Les Rallizes Denudes - High or Die LP (2005)
Limited, numbered (30 of 150) 1st edition copy of this Rallizes boot issued around 2005. Excellent condition.
Price: ¥3,500
Far out - Nihonjin LP (1973)
Bootleg version of this 1973 classic sole release from Far Out - precursors to the Far East Family Band. Two-side long tracks; ranks as No. 11 in Julian Copes Japrocksampler list. Cope wrote: "Arriving in a flurry of heartbeats and echo-chambers, formless monophonic Moog synthesizers and microphone feedback, Far Out’s eponymous 1973 album is an alien and exquisitely beautiful music embodying all the greatest aspects of rock’n'roll at once...."
Price: ¥2,000
1/3 Octave Band - Irregardless CDR (1999)
Early (debut?) limited cd-r from this Wellington-based unit: "Deep space gloomp and wind-tortured drone-silence from the duo of Bill Wood and Jules Desmond. Huge lungs of void cut up with diamonds of percussion and lone metal tone in classic globe-gobbling style." Someone else wrote..."[a] seamless combinations of drone, samples and feedback make this a stunning and relaxing listen." Nine tracks.
Price: ¥3,000
Julie Mittens - March 5 2003 CD-R (2005)
Massive blast of free rock from this Dutch trio apparently joined by a mutual admiration of Coltrane, and united in producing some of the heaviest mind-melt outside of Japan - think Fushitsusha/Haino/Les Rallizes de Nudes....This was self-released by the band in 2005, edition of 100, now out of print.
Price: ¥4,000
Ikuro Takahashi - Picnic on Quicksand CD-R (2005)
Rarely-seen private release from Ikuro Takahashi, who's been all over some of the more stellar documents from the Japanese underground. Here he sets up a roomful of oscillators and slowly builds a shifting sonic field akin to metallic insect chatter...a pretty singular, fantastic piece.
Price: ¥5,000
