Bleak Bliss: 2017

Manfred Hübler & Siegfried Schwab - Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party

When the clock strikes wherever you are, Happy New Year from me and Mrs Inside. May 2018 offer you all of the sexadelia you desire!

CD of music used in films by the king of eurotrash Jess Franco and released on Crippled Dick Hot Wax! in 2006.

Sexadelic Dance Party

Aphex Twin - Aphex Mt. Fuji 2017

Brilliant compilation tape that was for sale at the Fuji Rock Festival 2017. It will now cost you at least a kidney to buy this.

Self-released C98 from July this year.

Aphex Mt. Fuji 2017

Aphex Twin - A Live Collection

Recordings from the Big Day Out in Melbourne, Denmark's Roskilde Festival and two a piece from Boston and Denver respectively.

"Unofficial" CDr sneaked out in Australia in 1997.

Live Aphex

Puzzle Punks - Pipeline: 24 Smash Hits By 24 Puzzle Punk Bands

Whilst dressed up as a compilation (in typical EYE fashion) the 24 bands are Shinro Ohtake and EYE producing glorious chaos.

CD released on Time Bomb Records in 1996.

Pipeline

Puzzle Punks - Budub

More warped genius on the second Puzzle Punks outing released on Time Bomb Records in 1996.

Budub

Puzzle Punks - Puzzoo

Puzzle Punks were the short-lived project of Yamatsuka Eye and Shinro Ohtake (of 19/Juke). This recording also includes Yojiro Tatekawa (drummer with Hanadensha and Boredoms). Whilst this was recorded in 1996, we had to wait for another 10 years until it was released.

CD released on Time Bomb Records in 2006.

Puzzoo

Nankai Hawkwind - 1985年12月15日(日) 大阪・扇町ミュージアムスクエアでのライブ

Naoto Hayashi (of Auschwitz, The Genbaku Onanies, Inu and Hijokaidan etc) with Tatsuya Kitajima on guitars. Eddie (of Auschwitz and The Genbaku Onanies etc) on bass. Takami Isono (of The Continental Kids and SS etc) on drums. Sugisaku of Hoburakin on keyboards. Katsunori Nishida (aka Cherry of Zouo and Danse Macabre) with Yamatsuka Eye on vocals. Recorded live in 1985.

7" released on 渡辺Records in 1987.

1985年12月15日(日) 大阪

Gagakirise and EYƎ - Gagakiriseye

Excellent collaboration between the Japanese noise rock duo and EYE.

7" released on Thrill Jockey in 2015.

GAGAKIRISEYƎ

Sonic Youth with Yamatsuka Eye - TV Shit

Four live covers of Youth Brigade's "No Part II", recorded on Sonic Youth's Dirty tour.

10 minute CD released on Ecstatic Peace! in 1994.

TV Shit

Minga & EYE - EYE Love Minga

An unlikely sounding split once you know the background to this. However, once EYE sprinkles his magic dust ...

7" released on Japan Overseas in 1995.

EYE Love Minga

The Lift Boys - The Lift Boyz

Samba disco, gameboy infused Shamen chickens aka the crazy world of EYE.

12" released on Brown Sound Records in 2005.

The Lift Boyz

The Lift Boys - Anarchy Village / Anarchy Way

More demented samba rhythms ...

12" released on Kazoo in 2005.

Anarchy Village / Anarchy Way

Lift Boys - Tide Y Edit

EYE's at it again! This is a shitload of fun.

This is a limited CD that was only for sale in DiskUnion record stores in Japan at some point in 2014.

Tide Y Edit

Lift Boys - Jukey Lift

Of course, The Lift Boys is Yamatsuka Tetsuro. The title track will blow your mind.

From the digger driven through the back of the venue of the Hanatarash gig to the bulldozer of Jukey Lift. WOW. What a journey!

A not for sale CD from 2014.

Jukey Lift

EYE - Cozzvo Chill

It appears that the festive chaos has overwhelmed you ... here's the soothing balm.

No label CDr from 2013.

The one that I don't have is the PAMMIX010 CD but luckily it's on soundcloud.

Cozzvo Chill

Rovo - Pico!

