Whats the current Japanese noise scene look like? Are there many shows, labels, artists? I am completely unaware, and I may find myself over there at some point next year. Would be great to check some stuff out. Particularly labels that I can deep dive.
Not really that current anymore, probably like a decade old now, but felt like a newer artist at that time to me, if you can consider the time frame some what current in a sense, but not sure if he's still active anymore or not, but Yasuhito Fujinami. His work is quite nice and felt like he was one of the more interesting artists to emerge from Japan of the more recent era.
Quote from: Cranial Blast on November 27, 2024, 01:32:18 AMNot really that current anymore, probably like a decade old now, but felt like a newer artist at that time to me, if you can consider the time frame some what current in a sense, but not sure if he's still active anymore or not, but Yasuhito Fujinami. His work is quite nice and felt like he was one of the more interesting artists to emerge from Japan of the more recent era.
Thanks! Listening through "lotus" now and it is quite good. really somber stuff. seems the label that released it - SSSM is based in Nagoya and has some more recent releases from other artists as well.
I found another label - dotsmark - that has some interesting stuff. Notably Kazuma Kubota and Uncivilized Girls Memory. Plenty of stuff to check out from both labels now and it seems promising to be pretty good!
Quote from: nofuneral on November 27, 2024, 05:11:08 AMQuote from: Cranial Blast on November 27, 2024, 01:32:18 AMNot really that current anymore, probably like a decade old now, but felt like a newer artist at that time to me, if you can consider the time frame some what current in a sense, but not sure if he's still active anymore or not, but Yasuhito Fujinami. His work is quite nice and felt like he was one of the more interesting artists to emerge from Japan of the more recent era.
Thanks! Listening through "lotus" now and it is quite good. really somber stuff. seems the label that released it - SSSM is based in Nagoya and has some more recent releases from other artists as well.
I found another label - dotsmark - that has some interesting stuff. Notably Kazuma Kubota and Uncivilized Girls Memory. Plenty of stuff to check out from both labels now and it seems promising to be pretty good!
Glad you enjoyed some of the stuff by Yasuhito Fujinami. He's also collaborated with German PE noise master Scatmother on a project called Entartun, which is quite amazing and amongst one of my very own favorite collaboration type albums. That one I highly recommend checking out!
Merzbow is still going strong!
Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 05:27:03 AMMerzbow is still going strong!
Indeed he is, I've always been more partial to Contagious Orgasm, despite his more experimental and more ambient approaches in the latter half. Merzbow never fails to deliver though! This is true! 👍
Quote from: Cranial Blast on November 27, 2024, 05:32:08 AMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 05:27:03 AMMerzbow is still going strong!
Indeed he is, I've always been more partial to Contagious Orgasm, despite his more experimental and more ambient approaches in the latter half. Merzbow never fails to deliver though! This is true! 👍
That's a project I have only half-heartedly looked into (unlike Merzbow, which I love). Any recommendations on places to begin?
Linekraft and Scum would probably be the most current active projects I'm aware of. Advaita Records as well.
Negative Climax have a great tape on Dotsmark, excellent female-fronted PE. Although now defunct.
Quote from: Hakaristi on November 27, 2024, 07:51:34 AMLinekraft and Scum would probably be the most current active projects I'm aware of. Advaita Records as well.
Negative Climax have a great tape on Dotsmark, excellent female-fronted PE. Although now defunct.
Yes, I highly recommend Linekraft and Scum too.
If you are on Instagram, I highly recommend following a fellow who goes by the tag tonocha2591.
He seems to go to many of the noise shows in Japan and often posts videos of each artist who performs. It should give you a good survey of the current scene.
Veterans like Incapacitants and Government Alpha still perform as well as more modern artists like scum, Wolf Creek, Spore Spawn, Skin Job, and more.
There was a guy that disappeared from scene after he released a few tapes and some cds.
Yasuhito Fujinami.
Highly recommended.
I think he still has the bandcamp page if you want to take a spin
Entartun - S/T CD, collaboration project with one half being Yasuhito Fujinami. Really good and overlooked CD.
He has been inactive for the last 6 years though which is a shame because what I've heard was quite good. I've also heard a long collaboration track he did with Luke Holland (if I'm not mistake it was the same guy) that was great, but no idea whether that will ever be heard by anyone else at this point as it was years ago.
Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 06:25:28 AMQuote from: Cranial Blast on November 27, 2024, 05:32:08 AMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 05:27:03 AMMerzbow is still going strong!
Indeed he is, I've always been more partial to Contagious Orgasm, despite his more experimental and more ambient approaches in the latter half. Merzbow never fails to deliver though! This is true! 👍
That's a project I have only half-heartedly looked into (unlike Merzbow, which I love). Any recommendations on places to begin?
Contagious Orgasm - Confession Of Mannequin is quite great, definitely sounds more industrial sounding more so than what he does today, a lot of the earlier Contagious Orgasm stuff has a really experimental industrial sound amongst other strange sounds too and a lot of those early outputs were re-released on CD by Industrial Recollections. I believe they are out of print now, but I'm sure you can hear them somewhere. For Hiroshi's more ambient experimental side, I'd say a good one to check out is The Flow Of Sound Without Parameter, that was part of that Ground Fault Recordings series and in my opinion it was the best one out that series and it has a really great ambient atmosphere throughout it. A lot Hiroshi's later stuff gets a lot more ambient, even more so maybe that The Flow Of Sound Without Parameter. Contagious Orgasm is certainly a unique project that truly deserves a lot more praise.
Quote from: Cranial Blast on November 28, 2024, 06:09:53 PMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 06:25:28 AMQuote from: Cranial Blast on November 27, 2024, 05:32:08 AMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 05:27:03 AMMerzbow is still going strong!
Indeed he is, I've always been more partial to Contagious Orgasm, despite his more experimental and more ambient approaches in the latter half. Merzbow never fails to deliver though! This is true! 👍
That's a project I have only half-heartedly looked into (unlike Merzbow, which I love). Any recommendations on places to begin?
Contagious Orgasm - Confession Of Mannequin is quite great, definitely sounds more industrial sounding more so than what he does today, a lot of the earlier Contagious Orgasm stuff has a really experimental industrial sound amongst other strange sounds too and a lot of those early outputs were re-released on CD by Industrial Recollections. I believe they are out of print now, but I'm sure you can hear them somewhere. For Hiroshi's more ambient experimental side, I'd say a good one to check out is The Flow Of Sound Without Parameter, that was part of that Ground Fault Recordings series and in my opinion it was the best one out that series and it has a really great ambient atmosphere throughout it. A lot Hiroshi's later stuff gets a lot more ambient, even more so maybe than The Flow Of Sound Without Parameter. Contagious Orgasm is certainly a unique project that truly deserves a lot more praise.
Quote from: Cranial Blast on November 28, 2024, 06:09:53 PMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 06:25:28 AMQuote from: Cranial Blast on November 27, 2024, 05:32:08 AMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 05:27:03 AMMerzbow is still going strong!
Indeed he is, I've always been more partial to Contagious Orgasm, despite his more experimental and more ambient approaches in the latter half. Merzbow never fails to deliver though! This is true! 👍
That's a project I have only half-heartedly looked into (unlike Merzbow, which I love). Any recommendations on places to begin?
Contagious Orgasm - Confession Of Mannequin is quite great, definitely sounds more industrial sounding more so than what he does today, a lot of the earlier Contagious Orgasm stuff has a really experimental industrial sound amongst other strange sounds too and a lot of those early outputs were re-released on CD by Industrial Recollections. I believe they are out of print now, but I'm sure you can hear them somewhere. For Hiroshi's more ambient experimental side, I'd say a good one to check out is The Flow Of Sound Without Parameter, that was part of that Ground Fault Recordings series and in my opinion it was the best one out that series and it has a really great ambient atmosphere throughout it. A lot Hiroshi's later stuff gets a lot more ambient, even more so maybe that The Flow Of Sound Without Parameter. Contagious Orgasm is certainly a unique project that truly deserves a lot more praise.
Thanks!
Quote from: FallOfNature on November 28, 2024, 07:31:31 AMEntartun - S/T CD, collaboration project with one half being Yasuhito Fujinami. Really good and overlooked CD.
