid Static' if somehow you need an adrenaline kick after those first two 20 minute tracks. In case you're curious, the line-up for this particular Mainliner album is the same as yet another of Nanjo's bands, Musica Transonic, the trio consisting of Nanjo with guitarist Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple) and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins)!

All-Music Guide website - December 2004 (Canada)

First released as an LP in 1997, Mainliner's second album was also the French label Fractal's inaugural release. It was reissued on CD in October 2004, with a new catalog number and an 11-minute bonus track. Comparisons between Makoto Kawabata and Frank Zappa have been flying around ever since the Japanese guru has caught the ear of the international underground, but rarely has he been coming this close to the American guitar hero than on the opening minutes of 'Show the Cloven Hoof' His electric wah-wah playing is extremely reminiscent of Zappa's work circa 'Chunga's Revenge', minus the extra reverb and distortion. And the rhythm section isn't bad either! Actually, as far as Japanese supergroups go, Mainliner was one of the most powerful, drawing equally from the heaviness of High Rise's Asahito Nanjo's bass, Acid Mothers Temple's Kawabata's freak-out guitar playing, and Ruins's Tatsuya Yoshida's impossibly complex drumming. 'Show the Cloven Hoof' is a side-long psychedelic rock suite, with solid segments that could have been written down and noisier jams. 'Cardinal Virtues' also a side-long number, delves further into experimentation, with Kawabata exploring noisy textures and Yoshida often playing offbeat. The music comes back to a rocker edge in the last minutes, but it spends most of its duration in the ethereal pastures of AMT's more exploratory realms. 'Solid Static' a track recorded at the same studio sessions and added to the CD reissue, is actually a song, with lyrics sung by Nanjo, and an overall heavy acid-rock stance that is closer to High Rise or Musica Transonic than the previous pieces. The VU needles are deeply in the red in this one, but the mad riff and Kawabata's impossible solos make up for any lack of high fidelity. 'Psychedelic Polyhedron' remains one of Mainliner's strong statements and it is a pleasure to see it back in print.
François Couture

MAINLINER / Psychedelic Polyhedron / LPFractal 001

Opprobrium - n°4 - December 1997 (New-Zealand)

Hajime Koizumi out, Tatsuya Yoshida in, making the line up that of Musica Transonic but the sound nothing like Musica Transonic. And not much like Mainliner either - both of the two side-long tracks and the album as a whole are so non-fast and take such a long time to approximate a Mainliner-esque speed of intensity that some listeners may even find this 'disappointing' in some pathetically microscopic way. But fuck them - this is deliriously indulgent wah-reverb-soaked six-string psychedelic excess, and anyone who cannot understand that its less frenetically breakneck speed offers another way to love an outrageously great band can either purchase Mainliner Sonic or direct their custom towards the psych-collector dealer dolt market, where lots and lots of records costing ten times as much (as even a French import LP) but possessing one-tenth of the worth are readily available. Waves ssl 4000 collection crack. No one ever said life would be easy for band who with one 30-minute album hav