Bleak Bliss

Forced Orgasm - Are You Home Yet? (1994-2008)

Forced Orgasm are apparently Hageshiseto Ohno and Naoki Chisato who were originally based in Kobe but moved to the US and appear to have fitted straight into the Texan harsh noise scene. The vast majority of their work was impossible to find. That is until Richard Ramirez started to reissue some of their tapes as CDrs in tiny numbers and it remained only slightly less impossible to find.

Or was Forced Orgasm always RR in the first place? It's the kind of textured occasionally crumbling wall noise I associate with a lot of his projects ... only somebody else knows ...

Whatever the truth is, this is a (purportedly) retrospective seven CDr edition released on Room 2A (one of Richard Ramirez's many Deadline Recordings sub-labels) in 2014 and it came in an edition of ten.

Shoobie Doobie Do Wop

Pop Pop Shoo Wop

Hair Stylistics - The Maximam No Respect

We would hope that you are familiar with the work of Masaya Nakahara. If you are, then you will understand why I really can't even begin to describe where this begins and ends. If you are not familiar with his work, then sorry I still can't help you.

CDr on Boid in 2010.

Maximum Respect

Harry Pussy + Cock ESP - Wreck Small Cocks On Expensive Pussies

I really really like Harry Pussy ... so perversely, I thought I would start at the awkward end first. First off, the title is beautiful (and will have brought a broad smile to the contemporary hipsters). This entire thing doesn't even add up to two and a half minutes. It's a small grab of a HP gig in Minneapolis in April 1997, reworked by telepathic Cocks and sent to the legendary New Zealand lathe maker Peter King for him to work his majesty on a virtually unplayable format. It is genius psychedelic noise. If I loop this then I could listen to this all day long. As you already know, everything I say is nearly true.

An 8" lathe released on Freedom From in 1998.

Wreck Small Cocks

va - Activating the Medium XIV - Radio Transmissions Chapter Three

Third volume of the compilation CDRs given to audience members at the Activating the Medium event in 2011. Music from John Duncan, Camilla Hannan, Yan Jun, Adrian Dziewanski, John Davis, Rajar, Jorge Bachmann, Colin Andrew Sheffield, Adam Pacione.

va - Activating the Medium XIV - Radio Transmissions Chapter Three

Hair Stylistics - Fuck Decaro

I don't know who Decaro was but the image is more late 70's Jimmy Hill (there's an unrelated one for UK football grandads). Whoever it is, he gets his arse handed to him in a way that we can all applaud!

CDr released on Boid in 2010.

Fuck Decaro

Harry Pussy - Let's Build A Pussy

Harry Pussy were a genius noise-rock wtf crew where the drummer hits her sticks 1-2-3 and everybody piles in on the 4. You can literally hear property prices plunging everywhere they are played. Magnificent chaos all around frankly. So I was checking the tags on a few ideas and saw a review of this on Discogs: "Stupidest album of all-time. Totally unlistenable and not in a fun way."

So erm, yeah! Obviously!

From a review: "Consisting of an hour long piece of Bill Orcutt time-stretching a second of Adris Hoyos’ voice into a slow shifting drone. A piece of music you will love or hate, with not much for anything in between."

Originally released as a double LP on Blackbean And Placenta Tape Club (an admirable purveyor of weird shit), it was released after they split up and didn't exist as a collective. It's more we are all dead and this is what happens when the lights start to dim. It's fun for all of the family. It must have massively disappointed the prior devotees because this was not what they expected.

This is a flac rip of the double LP reissue on Editions Mego from 2012.

knuckle

tatoos

va - Activating the Medium XIV - Radio Transmissions Chapter Two

Second (duh) volume of a CDR given to audience members at the "Activating the Medium XIV" event in 2011, curated by the 23five organization. The festival was based on the theme of radio transmission, so all sound work on the souvenir CDrs were intended for radio broadcast. Includes Letitia Casteneda, Keith Fullerton Whitman, the late Jim Kaiser, Rale, Jim Haynes, Ben Owen, Leif Elggren, Jason Khan and Antimatter.

va - Activating the Medium XIV - Radio Transmissions Chapter Two

Violent Onsen Geisha - Violent Onsen Geisha

There are many things that Mrs Inside and I agree upon but first and foremost is the preeminence of Masaya Nakahara. He's been releasing music on a weekly basis for years and years ... a new Masaya Nakahara release that we haven't heard before is a thing of wonder and a great excuse for a party! You seriously have no idea how true that is!

Anyway, the main body of this release is a reworking / reissue of the Cry Baby Killer, Wagamama Na Ofukuro and Tenderley tapes from around 1989 to 1993 ... but there are edits and some tracks are apparently not included at all but it seems there is no possible way to get closer than this.

The 3" is supposed to be a split with Dynamite Masters Blues Quartet (who do exist and are great) but they get well and truly sliced and diced in the best possible way obviously.

This is a flac rip of the triple CDr and 3" CDr released on Bloody Butterfly in 1997.

Violent

Onsen

Geisha

Violent Onsen Geisha - Black Lovers (Early Lost Tapes 1988)

When I posted some new Hair Stylistics a month or so ago, it made me go back and listen to VOG again for the first time in ages. Generally speaking, we don't have time for re-upping because there are still a million things that we haven't been posted that should take priority. However. It was nearly ten years ago when I originally posted most of what I have. I've been thinking for a while about what should come first ...