He has been inactive for the last 6 years though which is a shame because what I've heard was quite good. I've also heard a long collaboration track he did with Luke Holland (if I'm not mistake it was the same guy) that was great, but no idea whether that will ever be heard by anyone else at this point as it was years ago.
Collaboration with scatmother.
Great one!
Try to follow whatever gigs are happening at Ochiai Soup in Tokyo and get some names from there.
Thinking about newer artists a duo I discovered in the last few years is Wolf Creek. Pretty good Incapacitants-like dynamics.
Yes, Wolf Creek I also like a lot!
Another quite good recent record, I think from 2019, was from Izumi Kawasaki - Moromi.
Very much alive, especially Kansai but of course Tokyo also, although it is much more modular synths and stuff like that over there I think. Labels to check out Advaita Records, La Muro Mia Muro, Remodel, Three Plugs Records. I made a longer topic on Kansai on the other forum but I just copypaste the names here;
Juri Suzue (cut up and noise)
Kurumi Kadoya (harsh noise)
din-i-lahi (harsh noise with metal junk)
KK Manga (loud noise band, intense and awesome every time)
Weiches Loch (metal percussion group that I also used to be in. Also almost every member of this group does lots of other stuff too so it might be a good rabbit hole to fall into)
Hako (experimental with wide range, lots of acoustic instruments and voice also)
Banetoriko (self-made springjunk, noisy dark ambient feel)
Mitei Narico (lots of effects, harsh noise)
Kayu Nakada (noisy circuit bending monster sculpture noise)
Kazue Asano (lots of self-built semiacoustic instruments, maybe more experimental)
Sun Sun Town (saddly not active now, but a great noise band with metal percussion, vocals and harsh noise)
Statuszero (harsh noise with lo-fi junk)
Masayoshi Sakaguchi (modular synths, but I think among the best ones in terms of noise)
Path (guitar noise from Wakayama)
Makoto Kikuchi (guitar and theremin, usually quite drone feel)
Fuji Yuki (vocal drone)
Kozue Sugiura (noise with mostly self made things and home appliances, for example vacuum cleaner)
Masataka Nagano (LOTS of effects, instruments and junk, noise)
Suchirusu (ambient with sitar and synthesizers, also participates noisier projects)
Kinzoku Taiko & Sandersonia (metal percussion and violin duo from Kyoto)
BBVGC (harsh noise)
Kanda Oboo (bass and vocals duo)
Misancholy (beat based and noisy music)
Yonju Miyaoka & Sayozoku (various things)
the descriptions are quite limited and most of these people do plenty of other things too but this should get you started, I have other things to do also.
Also many shows and quite often, for example on Saturday we are putting up this one:
https://special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=13691.0
If any of you visit Osaka, highly recommend going to Forever Records above all, there is loads of noise and industrial records and rarities and Higashiseto has a lot of interesting stories about this scene and people in it.
Incredible info, thanks Junkyard! A lot to dig through here. I don't think I've heard of a single one of these artists personally.
I thought I am too close to the home with this one (literally), but what the hell
Sin Tamon 多門伸 is definitely one of the most important figures of the current Osaka scene. He is the label owner of La Muro Mia Muro, plays and leads Weiches Loch and plays solo noise as nulkvarcent. He arranges noise and industrial events in Osaka and helps out with other people's events also. Mostly everything he does revolves around metal sounds and metal percussion, lately in his solo shows he has been playing tapes with 4 track recordings of metal sounds.
He also recorded a 7" of sounds of crushing concrete and cast that in the case of solid concrete. If someone wants to buy them, there are some left, but the shipping costs will be twice the price of the record, hah. If there is serious interest, you can dm me though.
He built the metal percussion Genocide Organ used in Osaka and I must say that one of the biggest priviledge I have had in my life is to be able to witness his sheer determination and dedication this close. Really inspiring and I highly recommend checking out everything he puts out on the label.
Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 28, 2024, 09:02:50 PMQuote from: Cranial Blast on November 28, 2024, 06:09:53 PMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 06:25:28 AMQuote from: Cranial Blast on November 27, 2024, 05:32:08 AMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 05:27:03 AMMerzbow is still going strong!
Indeed he is, I've always been more partial to Contagious Orgasm, despite his more experimental and more ambient approaches in the latter half. Merzbow never fails to deliver though! This is true! 👍
That's a project I have only half-heartedly looked into (unlike Merzbow, which I love). Any recommendations on places to begin?
