Friction is one of the first Japanese punk bands formed by Reck, Chiko Hige, and Lapis in Tokyo in March 1978, and the band is still active. Reck and Chiko Hige had previously been on the NY no wav...
Reissue, originally released in 1990. Merzbow came roaring onto the Tokyo scene in 1979. To this day, the project remains one of the most prolific and aggressively forward-thinking acts in experime...
Reissue, originally released in 1996. Along with Merzbow, Incapacitants, and Hijokaidan, Masonna is one of the best (known) Japanese noise projects. A psychedelic touch, cascades of electronic nois...
First time reissue, originally released in 1986. Solmania is a Japanese noise music project founded in 1984 by Masahiko Ohno. The hallmark of this amazing artist, who builds his experimental electr...
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 Hasegaw...
Monde Bruits is a Japanese experimental noise project formed in the early 1990s, from the brainchild of Iwasaki Shōhei. The sound has been compared to other experimental noise acts of the time, su...
Third release in the "first time on vinyl" trilogy, following the quickly sold-out Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From Outer Space and Myth Of The Love Electrique. Here you have the band's classic 200...
50 years ago, Hokkaido-born singer-songwriter Morio Agata released his debut single, 'Sekishoku Ereji' (Red Elegy), an emotive, shuffling piano ballad that (shockingly) sold half a million copies i...
The long-awaited LP version of Toko Miura’s first original mini-album, which was selected as the vocalist of the hit animation movie “Weathering With You”
Keiichi Sokabe, Naotaro Moriyama, Santara...
A central member of Japanese freeform noise band Gunjogacrayon, Tadashi Kumihara released an album in 2007 titled Hyoi. What people didn’t know is that those same sessions produced another album, w...
We're very happy to make available an original pressing of Eiichi Ohtaki's First Album. (It has a pine cone logo that isn't in a box).
The LP itself has surface wear, but nothing serious. The slee...
Rokkets (no Sheena on this one!) LP from 1984, includes classics like Cream In My Jeans, Vintage Violence, and Rock is Alright.
Catalog: VIH-28164
Media/Sleeve/OBI: VG+
Not a photo of actual LP.
The Return of Sai Yoshiko!
At first glance, the partnership between JOJO Hiroshige and Yoshiko Sai seems implausible. After all, what could the King of Noise and the mystical folk singer have in c...
Not for the faint of heart!
Predating both Sonic Youth and Swans’ debut albums by a year, Zourokuno Kibyou, initially released in 1982, quickly vaulted Kansai noise rockers Hijokaidan to indie mus...
As the end of the 30th anniversary year of major debut, the original album is converted to analog for the first time!
Track List:
SECOND CRY
FINE FINE FINE
A HENな飴玉
ROCK STAR
薔薇娼婦麗奈
街の灯
R...
Hallelujah Mystic Garden Part Two contains a new deep-pocket groove disco version of fan favorite "Pink Lady Lemonade". Side two is a slick kosmiche-electro-disco number that unfurls over a period ...
Double LP version. Edition of 1000. Another smoker from Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., in typically fine form. Benzaiten is an In C-style homage to the classic Osamu Kitajima...
Hive Mind Records present the second volume of the explosive collaboration between two legendary collectives of the ecstatic music underground. In 2017, Kawabata Makoto and his Acid Mothers Temple ...
In the year since the release of Gusokumuzu’s self-titled debut, the band has been nominated for the prestigious CD shop award, released the smash hit single “Fuyu no Sasayaki” as well as the alre...
