A famous composer once said “If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.” It was probably Sting. From listening to Destination Tokyo, it is clear that Nisennenmondai are avid collectors of the pearls scattered by the warbling oyster of tantric love. Except that this never ever gets anywhere near being boring.On these five tracks Nisennenmondai get into a deep groove and work it and work it and work it, to two minutes, to four minutes, to eight minutes and beyond and beyond (if you listen closely on the offbeat you can hear Sting grunting his approval). Nissennenmondai’s first release for Smalltown Supersound, the compilation of the Niji and Tori EPs, made no mention of their devotion to the Wallsend godsend, the tracks titularly listing their heroes as Sonic Youth, This Heat and The Pop Group. On the more stripped-down and extended tracks of Destination Tokyo, the Japanese three-piece make those influences ”“ and certain others ”“ more transparent.Influences previously named: This Heat are evoked on the opening track 'ijeN urusuozuoS', which ekes out metallic shards of over a relentless locked-groove rhythm. Influences previously unnamed: Destination Tokyo surfs the Klaus Dinger beat across a sea of shimmering Michael Rother shapes all the way to shore from miles out. Well, nine minutes out. The gleeful chirp of 'Mirrorball' reminds me more of that other Japanese girl group OOIOO, twelve minutes of pulsing kraut-disco which builds with layers of fuzz and showers of cymbals.I’m not sure anything here is new, as opposed to Neu, but it is done so bloody well, with such bloody-minded commitment to the beat, that listening to this has left me grinning like a bloody idiot. In fact, to quote John Cage: "I’m so happy I can’t stop crying". 80%Nisennenmondai on MyspaceThis review originally appeared on the mapsadaisical blog