250 copies. A third, extraordinary document. Purge.xxx continues its quiet, singular excavation of the work of Japanese composer Takashi Inagaki with Soundtracks for Toshio Matsumoto - five soundtracks gathered for the first time, newly transferred from the original tapes, mixed and mastered, and accompanied by an original essay by Jennifer Lucy Allan.

Toshio Matsumoto (1932-2017) was a foundational figure in Japanese experimental cinema - a film director, video artist, and theoretician best known internationally for his debut feature Funeral Parade of Roses, the audacious Oedipus Rex-derived narrative that mapped the Tokyo underground through a transvestite protagonist and left a long shadow over everything that followed. For Matsumoto, experimental filmmaking was a means of accessing what he described as the pre-logical unconscious. In the 1980s, he developed a new approach to the medium specifically directed at what he called disturbing perceptual unity. It is the soundtracks for these films that form the spine of this release.

Inagaki's entrance into Matsumoto's world came through his existing relationship with filmmaker Takashi Ito - a connection purge.xxx has documented across two essential prior releases, Music for the Films of Takashi Ito (2019) and Prisoner of Love: The Dead Dance (2024). Where those records mapped a long-running creative partnership rooted in the compact, unnerving registers of short experimental film, Soundtracks for Toshio Matsumoto finds Inagaki working against a different set of demands - the more expansive, philosophically burdened cinema of a director whose entire practice was bent toward a questioning of perception itself. The five works - Sway, Connection, Shift, Engram, Relation - confirm what those previous releases already suggested: that Inagaki is among the most singular and unjustly overlooked experimental composers of his generation.