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A-Musik - Live at Muon '82
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Nikudan - Nikudan
I spent quite a while surgically removing some big pops and crackles from this ... given the age and the format, it sounds great!
7" flexi disc courtesy of Lucky Strike Records in 1983.
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Nikudan / Gas - Hunter Diary / Spirit World
Gas sometimes steer too close to the metal edge for my liking but just about pull it off with some decent hardcore post-punkery. Human Bullet are obviously great.
8" EP released on Jisatsu Rēberu in 1984.
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A-Musik - E Ku Iroju
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Nikudan - Nikudan
Let's face it, you would probably download this on the basis of the cover alone ... but ... your entry point is early Pere Ubu, Dead Kennedys cowpunk and a Buttholes bass bounce. As usual, there seems to be little recorded evidence of their existence with only a tiny handful of releases from 1983-4.
CD retrospective released on いぬん堂 [Inundow] in 2002.
In the spirit of dreaming the impossible dream, the label simultaneously released a CD of live recordings ... never seen it but hearing it would be good!
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Kokushoku Elegy - Esoderic Mania
The guitar of Ichiro Shitakiri, bass of Koichi (who were both in Nikudan) and the drums of Yasuyuki would normally be good enough. But, when you add in the voice of Kyoko? Seriously, you are in a different league! Exemplary post-punk band that appear to have existed between 86 and 89 and only released three 12"s ... the supercharged Banshees influence is obvious but it's so much more than that. This collects together all of their vinyl with some compilation tracks. It's a very good and rare thing.
CD released on SSE Communications in 1993.
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Children Coup d'Etat - Masochistic Instruments
I seriously thought that I would never get to hear this. Then, an anonymous genius dropped this into the comments of a recent post. Mind = Blown.
So just in case you missed it, here's this magnificent CD released on Bloody Butterfly in 1991.
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Gaseneta - Gaseneta
Another unearthed gem. Recorded live at Meiji University, Tokyo in the Spring of 1978.
7" released on Super Fuji Discs in 2017.
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Toshiharu Ohsato - Takaranetanchototakaine
Toshiharu Ohsato is one of the people behind Gaseneta and Taco and that entire orbit of what? This only tells half of the tale ... the list of collaborators on here is ridiculously impressive but I don't have the time to explain. It took me days to tag this so you either trust me or you are here by accident.
A massively impressive and unexpected five CD retrospective released on Super Fuji Discs in 2011. There is a one hour DVD that came with this set but I don't have that ... sorry.
タカラネタンチョトタカイネ
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Cassiber with Shinoda Masami - Live In Tokyo
The first disc is the titular outfit recorded live at R's Art Court in Tokyo on October the 23rd, 1992.
The second disc is the event reworked and remixed by the full force of Ground Zero.
This has so many unpredictably poignant intercepting timelines that it beggars belief. Cassiber were an excellent German avant-garde improv/jazz/rock/skronk band and this is the first time that toured in Japan ... and they called it a day very soon after this recording and ceased operations. Here, they are joined by Masami Shinoda. Within a few months of the recording, he unexpectedly died. This also the final time that Ground Zero recorded anything before dissolving and going their separate ways. You couldn't make it up. Monumental in so many ways.
Double CD originally released on Off Note in 1997.
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Cinorama - Garden, The Garden
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Kyoko Kuroda / Masami Shinoda - Duo
In his time, Masami Shinoda was a master sax-blaster with the likes of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Ché-SHIZU and A-Musik. He's here on alto and tenor with Kyoko Kuroda drawing sounds out of keyboards and piano that defy belief ... and it's all recorded live on the 30th of August, 1988 at Manda-La2 in Kichijoji, Tokyo.
C80 released on Omba Records in 1988.
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Cinorama - Three Lies and a Ding-a-Ling at 5 O'Clock
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Masami Shinoda - Tokyo Chin Don Vol.1
Chindon'ya are effectively Japanese marching bands that were elaborately dressed troupes playing traditional instruments that were designed as the bearer of that modern curse: advertising! Now much more rare to see on the streets and viewed through nostalgic eyes. Masami Shinoda's goal was to document the music whilst it was still around. One disc is recorded in the studio and one is recorded on the streets and it's much better than I've made it sound.
Double CD released on Puff Up in 1992.
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Satoshi Sonoda - Early Works Of Satoshi Sonoda 1977→1978 Memories Of Yasushi Ozawa
Key figures within the Japanese underground aggregating as Free Music Space, Free Music Revolt and ANARkiSS and not really appearing anywhere else but here.
CD released on P.S.F. Records in 2009.
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Satoshi Sonoda - Mimi-Nuki: Secondary Works Of Satoshi Sonoda 1982-1989
Secondary in a sequential sense rather than inferior. Satoshi Sonoda slipped past the occidental world ... until ...
Collaborators include Tori Kudo, Masami Akita, Takuya Nishimura, Shinya Kimura, Otomo Yoshihide and many others (including the influence of Sten Hanson). Magical gear!
CD released on P.S.F. Records in 2012.
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Mainliner - Live In Tokyo 2014
Recorded live at UFO Club Tokyo on the 6th of February, 2014. Yes, it's properly recorded but damn the latest line-up nailed every single note ...
CD released on Acid Mothers Temple in 2018.
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Mainliner - Live In New York 97
Recorded live at the Knitting Factory in March 1997. God knows what recording device was used to bootleg this BUT there are parts where the applause is louder than Mainliner even when Mainliner are still playing!!! File it under "Asahito Nanjo ... WTF are you thinking? ... oh yeah, kerching." Even so, it has some fine parts.
CDr on La Musica Records from probably 1998.
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Mainliner - Live In London Twenty Thirteen
It's always a joy to know that the Mainliner juggernaut keeps on (steam)rolling. This is Makoto Kawabata on guitar, Taigen Kawabe on bass and the utterly legendary Shimura Koji on drums.
"Recorded live at Corsica Studios, London September 2013. Mixed and mastered from three different source recordings inc soundboard."
C64 released on Swap Meat in 2014 (and that is a cassette subdivision of the splendidly egalitarian Riot Season).
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