MSBЯ - Structured Suicide

M.S.B.R. on a C54 released on his own MSBR Records in 1993.

Get your kit off and bathe in this vat of wonderful noise.

Structured Suicide

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MSBЯ - 2,000 Thousends Contaminate Electronic Acid

Koji Tano.

Two words that say everything that I need to say.

C48 released on Old Europa Cafe in 1994.

Electronic Acid

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MSBR - Fracture Of Silence

54 minutes of tape that came with it's own half-time snack courtesy of Sounds For Consciousness Rape in 1995.

one slice short of a sandwich

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Null - Hellzonic Bio-Metal

Kazuyuki Kishino is Null, K.K. Null, an early collaborator with Merzbow, a former member of YBO² and Absolut Null Punkt and (now) half of the stunning Zeni Geva. A true cornerstone of Japanese music.

C72 released on Nux Organization in 1989.

Hellzonic Bio-Metal

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Null - Sonic Erosion

C50 released on Nux Organization in 1989.

Sonic Erosion

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The Gerogerigegege - Gerogerigegege

The Gerogerigegege are often maligned as being about nothing other than wankmeister Juntaro Yamanouchi's "masturbation voice". Obviously there is more to Gero that that (or less depending how much you like listening to a man cracking one off).

Juntaro Yamanouchi and Takeshi Ohmura on a C30 released on Masami Akita's ZSF Produkt in 1985.

Gerogerigegege

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Nihilist Surfin Group - Dutch Omanko

Wonderful blistering noise from Juntaro Yamanouchi.

C64 released on Peter Zincken's (aka Odal's) Nihilistic Recordings in the late '80s and that is as specific as I can get ...

Dutch Omanko

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Nihilist Surfin' Group - Music For The New Yorker

Nihilist Surfin' Group was a short-lived pseudonym used by Juntaro Yamanouchi (aka The Gerogerigegege). Doom synth B-Movie incidental music on a C46 released on Sound Of Pig in 1988.

Music For The New Yorker

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Pain Jerk - Fatamorgana

Pain Jerk is the work of Kohei Gomi. He's one of the greatest Japanese noise artists. Actually, you could leave out the country of his birth and the word "noise" in the previous sentence and it would still be true.

C40 released on his own AMP label in 1995.

Fatamorgana

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Pain Jerk - Aktion Bruit

C46 released on AMP in 1995.

Aktion Bruit

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Optrum - Recorded

Blistering noise by a band led by hero Atsuhiro Ito, who plays an instrument called the Optron (which is essentially a set of amplified florescent light bulbs that he holds like a guitar and SHREDS while producing a seizure-inducing light show), along with drummer Yoichiro Shin. This album was released by Unknownmix/Headz in 2006.

Optrum - Recorded

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K2 - Tekhnodrug

Metal-junkologist Kimihide Kusafuka on a C60 released on his own Kinky Musik Institute in 1993.

Tekhnodrug

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K2 - Les Extremes Se Touchent I

I had posted what I thought was the Chocolate Monk tape ... I think I dropped a bollock and it's actually this.

C48 released on BV Tapes in 1995.

Les Extremes Se Touchent I

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Aoyama Masami - New Neuroses

A complete mystery. Guitar and electronics by an artist with no other known recordings or appearances on other people's albums. Released as a CD in 2001 by Off Site, a label affiliated with the venue in Toyko that hosted performances of extra-quiet improvisation and brittle non-sound by people such as Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Sachiko M, Taku Unami and their usual crew. This album, though, is definitely audible and quite good. I only wish I could tell you more about it.

Aoyama Masami - New Neuroses

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Black Elegance - Kram

Information-light Japanese noise cassette by the mysterious "F. Miura" (who?), released by Contagious Orgasm's SSSM label in 1993. As far as I can tell, this was the project's only album.

Black Elegance - Kram 

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Gu-n - 群

The lone release by a drone/noise/improv supergroup of sorts. Gu-n were Fumio Kosakai (of Incapacitants and Uchu Engine), Ryuichi Nagakubo (who played bass with CCCC, Yuragi and Uchu Engine), Hidenobu Kaneda (of Yuragi), Sawada Morihide (of Marble Sheep and Yura Yura Teikoku), and the great Ikuro Takahashi (who has been part of Fushitsusha, Overhang Party, LSD March, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and many many more legendary bands). As Gu-n, they compiled the best bits of improvised drone and scrape from two sessions (in February and June, 1995) into this album. It was released as a CD on Pataphysique (Overhang Party's label) in the same year.

Gu-n - 群

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Kawabata Makoto & Michishita Shinsuke - ◯△▢

Surely these two gentlemen need no introduction ... but just in case, the former is Acid Mothers Temple's head honcho and the latter is the guitarist and singer with the mighty LSD March. Whilst you would probably expect a feedback drenched onslaught, what you actually get is a delightfully constructed and elegant pair of improvisations.

LP released on Prophase Music in 2009.

◯△▢

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Marble Sheep - Marble Sheep Meets ◯△▢

Psychedelic shamanism of the highest order on this CD released on FünfUndVierzig in 2003.

Marble Sheep Meets ◯△▢

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◯△▢ (Maru Sankaku Shikaku)

Compiled recordings from a band (yes, their name was actually a circle, a triangle and a square) that existed for just a few years, from 1970 to 1973, and played a kind of hippie psychedelic jam rock that is terribly dated yet charming for what it is. Don't expect the blazing epiphanies of Les Raillizes Denudes or disciplined free improvisation of Taj Mahal Travellers. These guys were more of a precursor to Marble Sheep, No-Neck Blues Band or Acid Mothers Temple than to heady heavies like Fushitsusha or Kosoukuya. Still, it's undoubtedly a good thing that Captain Trip Records saw fit to reissue the group's three LPs from 1973 as proper CDs with one additional disc (no year listed, but likely also 1973) of previously unreleased jams. Two members of ◯△▢, guitarist Reck and drummer Chiko Hige, went on to play in the punk bands 3/3 and Friction. For a time, they resided in New York and were part of the "no wave" scene; Reck played with Teenage Jesus & the Jerks while Hige played with the Contortions.  

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Randy Greif - Alice In Wonderland

If you have never heard the work of Randy Greif then this will serve as a delirious and hallucinatory introduction.

Between 1991 and 1992 Staalplaat released the first four CDs in the series. You then had to cut out the coupons and send them all back to the label in order to get the fifth. You even got the coupons back. Luckily, Soleilmoon Recordings released them as a remastered box set in 2000 and again in 2010.

These recordings are genuinely magnificent and are best heard in one sitting ... so set aside six hours of your life and slide down the rabbit hole!

No. 1

No. 2

No. 3

No. 4

No. 5

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