"Instrumental post-rock" is probably the worst way to introduce a band, and by this point 90 percent of this article's readers will have probably fled to the sports section.
Many of the most celebrated Japanese instrumental post-rock bands have carved a niche for themselves as purveyors of intricate, metronomically precise, jazz-influenced compositions, with the likes of toe and Mouse On The Keys being prime examples. It's all terribly well done, but the excitement is slow building, allowing the music to be sipped and appreciated like a fine wine.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, however, is Macmanaman, a Fukuoka-based quartet whose music rampages at breakneck pace from the get-go, the band members hurling themselves around — and often off — the stage.