Contagious Orgasm - Confession Of Mannequin is quite great, definitely sounds more industrial sounding more so than what he does today, a lot of the earlier Contagious Orgasm stuff has a really experimental industrial sound amongst other strange sounds too and a lot of those early outputs were re-released on CD by Industrial Recollections. I believe they are out of print now, but I'm sure you can hear them somewhere. For Hiroshi's more ambient experimental side, I'd say a good one to check out is The Flow Of Sound Without Parameter, that was part of that Ground Fault Recordings series and in my opinion it was the best one out that series and it has a really great ambient atmosphere throughout it. A lot Hiroshi's later stuff gets a lot more ambient, even more so maybe that The Flow Of Sound Without Parameter. Contagious Orgasm is certainly a unique project that truly deserves a lot more praise.
Thanks!
The "Corporal" comp on Industrial Recollections is very good as well, though I'm not familiar with much other than the Atrax Morgue split.
Quote from: ritualabuser on December 16, 2024, 09:32:27 PMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 28, 2024, 09:02:50 PMQuote from: Cranial Blast on November 28, 2024, 06:09:53 PMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 06:25:28 AMQuote from: Cranial Blast on November 27, 2024, 05:32:08 AMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 05:27:03 AMMerzbow is still going strong!
Indeed he is, I've always been more partial to Contagious Orgasm, despite his more experimental and more ambient approaches in the latter half. Merzbow never fails to deliver though! This is true! 👍
That's a project I have only half-heartedly looked into (unlike Merzbow, which I love). Any recommendations on places to begin?
Contagious Orgasm - Confession Of Mannequin is quite great, definitely sounds more industrial sounding more so than what he does today, a lot of the earlier Contagious Orgasm stuff has a really experimental industrial sound amongst other strange sounds too and a lot of those early outputs were re-released on CD by Industrial Recollections. I believe they are out of print now, but I'm sure you can hear them somewhere. For Hiroshi's more ambient experimental side, I'd say a good one to check out is The Flow Of Sound Without Parameter, that was part of that Ground Fault Recordings series and in my opinion it was the best one out that series and it has a really great ambient atmosphere throughout it. A lot Hiroshi's later stuff gets a lot more ambient, even more so maybe that The Flow Of Sound Without Parameter. Contagious Orgasm is certainly a unique project that truly deserves a lot more praise.
Thanks!
The "Corporal" comp on Industrial Recollections is very good as well, though I'm not familiar with much other than the Atrax Morgue split.
Yeah, for sure! All of that early Contagious Orgasm stuff that was properly reissued on Industrial Recollections is certainly worth looking into. I can't think of another artist quite as unique in approach, maybe Aube would be a comparable artist in regards to uniqueness in sound for the genre.
The kids love noise over there these days! I went to a 2 day fest outside of Nagoya in this condemned building and saw a handful of under 21 noise artists. The youth scene there definitely seems less locked into one genre. Its pretty typical to have a noise/PE artist playing a bill with a screamo band, soundcloud rapper, drum n bass/breakcore dj, goregrind band, etc... Look into the label(?) Evilspa, they put on a yearly festival that showcases all this stuff. I think the two biggest artists from this scene right now are Moreru and BBBBBBB (although neither are pure noise). Blackphone 666 is also great, they seem to be some sort of bridge between the older and younger scene.
Quote from: ritualabuser on December 16, 2024, 09:32:27 PMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 28, 2024, 09:02:50 PMQuote from: Cranial Blast on November 28, 2024, 06:09:53 PMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 06:25:28 AMQuote from: Cranial Blast on November 27, 2024, 05:32:08 AMQuote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 27, 2024, 05:27:03 AMMerzbow is still going strong!
Indeed he is, I've always been more partial to Contagious Orgasm, despite his more experimental and more ambient approaches in the latter half. Merzbow never fails to deliver though! This is true! 👍
That's a project I have only half-heartedly looked into (unlike Merzbow, which I love). Any recommendations on places to begin?
