Negativland - Guns

"This recording is dedicated to the members of our favorite Irish rock band, their record label, and their attorneys. This music is two U."

A CD EP release from SST Records in 1991 that wasn't withdrawn from release this time.

Guns

... meanwhile in the land of the free:

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Negativland - U2

The vacuously pompous don't like to be pricked so this got banned as well. However, truth is truth no matter how many lawyers you have.

CD EP courtesy of SST Records in 1991.

FU2U2

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Plunderphonic - Plunderphonic

At the time, this attracted some unwanted attention. Can't think why?

More brain bending brilliance courtesy of John Oswald's Mystery Tape Laboratory in 1989.

shamone motherfucker!

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Plunderphonics - 69 Plunderphonics 96

John Oswald​ doing what it says on the tin.

A double CD released on Seeland and fony in 2001.

69 Plunderphonics 96

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The Evolution Control Committee - Plagiarythm Nation

This was a revamp of an earlier self-released ECC CD that has a different tracklist / running order than the original.

CD released on Negativland's Seeland in 2003.

Version Two

Now, c'mon we're all nerds here ... what did you expect?

Version One

... and now swing yer pantaloons.

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The Evolution Control Committee - Notes Of Nihilistic Bliss

Mark Gunderson ... half live and half studio.

C48 released on Fistful Of Love Tapes in 1988.

feel my hand

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The Evolution Control Committee - Double The Phat And Still Tasteless

I don't make the earworms ...

Self-released CD in a floopy disc cover from 1996.

life is improbable

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Various - 1974 Hobo’s Concerts II ''大きな青空が胸に''

The second of the series with tracks from Yasuto Asahina, Hayashitei, Hiroshi Sato (aka GWAN) and Shiba.

CD reissue on Super Fuji Discs from 2007.

maybe tomorrow

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Zeitlich Vergelter - Schlagen / Dimension

Chu Ishikawa (yep, the person responsible for so many great soundtracks for the films of Shinya Tsukamoto and Takashi Miike), Hidemi (who was in Sadie Sads), Keroppy Maeda and neu (not the German band). So you get an amalgam of the soundtrack for Escape Fron New York as seen by Test Dept. and Einstürzende Neubauten with a wet dream from the 12 months where Ministry were actually great wishing they had taken the drugs of Crash Worship instead.

This is a 7" released on Transrecords in 1985 and as far as I know it's their only release under that name. The B side also appears on this triple tape from 1986 and we really really want to be able to hear that one day. Maybe ... one day.

Schlagen / Dimension

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Various - Selections From Excommunicated Monument

Years ago, I posted a rip of the original LP released on SMS Records in 1984 to no acclaim whatsoever. Two tracks each from Auto-Mod, Sadie Sads, Madame Edwarda and G-Schmitt.

This is a flac rip of the CD reissue on J-Factory in 2002.

redeem yourself

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Shizuka - Paradise Of Delusion

We haven't done justice to Shizuka (other than to mention that Jun Kosugi was also in Fushitsusha). That definitely needs to be rectified! Before we do ... can I just take a moment to say FUCK THE FLIPPERS! Well, I've done it now. This was released on June the 28th, 2021 in an edition of 300 and obviously disappeared from sight very quickly. One of the reasons it disappeared are the leeches who buy multiple copies to try to turn a profit ... like the seller on a popular "fan-run" website, who is trying to get this sold for at least TEN times the original cost. Yeah. I know.

However, a person after my own heart has ripped it so it can be sent out into the world. This is a live recording at BinSpark, Nishiogikubo in Tokyo (which is apparently two minutes on foot from the North Exit of Nishiogikubo Station) from exactly ten years ago to the day.

It is a LP release courtesy of the always wonderful An'archives ... they even have a recent LSD March LP that is still for sale but I'd be quick if I were you.

妄想の楽園

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Various - Wohlstand

Subtitled as a "German-Japanese Noise Compilation", the Teutons are up against Ufo Or Die, Ground Zero, Melt Banana, Merzbow, Omoide Hatoba, Zeni Geva, Ruins, Violent Onsen Geisha, Space Streakings and Null. It's not a fair fight.

CD released on Human Wrechords in 1994.

TKO

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Yuji Katsui, Hiroshi Higo, Yoshihide Otomo - Visions Of Japan / Sounds Of Tokyo

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London held the exhibition Visions of Japan as part of the Japan-UK Festival in 1991. The second room of the exhibition, (awkwardly) called Chaos was meant to represent contemporary Japan. The field recording / sound art on here was commissioned by the architect Osamu Ishiyama, who designed that particular installation, for use within that space.

Courtesy of Our Touch Records in 1991.

sound and vision

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Various - 1974 Hobo's Concerts I "見えないボールを投げる"

The Hobo's Concerts series are selected recordings from Theatre Green in Ikebukuro, Tokyo captured between January the 7th and December the 22nd, 1974. This was originally released as a seven LP boxset on Bellwood Records in 1976. Vanishingly rare and I can't imagine how much it would cost just to look at it.

Luckily for the curious, Super Fuji Discs released a series of seven CDs in 2007 that brought it back together. It will be somebody's cup of tea.

one hobo chang ba

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Toshiharu Ohsato - Improvisation Dedicated To Aquirax Aida

Ohsato was the bass player for Gaseneta, a legendarily volatile band of simultaneously proto- and post-punk nihilists whose raging excess lasted for just 3 years in the late 1970s before their inevitable implosion. Gaseneta foreshadowed no wave, Musica Transonic, Harry Pussy and more in a brilliant flash that was destined to self-destruct quickly. Once it did, Ohsato was disillusioned about music, something he had mixed feelings about since the start. He played in Taco for a bit, taught college art and film classes in Yokohama, wrote an astounding and brutal memoir "Gaseneta Wasteland" about his tumultuous years playing in Gaseneta (recently translated into English and published by Public Bath Press) then died in 2009. This album is one of very few documents of his sporadic post-Gaseneta music. It was released as a CD in 2018 by Company Sha.

aquirax

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LSD March - Shindara Jigoku

 

Considered by many to be LSD March's best, this 2004 LP features Michishita and Takahashi with the amazing guitarist Masami Kawaguchi of Miminokoto and Broomdusters fame. Released only on vinyl by Siwa.

jigoku

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LSD March - Nikutai No Tubomi

 

Double-disc album from 2007, released by Beta-Lactam Ring.

nikutai

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LSD March - Empty Rubious Red

 

2005 album of post-PSF psychedelic rock from the Himeji-based group led by singer/guitarist Shinsuke Michishita and a rotating crew of players. This album is just a duo with legendary drummer Ikuro Takahashi. First released in Japan as a CD on Michshita's own White Elephant label, then reissued in the US on both vinyl and CD by Tequila Sunrise and aRCHIVE. 

rubious

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Various - Two Rabbits On A Rocket

When is a duck not a duck ...

CDr released on Hospital Productions in 2003.

stars shining bright above you

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Boris - 見殺し塔からずっと

Sonic distractions for darker days. Heavier that a black hole. If you haven't seen them live then make an effort whilst they are still here. Recorded live at The Shimokitazawa Shelter on their Black Summer Tour in 2003.

DVD released on Diwphalanx Records in 2003.

anata o aishiteimasu

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