zensoku Grind j0g from 1979 (one-sided c60 from final scato)
when i got this i had no idea who it was by, there are some japanese characters on the sleeve that probably say "zensoku Grind" but that doesn't really help a single-language loser like myself. anyway as a result i didn't have any sort of preconceptions as to what i was going to hear. i put it on as background for reading a book, and it serves pretty well for that at the start, the sounds are slightly intricate but at low volume they don't really intrude, mostly mid-range pedal noise shifting under a veil of static; not too fast and not ploddingly slow either. the tape consists of a couple compositions with small silent breaks so if you aren't listening closely it pretty much blends into the background, although there were a couple points where i set aside my book because something caught my interest. in the first track, certain sounds are repeated (live, not looped) with arrhythmic variations; the repetition is used sparingly and serves to catch interest rather than to form a backbone for the composition. the second, longer track, gets mired in repetition and would have benefited from being a lot shorter; although it has some interesting sounds it's kind of a pain to have to listen to the same short drilling noise bursts again and again and again in-between. good for reading by, though.