Dr I.Shartdaley
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Jul 30, 2023 11:18:17 GMT
I blew up some big old boxy Pioneer speakers back in the 90's with a cd by Mainliner the Japanese band.
Just so massively distorted the woofers cried no mas.
CUNTZ!
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Post by fuckface on Jul 30, 2023 23:38:29 GMT
now you talkin'. love mainliner!!!! that shit is some for real bonkers balls to wall blastitude.
i got to know their drummer kumura san a bit when he worked behind the counter in 'modern music' my favourite record shop that i was lucky enuf to be able frequent in tokyo in the late '90s. lovely chap. incredible drummer.
also in perhaps my all time favourite fun time rock band vid on the youtube. check it out!
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Post by fuckface on Aug 2, 2023 1:12:54 GMT
that mainliner cd sounds like that because they recorded it with all the meters in the red, not because of the cd mastering or whatever.
*kumura san did drum for mailiner but not on that album altho he is with them on the clip i posted.**i know nobody gives a shit
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Aug 2, 2023 11:06:01 GMT
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Post by fuckface on Aug 3, 2023 7:07:36 GMT
that'd be mason jones, right? him and david kato hopkins who ran public bath press were the two gaijin most responsible for bringing western ears to japanese underground music / noise scenes from the mid/late '80s on. www.discogs.com/label/29647-Public-Bath www.publicbathpress.comcertainly reading about the japnoise and underground psych scenes in zines made a big impression upon me and was the main reason i went their winter 97-98. it just seemed like something i had to check out for myself. i'd spent the previous 10 mths working away on an accommodation and per diems deal on a big film and saved everything i earned. i had also broken my right elbow on the 2nd last week of the job and was told by the docs not to work again until it had fully healed. which would take at least 4 mths. so, i bought a three week return ticket to tokyo and off i went to check it out. i was 35 and had never been outside of australia before, didn't know a word of the lingo, anyone there, or even anything about japan at all. just that i want to see some of these bands i'd been reading about for years. fuck man, i was so far out of my comfort zone it wasn't funny. the travel agent in australia had booked me into a really bland boring salaryman hotel in ikebukuro that sucked and when i went out i was completely lost all the time. i pretty much hated most things about it for those first two weeks...and, i hadn't found any of the shit that had bought me there for in the first place. for my last week there i decided to move to a nearby ryokan that i'd seen advertised on a pin board in a small local bookshop. it was immediately so much better than the business hotel. on my second night there i got talking to a lovely japanese girl that was staying there. and that, or rather her letting me tag along with her, unlocked the whole place to me. i ended up cancelling my return flight home and staying for five and a half months. saw a whole bunch of the psf and weird bands that had made me wanna go in the first place and i pretty much had the time of my life. i really wanted to stay longer but had ran out of money and had no idea how to. besides one guy who wrote for lonely planet guide, all the gaijin i had met there (not very many) were without exception english teachers for one those big language schools there like aeon. i had neither the qualifications nor inclination to do that so i just gave up on living there and came home. |
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Aug 3, 2023 9:18:37 GMT
that'd be mason jones, right? Yeah that was the guy LOL the book publishing site looks like a pastel-hued respectable upstanding normal thing..... then you click on the music releases for his label and hell for insane people opens up. FFS it seems like Japan no longer has weirdos. Every spry young teen j-lad about town looks like they've just come from a k-pop boy band audition. Pathetic. Punk is dead. certainly reading about the japnoise and underground psych scenes in zines made a big impression upon me and was the main reason i went their winter 97-98. It was a big reason I opened my shop in NZ in 98 after 5 years in Japan. Had loads of the j-noise in stock. And barely sold any of it. No one gave a shit. Victory Records yes, Public Bath, no. |
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Post by fuckface on Aug 3, 2023 11:28:37 GMT
ha, yeah fuck. sometimes i wonder why that stuff was so alluring to a small handful of us, yet so repugnant to the majority? i know that was the point to a degree. but there was way more to it than just that. why did it appeal to me, i was just a working class high school dropout from a small town. no art school or intellectual pretensions. i just followed my instincts. i don't really think about stuff too much. i just do shit. i've done lots of dumb shit that i've regretted. but i've never regretted following my instincts down the weird music rabbit hole.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Aug 3, 2023 11:52:08 GMT
