John Duncan, Mika Vainio, & Ilpo Väisänen Nine Suggestions All Questions Available through the Helen Scarsdale Agency: $16.00 Best known for their high pressure avant-techno as Pan Sonic, Finnish electron wranglers Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen find themselves in good company alongside John Duncan. All three artists have long stood at the vanguard of electronic composition, each pushing the envelope of electrostatic volatility. On their first collaboration, Duncan brings his crucible of psychological inquisitions made flesh through his manipulations of shortwave recordings, while Vainio and Väisänen offer their expertise in hammering electronic arpeggiations and crystalline tone generation. Nine Suggestions begins with prolonged discharge of toxic electricity, rupturing through a series of shortened bursts into one a Pan Sonic's signature rhythmic propulsions. Steadily, the album turns away from dislocation and towards contemplation which reflects many of the sleep deprived epiphanies from Vainio's solo work on Touch as well as Duncan's recent interest in subversive seduction, whereby beauty is invoked to lure the audience into Duncan's accusatory questionings. Nine Suggestions is nothing short of brilliant.