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Rotting Telepathies

Rotting Tapes II (LP)

Label: Black Editions, La Musica Records

Format: LP

Genre: Psych

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€31.00
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The first full-length document of Rotting Telepathies, the group of the late post-punk figure Michio Kadotani and Asahito Nanjo. Recorded live in February 1982 and long buried on a tiny La Musica cassette, it captures the most band-like peak of Kadotani, the man Nanjo called the only real punk in Japan.

The first full-length document of Rotting Telepathies, the group of the late Japanese post-punk legend Michio Kadotani and Asahito Nanjo. Kadotani's music had previously only been documented on a 1991 CD on P.S.F. (entitled Rotting Telepathies) and the recently rediscovered 1987 KAD 3:4:5:6 set, which makes this disinterring of a highly limited 1990s La Musica cassette edition particularly significant.

The unrelenting dunt of the rhythm section here, locked-in and revolving around Nanjo's bowel-rumbling bass, is the perfect foil for Kadotani's guitar - sometimes cutting, sometimes spindly - and the stream of babble that was his vocal style. It's frazzled but underpinned by viciously sharp logic. A beautiful representation of Kadotani, the man Nanjo once called "the only real punk in Japan."

As noted on the original La Musica cassette, it documents a live performance from February 1982, where the group deliberately brought in some alternative punk-style tunes and displayed the most band-like of all the incarnations of Rotting Telepathies. As a result, Kadotani's madness is not so much to the fore as usual, but this is still one of the best recordings still extant.

Remastered and pressed to vinyl for the first time. 

Details
Cat. number: BE-LA 006/077
Year: 2026
Notes:
Limited vinyl LP housed in a custom die-cut, "Uni-Pak" style gatefold with metallic ink, spot finishes and matching La Musica inner sleeve. Recorded at Studio One, ’92. Mastered at La Musica Studio, ’96. Additional Mastering by Timothy Stollenwerk, Stereophonic Mastering. Runouts are etched. Lacquer Cut At/By credits derived from runouts.