The Henry & Hazel Slaughter Experience - Praying Mantis Brain

At the other end of the catalogue (and calm down, it's not the lingerie pages) lies this little jewel from John Olson. Sitting on the message board waiting for the next AmTapes release was frequently a "what do you mean it's gone, I didn't even blink" rollercoaster. Then there was the foreboding that there were only going to be another 15 releases left before the shutters were closed after AM999 (AM1000 was a party and my invite was lost in the post ... still waiting for the apology). Fuck me this is 10 years old. The policemen get younger and everything seems like yesterday ... all hail entropy!

A C52 released on American Tapes in 2013 in an edition of 30.

It's AM984 btw ...

michigan castle magic

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Reynols - Sonirdo de lo Mofifero

This is Reynols as a six-piece from the previous century released on what is, I'm pretty sure, our favourite label ever! It's the best scrambled and roaring psychedelia that the finest Argentinian brown peyote can buy ... four warped tracks with the finale being the monumental three quarters of an hour that is Todo lo Solos Marmonio lo Cucu.

A CDr that was the 77th release on American Tapes in 1999.

'scuse me while i kiss the sky

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The Mossy Throats - Sometimes They Come Back

The legendary Daniel Dlugosielski creating ultra-absorbant sub-subterranean noise murk in the way that, frankly, omly he can.

A double C48 set replete with a 43 minute CDr packaged in a hand-made cosmic box courtesy of his own Excite Bike label in 2009.

It came in an edition of fifteen so you may have missed it first time around.

(Return of the Murk) pump up the world

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Tori Kudo - Tori Kudo At Goodman 1984-1986

I've thought about this for quite a while. Obviously. there are two types of people: people that adore Tori Kudo and people that have wasted their lives thus far.

Yeah, the secret messiahs will always say that there is the third opinion but back in the room sheeples ... I know truth and stuff so please sell your houses and send me the money.

This is a set of nine CDs (there's a DVD as well but it's not included here). Whilst these are apprently live (as in with an audience present) it seems more like captured practices and private moments. It sometimes makes me feel like a voyeur but really he is just letting us see / hear things when (almost) nobody was there. But, then you get 33 minutes of "Rain Falling On A Paddy Field Already Full With Water Prior To Planting" that has Tori on piano, Masami Shinoda on alto, Yuzuru Makino on baritone and Koichiro Watanabe on violin ... and it remains intensely private. It's another fleeting glimpse into The Fifth Column and proto Maher Shalal Hash Baz hive mind.

Best to act quickly ... he only has ome left:

"Tori Kudo's live recordings from 1984 to 1986 at Ogikubo good-man will be released on 9 CDs by boid/Voice Of Ghost label on May 19, 2021. The cassette recordings of Tori Kudo's many live performances, mainly at Ogikubo Goodman on the eve of the formation of Maher Shalal Hash Baz and shortly thereafter, have been re-recorded on 9 CDs.

In addition to a hand-written index and hand-drawn flyers, this gorgeous box set also includes a DVD of "Maher Shalal Hash Baz" as an enclosed bonus."

not

dead

yet

As always, pressure off der mein host:

lean

here

foist

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Die Like A Dog Quartet - From Valley To Valley

Peter Brötzmann on sax, William Parker on bass, Hamid Drake on drums and on this occasion Toshinori Kondo is replaced on brass by Roy Campbell, Jr.

Recorded live at the Bezanson Recital Hall, Amherst, MA on the 25th of July 1998, and released on Eremite Records in 1999.

i, like, love going into, like, clothing stores and stuff

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Last Exit – Last Exit

It was with a heavy heart that I learnt of the passing of Peter Brötzmann on Thursday aged 82. An absolute titan of free jazz, both radical and revolutionary, he took the form into areas previously unthought of.

His legendary Last Exit quartet remains the only outfit that could give Borbetomagus a run for their money ... and then some!

The CD version released in Japan on Enemy Records in 1986

fare well

This recording of the band playing at Deutsches Jazzfestival in 1986 is just utterly wild and easily the best thing you will have seen for quite a while.

