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Up-Tight - Up-Tight
Kazuhiro Nakanishi on bass, Takashi Shirahata on drums and Tomoyuki Aoki on guitar and voice. Self-released in 2001.
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Kazuhiro Nakanishi on bass, Takashi Shirahata on drums and Tomoyuki Aoki on guitar and voice. Self-released in 2001.
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Up-Tight - Sweet Sister 1994-2003
More riffs on Sweet Sister. The first two versions (from '94 and '98) feature Yoshifumi Kira on bass. Other than that it's the same line-up as the previous post and is another self-released CDr from 2003.
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Up-Tight - Live 2003
This is a self-released CDr from 2003. By virtue of being a set of live recordings, this takes them up another notch. It includes a 16 minute version of Sweet Sister which, if you were to continue the VU metaphor, is their Sister Ray. More of which later ...
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Up-Tight - Five Psychedelic Pieces
Alan Cummings reckoned that "the ghost of The Velvet Underground, Rallizes and Amon Düül loom large over there their personal feedback song-distruction universe". He is correct as always (and where is Alan these days btw?).
This is Tomoyuki Aoki on guitar and vocals, Takashi Ogata on bass and Takashi Shirahata behind the kit. If ever a release did whatever it said on the tin then this is it. Beautiful in every way!
Released on Static Records in 2004.
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LSD March - Sep/22/2008 Usine-4 Geneve
Given that this was around the time that Jurando and Uretakumo Nakunarutorika were released, I think it's safe to assume that this is Ikuro Takahashi and Shinsuke Michishita. The two discs sound as though they were snatched from the mixing desk to rip to CDr to sell at the next gig the next night...some of the vocals are very muffled so it feels as though that makes sense. Either way, everything LSD March touch turns to gold.
There are three more listed on Discogs (and there may even be others) that were for sale in Amsterdam, Madrid and Prague ... so if you are sitting on those and have nothing better to do ...
CDr released in an edition of 20 to support their European tour in 2008.
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LSD March - Sep/18/2008 Museu Do Chiado Lisbon
CDr released in an edition of 20 to support their European tour in 2008.
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LSD March - Untitled
CDr initially released on White Elephant Records in 2007 that served as tour mersch in Japan and the USA in very limited quantities. Only Shinsuke Michishita and Ikuro Takahashi appear to be involved here.
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LSD March - 漏刻の炎・凛然・雨・嵐の青春
On the first three tracks, LSD March are Miyazima Hitomi, Makoto Inoue and Shinsuke Michishita. On the final track the line up is Shinsuke Michishita, Ikuro Takahashi and Masami Kawaguchi.
This is a rare CDr outing released on White Elephant Records in 2004 in an edition of 50.
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Niplets - Uramado
Niplets were Hiroshi Nar, Junko, Kyoko, Taizo and Zin. Hiroshi Nar was the bassist and occasional guitarist with Les Rallizes Dénudes. The other members of Niplets are mysterious in my part of the world so I can't add anything else I'm afraid.
This CD was released in 1997 on Hören and it's so retro it's already happened in the future.
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Niplets - 泥棒ごっこ [Dorobo Gokko]
Really classy rock and roll on a CD released on Hören in 1999. In what is probably my most tangential link, the lovely cover design was created by Masahiko Ohno (aka Solmania).
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Niplets - 講堂ブギ [The Lecture Hall Boogie]
OK, it features the dreaded word "boogie" and it starts with a drum solo. What can you do? CD released on Hören in 2003.
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va - Visual Sound
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Les Rallizes Denudes - December's Black Children (Live at Shibuya Yaneura, Tokyo 13/12/1980)
The story of Les Rallizes Dénudés and the opaque authenticity of the plethora of "no label" releases has been told on here before. This is a double CD set apparently released in an edition of 100 in about 1989. They start off in the style of Gram Parsons or a very mellow Meat Puppets but the feedback is never very far away! Needless to say, it's brilliant.
And just in case you missed it, the latest "no label" release was recently posted on the excellent Vacuumworld.
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Chainfight - Prison Sweat
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Chainfight - Blessings
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Contagious Orgasm - Voltage Controlled Filter
I love it when Hiroshi Hashimoto creates sounds like these! Hypnotic loops, blasts of metallic noise and smothered sampled vocals. Reminds me of the implied terror of early Psychic TV (which is always welcome). You know that unspeakable things are happening behind the curtain but you don't really want to know the full details. You couldn't handle the truth. This would sit very well as a Shinya Tsukamoto soundtrack (any of the Tetsuo films or maybe even Haze).
CD released on Tesco Organisation in 1993.
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Contagious Orgasm – When Thin Skin Split
Sweeping industrial synths and dungeon noise on a CDr released on SSSM in 2000. This is a reissue of the Thin Skinned tape from 1989 and includes two bonus tracks.
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Contagious Orgasm - The Music Which Draws Something
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Duncan Bruce - New Glass Tapu
Have you had enough warped explorations from New Zealand? "Never" I hear you cry! That's the spirit ...
Here you get Clayton Noone and Lee Noyes contributing to a track each whilst Tim Cornelius mucks in with the final three. As if that is not enough, there is a wealth of Duncan on his own. What does this leave you with? Well, I've searched the Bleak Bliss lexicon and there are not enough words in there to do this justice. Let's just say that this is a genius CDr released on the totally recommended and Bristol-based LF Records in 2008.
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Sandoz Lab Technicians - The Three Imposters
Triple 8" lathe cut set which sees each member of Sandoz Lab Technicians (James Kirk, Nathan Thompson and Tim Cornelius) choose a SLT track for the A Side and then take it in turns to record solo outings for the reverses. An Ummagumma for the New Zealand sub-underground if you will (or even if you won't).
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