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C.C.C.C. LP Reflexive Universe – Urashima

Deluxe vinyl LP version. Limited edition to 199 copies ** C.C.C.C. (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center) is a legendary Japanese noise music collective that was founded in Tokyo in 1989. The group originally had four members – Mayuko Hino, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Fumio Kosakai, and Ryuichi Nagakubo – who are known for their unique approach to noise music, and quickly gained a reputation for their intense and chaotic live performances. The group’s sound is characterized by its use of high-volume, distorted noise, feedback, and electronics, as well as their incorporation of unconventional instruments and objects. Beyond their music, members of C.C.C.C. has also been involved in a variety of artistic endeavors, including film, performance and installation art.
C.C.C.C.’s “Reflexive Universe” cassette, released on the Japanese label Vanilla Records in 1991, is a must-have for fans of Japanese noise music. The cassette features one track intense and immersive noise, showcasing the group’s unique approach to sound and experimentation. The album is a 23-minute epic that builds from a fast, almost hypersonic opening to a wall of noise that seems to encompass the entire universe. Recorded live at Maya in Kobe on September 15th, 1991 only with two members performing – Mayuko Hino at electronics and voice  plus Hiroshi Hasegawa at synthesizer and electronics. The performance is a testament to the group’s innovative and boundary-pushing approach to sound, and a reminder of the enduring power of noise music as an art form, and Vanilla Records label has done an excellent job of capturing the raw and visceral sound of the group’s live performance.

$25

Angus Maclise 3CD box Tapes – Art Into life

Angus MacLise, the first drummer for the Velvet Underground, was a poet, composer, and a member of The Theatre of Eternal Music alongside La Monte Young.  The “Tapes” 3CD Box is the first-ever reissue of a 3-cassette compilation that Pleasure Editions originally released in 2015, limited to only 100 copies. The 3CD box set comes with a miniature poster and track lists, and each CD has a paper sleeve that reproduces the original cassette card artwork.

This comprehensive 3CD box set is over three hours in length and includes session recordings with Tony Conrad and William Breeze (of Coil, Current 93, and Psychic TV), mystical recordings from the filming of Ira Cohen’s “The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda” (1968), shortwave experiments, and sounds of Tibetan Buddhist monks recorded by MacLise.  The “Tapes” compilation features excerpts from the archives of the Angus MacLise Papers, which are held at Columbia University Library. The archives contain over 100 hours of reel-to-reel tape recordings of live improvised music, theatrical performances, and sound experiments created by MacLise and his associates during the 1960s and 1970s. MacLise produced the original recordings in his own unique style, characterized by rough and peculiar editing.  The release is curated and sequenced by Will Cameron and Mark Iosifescu.  Jim O’Rourke completed a new sound restoration and mastering of the recordings in 2023.

Special thanks to Hetty MacLise, Ossian MacLise, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Sheldon Rochlin, Ira Cohen, Rob Ward, Jim O’Rourke, Johan Kugelberg, Tim Barnes, Erica Barnes, Dia Art Foundation,and Robert Bielecki.  This official release is authorized by Dreamweapon New York, a project of the MacLise Family Estate. 

$42

Ultra Bide LP The Original Ultra Bide – P-Vine

A band tha tsounds like a traffic accident, a ferocious synthesizer, and BIDE’s nonsense lyrics. Collecting the sound sources of “Ultra Bide”, which was active as a central member of Kansai NO WAVE from 1978 to 1980, the album released from Alchemy Records in 1984 is finally remastered and reissued! Ultra Bide is a quartet consisting of JOJO Hiroshige, who later formed Hijokaidan, Taiqui, who became the drummer for Ain Soph, BIDE (HIDE), who is still active in Kyoto, and Koichiro, who was a member of MaherShalal Hashin the early days. The phenomenal sound that had already established avant-garde punk in 1978 was not only cutting-edge at the time, but also the ultimate originality that had a great influence on the underground scene such as punk, noise, and psychedelic. ! It is also known that Oshiri Pen Pens respects them as the most influenced band.

$35

S.O.B.Kaidan LP Noise, Violence And Destroy -P-Vine

Osaka’s representative SOB, who is said to have influenced Napalm Death, a big name in the grind world, collaborated with Hijokaidan, a noise violence group, for this work. Noise is echoing in the background, but it’s fast and cool, unprecedented high-speed guitar, high-speed drums, death voice vocals, and noise.
The unit “SOB Staircase” is a combination of the hardcore band “SOB”, which was active in the 1980s in Osaka, and Hijokaidan. Released on analog record in 1988, 3000 copies sold out immediately. Since then, it has been made into a CD three times, with a total of over 5,000 copies being pressed.

$35

Sekiri LP “Push push Baby – Love star” – P-Vine

赤痢 (Sekiri; literally “Dysentery”) is a Japanese female punk band (with Aya Onishi whol later joined the Nihilist Spasm Band), formed by four 13~14-year old pervy punk girls in Kyoto in 1983 and disbanded in 1995.

Reissue of this 1987 album, this one  incorporates elements from hardcore to pop tunes and even ethnic music.

$35

Sekiri 7′ single”Sekiri” – P-Vine

Released in 1985 from BEAT CRAZY RECORDS, the debut EP “Shigetsu” is a 7-inch EP with a special jacket just like the original, and a valuable lyric card is also attached!

One of the best girl punk bands formed in Kyoto in 1983. The lyrics of “Yumemiru Omanko” recorded in the first 7-inch EP “Dysentery” released in 1985 caused ripples and left a strong impact. Since then, he has continued to work as an independent artist without making major debuts, constantly releasing works. Until 1995, they were active mainly in the Kansai region, and of course they had a great influence on girl bands at that time and later.

$18

Mizutani / Les Rallizes Denudes CD – Tuff Beats

gatefold with obi and exclusive Disk Union 80mm badge

$38

Les Rallizes Denudes CD ’67-’69 Studio Et Live – Tuff Beats

gatefold with obi and exclusive Disk Union 80mm badge

$38

Les Rallizes Denudes 2CD ’77 live – Tuff Beats

gatefold with obi and exclusive Disk Union 80mm badge (over level)

$52

Suzuki Junzo & Tetuzi Akiyama LP Evaporation of Holy Water – Utech

Evaporation of Holy Water is Utech Records’ first release from the duo of Suzuki Junzo and Tetuzi Akiyama. The full-length album sees the guitarists in full attack mode, laying down sheets of noise and psychedelic guitar lines inside a wild tsunami of feedback and overdrive. Twin electric guitar insanity.

Recorded by Makoto Oshiro in Tokyo, April 25, 2019.
Mixed by Toshimaru Nakamura.
Mastered by Lasse Marhaug.

Neon Pink LP edition of 150.

Art and design by Stefan Thanneur

$34