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T.Mikawa - Bloody, innocent and Strategic

Sometimes Discogs isn't entirely accurate ... I know ... who knew? It's something else entirely when the artist feels the need to correct the addition. A tough one to swallow that makes everyone else smirk ... cue instant karma.

"All titles of this CD shown above are totally incorrectly spelled.
This album is dedicated to BiS (Brand-new idol Society), which disbanded on 8th, July, 2014. All titles of each piece were named to show BiS when abbreviated. Therefore, all titles shown above are wrong.
They should be
1. Bloody, innocent and Strategic
2. Beyond internal Split
3. Bring impossible Satisfaction
4. Breathless incubus Sophisticated
5. Burning, isolated and Spectacular
6. Barbarian introduces Sabotage
and also, of course, the title of this album must be spelled as Bloody, innocent and Strategic. That's all what I would like to say as the artist of this album.
Toshiji Mikawa"

CD released on Alchemy Records in 2004.

guilty m'lud

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Various - Tokyo Invasion Volume 1: Cosmic Kurushi Monsters

A cracking compilation featuring the likes of Musica Transonic, High Rise, Boredoms, Ground Zero, Vajra, Altered States, Keiji Haino, Ruins, Fushitsusha, Melt-Banana and a hell of a lot more. Yeah, there is nothing exclusive to the release but that doesn't stop it being a shitload of fun.

You also get artwork courtesy of Savage Pencil ... I'm pretty sure there was never a second volume so I guess this didn't sell too well at the time which prompts the age old question: "what's wrong with poeple?"

Double CD released by a wannabe spaceman in 1996.

collar me, don't collar me

It's around 900MB so best to lean on this server first ..

etcetera

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Incapacitants / Macronympha - Split

I remember referencing this when I posted the 7" split a while ago and expressing astonishhment that it was still for sale and linking a place to buy it. Pretty sure that you can't buy this anymore. You know where you are ...

C56 released on Bizarre Audio Arts in 2018. There were 50 of these.

split bananas

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The Gerogerigegege - As If It Had Always Been Determined Since This Day Was Born

I've been meaning to post this for a while but have been too busy playing it on repeat. Gero gets filed away into an unfair niche largely due to some people's most regular contact being those releases containing Tetsuya Endoh's (ahem) artistic flourishes. It does Juntaro / them a massive diservice that any time spent with the wider discography amply demonstrates. This contains of a bunch of remixes and remasters that frankly could be seen as entirely new pieces of work ... amongst the tastefully manicured noise, there are even aspects that would fit in nicely with the good end of the C89 UK Indie crew.

CD released on いぬん堂 / Inundow (a great label more associated with Japanese punk and new wave) in October 2022. It even has the bonus CDr that was only available if you bought directly from Disk Union.

fatal attraction

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T. Mikawa - Cloud Carpet Bombing

Now here is an entire bathful of HOLY SHIT!

Obviously, it's Toshiji Mikawa and I'll assume that you know where you are. Even so, you won't have seen this coming. It's a set released in Japan consisting of a box containing one CD and two tapes. The tapes replicate what is on the disc. I don't actually own this yet so you will have to cope with only having the rip of the CD. When I get my hands on a physical copy, I'll rip the tapes and put them up as well. Nerdtastic aspirations right there just for you.

This has genuinely surprised and excited me more than I thought possible. I've played this on rotation for the past couple of weeks and still can't translate it into the usual bollocks that I spout on here. This is genuinely special!

Released on Takuya Sakaguchi's Neurec label in 2022. There is a CD only version that raises it's head infrequently but I'm pretty sure that is not "authentic".

do the shake n vac and put the freshness back

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Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit - Mass Hysterism In Another Situation

A likely tale ...

But, as I said two and a half years ago: "Oh damn! This is a stripped down armour plated beast of a recording. Think of the Hijokaidan end of the free jazz spectrum. Masayuki Takayanagi and Akira Iijima on guitar and Hiroshi Yamazaki on all manner of Satan's bongos. Recorded live at Kid Ailak Hall on August the 14th, 1983."

