Reissues
Extreme Gospel Nights
**Clear cassette case, 4-panel J-card stamped with the label info on the inner side. ** Incapacitants are the best noise band to ever come out of Japan. The group was formed in 1981 in Osaka, as the solo project of Toshiji Mikawa, a member of the amazing noise group Hijokaidan. Mikawa, a bank employee who then became a deputy general manager of one of the largest securities brokers in Japan, later moved to Tokyo, where he joined with government office worker Fumio Kosakai (also an occasional me…
Live Materials 1980-1993
Nord were one of the earliest of the Japanese electronic/noise groups, debuting with a 1981 LP on the Pinakotheca label, and releasing a series of highly collectable recordings over the following years. Hazy and drugged, these recordings by the infamous Nord are a must-have for anyone who is into claustrophobic and destroyed ambient of the most disturbing, affecting kind.
Filled with Unquestionable Feelings
**Limited Edition of 299 copies.** Cascades of electronic noise, a psychedelic touch and vocal belching mixed together constitute the ingredients of Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé, the double-barreled name for Masonna. Maso Yamazaki founded his project in 1987, with a charismatic and glamorous personality who become a cult figure in “Japanoise” scene. Masonna’s abundant productions on his own legendary and astonishing label Coquette were presented in very limited editio…
Grind Carve
**Limited Edition of 199 copies.** Akifumi Nakajima was probably best known for his work under the name Aube, which was one of the more prolific and most interesting noise acts from Japan. He had an impeccable and marvelous sense of design and appreciation for the materials, taking packaging beyond just using regular old paper with his wonderful and unique label G.R.O.S.S., dedicated to releasing experimental music and noise, in addition to his own recordings as Aube. He began recording in 1980 …
Neurotten
**Limited Edition of 299 copies.** Kohei Gomi began experimenting with home recording in the 1980s and got so lost in extreme sonics under the Pain Jerk moniker that his output inevitably spilled out into the wider world. By the mid-90s, he was one of the most prolific and influential noise units operating out of Japan, hurling maelstroms of chaotic chunder and deranged grime at anyone who could handle the extremes. Pain Jerk became one of the leading figures in the "dynamic" style of Japanese n…
月蝕
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents 月蝕 by Vehiyd. Clear cassette shell with glued on pink labels on both sides. Single-sided, 4-panel foldout J-card with a Vanilla Records stamp on the reverse. Numbered with a stamp on both the J-card flap and the cassette shell (side A). Includes a folded Vanilla Records insert. The catalog number "Vanilla Records-19" appears on the J-card and the side B cassette label. Bass – 博子, Drums – 真由美, Guitar – 界, Vocals – Piaa.
Reflexive Universe
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents Reflexive Universe by C.C.C.C. Live Recording at MAYA in Kobe 15/09/91. Electronics – Mayuko Hino, Synthesizer, Voice – Hiroshi Hasegawa.
Refugee / On The Move
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents Refugee / On The Move by Dislocation. Edited 1991. Included Live Recording at Shinsake Gallery (May 18, 1991). Numbered (stamped) edition. Edited By – Dislocation. Electronics – T.Okazaki, Guest, Bass – Y. Sato, Guitar – F.Kimura, Performer – K.Kiyokawa, Saxophone – Y.Yanagawa.
Portuguese Man-Of-War
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents Portuguese Man-Of-War by Monde Bruits. Performer, Recorded By, Mixed By – Monde Bruits. All material performed recorded & mixed 1991 July.
Flamenco Party
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents Flamenco Party by Suigin-Lamp. Recorded at Shinjuku Ongakukan April ‘91. Bass, Sampler – Kumiko Yamamoto. Guitar, Vocals, Sampler – Kazuhide Kawata. Violin, Guitar – Kosei Yatani. Tracklist: TV, Peep Points, Amentia, Gate, My Side, Happy.
Shocks! Shocks! Shocks!
