Horror, Special Edition, Gore, George Romero, Sequel, 80's; 2xDVD set - Ex Used condition
Return Of the Living Dead is definitely in the running for best zombie film of all time. Dan O'Bannon brings a ton of wit and humor to the Romero-style zombie film, but it still works on a completely earnest, genuine horror level as well. In Return, the original Night Of the Living Dead film was based on a true story, and a pair of night shift employees at a medical supply warehouse have a couple of the zombie corpses in barrelled up in the basement. Of course, they wind up setting them loose, as well as reanimating all the bodies in a nearby cemetery where a gang of punk rockers - including Linnea Quigley in the role of a lifetime - are partying down. This is just one of those situations where everything clicks. It's got a great cast, diverse cast headed by Clu Gulager which clearly benefited from an extended period of rehearsal before filming. Of course there's O'Bannon's clever writing, and thankfully this is one of his films where he really had the budget to see his vision all the way through. It's got a great 80s rock soundtrack and top of the line special effects. It's a blast.
Mad Max, Cult, Australian, Soundtrack, Score, Rare; CD - Ex Used condition
This is the original first 1993 CD release of the Original Sound Track to the original 1979 Mad Max film, soundtrack created by Brian May. Released on US label Varese Sarabande. Very rare CD release in Ex Used condition.
Woman From Deep River (Aka: Make Them Die Slowly / Aka: Cannibal Ferox) Australian daybill cinema movie poster (circa 1981)
76cm x 33cm - folded as issued in Excellent unused condition. Rare!
Kawabata Makoto, Acid Mothers Temple, Japanese, Japanoise, Psych, Noise, Experimental, Drone, Electronic, Rock; CD - Ex Used condition
Cosmogonic rockin' project from Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple), featuring endless suspended drone electronic textures. This one represents the contemplative eerie side of Kawabata Makoto musical universe
Japanese, Japanoise, Noise, Experimental, Avant-garde, Electronic, Rock; CD - Ex Used condition
1st album in 1997 under the solo name of Seiichi Yamamoto, the leading expert in experimental music. Includes a total of 10 songs with an avant-garde sound world centered on noise guitar sound, which is more experimental than the band.
Japanese, Japanoise, Psych, Noise, Krautrock, Progressive, Rock; CD - Ex Used condition
The album includes liner notes by Damo Suzuki (ex. Can). ‘Dream of Liquid’ was created for Mandog’s first UK tour held in June 2011 and mastered by Souichiro Nakamura, who mastered recordings by a number of artists such as Yura Yura Teikoku and Guitar Wolf. The line-up of the band for this album is Keiichi Miyashita (the founder of Mandog, Godman, Wabo-Chao), Akira Kikuchi (Kawaguchi Masami’s New Rock Syndicate) and Masataka Fujikake (Shibusashirazu, ex. Zeni Geva).
"the ensemble playing here veers from frenetic ecstasy, like a super-charged soft machine, to mournful synth-dressed marches which recall mid 70s giants of progressive searching like hatfield of the north and that other wyatt project matching mole. the guitar/synth/bass/drum set up nails each piece to the floor with retro stylings that also point to a future which can only be imagined whilst at the heights of humanist thinking." Rough Trade
Electronic, Experimental, Drone, Folk, Japanese, Japan, Psych, Masaki Batoh, Ghost; CD - Ex Used condition
Brain pulse music is made using a stereotypically goofy-looking contraption, one that features a wired headset and a readout monitor on a cart. If someone told me it was an object retrieved from Nikola Tesla's laboratory, I might believe them. Brain pulse music was initially conceived to treat patients with "congenital abnormality of the cerebral nervous system." It is generated via a device that consists of a headpiece, goggles, and a "motherboard." Brain waves are sent via radio to the computer, which translates them into wave pulses and then into sound. Batoh had a Brain pulse machine machine created for this project, which transformed from an experimental endeavor to a therapeutic one in the wake of the earthquake. The seven tracks on Brain pulse music were prayers and requiems, according to Batoh. Those words suggest a projected empathy to the victims; listening to Brain pulse music, though, it seems just as likely that the album was a vehicle through which Batoh and his collaborators coped with the devastation around them. Certainly it's difficult to imagine the discordant reeds of "Kumano Codex 1" or the morphing digital crevasses of "Aiki No Okami" being of much use to the injured or grieving, but I can absolutely imagine that long, meditative pieces here were salves for their creators.
