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25 Winter Albums You Gotta Hear 5 Best New Artists for February '12 50 Best Albums of 2011 20 Best Songs of 2011 Free! 24 Tracks From SPIN's Best of 2011 PHOTOS BY KAREN CHAN Issue Sensory overload met beatnik jazz yelps as the Japanese Beck kicked off an exclusive five-date 25 Best Live Photos of 2011 extravaganza at the Windy City's Metro last night (Jan. 23). A strobe flashed "The Cornelius Group… SPIN's 40 Best Rap Albums of 2011 Sensuous…Synchronized Show!" across a giant white silkscreen, and a fuzz-heavy riff off the Mario Brothers' theme song teased fans before Cornelius, a.k.a. Keigo Oyamada, opened things up with 40 Greatest Comedy Albums of All Time "Breezin'," a cut from his latest LP, Sensuous. 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years

Spawned from crisp and clean studio magic, the latest addition to Cornelius' oeuvre was recorded on the highest bit possible, 96 kHz, which made for interesting live adaptations, notably the album's title track, which was used as the set's capstone, while the pop-noise tech genius simultaneously plucked and detuned Connect With his guitar as the strings slunk off.

But similar to Cornelius' career, most of the near 20 songs performed were technicolor beasts of morphing genres -- one minute it was a raving discothèque, the next a heavy metal thrasher; Cornelius skewed electro Facebook Twitter YouTube Foursquare iPad pitches on the baton-clink hymn "Like A Rolling Stone" (not the Dylan song) before putting the kibosh on the dizzying spectacular with a campy, synth version of Dean Martin's crooner, "Sleep Warm," sans the top- GET FREE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER secret tech tricks. E-mail: * Zip Code: We asked: On Sensuous track "Toner," Cornelius threads a song from a noisy ink-jet printer. If forced to make a song from an unconventional item, what would you rock and why?

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