Dance Till You Die is more than a track title: it is a loud and clear order, a warning, and a timeless statement from one of the most uncompromising Japanese post-punk outfits of the early 1980s. Daisuck & Prostitute, the vehicle of Daisaku Yoshio (a former folk and jazz-fusion player who, by the end of the 1970s, had moved through Elvis Costello and Frank Zappa into the orbit of Gang of Four's Entertainment!), forged a raw yet magnetic sound that blended No-Wave abrasion with an almost ritualistic sense of groove.

Expanded from a 1980 7-inch into a full LP the following year, the record brings sharp, jagged rhythms, dissonant textures and a feverish punk urgency together in a way that feels both deeply of its time and eerily timeless. Yoshio recalls that the band brought their own gear into the studio and that, for the most part, everything was recorded in single takes - an approach that the album wears proudly. The result is one of the few hidden gems of Japanese post-punk that genuinely lives up to its mythology, an evolutionary cousin of the New York no-wave axis exemplified by DNA and the Contortions, but produced in a parallel scene that had to invent its own grammar.

Spittle Made In Japan's edition includes an insert with lyrics. For No-Wave obsessives, post-punk devotees and seekers of obscure underground treasures, this is essential.