Obscurities of Japanese noise

[bogskaggmannen]

What about Reiko A's solo recordings?

[Tommy Carlsson]

What about Reiko A's solo recordings?

The only one I have is the 1995 Coruscanto tape. While the a-side's collaboration tracks with merzbow and Achim Wollscheid make for some good psychedelic noise, the b-side is defnitely my favourite. It's a more sparse piece with one hypnotic and menacing four second loop that carries the piece all the way through as the main ingredient. Being a well conceived loop, it really works all the way. Great tape -- not much more to add.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Perhaps not real obscurity, since it's collaboration between the "superstars" of Japanese noise, Masami Akita (Merzbow) and Maso Yamazaki (Masonna) with Zev Asher (Roughage).. and that it was 1000 copies CD on american label, but FLYING TESTICLE! I remember when I got the tape copy of this, and it was one of the influences in the very earliest Grunt CD "Perfect World" which luckily tends to be forgotten... You can perhaps sense partly same atmosphere of mixing noise, goofy random sounds, stupid vocals but also occasional industrial-noise elements.
Flying Testicle is far from the harsh noise works of their solos. This plays with progressive rock tape loops, death metal riff cut-ups, retarded Masonna vocals howls. Tapes and toys of Roughage. Vintage casio tones of Masonna. Wild noise bursts of Merzbow. There are some moments when you think these guys should be able to do better. But then suddenly it becomes the experimental über noise, which is not only great, but most of all unlike anyone else. Collaboration project what simply makes sense. Not being just layering Masonna over Merzbow type of deal, but really delivering unique work. I waited about 15-17 years to get this. And it is exactly as I remembered. Used to listen it so many times back then.

[blackoperations]

yeah, that flying testicle album is great. must listen to that again soon.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

mr. Seed Mouth died couple days ago. I saw his last live set and man was already withered by disease. Unfortunately show had technical troubles and very short. Band was very different from most of later days Japanese noise bands. Creating stuff since 70's, under Seed Mouth name since 1981, his works probably have too much influences of german electronics, ambient etc to qualify noise, but also have noisier works. Only CD came back in 1996. Rest is tape/cdr.
He was also Zyklon B Zombies member (release on Vanilla and Seedmouth label)

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Went through two Deisel Guitars tapes today. Still today fucking brilliant stuff. Materialism Rock = gold.  Atom tape, their 2nd tape and 1st release of Good Microphone Records, I wonder is my copy fucked up, or should it be this dysfunctional sounding? Like utmost rough tape manipulation, making it sound as if in dubbing every rotation nearly jams... B-side is the solo stuff, which already reminds of what this transformed into, when it became solo and changed name to Diesel Guitar.

But that project did pretty well established releases, Vanilla, GROSS, etc.. but what the hell is this:
666th Impact -tape
It has a lot of text in japanese, manga images in xerox, and some cards included related to anime series... hmm. Very much pop culture themed, but the C-30 tape is filled with decent noise, but just for side A. Typicality of Japanese noise of the time (I can only assume this dates to mid 90's?? No recollection who and when it was given - but long ago!). The crispy pedal distortion is on the top, but plenty of racket goes underneath. One can't fully decide if this chaos has anything to do with industrial collisions or merely pachinko & anime bombardment.

While noticing alarming amount of double copies of some noise tapes, japnoise and even MSNP items, was thinking should I go through everything and organize it better. Found things like Miura Tadayuki "guilted" tape. All I know this person did CDr for Xerxes at some point and in 90's submitted tracks to Crack Fierce's labels (united syndicate)  New Catastrophic Forces tape set.... uuh! It seems like there is need to dig up some of these japanese noise obscurities. Who knows what pearls are hidden...

[Jaakko V.]

Shoni-Byoto from Osaka? Besides appearances on Sexorama and some other compilations, Discogs lists three tapes in total and nothing else.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/555618-Shoni-Byoto

Any further info..?

[Euro Trash Bazooka]

Tonight was a Deadly Verity night over here.

[a_2_g_2]

Nice to see gasolineman brought up, all I've heard has the split with Prurient. I'd really like to hear the split with Facialmess. he also did "vs" with Robochanman. Would he be considered obscure? he did some stuff with MSBR and "Strugglediver was part of the Ground Fault series its sad he hasn't had any bigger releases. I think Strugglediver is some classic style japanoise and I'd really love to hear what else he could do.

