(Japanese JewelCase Edition with Japanese Obi sleeve)
The return of the “21st Century Hard-y-Guide-y Man”! “With its crank handle mechanism and drone strings out-numbering melody strings, the hurdy-gurdy is the Ur-industrial instrument par excellence, a connection Keiji Haino makes abundantly clear on the opening track of Koitsukara Usetaitameno Hakarigoto, the third album he has made under [...]
‘Epilogue In Waves’ is the third album from N5MD main-man Mike Cadoo’s ever evolving Bitcrush moniker. The album is the soundtrack to a story which begins with a sense of hope, but whose undercurrents pull you to the end you feared. ‘Epilogue In Waves’ marks the end of Cadoo’s “wading in the ocean” thematic metaphor [...]
(Japanese Paper-Sleeve Digipack Edition with Japanese Obi sleeve)
Volume 2 in the ongoing Japanese Avant-Garde Cassette Reissue Series. The 80s and early 90s saw a great deal of fascinating material released on cassette in the Tokyo underground. While some of the more noise-orientated stuff enjoyed a modicum of international distribution, the avant-garde material generally did not. [...]