John Wiese & MSBR - Tacks

Split mini-CDr, released by Gameboy.

John Wiese & MSBR - Tacks

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Hair Stylistics - First

Don't know about you but I'm not worthy.

A CD released in Japan on the great Black Smoker Records in 2011 in a comparatively extravagant edition of three hundred.

Foremost

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Jack or Jive - Prayer

The first proper album after a self-released cassette by Japanese goth-ambient duo Jack or Jive. Released as a CD by Dradomel in 1991.

Jack or Jive - Prayer

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EP-4 - Lingua Franca-X

... and then, just because they can, they sprinkle a load of Sugar Hill all over the place.

12" released on Atelier Peyotl in 1084.

x marks the spot

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Jack or Jive - Mujyo

Released as a CD by Dradomel in 1992, more floaty gothy ambient lullaby music from Japan.

Jack or Jive - Mujyo

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EP-4 - Multilevel Holarchy

EP-4 were Kaoru Sato, Ko Sakuma, Tatsuo Kohki, Tohru Sanjo, Yuji Kawashima and Yung Tsubotaj.

They were briefly creating magic between 1983 and 1985 and apparently decided that changing the face of music wasn't interesting enough and they had better things to do. There was a brief reunion about ten years ago ... but really there should be statues of these people everywhere.

This is such an awesome recording and is vaguely indescribable. Post-punk low slung PIL, The Pop Group, Talking Heads when they were actually good, LA Barrio funk, A Certain Ratio and shit that won't be invented for another 30 years all brought together? Erm. Yes.

This was released originally on as an LP in Japan on Telegraph and Skating Pears in 1985. If ANYBODY out there is sitting on some Skating Pears releases then please please please etc etc etc.

This is the incredibly welcome CD reissue courtesy of Super Fuji Discs from 2010.

Multilevel Holarchy

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Jack or Jive - Kagura Live In Kyoto

Live recording of Cocteau-Twins-influenced ethereal ambience, released by Dragnet Records in 1994.

Jack or Jive - Kagura Live In Kyoto

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Jack or Jive - Expatriation

Self-published debut cassette by the ambient Japanese noise-pop duo. Never reissued, to my knowledge.

Jack or Jive - Expatriation

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Hair Stylistics - The Dangerous Barbarian

So, in the final installment of today's "I hope your weekend works out to be not as bad as you were expecting" ... here is some more stone cold idiosyncratic genius.

Another CDr released on Boid in 2010.

The Dangerous Barbarian

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Wolf Eyes / Spykes - Cack Morology One

So in answer to the unasked question "I wonder if there was a Cack Morology One?".

The Wolf Eyes side is fucked up genius and I have been in such altered states where this would qualify as dance music ... but that just tells you things about me that you are not in the least bit interested in. Then you get 30 minutes of Spykes ... erm, you decide.

Sixty minutes of "Wolf Eyes self-released" tape from 2019 ... and there were still only 18 of these as well.

Cack Morology

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Hair Stylistics - The Beautiful Sensation

... and this starts off with Masaya Nakahara chopping and looping the parts of Sweet Leaf that even my cats know off by heart ... and then gets better.

CDr released on Boid in 2010.

The Beautiful Sensation

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Wolf Eyes - Cack Morology Two

There seems to be a "post-AmTapes" line of communication that I am not fully plugged into yet ... this tastes of John Olson working his mojo and possibly using some Wolf Eyes material as a base. I can't be sure but I am sure that this is brilliant.

A "Wolf Eyes self-released" C60 from 2019 that peeked out in an edition of 18 (yes, eighteen).

Cack Morology

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Jack or Jive - (Dura)² Du

We may lose some readers here, but who cares. Jack or Jive were sort of in their own non-scene, not quite "noise" enough or "pop" enough, but they straddled that line sometimes. They also had a certain witchypoo "ethereal" shoegazer post-Cocteau Twins/Projekt Records quality that either is something you crave or is an instant turn-off. They did a neat collaboration with Christoph Heemann once, called Seclusion, but otherwise they seem to have kept to themselves. 

Jack or Jive - (Dura)² Du

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Choi Joonyong, Joe Foster, & Hong Chulki - 4387 Sec.

Busted electronics, open circuits, turntables, wrecked CDs and players from his trio of South Korea's finest. Recorded in 2004, released as a CDR on Balloon & Needle in 2005. 

Choi Joonyong, Joe Foster, & Hong Chulki - 4387 Sec.

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Rorschach - Autopsy

And in a word from our sponsors ... work has got in the way of important stuff recently so with some breathing room I was planning to plan stuff and then I was playing the Remains Sedate LP and thought "Oh Hello!" (works better in a Kenneth Williams voice to be honest).

So here is this ... a compilation that brings together the first two albums and a crop of single releases that includes a King Crimson cover that would sit snugly in between Electric Funeral and Hand Of Doom fifty years ago and a stunning cover of Black Flag's "My War".

It is way way way beyond genius but to be honest that is exactly what you would expect from one of the most important nameyourowncore bands that has graced our presence.

A CD released on Gern Blandsten in 1995 (a label that was run by Charles Maggio who is the person throwing his lungs at you on this very release).

it's in flac. if you have a problem with that then tell your therapist because i genuinely don't give a shit if it doesn't work out for you on a personal level

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Choi Joonyong - White Disc Ver.2

There is nothing (necessarily) wrong with your CD player. Broken discs and players skipping and clipping, sounding like a series of potentially-damaging technical mistakes. Released as a CDR by Balloon & Needle in 2006. 

Choi Joonyong - White Disc Ver.2

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Choi Joonyong - I Am Scratching a CD in a Room

Along with Hong Chulki, Choi Joonyong was a member of Astronoise and Puredigitalsilence and is one of the founders of the Balloon & Needle label. He specializes in misused technology, like feedback run through mp3 players and broken CDs and CD players. This uncomfortable 2010 mini-album is made from skipping and broken CDs. It was released by a no-longer-active Spanish label called Reduktive.

Choi Joonyong - I Am Scratching a CD in a Room

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Jessica Rylan / Can't - Terror Tapes 10

So ... there are many many things that me and Mrs Inside agree on.

There are four pertinent elements here: Jessica Rylan; Can't; David Payne; David Payne's beautifully prosyletising Middle James Co label extravaganza.

Personally, it was "why thank you Mr Payne, i will buy all of your wares today". Sometimes you are just lucky enough to be paying attention at the right time.

Buy anything on MJC. Then rip it. Then post it.

This is a C60 from 2006 and there were 27 copies. Here's a rip of one of those copies.

Terror Tapes 10

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Jin Sangtae - Extensity of Hard Disk Drive

Weird thumps, shrieking feedback, roiling noise explosions and awkward tones somehow all coerced from wrecked and damaged hard drives by Jin Sangtae. Not an easy album, but a great one. Released as a CD in 2008 by Balloon & Needle. Warning: you might not want to listen to this one on headphones.

Jin Sangtae - Extensity of Hard Disk Drive

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Jessica Rylan - Private Time

"One thing I really like about going to visit my grandmother Marilyn is the way she hums to herself, especially in the morning. Sometimes she listens to records and hums along, other times she just sings her own tune. Last year I saw a video Lydia Eccles made where she was playing the piano and humming under her breath, kind of like Glenn Gould. It was extremely personal, and it had a really powerful effect on me. The Private Time cassette is 30 minutes long, and it focuses on that kind of personal singing: no words and no set melodies. I recorded all the songs either when I was by myself or late at night when everyone else was sleeping."

C30 released on IRFP in 2004.

Private Time

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