On another note, kengo Iuchi, although is classified as "Noise-folk" is as obscure as it gets. He did a collaboration album with MSBR, but not too much information is known.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/441444-Kengo-Iuchi
His cassettes usually go for $100+ on discogs, but you could find some rips online. Really dark stuff imo

[Andrew McIntosh]

Seems to be a few examples on YouTube. I suppose the most obvious comparison would be Jandek.

[CMSFoundation]

I don't hear much about this guy anymore, but I still really enjoy the work of Mono, the "computer noise" guy with the numbered releases (T-09, T-10, T-11, etc.). Two discs came out on Tochnit Aleph, one on Solipsism. Probably some self-released earlier works. Maybe not the harshest sound in the world, but really great, visceral sound for computer processing, strange sense of architecture and balance that keeps me on my toes. Kind of reminds of me the digital equivalent of something like tac, where a simple or single sound is punched and crinkled and worked and reworked until it's been wrung out of all possibilities.

[ONE]

Hard to define what obscure means in a genre as willfully obscure as Jap noise... Though I've tremendous respect for the TABATA - Children Of Woods 7"

http://www.discogs.com/Tabata-Children-Of-Woods/release/739546

Always considered Fourth Dimension a most stringent label.

Incredibly - one can alien to this on soundcloud:

https://m.soundcloud.com/tabata-mitsuru/children-of-woods

[ONE]

Sure, you can alien to this; listening is also possible.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Some tapes like Cry Havoc, d/l, Maru-X, R.D.P.,.. from 90's. Should play to report..

Cry Havoc "Live #1" tape
Nitella Kraft
Very little information of this. I must have gotten tape 15 years ago, so despite I have vague recollection of being in touch with Nitella Kraft label, there is almost nothing I remember now. This tape is two live recordings. One from 2000 and other from 1996. Recording from 2000 sounds almost like many live recordings do these days. Slightly flat, little bit too hard to high frequencies, yet clear. Harsh noise what moves in constant stream, yet fails to really make much impact. 1996 recording has much more depth and "warmness" to it. Also soundwise very different. Occasionally its almost like distorted keyboard tones rather than storm of harsh noise. Occasionally makes me think of some 90's Sshe Retina Stimulants stuff, just simpler and more leaning towards noise.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

V/A "TINCTURE OF JAPANOISE" CD
professionally pressed 2014 compilation I haven't heard mentioned pretty much anywhere? Cover artwork my Government Alpha, but pretty much everything else is quite new/odd/unknown.
But perhaps also for reason. This compilation is dominated by bands from pretty much exact opposite of my liking. One description is thrown here that bands freshly celebrate the bliss of noise rather than belong to old school of noise pessimism. Well. Add glitch, computer edits, funny samples,.. well...   Absolutely best track here is by EMEME, who manages to sound quite close like modern version of FLYING TESTICLE. JAH EXCRETION comes as second, with decent noise piece. Otherwise, it is quite task for me to go though this fresh noise digitalia.

Went through two Deisel Guitars tapes today. Still today fucking brilliant stuff. Materialism Rock = gold.  Atom tape, their 2nd tape and 1st release of Good Microphone Records, I wonder is my copy fucked up, or should it be this dysfunctional sounding? Like utmost rough tape manipulation, making it sound as if in dubbing every rotation nearly jams... B-side is the solo stuff, which already reminds of what this transformed into, when it became solo and changed name to Diesel Guitar.

Fuck, I'm glad I didn't miss new DIESEL GUITAR tape! "Inspect Our Savings" C-20 on quite small profile (?) label VLZ Produkt. Happened to see this on well curated distro of Tordon Ljud. One could say this actually goes much closer to what guitar noise duo used to be. First side hardly ever goes to drone mode, being rather fierce and active guitar noise. On b-side it still rips and shreds, yet some tones of classic Diesel Guitar eerie reverb drenched tones start to emerge. Label has not yet sold out 77 copies edition (at least according to their site). Discogs doesn't even have this listed, so I advice to check TJ distrolist or label before it disappears. Recording dates back to 2012 and I recall seeing it would be at this moment last DG recording that exists...? Too bad. Very few do guitar noise so suitable to my tastes as this project!

https://soundcloud.com/vlz-produkt/diesel-guitar-you-excerpt-from