The followers of this blog should be familar with Terminus,a band born in 1983 and active till 2001.I have,in fact, posted many of their tapes. I have been in touch with Mark (the singer-guitarist) for a few years now and he kindly passed to me some rare stuff both by Terminus and by other old artists,one of them being the fantastic Daz Lloyd.
I just want remind you all to visit their excellent webpage where you can read about their history, discography, gigs, friends and much more.Funny enough this tape is not listed in their webpage.It is, yet, a great tool documenting the energy and the passion coming out from their live shows.
A big Thanks to Mark for passing to me this great tape. Enjoy it.
8 tracks of fast and furious HC Punk in this cool 7inch by the Torinesi
Confusione! Nicely packed contains the lyrics translated into English,
each of them with a rather original drawing. It is a fine production, effort of many DIY labels. Super cool...
Very good magazine covering the Italian and International underground
music scene!! In this very first issue lots of interesting interviews
and tons of music reviews. Here I am attaching the table of contents.
A fantastic effort of the independent underground press. Enjoy it if you are Italian literate.
Formed in 1990, ‘Gentle Veincut’ has played a hundreds of live-shows all over Europe and has released a handful ofrecords.The music is loud and can be described as NoiseRock/PostPunk with a
slight NoWave influence. Some fanzines draw comparison to bands like
‘The Jesus Lizard’, ‘Shellac’ and ‘Sonic Youth’, but nevertheless it has
its own style. click me
Super trio playing prog-tech experimental fast music with many times changes and incredible new dimensions mixing jazzcore with prog-rock passages.I have, already written about the fantastic band called Ruins when I posted their old tape The Best Of Ruins, and I have also written about their super skilled drummer Tatsuya Yoshida. In this cd they are jojned by
Ron Anderson, a multi-instrumentalist intuitive music
maker who plays traditional instruments like the electric guitar but
also will use anything that can make a sound - including the recording
studio. He has nearly 60 recordings released.
He has his own Record Label "RA Sounds":
ronanderson-molecules.com, Bandcamp
Tatsuya Yoshida (b. Jan 9, 1961) is a prominent Japanese
avant-garde/jazz/experimental drummer, composer, producer & sound
engineer, one of key figures on Japan's underground scene. Founder of
the innovative rhythm section duo Ruins (plus a few Ruins-related projects), zeuhl band Koenjihyakkei, prog/fusion/polyrhythmic jazz trio Korekyojinn, acapella vocal group Zubi Zuva/Zubi Zuva X, etc. Runs Magaibutsu label and the eponymous studio.
Since the early eighties, Yoshida had played and collaborated with many critically praised Japanese bands, such as Zeni Geva, High Rise (2), YBO², Musica Transonic, Vasilisk, Dissecting Table, various Acid Mothers Temple units, ZOA, and Aburadako.
Nicknamed "devil from the East," Tatsuya Yoshida is an extremely
prolific and technically skilled drummer, praised for his vicious raw
energy and the ability to play superhumanly fast while keeping even the
most complex rhythmic structures sharp and pristine.
The drummer has worked with the entire avant-garde 'hall of fame' of the last four decades, from Fred Frith and Derek Bailey to Keiji Haino and Otomo Yoshihide. John Zorn,
who praised Tatsuya as an "undisputed master drummer of the Japanese
underground," invited him to play in the seminal jazz/grindcore unit PainKiller (2) on several occasions after Mick Harris' departure, and had a huge impact on Yoshida's recognition overseas.
Tatsuya was a long-time collaborator of a controversial noise artist Juntaro Yamanouchi. He participated in one of The Gerogerigegege's very few documented early 'secret shows' (which were happening at fetish/S&M gay clubs), released on '91 Live Greatest Hits
CD. In January of 1987 at a private Hanzōmon residence in Tokyo,
Yoshida (equipped with vibrator, whip & enema) joined J.Y. on toy
instruments to create a rather sparse accompaniment for Gero 36
who screamed and moaned in pleasure and pain while masturbating and
self-pleasuring/torturing in every unimaginable way. According to the 'Live History (1986~1990)' list in the booklet, it was the Gerogerigegege's third-ever concert: just a couple months after Nov '86 'maiden voyage' at WASEDA University Auditorium and the same week the band played at Antiknock in Shinjuku. Tatsuya Yoshida also played drums and announced tracks on '94 thrash/1-2-3-4 noisecoreInstruments Disorder (170 Songs CD)—perhaps
the loudest and harshest Gerogerigegege's albums to date. Finally,
Yoshida mastered several of the band's albums, including an hour-long
minimal ambient/drone None Friendly '99 CD, and their last official release prior to 2001–16 hiatus, Saturdaynight Big Cock Salaryman CD EP. official webpge: magaibutsu.com Pandemonium Records was a French noise-rock label from Marseille, launched in the 1990's by Philippe Petit. (all the info from Discogs)click me
Snobb Slakt was an hardcore punk band from Helsingborg, Sweden,active in the early 80s.This 7inch was issued in a fold-out sleeve with lyrics and band-pics printed inside.Recorded May 6th 1984.Enjoy it.
Old c60 cassette by this Italian project formed by artists already
covered in this blog with a few amazing projects. In this tape, Lunus
appears as a collaboration between Luigi Russolo , Stefano Barban and Devis G.! 3 long tracks on each side of excellent esoteric electronicks.
Soffitta Macabra is a label founded by Marco Deplano [aka Wertham] and focuses on artists of the dark ambient and industrial scene. Enjoy it.
Masterpiece Full lenght Album by this amazing band from Japan,I have already, posted their 7ich 髑髏 [Skull] released in 2008 by the same label. Their unique style of heavy deranged HC Punk will make happy all the lovers of certain powerful music. Only 700 copies were printed back in 2010,it is ,very possibly, already hard to get.
解剖室 Kaiboushitsu - Translates as "autopsy suite": Featuring members of Crow / Death Comes Along / Grave New World /
Last Bomb. Japanese punk band named after The Stalin song, heavily
influenced by The Stalin and ADK Records bands such as Kikeiji or
Masturbation. Their 2010 album "邪" (Yokoshima) is said to be an homage
to The Stalin's classic "虫" (Mushi) album.
To enrich this post I have included a video of a live show @Earthdome on 15 June 2014 in Tokyo. Big thanks to Gianluca for lending me this fantastic piece of vinyl,I left these tracks as waves. Enjoy it!
With a radiography film as the cover page, this zine has a very good
ready-made artwork to start with. It contains personal thoughts and
feelings by Patrick, a man from Dorchester, Boston in Massachusetts (USA)!
Quite
a lot of introspection and self-analysis here, very deep emotions
crashing with the reality of the outside world or the world created by
outsiders. Inside 20 pages this collection of writings somehow touches the soul and
the mind. Just amazing...! Enjoy it.
