Mainliner are a

noise rock Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a noise music, noise-oriented style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s. Drawing on movements such as minimal music, minimalism, industrial music, and New York hardcore, a ...

band from

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. The band was formed in 1995 by guitarist

Kawabata Makoto Kawabata Makoto ( ) is a Japanese musician and founding member of the band Acid Mothers Temple. He was part of one line-up of Gong (band), Gong when Acid Mothers Temple and Gong briefly fused into one group. Band history Kawabata is chiefly fam ...

and bassist

Asahito Nanjo Asahito Nanjo (南條麻人) is a Japanese underground musician, best known for his psychedelic rock groups High Rise, Mainliner and Musica Transonic, and the ethnic improvisation unit Toho Sara. He has been active on the Tokyo underground sce ...

with the intention of creating a new form of psychedelic music. They released four studio albums before the members went on hiatus to pursue other musical interests. On December 20, 2011, Kawabata Makoto, Koji Shimura and newcomer Kawabe Taigen began recording material. The music from these sessions was released on May 13, 2013, on the new album ''Revelation Space''. The band intended to take part in a world tour in support of the new album, starting with the UK that September.

Discography

*'' Mellow Out'' (1996, Charnel Music) *'' Mainliner Sonic'' (1997, Charnel Music) *'' Psychedelic Polyhedron'' (1997, Fractal) *'' Imaginative Plain'' (2001, P.S.F.) *''

Revelation Space ''Revelation Space'' is a 2000 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It was the first novel (but not first published work of fiction) set in Reynolds's Revelation Space universe, eponymous universe. The novel reflects Reynolds ...

'' (2013, Riot Season) *'' Dual Myths'' (2021, Riot Season)

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* * * Japanese psychedelic rock music groups Japanese noise rock groups Musical groups established in 1995 Musical groups from Tokyo P.S.F. Records artists {{rock-band-stub