It's interesting how so many people who played in ur-Japanoise spastic rock band Boredoms ended up making ecstatic, techno-informed dance music afterwards. Even Boredoms themselves gravitated towards the disco floor. Boredoms' former guitarist Seiichi Yamamoto (aka Yamamotor) has amassed a mind-bogglingly diverse catalog of music outside his better-known gig, including free improv, garage rock and electronic dance music. Some of his best and most accessible music was made as a member of psychedelic trance-rock band Rovo. This EP is one of the earliest of that group's releases, appearing on Dohb Discs (a division of Sony Japan) in 1998.

Rovo - Pico!

EYƎ - Cozzvo

Welcome to the inspired world of Cozzvo.

No label CD from 2013.

Cozzvo

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Musical From Chaos

More live recordings ... once again Otomo Yoshihide's in the house.

Double CD released on P-Vine Records in 2003.

Musical From Chaos

EYE - Earth

It's that EYE again.

No label CD from 2011.

Earth

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Alter War In Tokyo

Hopefully, you've already dove deeply into this wonderful well of funkpsychfreejazz.

This was recorded live at Liquid Room in Tokyo on June the 6th, 2011. As though that wasn't enough, the second and third track have Arto Lindsay on guitar (yeah, that bloke from seminal no-wave band DNA and a host of subsequent triumphs).

Double CD released on Impulse! in 2011.

Alter War In Tokyo

EYƎ - Sky Size Sea

Once you accept that it's EYE's world and the rest of us just live in it ... things become a lot easier.

No label CD promo sneaked out in 2010.

Sky Size Sea

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Franz Kafka's Amerika

I think this is a concept album, though I'm not sure what the music has to do with Kafka's Amerika. Double-disc set released by P-Vine in 2007.

disc 1
disc 2

EYƎ - Cassette Acid Garage Punk Mix

More joy springing forth from the godhead.

No label CD that was not for sale in 2009.

Cassette Acid Garage Punk Mix

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Structure Et Force

A very large group this time, including three drummers, two guitarists, a full horn section, synths, and Kikuchi himself on turntables. Released by P-Vine in 2003.

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden ‎– Structure Et Force

Yamataka Eye - Re...Remix?

Other than a DJ Pica Pica Pica track, the rest are mixes of Japanese artists such as OOIOO, Back Drop Bomb and Makoto Kawamoto. Oh yeah, and one from arch-teapotters Gong.

CD released on Commons in 2008.

Re...Remix?

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - General Representation Products Chain Drastism 2-CD

DCPRG get the techno remix treatment, because why shouldn't they? Disc one has reworkings by Otomo Yoshihide, Kazunao Nagata (of the legendary Zero Gravity label!), DJ Me DJ You, and more. Disc 2 has live recordings. Released by P-Vine in 2002.

disc 1
disc 2

DJ 光光光 - DJ 光光光

Label-less C60 that appeared in 2015 in an edition of 20.

DJ 光光光

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Report From Iron Mountain

Jazz improvisation and prog-rock skronk from 2001, the first full-length album by Naruyoshi Kikuchi's post-Tipographica big band with some members borrowed from Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble (particularly one Otomo Yoshihide). If you like 70's Miles Davis, this is for you.

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden ‎– Report From Iron Mountain

DJ 光光光 - Planetary Natural Love Gas Webbin' 199999

DJ Pica Pica Pica is Yamatsuka Tetsurō once again. Another mix of splendid ideas that could only be formed within the mind of EYƎ.

CD released on Comma in 1999.

199999

Rovo & Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Split

Two Japanese jazz/improv supergroups on one disc! The earliest recorded appearance of Naruyoshi Kikuchi's big band, Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden, was a split CD shared with Seiichi Yamamoto's trance-rock monster, Rovo. I'll give you a moment to Google those names, then come back here when you're ready for more.

Rovo & Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Split

DJ Chaos X - DJ Chaos X

... and just for good measure. This is the CD reissue that was also not for sale.

CD released on Happy Set in 2006.

DJ Chaos X

DJ Chaos X - Untitled

Crazed DJ set juxtaposing random genres and coating them with EyE's unmistakable yammer that was given away at Boredoms gigs in 2001.

C50 released on Grind Sports Satan Arbeit in 2001.

DJ Chaos X

Noise Ramones - Rocket To DNA

Eye·Ramone (Yamatsuka Eye) and P-P·Ramone (Yokota Yoshimi) taking a break from Boredoms to bamboozle the world. One 22 minute track plus four short remixes from DJ Smallcock. Whilst I'm here, I've never heard the 12" split with OOIOO so if somebody can help out with that omission ...