Early Lost Tapes is either true or not or both ... archive material recently unearthed or material from tapes that had been previously released or a bit of both? I have no idea and it doesn't matter. These are ten compositions functioning as a single track and it is spellbinding ... the choice of samples and their juxtaposition with brief blurts of harsh noise and cut-up is enough to make your head split with the width of the smile generated. Chin Straps Advised!

Flac rip of the CD released on his own My Fiance's Lifework Productions in 1995.

Black Lovers

Hair Stylistics - Am5:00+

I've been holding off posting this for longer than I can remember because there was a version that came with an additional CDr with nearly half an hour of undoubted extra quality. I saw it for sale once and just missed it ... pissed me off for a year, only made worse by the fact that it sold for a really low price. Avoiding my true character, I decided to be optimistic and it was only a matter of time before I could post the three disc version. I should have known better. So here's the other version. It's Masaya Nakahara which obviously means that it is the work of a certifiable genius.

Double CD self-released on Boid in 2007.

Am5:00+

Splintered - Turned Inside Out

You will have noticed a bit of a slowdown recently ... usually we cover each other when one of us have something to do (sorry to let light in on magic but it was never the google elves). This time around, both of us have had good things happen simultaneously and frankly, given the state of just about everything, it's about fucking time. So we are simply happy and don't start worrying that we are losing interest because frankly nothing could be further from the truth.

Anyway, this is a gorgeous compilation of unreleased tracks demos and fanzine rare stuff. It's totally brilliant ... the Landfall demo is pure Joy Division percussion and the bassline is surely what RDJ used for Come To Daddy. I have their split with Headbutt but none of the other singles ... if you have them ripped and can be arsed sharing then that would make people happy. If you have them but can't be arsed sharing them then unless you tell us nobody knows and it's a win/don't lose situation.

Flac rip of a double CD released on Totuuden Sarvi Levyt in 2013 that I can't find available first hand.

Inside

Out

Splintered / RLW - Splintered / RLW

Apologies if I'm about to tell you that water runs downhill but RLW is Ralf Wehowsky of P16.D4 and so forth and all around genius (well maybe not all around, he's not solved poverty but we all have our limits I suppose). This is a collaboration and a split if you will. There are two shorter Ralf reworkings of the Moraine tracks from that album and he contributes material for the Splintered tracks. It's great but you've already skipped this bit ...

Released on Black Rose Recordings in 1996.

Splintered / RLW

Violent Onsen Geisha / Masonna - Split

To quote d.boon's share of the proceedings "this ain't no picnic".

LP released on RRRecords in 1989.

Violent Onsen Geisha / Masonna

Splintered - Moraine

Until I heard this, I never considered that you could combine Godflesh and Hawkwind. Someone could have told me, I wouldn't have spent all of that money on drugs! Well, actually that's not true, but someone could have told me!

LP jointly released on Suggestion Records and No Risk No Fun Records in 1996.

Moraine

Sleaford Mods - Wank

"I get the feelin' sometimes I'd better watch how I speak my mind. There's plenty people outside ... kissing behinds."

CDr on Deadly Beefburger Records in 2012.

We Punch Above Our Weight Because The World Won't Take Us All!

King Missile - Mystical Shit / Fluting On The Hump

Clearly there are people who frequent this space who prefer NORSE GODS. Apparently you feel important then and can justify killing a few people so you can try to deal with the fact that nobody in the real world wants to know you ... seriously, sex with cousins does not count as an endorsement in anybody else's gene pool.

I have little say over who comes here to get free music that they can't be arsed to find somewhere else. They fail to see that Jesus was way cool, had a detachable penis and trying to deal with the fact that somebody took a doody in his sandbox whilst dreaming of driving cheesecake trucks. Education is futile with some of the ground that the free world has left to work with ... but who knows, sometimes mystical shit happens and people can change.

Did I mention that Nazi Punks can rim me?

Sorry if that wasn't clear ... if you feel you expect compliance then you can choke on my shit rather than what you appear to expect from the rest of the world. Whilst you have been building bunkers, the rest of the world has been reading books and thinking for themselves. Ask your slave to open the curtains and find out what century it is.

Apart from that ... King Missile are wonderful and this is a compilation of two early vinyls on the marvelous Shimmy Disc. This CD is from 1990.

Nazi Punks Can Rim My Mystical Hump!

Napalm Death - Nazi Punks Fuck Off!

Just to clarify ... and the day after ... and next year and the year after ... see where I am going with this?

Nazi Punks Can Wear My Nuts On Their Nazi Chins!

Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off!

Not angry ... just disappointed.

As true as it was 39 years ago. As true the as it is now. As true then as it will be tomorrow.

Nazi Punks Fuck Off!

Spacemen 3 - Transparent Radiation

I just need a brief bit of headspace where I'm not just really fucking angry all of the time.

12" that I bought 33 years ago and posted here 25 years later.

Choose your side. History reveals all complicity

Smith & Mighty - Bass Is Maternal

The people and the police of Bristol are stone cold legends and the shitty little careerist politicians who ride the law and order ticket to exploit this would sell your neighbours for medical experimentation in a heartbeat.

Courtesy of Bristolians and More Rockers in 1995.

Priti Patel ... what's that on your chin?

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