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Alchemy Records

Answer 81'
Here we have an early live recording of the legendary Japanese noise band Hijokaidan, commonly known as the "King of Noise," which was made during their performance at the "Answer 81" event that took place in 1981 in a location known as "Kyoto TakuTa…
Answer 81 1981.4.19. Vol.2
In 1981, the legendary Japanese punk band The Stalin performed in an event called "Answer 81" at a venue called "Taku Taku" in Kyoto,and the previously unreleased live recording has been unexpectedly unearthed and now available from P-VINE RECORDS. T…
終末処理場 = Syumatsusyorijo
The long-awaited first analogue reissue of the legendary noise compilation album 'Doomsday Processing Plant', released in 1980 on Unbalance Records, which was headed by the late Naoto Hayashi of INU - Auschwitz! This album features three bands active…
Studio & Live Recordings 1979-1983 (5CD Box)
Top! This is a collection of the treasured recordings of Annon, a band formed in Osaka in 1979 by Toshiji Mikawa (Hijokaidan, Incapacitants, etc.) and Naoto Hayashi (Auschwitz). Toshiji Mikawa is simply described as a pioneer, inventor, and visionary…
Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé
CD Edition with Obi. This is a masterpiece album released in 1993 on Alchemy Records by Masonna, a solo project of Mazo Yamazaki who is acclaimed as one of the leading artists of Japanoise along with Merzbow and Emergency Staircase. It is finally bei…
I Can't Promise
Recorded between August 24, 1983 and September 9, 1984.
Angel'in Heavy Syrup III
Although there were not that many psychedelic rock bands made up of all females in the world of the 1980s, Angel'in Heavy Syrup was the rarity one existing in the underground scene of rock and punk in Kyoto / Osaka area along with SxOxB, Outo, Nightm…
Angel'in Heavy Syrup II
Recorded at Omega Sound, January 1993. Special Thanks for H.Nagashima. Although there were not that many psychedelic rock bands made up of all females in the world of the 1980s, "Angel'in Heavy Syrup" was the rarity one emerging from the Japanese noi…
Zouroku No Kibyou
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 music fame. Compiling their early, borderline grotesque, …
Crimson Voyage
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 common? Released in 2001, and marking the first musical…
Boku To Kankou Bus Ni Nottemimasenka / Haru Rannman
First complete limited edition. Legendary girl psychedelic & progressive rock band, still internationally acclaimed, Angelin Heavy Syrup, respecting Doji Morita with two precious songs, on 7"! A four-piece female group from Osaka, reputed to be the p…
Angel'In Heavy Syrup
Released in 1991, Angel’in Heavy Syrup’s self-titled debut LP ensured that they would be remembered as one of the greatest all-female Psych-prog-rock bands ever. With only one CD reissue to its name, this album has become one of the most sought after…
The Original Ultra Bide
Ultra Bide was an underground avant-garde/noise-punk band that was originally active as a central member of Kansai No Wave from 1978 to 1980 (together with Aunt Sally, Friction, Inu, Ss), the album released from Alchemy Records in 1984 is finally rem…
Slap Happy Humphrey
*2022 stock* The world of Doji appears and disappears through the stormy noise like sunlight through a tree... Slap Happy Humphrey is the world's only cover band of noise-tinged Doji Morita, and the world's only cover band of Doji Morita. Folk and no…
Vol. 2
The long-delayed second LP from Canada's Nihilist Spasm Band, drawn from a 1978 concert at Toronto's Music Gallery and first issued in 1979. A decade on from No Record, the homemade-instrument free-for-all is undimmed: free-rap manifestos against Can…
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The 1968 debut of London, Ontario's Nihilist Spasm Band, widely cited as the first noise band ever recorded. Eight artists improvising on homemade instruments, kazoos and the Pratt-a-various, bellowing about stupidity and Canada. A proto-dada howl of…
2 Hours Live - Fortune of Twelve
A two-CD live document of Jojo Hiroshige solo: two hours of his singular song-and-noise art, voice and roaring guitar fused into one body. The Hijokaidan founder using sound to reach what words cannot. On Alchemy, 2016.
Triple Echo vol 1-3
The complete Triple Echo series in one set: three CDs of Jojo Hiroshige's drone project, a concept the King of Noise carried for thirty years. From a single sustained guitar note he draws three subtly shifting tones, minimalist feedback held until th…
Survival Of The Laziest
2026 stock. The latest effort by the legendary noisers...Incapacitants (インキャパシタンツ Inkyapashitantsu) are a Japanese noise music group formed in 1981. It consists of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai, whose stated aim is to produce "pure" noise, uninflu…
Noisy Killer
A covers album from Hatsune Kaidan, the Hijokaidan side project that runs the Vocaloid idol Hatsune Miku through harsh noise. Anime themes, Perfume and Jun Togawa songs sung by the digital idol and steadily devoured by feedback, pop and Japanoise col…
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