condition (record/cover): NM / NM 

Lathe cut disc plus anti-record. Edition of 5 numbered copies (this is 4/5) in metal sculptural painted sleeve. Insert included.

A small-format object in the long running catalogue of Ichiro Tsuji, the Hiroshima-born Japanese musician who formed Dissecting Table in Tokyo in 1986 and has been its sole constant member ever since. Most of the project's output has gone out through Tsuji's own UPD Organization, though titles have surfaced on Dark Vinyl, Daft, V2, and a scattered handful of European and American imprints over four decades.

The Music Using The Random Sequence sequence sits within the method Tsuji has held to since the beginning: synthesisers and samplers driven by sequencer logic, metal percussion, tape, processed vocals, the whole arrayed into tracks that move with mechanical rather than human pulse. Dissecting Table has always operated adjacent to the core Japanese noise lineage (Merzbow, Hijokaidan, Incapacitants) without quite belonging to it, closer in spirit to Whitehouse's early power electronics or the rhythmic austerity of early Einstürzende Neubauten.

As with most UPD Organization releases, the 7" circulated in small numbers, mostly through specialist mail-order networks. Tsuji shifted his method in 2012 toward software-driven PWM signal composition, which makes the pre-2012 physical artifacts like this 7" part of a distinct earlier period in his work. A scarce Japanese industrial object in a format the project used sparingly.