This is the kind of music that music journalists coined the expression »mutant« for. Mutant pop, mutant disco, you know, that kind of thing. The epithet is meant to express the feeling that the original genre is still audible, but has been manipulated towards an alienated effect. It’s about an outgrowth of the familiar, something threatening in contrast to the seemingly innocent original genre in its usual form. On »R.N.A.O meets P.O.P.O« it’s mutant synth-pop, mutant dub. This monstrously good album was originally released in 1980 on the legendary Japanese underground label Vanity Records. It has now been reissued by Mesh-Key, who have already proven that they have a nose for a bargain in the Tolerance reissues. This is the only album by the Japanese trio R.N.A Organism. »Weimar 22« sounds like Houston, like Screw, like trap played at a totalitarian military parade, and »Bring To Naught« reminds you of the most famous Pixies song (eight years before it was released), sung through a thousand filters and played in the Black Lodge, ten years before it was introduced in the third episode of Twin Peaks. Then there’s a pre-hell dub and transmissions of an existentialist pilot sung by a gospel choir, before a dusty wind suggests the earth has been burnt here.
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