Acid Mothers Temple, Psychedelic, Japanese, Japanoise, Noise, Experimental; CD - Ex Used condition
This newest solo outing from Kawabata Makoto is very different from most Acid Mothers Temple records, however. Eschewing guitars almost completely, this album features three long pieces of subtly shifting electronic drones and vocal loops. "I'm In Your Inner Most" is a psychedelic drone journey to the center of your mind. Makoto pushes the distortion on his electric organ, and fills out the texture with synthesizers, violins and a female vocal sample that randomly fades in and out of the mix. Not very easily digestible at first, upon repeated listenings you begin to sense the true cosmic transendence of his music. LaMonte Young's influence can be heard in the first track - a long, shape-shifting high-pitched squeal that cleanses the listener's mind of all thought, leaving only the rapturous sensation of sound. The second track begins with the same drone, but adds delightfully cosmic keyboard arpeggios and cyclical melodies. Even throughout the beautiful melodic sections, Makoto continues to push the noise and percussive distortion so that the listener remains in a completely trancelike state while investigating the astral worlds that the keyboards usher you through. Shades of Tangerine Dream and Terry Riley become apparent towards the end of this track, as the synthesizer loops take prominence. The third track "Oculation (remix version)" contains the same organ tones and repetitive synthesizers as the first two tracks, but adds some atonal guitar feedback into the mix. "I'm In Your Inner Most" is definitely an album that requires active listening to enjoy......
Japanese, Japanoise, Noise, Psych, Experimental, Rock; CD - Ex Used condition
In its original form this album dates back to the early days of Melt Banana, seeing an initial release in 1994 on British cassette label Chocolate Monk. This reissue is of the 1999 A-Zap edition and In typical Melt Banana fashion it crams 32 tracks into a brisk 28 minutes, exhibiting a sense of efficiency only previously found in Napalm Death's catalogue. The first side of the original cassette was occupied by a live recording made at an improvisation festival in 1992, while the second side was recorded to a multitrack cassette recorder in 1994. This is about as raw as the band have ever sounded: you can hear their raucous beginnings and their characteristically playful approach to blowing your ears off first finding its feet on this album. Punk rock has never sounded like so much fun - this is an absolute blast.
Japanese, Japanoise, Grind, Psych, Experimental, Noise; CD - Ex Used condition
Melt-Banana have absolutely no time for attention spans and neither do I. Their music is at once an entity unto itself and bizarrely essential to music as a whole, likely because there has always been an unspoken demand for hysterically overenergetic ultra-distorted music in the backs of minds of various hyperactive earth-dwelling consumers of music, none of whom have been completely satisfied by the earnestness and overbearing sincerity that runs through the majority of heavy music. Very few bands have it in their craft to be heavy and fun in mutual excess, yet Melt-Banana have made a prolific career out of it and are quite comfortably in their third decade as I type. They’ve always been an abundantly heavy band without any of the scornful misanthropy, politicised sharpness and/or meatheaded obnoxiousness that tends to come with the package. That said, Charlie is without a shadow of a doubt their most aggressive album. After the more scatterbrained, underproduced antics of their previous outings, the girls and boys of MxBx seemed to feel it was time to raise their game on this one; the production is arguably the finest of their whole career, the songs are developed into disarmingly coherent structures, the noise is kept up at absolute fucking maximum from start to finish, and (unusually) many of the songs are laden with an off-hand sense of brutality that adds a different flavour to their trademark goofiness.
Japanese, Japanoise, Rock, Noise, Boris, Merzbow, Southern Lord, Live; Limited Edition Double CD - EX Used condition
Rock Dream is not just the best album Boris ever made, but also one of the finest live albums you will ever hear. Rock Dream was recorded in Tokyo in 2006, one year after the band had just reached its peak in popularity with Pink. Masami Akita (Merzbow) adapts to the environment perfectly. For this one night he’s just the fourth member of Boris. Merzbow’s material has such an incredible presence on his records, but in a collaborative setting he consistently proves to be keenly aware in his supportive roles. Akita never makes a collaboration about him and works his waves of noise and scree to fit his partners. He adds layers of extra haze to the heavy openers “Feedbacker” and “Black Out,” but then focuses his instrument to make the razor edged rush of “Pink” and “Woman on the Screen” sound better than they do in the studio. His versatility becomes clear on Boris’ gentler and prettier tracks, “Rainbow,” and “Flower Sun Rain” (a PYG cover and later a highlight off of 2008’s uneven Smile). “Rainbow” is like a breath of fresh air after the three opening tracks. The song is built on its bass line and Wata’s gentle vocals, which were a rare treat back when “Rainbow” came out. Akita recognizes this and pulls back to allow the spaciousness to develop, creating subtle menacing textures and briefly swooping in with noise. When he adds his spacey laser sounds (trust me there’s not a better way to describe it) into the PYG cover it perfectly blends with the acid soaked bliss, and wisely stays in a supporting role even as the rest of the band builds the song into a massive climax.
Japanese, Japanoise, Acid Mothers Temple, Experimental, Psych, Noise; CD - Ex Used condition
A one time collaboration between the core members of Acid Mothers Temple and the Japanese duo, Afrirampo - Oni-guitar & vocals and Pika-drums & vocals. Best described as 'experimental tribal'. I mean, this CD is out-there. Title track "We Are Acid Mothers Afrirampo" (27:41) is highly experimental, trippy with plenty of freaked-out guitar playing. "The Exorcist Of Love" (12:00) is even weirder than the first cut. I mean - what are these guy ON? Really! "The Man From The Magic Mountain" (16:40) features some good whirlwind sound effects and almost jazz-like arrangements. Even though this effort is pretty strange, I'm giving it a four-star rating because to me, it sounds like all players here are putting in over-time to busting their butts to record this title.
