Obscurities of Japanese noise

Started by FreakAnimalFinland, December 28, 2009, 05:51:26 PM

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duckworship

One of the more recent and obscure acts from Japan I can think of is Celluloid Murder. They did 2 separate tapes on Fusty Cunt and New Forces - "Dig Up" (released on Fusty) is longform harsh noise with a psychedelic and "autistic" bent to it. "Celluloid Murder's Magnificent Garden" (released on New Forces) is more close to avant-garde rock and sound collage, similar to Violent Onsen Geisha. Both are pretty good, but I never saw them being mentioned anywhere. Maybe because the humorous aspect of it turned a lot of people off considering the output of Fusty and New Forces? Hopefully someone releases another tape of them in the future!

Mikerdeath

K2 recent reissues are highlighting some good old material in the catalog.

Urashima, Narcolepsia and now me, haha. And I heard some friends are also re-issuing other material.

Also bandcamp here: https://k2music3.bandcamp.com/


thetenthousandthings

Quote from: Duncan on April 13, 2019, 01:24:18 AM
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on April 12, 2019, 03:26:44 PM
Probably have to make another Special Intererest podcast about japanoise rarities...

Do this please.

I'm sure everyone on this board would love to have this happen...!

Zeno Marx

Is Nobuo Yamada actually Richard Rupenus?  The couple of things I've heard are good...really good, but the level of homage is weird, like cult worship.  And I have a difficult time taking Artbreakhotel seriously.  There's just something about that name that triggers me even more than all the stupid noisecore that doesn't faze me.  This is a great listen:

https://lfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/14-coarse-grained-lf066
"the overindulgent machines were their children"
I only buy vinyl, d00ds.

Johann

Quote from: Zeno Marx on July 06, 2020, 08:41:20 PM
Is Nobuo Yamada actually Richard Rupenus?  The couple of things I've heard are good...really good, but the level of homage is weird, like cult worship.  And I have a difficult time taking Artbreakhotel seriously.  There's just something about that name that triggers me even more than all the stupid noisecore that doesn't faze me.  This is a great listen:

https://lfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/14-coarse-grained-lf066

the vitrine tape ABH Dragged and the one on Regional Bears are both excellent as well

Baglady

Artbreakhotel/Yamada is great (and he's not Rupenus, I'm afraid). The CD on Tordon Ljud is excellent, as is the mentioned tape on Vitrine. Also, the Quasispecies Four LP is an overlooked gem, I think (Yamada, Mikawa, Shimada and Kou). The name Artbreakhotel is awful though, I agree.

cr

Just listened to the Love and Sincerity (?) track from SI podcast. Great! But I couldn't really understand the end of introduction, because the sound was already starting. So, where's this track from? (As far as I understood, not from Come again comp.)
Is there anything else they released? Not much information available from discogs.
Thanks!

FreakAnimalFinland

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zd313

Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on January 26, 2010, 11:10:56 PM
There is probably a lot of noise in Japan which didn't make it to very known. Probably similar to promo tapes Self Abuse may have received, I have several unreleased (as far as I know) or advance recordings sent to me in 90's. Projects like Taichi, what for example discogs only mentions in one compilation. Building of Gel and its side projects, which I think MDM was it? two guys of Building of Gel doing nice electronic noise.
Lots of other obscurities like Hentaitenno, Mad Recital, Atrocity Master, Sinner's Crime, Peeping Tom, Mamarracho, Aki-Mekura, Riku (sister of Diesel Guitar, great!!), Colloid, Comfort,........ pff. I guess should re-visit and comment some of them. Not all were something one should even remember, but some others most definitely would be worth of doing even "from shadows of japanese noise ug" historical observation comp, hah..

you have unreleased MDM/Building of Gel????

Eastern Embargo

What happened to Lust Vessel? Closed for good now?

FreakAnimalFinland

cement woman is so great name. Some stuff pulled out of old tape is used on DEDICATION 2 compilation. Really unique. This project is something that has been talked with friends for decades. It took until discogs was active to really discover who was behind the mysterious project.
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FreakAnimalFinland

Anyone know anything about project called NIVI IRO ?
Not even sure if this release is really Japanese and called that. All hints towards it. From 90's most likely. Sony C-10 tape that were barely available anywhere else but Japan. Typewriter text on labels say NIVI IRO I  and NIVI IRO RO. Packaged in paper envelope consisting some Japanese writing and in postcard size kind of photo-paper package. Holes burned into it. Pretty good field recordings/industrial noise waste sounds, short burst of more harsh stuff, but mostly just eerie and obscure sound.
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Strömkarlen

Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on February 18, 2021, 02:54:49 PM
Anyone know anything about project called NIVI IRO ?
Not even sure if this release is really Japanese and called that. All hints towards it. From 90's most likely. Sony C-10 tape that were barely available anywhere else but Japan. Typewriter text on labels say NIVI IRO I  and NIVI IRO RO. Packaged in paper envelope consisting some Japanese writing and in postcard size kind of photo-paper package. Holes burned into it. Pretty good field recordings/industrial noise waste sounds, short burst of more harsh stuff, but mostly just eerie and obscure sound.

Sounds like something that was made for me. Not a huge fan of C-10 but anyway I would love to hear it.

acsenger

While it might be argued that something released in the classic Good Alchemy series of Alchemy Records shouldn't be labelled obscure, I'd still say that the term suits the sole, self-titled solo release by a project called Jurajium. I recently picked up this CD, recorded and released in 1997, and it's fantastic. His only other release, from 1980, is a split LP with Hijokaidan and NG. On the CD Jurajium Hatta plays synths, keyboards, tapes and electronics, and Jojo Hiroshige plays electric guitar. He plays his usual guitar noise, of which I'm not a fan normally, but here it gels wonderfully with Hatta's synths and electronics. The music, while noise, is not too harsh, and there is always something interesting going on, including elements that are unusual in noise (such as the synth melody in the first track, or the manipulated drum machine sounds in the other two tracks). Jojo's guitar shredding is embedded in electronics in varied and exciting ways. I love the opening of the album too, which sounds like some kind of machine gone haywire. The artwork/design is of the usual high quality one expects from Alchemy's releases, courtesy of designer Masahiko Ohno. All in all, a great (but short: only 35 minutes long), varied and unusual noise album. It's a shame Hatta apparently never did anything else afterwards.