Cargo Records

Super Roots 6

The 17 numbered tracks of the album Super Roots 6 were issued in 1996 in both Japan and America, the band's U.S. office likely heaving a collective sigh of relief to have allowed the band to run out its contract with this full-length.

Aside from a harsh noise buffer in opener "01," some slicing cymbal in "13," and some squeaking ape stomp in "14," Super Roots 6 is the gentlest of any Boredoms release, a collection of static and minimally fucked-with beats, sometimes juxtaposed with world music loop overlays. Eye, Hira, Yamamoto, Yoshimi P-We, and ATR/Atari are credited as performers here, though it is likely that 6 is Eye solo. The similarities between Super Roots 6 and the Eye/BORE-related Shock City Shockers compilations are striking enough to warrant notice; they seem to have been both been created in the same headspace, meditative, self-aware, and pregnant with breaks and beats yet to be unearthed by the cratediggers of the world, and cooled out to by yoga classes from Brooklyn to Bombay.