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Otomo Yoshihide - Plays The Music Of Takeo Yamashita

Let's not dwell on it too much, but we all need a palate cleanser after the weird uncle (especially those of you who fell asleep with your mouths open) ...

As far as I can figure out, Takeo Yamashita created soundtracks for scores of Japanese TV series and movies during his 75 years on this planet. With a no doubt deferential nod of the head a series of Otomo Yoshihide related projects are brought together on this wonderful CD released on P-Vine Records in 1999.

Plays The Music Of Takeo Yamashita

The Gerogerigegege - Singles 1985-1993

The day after Christmas Day is always that awkward family occasion where the weird uncle turns up. What better way to celebrate that thought provoking occasion than with Juntaro Yamanouchi, the King Of All Onanists™?

Clearly there is none ... and he evens brings his own Christmas song ... god bless you all!

CD released on Work In Progress in 1994.

Merry Christmas To Wankers Everywhere!

The link has been removed. I didn't spot that this is available on the Irrational Arts Bandcamp page ... so go there instead!

We Wish You An Irie Ismas ...

This is a three disc set released on Trojan Records in 2003. It is packed full of Jamaican legends but it comes with more than a word of warning: it is so unremittingly cheerful that it must be possessed by Babylon and if you listen to all of this then it may well drive you to homicide.

Depending upon the company you keep at this time of year this may be a bad thing. However, it may not be. If you end up in jail it's not my fault you bomboclaat!

Ding

Dong

Merrily

Various - The X-Mas-Compilation

Double C60 packed with such famous names as Richard Youngs, Telepherique and The Dead Goldfish Ensemble (well, maybe not the last one...). To be honest, nearly all of the people on here are pretty obscure even by our standards but it hits the note with such Christmas classics as "Fuckin' Xmas", "Jingle Garbage", "No-Hell", "Bah Humbug" and "The Government Is Coming To Town" and to be honest, everybody should go to bed with Dee Jay Emm's perky Steinski-inspired "Christmas Break" irritating the inside of their cranium as they drift off to sleep ...

Released on Ebus Music in 1992.

Jingle

Balls

People Like Us - Live at Christian Marclay's Sounds of Christmas

Between the 10th and 22nd of December 2004, Christian Marclay curated a two-week installation at the Tate Modern in London where a host of turntablists created remixes from their selection of Marclay's Christmas records. This is Vicki Bennett on the 18th of December.

What better way could you have to prepare for the fateful day?

Deck The Halls And Run To The Hills

Frieder Butzmann Und Laurence Nagana - Bunte Flügel

Bracingly strange cassette first released in 1980 by Eisengrau, a West Berlin clothing shop/record label run by Blixa Bargeld and members of Mania D that documented the early days of that influential punk/noise/industrial scene. In 1999, the tape was reissued as a vinyl LP by Weltklasse, though I cannot tell how "official" that version is. You probably know Butzmann from the first (and best) lineup of Din a Testbild and from the other albums of electronic insanity he's foisted upon unworthy ears over the years, or even from that "Asperado a-Go-Go" compilation LP I posted last week. But even if you only know his recent, stellar LP on PAN, this album will demonstrate that Butzmann was also that bizarre 35 years ago. As far as I can tell, this is the only appearance of Mr. Nagana, so I can't tell you anything more about him.

Frieder Butzmann Und Laurence Nagana - Bunte Flügel

Deep Jew - War

Spectacular single-sided 7" delivered unto the masses by Troniks in 2006.

War

Deep Jew - Harem

Originally a rare C10 released on Callow God in 2006 that was given a 7" vinyl makeover by Static Aktion in 2007.

Harem

Deep Jew - Find A Way

Screaming C14 released on Callow God in 2007.

Find A Way

Deep Jew - Punishment Feast: Live Recordings

How do you describe Deep Jew?

Erm ... get a bunch of noise heads in the back of a van, get them to plug in their instruments and beat the living shit out of them, press record and then drive the van off a cliff at 100mph. Erm ... yeah, that'll do it.

Single-sided LP released Troniks in 2007.

Punishment Feast

Deep Jew - Ugliest Man / Dog Blood

Jeff Witscher and Matthew Sullivan with Alex Twomey (Mirror To Mirror, Persimmons Pomegranate), Cole Miller (Toxic Loincloth) and Roy Tatum (Changeling). Originally, this was a self-released tape from 2007 before getting a vinyl LP re-release on Troniks ‎and Jugular Forest in 2008.

Ugliest Man / Dog Blood

Privy Seals - Hollow Hopes

C60 that was the first release on Matthew's own Ekhein label in 2007.

Hollow Hopes

Privy Seals - Shroud

This gets you towards wall noise but is more nuanced than the more static influenced purveyors. C30 released on Thorax Harsh Cassettes in 2007.

Shroud

Privy Seals - Impotence And Gratitude

Let's face it, the best that men of a certain age can expect is impotence and gratitude. However, Matthew Sullivan also gives you collapsing metal junk, arc-welding and rocket boosters. I prefer the latter to the former, but let's not intrude into private disappointment.

Impotence And Gratitude

Boris + Endon - EROS

Whoohoo, it's Boris! Gotta admit, I don't know much about Endon. But, whoohoo anyway!

C30 sold this year on their Japanese tour and ostensibly released on Fangs Anal Satan and G.G.R.R..

EROS

Marble Sky & Earn - Waiting On Trial

Jeff and Matthew Sullivan (who also recorded as Privy Seals and was in the mental Deep Jew alongside Jeff and other like minds) sharing a C20 released on Pathetic Legends in 2008.

Waiting On Trial

Marble Sky - Low God / Lady

A C30 and C10 set released on Callow God in 2008 in an edition of 40 copies.

Low God / Lady

Marble Sky - No Matter How Close

Another C20, this time it's a tour tape released on Callow God in an edition of 30 copies in 2009.

No Matter How Close

Marble Sky - Some Laughing Afterwards

C20 released on Agents Of Chaos (a sub-label of Jeff's own Callow God) in 2009 in an edition of 20 copies.

Some Laughing Afterwards

Marble Sky - The Sad Return

Marble Sky is the work of the excellent Jeff Witscher who you probably know better as Impregnable, Rene Hell or Secret Abuse. Marble Sky sit at the shimmering synth drone end of his spectrum.

Initially, this was a titular C30 released on Callow God in 2007 but two years later Students Of Decay re-released this on CD with an additional two tracks. The first 100 copies came with a 13 minute CDr that is otherwise unreleased. This is that.

The Sad Return

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