CD released on Jinya Disc in 2006. This time it's flac.

i'll climb this blinkin' ladder till i get right to the top

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Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

The original LP was released in 1982 before being repressed in Japan the following year. There was the odd decision to add the State Violence State Control 7". It's odd because Side A of the single starts off Side A of the LP ... the same with the reverse. I would assume it is the maintain the track structure whilst simultaneously making the idea redundant. There have been two Japanese CD reissues that follow the same structure ... this is the second one.

CD released on Toy's Factory in 1996.

never again

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The Gerogerigegege - Nothing To Hear / Nothing To...1985

This is a good old harsh noise opus recorded on the 23rd of October, 1985. If the title doesn't riff on Discharge's "Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing" LP then Juntaro is just telling fibs.

From the label's insert: "We are experimental/noise music fans in Taipei, Taiwan. Because it was very hard to obtain any information about this kind of music here, we self published our small fanzine 'NOISE' from 1993. We try to contact unusual music workers and introduce them to Taiwanese fans. We hope to introduce more unusual music to Taiwanese fans and Juntaro (The Gerogerigegege) hope his work can be released in Taiwan. But it is impossible to find any Taiwanese record company to do a cd release for The Gerogerigegege. We do it ourselves with Juntaro's help. We don't have the government's approval to release cds, so the cd pressing company insisted wanting us to print 'PROMOTION ONLY' on the cd to avoid any trouble. This 'Nothing To Hear/Nothing To ...1985' cd is limited numbered edition of 500. When it sold out, we will not re-release it anymore."

CD releaesed on Noise in 1994.

why

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The Gerogerigegege - Hell Driver

Just reflecting on the two comments in the previous post ... I think that people think that I think that people think that the Gero 30 material defines Gero. It couldn't be further from the truth. There is so much more going on than the genteel society baiting happy slapping.

CD released on Dirter Promotions in 1999.

season ticket on a one way ride

Pretty sure that I meant to link this up ages ago and forgot ... it even starts with The Saintly John Peel.

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The Gerogerigegege - >(decrescendo)

I've posted about this before. Luckily for me, you all hang on my every word so I don't need to repeat myself. This is a 16/44 rip of the extremely rare tape version.

C84 released on Cav Empt (a Japanese tape label whose releases are priced exorbitantly over here) in 2019.

decrescention

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ONJT + - Lonely Woman

This time, the source is Ornette Coleman's work.

Two quintets. Two trios. Two solos. Six revelations.

CD. Doubtmusic. 2010.

and I will be alone again tonight my dear

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ONJT + - Bells

Otomo's New Jazz Trio. Otomo Yoshihide on various guitars, long-time collaborator Hiroaki Mizutani on bass and the magical Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (founder of Altered States) on drums. The plus refers to two additional members who appear for selected sessions to make up a quintet. None other than Sachiko M and Jim O'Rourke handling electronics on the first version! The versions in question are riff meditations on Alber Ayler's "Bells". It's glorious. Obviously.

CD released on Doubtmusic in 2010.

ding dong mercilessly i'm high

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NNCK - Aftypiclipse (For Jazzfinger)

This is a live recording of No Neck Blues Band playing at the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in 2006. I don't think Jazzfinger were on that weekend but erm... Always wanted to get down to the Sands but the smallest dwelling is a four bed "chalet" and I don't actually know people who understand the first thing about the music I like. Well, not in the "real" world I mean ...

CDr released on their own Sound@One in 2007 and reissued on viynl a year later.

aftypiclimax (for FlaccusMUC)

There is this entire tawdry British history thing about holiday camps that ATP totally subvert (as you would expect from the VU reference). Some lovely person has uploaded a documentary that splendidly explains and entertains. Well worth your attention on its own.

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Various - The Jewelled Antler Library

In 2003, Porter Records released a monthly subscription series of 3" CDrs with a bonus 13th thrown in for good measure at the end. You get Loren Chasse, Tomes, The Ivytree, Hala Strana, Dead Raven Choir, Famous Boating Party, Uton, Claypipe, The Muons, Thuja, Fursaxa, Kemialliset Ystävät and The Ways Of God To Man.

This is the four CD collection released in 2008.

antlers

the usual option

option

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