Short CD released on dualpLOVER 2000.

Rocket To DNA

Otomo Yoshihide & Yamatsuka Eye - Untitled

Recorded live in London, 1995. Fundamentally, it's more DJ Carhouse & MC Hellshit ...

7" that came with the "Special Japanese Issue!" of Resonance magazine (Volume 4, number 2) in 1996.

Otomo Yoshihide & Yamatsuka Eye

DJ Carhouse & MC Hellshit - Live!

DJ Carhouse & MC Hellshit were an unfortunately short-lived collaboration between Otomo Yoshihide and Yamatsuka Eye. Brutal, brilliant, stylish and hilarious. Seriously, sandwiching Money Mark into the middle of Kick 'o' Man and dropping dub beats ... and ... well, it's just genius.

3" CD released on Blast First in 1996.

Live!

DJ Carhouse & MC Hellshit - Live!!

Join The Hellshit Army!

3" CD released on Japan Overseas in 1997.

Live!!

Masonna / MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse / Merzbow

It does what it says on the tin.

3" CD released on Blast First in 1997.

Split

Destroy 2 - We Are Voice & Rhythm Only

The ultimate "short-lived band".

Chu Hasegawa on drums (who at various times has been in Children Coup d'Etat, Corrupted, Omoide Hatoba, and Boredoms) and Yamatsuka Tetsurō (yeah, Yamatsuka Eye, EYƎ and a thousand variations and the man at the centre of Hanatarash and Boredoms and all of the rest).

Recorded live in Osaka in February 1995. 48 tracks in 10 minutes but with more to say than will be achieved in U2's nauseating career.

A perfect antidote to the saccharine bullshit that pervades this time of year.

3" CD released on Japan Overseas in 1996.

We Are Voice & Rhythm Only

Hijokaidan x Jun Togawa - 戸川階段Live!

Jun and Junko? On the same stage? Live? *delighted sigh*

CD released on Reveil in 2016.

Togawa Kaidan Live!

Hijokaidan x Jun Togawa - 戸川階段

... and just when you've got a handle on Jun Togawa?

CD released on Reveil in 2016.

Togawa Kaidan

Various - Moodooism - An Eclectic Collection Of Works By Kaoru Sato

Damn fine retrospective as an artist and producer that features a lot of artists that have been posted here recently as well as the likes of R.N.A. Organism, Children Coup d'Etat and Meme.

Triple CD released on Super Fuji Discs in 2011.

Moodooism

Yapoos - ヤプーズ計画

Second album by Jun Togawa's strange post-punk band, Yapoos, from 1987. Reissued on CD in 1995.

Yapoos - ヤプーズ計画

Jun Togawa & Yapoos - 裏玉姫

"Live Recorded At Laforet Museum On 19.February.1984 "

Originally a tape released on Yen Records in 1984, this is the CD reissue released in 1994 on Alfa.

Ura-Tamahime

Jun Togawa - Togawa Legend: Self Select Best & Rare 1979-2008

Pretty comprehensive review of Jun Togawa's work: "solo", Guernica, Yapoos, Jun Togawa Unit and more ...

Triple CD set released on GT Music in 2008.

Self Select Best & Rare 1979-2008

Matthew 16:23

Get thee 11 points behind me Satan!

Enjoy your trip home!

Guernica - 新世紀への運河

Their second album, from 1988. Theatrical weirdness by the unique Jun Togawa.

Guernica - 新世紀への運河

Guernica - 電離層からの眼差し

More frankly strange baroque 20's-styled opera from Koji Ueno and Jun Togawa.

CD released on Teichiku Records in 1989.

Guernica - Denrisou Kara no Manazashi

Guernica - 改造への躍動

Debut album by Jun Togawa's post-Yapoos band, Guernica. Their music was a nervy combination of synth-pop and Broadway show tunes... Sparks meets Yello meets Jacques Brel. Released in 1982 by Yen Records, then reissued on CD in 2006 with two extra tracks.

Guernica - 改造への躍動

Saboten - 目覚める

This appears to be the second full-length release ...

CD released on Sabot Records in 1992.

Mezameru

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