Contagious Orgasm - Confession Of Mannequin is quite great, definitely sounds more industrial sounding more so than what he does today, a lot of the earlier Contagious Orgasm stuff has a really experimental industrial sound amongst other strange sounds too and a lot of those early outputs were re-released on CD by Industrial Recollections. I believe they are out of print now, but I'm sure you can hear them somewhere. For Hiroshi's more ambient experimental side, I'd say a good one to check out is The Flow Of Sound Without Parameter, that was part of that Ground Fault Recordings series and in my opinion it was the best one out that series and it has a really great ambient atmosphere throughout it. A lot Hiroshi's later stuff gets a lot more ambient, even more so maybe that The Flow Of Sound Without Parameter. Contagious Orgasm is certainly a unique project that truly deserves a lot more praise.
Thanks!
The "Corporal" comp on Industrial Recollections is very good as well, though I'm not familiar with much other than the Atrax Morgue split.
Also thanks!
S_B_B from Oita. This guy rips. His show in Osaka was insane, I was quite impressed.
https://crestonclub.bandcamp.com/album/drowning-in-a-dream-story
Quote from: Fanalstatt on January 02, 2025, 10:18:56 AMS_B_B from Oita. This guy rips. His show in Osaka was insane, I was quite impressed.
https://crestonclub.bandcamp.com/album/drowning-in-a-dream-story
There is also this comp he released featuring projects from Japanese people under the age of 30 https://crestonclub.bandcamp.com/album/the-remains-of-wasted-world
Quote from: junkyardshaman on December 15, 2024, 05:03:29 AMI thought I am too close to the home with this one (literally), but what the hell
Sin Tamon 多門伸 is definitely one of the most important figures of the current Osaka scene. He is the label owner of La Muro Mia Muro, plays and leads Weiches Loch and plays solo noise as nulkvarcent. He arranges noise and industrial events in Osaka and helps out with other people's events also. Mostly everything he does revolves around metal sounds and metal percussion, lately in his solo shows he has been playing tapes with 4 track recordings of metal sounds.
He also recorded a 7" of sounds of crushing concrete and cast that in the case of solid concrete. If someone wants to buy them, there are some left, but the shipping costs will be twice the price of the record, hah. If there is serious interest, you can dm me though.
He built the metal percussion Genocide Organ used in Osaka and I must say that one of the biggest priviledge I have had in my life is to be able to witness his sheer determination and dedication this close. Really inspiring and I highly recommend checking out everything he puts out on the label.
This is great intel thank you for sharing.
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https://youtu.be/qg7LzX-c0iw?si=o1yHtcoKqoDPpg5n
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https://youtu.be/j3M2hiTd3AI?si=OA8W41cA2aZQGjsC
https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/494
I wrote a Global Ear article about the current Osaka scene to The Wire. Online through the link, in print in April number. There will be a playlist with comments later, I managed to get some stuff that is not available anywhere else so keep your eyes peeled, will post in this topic later.
Quote from: Fanalstatt on January 02, 2025, 10:18:56 AMS_B_B from Oita. This guy rips. His show in Osaka was insane, I was quite impressed.
https://crestonclub.bandcamp.com/album/drowning-in-a-dream-story
Was going to post the compilation "The Remains of Wasted World" here, came across it when trying looking up Skin Job material. It has an S_B_B track on it too, and seems like a nice slice of current lesser known artists
https://crestonclub.bandcamp.com/album/the-remains-of-wasted-world
I am working on a compilation of contemporary Japanese noise now, waiting for some artists to finish the tracks and send them to me, then I package it up and try to offer to some label that is interested.
Quote from: minimal.impact on March 06, 2025, 11:10:08 AMQuote from: Fanalstatt on January 02, 2025, 10:18:56 AMS_B_B from Oita. This guy rips. His show in Osaka was insane, I was quite impressed.
https://crestonclub.bandcamp.com/album/drowning-in-a-dream-story
Was going to post the compilation "The Remains of Wasted World" here, came across it when trying looking up Skin Job material. It has an S_B_B track on it too, and seems like a nice slice of current lesser known artists
https://crestonclub.bandcamp.com/album/the-remains-of-wasted-world
Sounds good.
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/global-ear-osaka
Playlist of contemporary Osaka scene, some exclusive stuff, maybe not all directly noise but all these people involved with the current noise/industrial scene