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V/A From here to everywhere – Veltz Produkts

With Hofl, Hakobune, Minoru Sato, Fuguli, Takamitsu Ohta…

6 tracks from various landscapes, imaginary or realistic.

$16

Wataru Kasahara CDR “PIANO SOLO 2009” Veltz Produkts

Originally released on CDR by Erinyes Record in 2009

Recorded on a cassette tape recorder, this document, coupled with its muffled texture, blurs the sense of the times. This reminds us of Asuhara, who faces alone with a decaying piano left in the sun-drenched courtyard of an abandoned house.

$16

Kairai-Bunch CD [INDUSTREALISM] Veltz Produkts

After working with “Space Streakings,” the early version of “KAIRAI-BUNCH,” which was formed as a robot battle performance group, and RAICHU, a unit he formed with Chu Ishikawa, Ikuo Shimizu continues to work solo under the name “KAIRAI-BUNCH,” and has now completed his first collection of sound sources. Created through the use of a number of self-made instruments, which could also be considered musical weapons, the mechanical sounds they emit when flickering, rotating at high speed, 

and being driven, are amplified and MIDI-controlled to form a sound that we must define as industrial techno music in the absolute truest sense. These vividly recorded tracks, meticulously composed and complemented with abundant photographs of the equipment, are a document that speaks of the continuing present progression of “industrealism”.

$16

Yakouchu CD “Yakouchu” Veltz VLZ Produkt

Back in stock, released in 2015

First CD with this band that appeared on PSF Tokyo Flashback 6 in 2007 and toured since with Overhang Party, Keiko Higuchi. Centered around female singer Madoka (who sometimes has a low voice à la Maki Asakawa) and Louis Image guitar + drums and organ, music is rooted in psychedelism with a light touch of Quicksilver Messenger Service influence, or like White Heaven with dreamy mid tempos. For psychedelic life, psychedelic people, a new name to discover !

$18

Toshi Ichiyanagi 2CD The beginning of Japanese electroacoustic – Sound 3

Okay that’s a bit pricey but it’s once again one the most interesting archival release on this incredible label. Tracks have “Parallel music”, the fantastic “Tokyo 1969” (the complete and long version) and “Music for living space”. Just essential if you are in the early years of NHK.

$36

Mark Glynne & Bart Zwier ‘Home Comfort’ – La Scie Dorée

“Very pleased and grateful to announce this ‘Home Comfort’ reissue by Mark Glynne and Bart Zwier, originally self-released in 1980.
Maybe a bit of an unexpected title to appear in the LSD catalog but my love for this album goes back to my late teenage years and has had an addictive effect since, like a spleen infused magnet.
With this album Glynne and Zwier, based in the Netherlands and connected to the Ultra scene, drew an insular blend of intimate post-punk and chamber (bedroom) songs with surreal scenic reflections. Probably its naked singularity defying categorization has left it so unnoticed, even 43 years after the making.
It also features a reciting Marlène Dumas still quite unknown at the time. With biggest gratitude to Mark Glynne who instantly felt confident with my proposal to reissue this silent witness of lasting beauty.

My long time Japanese friend You Ishihara (White Heaven, The Stars) who bought the LP when it came out in 1980 still considers it as one of his all-time favourites. This is what he writes about ‘Home Comfort’:
“Resignation and fear in a desolate mental landscape. This album, which exists like a shelter for those who have quietly escaped through the backdoor of the world, vividly reflects the inner depths of the devastated Amsterdam of the early 80’s. A beautiful and sad, unmistakable masterpiece.”

LP $25

Cuticles LP Major Works – Siltbreeze

Oamaru, located about 80 miles north of Dunedin on New Zealand’s south island, might seem like the last place you expect to find a prodigious racket like Cuticles, but ain’t that a kick? You just never know. Formed around the nucleus of Austen McMillian, Matthew Plunkett (ex Trendees) & Lisa Preston (Nux Vomica, The Portage) a couple years back, they’ve been stacking up the hits & on ‘Major Works’, it’s time to cash in. There’s 18 tracks here & Cuticles chew through’em w/abandon. Someone just yelled out from the tree next door, “Sounds like the Pastels! With guns!” One could make a case for the South Island Sound coursing through their veins (they do live there after all), for the sheer abandon-pop that gushes off these grooves, but to these ears is heard a mutant strain of Shoe This High meets The Swingers. But there are no wrong answers, just bathe in the Cuticles hyper-mesmerizing aural swirl.

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