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Friday 09.08.06, Bottom of the Hill:RuinsAcid Mothers TempleThis was actually the Japanese New Music Festival, featuring Tsuyama Atsushi, Kawabata Makoto, and Yoshida Tatsuya arranging themselves into seven different "battle formations" over the course of the evening. The result was nothing short of epic. Part psych rock noodlefest, part thunder god noise extravaganza, part goofy experiment, the evening yielded spectacles such as toothbrushes and scissors being used to create beats, Led Zeppelin covered Tuvan-throat-singing style, and Tatsuya doing a drum and sampled-bass thing as the Ruins Alone. They closed with a drawn-out Acid Mothers Temple set, and then all fell to floor at the end of it, quite possibly out of sheer exhaustion. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.