** Comes in a snapcase with a numbered cassette has no label and a numbered j-card with different address stamp from 1st press. ** Violent Onsen Geisha's 91 debut for Vanilla. This is the mega tape wich kicked open the gates of fame for Violent Onsen Geisha. Thanks to Keiji Yamabe, Naohiro Ukawa (Mon'N'Dad), Atsushi Sasaki, Vanessa and Lenny. Dedicated to Chuck Connors (1924-1991)
Mission Invisible
** 2021 Stock ** Hospital Productions announce the unreleased, would-be-classic from Japanese noise hero Painjerk. Originally recorded immediately after the canonical Gallon Gravy classic, this is pure -- definitive -- loop-heavy noise energy and dynamism that would become the signature of Kohei Gomi's electronic studies having influenced two generations of underground electronics since. Hailing from a background of Japanese punk, Kohei Gomi stayed true to the fierce ethos of independence and ex…
Mission Invisible - Kill The Poor
Hospital Productions announce the unreleased, would-be-classic from Japanese noise hero Painjerk. Originally recorded immediately after the canonical Gallon Gravy classic, this is pure -- definitive -- loop-heavy noise energy and dynamism that would become the signature of Kohei Gomi's electronic studies having influenced two generations of underground electronics since. Hailing from a background of Japanese punk, Kohei Gomi stayed true to the fierce ethos of independence and experimentation tha…
Nephlokokkygia 1992
Temporary Super Offer! To be free. What does that actually mean? Not in a social or even political sense. But as a human being? As a musician? When we speak of free improvised music, freedom is the mother of all things. And that in a literal- al sense. You free yourself from yourself. As human beings, we always act with the sum of what we have collected, stored and reflected in all the years before. An improviser does not have to apply his knowledge and skills intellectually, but instinctively. …
Trio, Quartet & Composer Revisited
Temporary Super Offer! When on January 20 1969 Mike Taylor was pulled from the River Thames – shoeless, alone, confused, ultimately drowned by his own hand – the young pianist and composer was only 31. A cynic might say that hindsight is a wonderful thing and that it was only years later, when fans began to speculate on the fatal glamour of an artist who died so young, that fellow musicians began to recollect him as a genius of modern music. At the time, they might well have thought of him – an…
Musique Tachiste
The debut issue from Finders Keepers' hugely promising new Cacophonic sub-label is the first in a series of rare records by French experimentalist Michel Magne: six pieces of extended vocal technique, musique concrète, and jazzier modes very much in keeping with Finders Keepers' quirkier tastes. A faithful reissue including facsimile of the original artwork and 12-page booklet of liner notes. "One of the very earliest full-length French concept albums - part radical manifesto, part pantomime. Th…
Clangers
Far away from the land of breaks, beats and modern music is the world of the Clangers. Created by the genius team of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin (Bagpuss, Ivor The Engine, Pogle's Wood), the Clangers are now over 40 years old. Their name comes from the noise the dustbin lids covering their homes makes, and all the music and special effects played for both series are issued on this record.The music was played and composed by Vernon Elliot and a small quartet from the Philharmonia. Musical di…
Tenebre
“Tenebre” is the soundtrack of the eponymous film directed by Dario Argento in 1982, which celebrated today its 30th anniversary. Even if released as ‘Simonetti – Pignatelli – Morante’, it’s usually considered an actual Goblin album; as many people know, the ‘real’ Goblin were releasing the LP “Volo” at the same time, and the band’s name and logo could not be used for copyright reasons.
“Tenebre” is the last great collaboration between Argento and Goblin: here Dario Argento moved from full and w…
Sangue di Sbirro
Perhaps not everyone knows that Alessandro Alessandroni, the Master of Italian library music, had also composed several original soundtracks from late ’60s to early ‘80s, especially for many “genre” movies such as poliziotteschi, sexy comedies, spaghetti western, horror and thriller. Among them, Sangue di Sbirro (Bloody Avenger), is certainly one of the most prestigious works made for Italian cinema in the 70s: an Italian noir set in Philadelphia, where the jazz-funk library’s background of the …
Inferno
"Inferno" is a 1980 film by Dario Argento, generally considered one of the masterpieces of the Roman director. At that particular time, the artistic partnership established with Goblin, who wrote the soundtracks for "Profondo Rosso" and "Suspiria", had essentially crumbled, while in the UK Emerson, Lake & Palmer had just disbanded; Argento was therefore able to make a dream come true: to collaborate with an artist from the English prog-rock scene.Keith Emerson was then invited to reach Dario Arg…