ha, yeah fuck. sometimes i wonder why that stuff was so alluring to a small handful of us, yet so repugnant to the majority? i know that was the point to a degree. but there was way more to it than just that. why did it appeal to me, i was just a working class high school dropout from a small town. no art school or intellectual pretensions. i just followed my instincts. i don't really think about stuff too much. i just do shit. i've done lots of dumb shit that i've regretted. but i've never regretted following my instincts down the weird music rabbit hole. Context of the times I guess. No goddamn internet. Switch on the radio down under in the 80's and get brain waterboarded by AOR simps like Dave FUCKING Dobbyn. The j-noise shit was LIBERATING from that turgid drivel. A completely uninhibited BLAST compared to Air Supply and goddamn Aussie Crawl. I still rememebr renting the Gerogerigegege cd's from "Janis" in Ochanomizu (its still there ffs!) and dubbing them to cassette then laughing my arse off at how completely bonkers and beautiful it was. japanlive.blogspot.com/2006/06/store-called-janis.html  |
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Aug 3, 2023 12:20:43 GMT
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Post by sukebegg on Aug 3, 2023 15:11:18 GMT
that'd be mason jones, right? him and david kato hopkins who ran public bath press were the two gaijin most responsible for bringing western ears to japanese underground music / noise scenes from the mid/late '80s on. www.discogs.com/label/29647-Public-Bath www.publicbathpress.comcertainly reading about the japnoise and underground psych scenes in zines made a big impression upon me and was the main reason i went their winter 97-98. it just seemed like something i had to check out for myself. i ended up cancelling my return flight home and staying for five and a half months. saw a whole bunch of the psf and weird bands that had made me wanna go in the first place and i pretty much had the time of my life. english teachers Did you know Hopkins passed recently? Did you ever see Exile Osaka zine? Did you make it to Osaka during your time? I landed in Japan in August 97, just a few busy jet-lagged days in Shinjuku and then whisked off to Shimane Prefecture. The senior English teacher at my school, a ballet dancer in his youth, sees me admiring the lovely Sea of Japan view as he drives me to my new home and says, "God truly is the greatest artist, don't you think." But I had no clue about High Rise back then outside of a review in Forced Exposure. Would take me a few years of English teacher income and trips to Osaka, Kyoto etc. to amass a new CD collection. Alchemy Records had a shop for a while in AmeMura and Masonna worked there. I think his wife had a clothes shop on the floor above. I did see Hijokaidan and Hanadensha in Osaka in '99 or so. With the aforementioned Exile Osaka dude who was a top bloke and would send me his zine but also other zines and stuff he got for free or whatever since info was scarce out in the boonies. Saw the Boredoms in Tokyo around that same time - they were already into their Kraut rock jam phase but I actually like it better than the early stuff... Love blasting this on Shinkansen rides...wheeeeeeeee I got a little into techno early days in Japan also - stuff like Ken Ishii. Really good for jogging...Anyhow, I see he did an hourlong Boredoms remix . This is prime Ken Ishii though. I dunno, I still can groove to it while cleaning the house or whatever |
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Post by fuckface on Aug 4, 2023 3:02:36 GMT
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Post by fuckface on Aug 4, 2023 3:36:51 GMT
ha, yeah fuck. sometimes i wonder why that stuff was so alluring to a small handful of us, yet so repugnant to the majority? i know that was the point to a degree. but there was way more to it than just that. why did it appeal to me, i was just a working class high school dropout from a small town. no art school or intellectual pretensions. i just followed my instincts. i don't really think about stuff too much. i just do shit. i've done lots of dumb shit that i've regretted. but i've never regretted following my instincts down the weird music rabbit hole. Context of the times I guess. No goddamn internet. Switch on the radio down under in the 80's and get brain waterboarded by AOR simps like Dave FUCKING Dobbyn. The j-noise shit was LIBERATING from that turgid drivel. A completely uninhibited BLAST compared to Air Supply and goddamn Aussie Crawl. yep. now i think about it, i was really just wriggling right down to the far end the hole that opened up to me in '78 after buying the 2nd saints lp. |
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Post by fuckface on Aug 4, 2023 4:18:03 GMT
Did you know Hopkins passed recently? Did you ever see Exile Osaka zine? Did you make it to Osaka during your time? david was one of the good guys. i was sad to read that. it was a couple of years ago now. i bought stuff direct from him thru the mail a few times the years and he was alway super helpful. i emailed him just before i went to japan the last time in 2017 asking if there was anywhere in tokyo that might have stock of a couple of recent books i was after. he told me which disc union in shinjuku to go to, but they were out of stock at the time i went. was finally getting around to emailing him about getting it shipped to me when i read that he'd died. big bummer. yeah i had a few copies of exile osaka. i gave a tea chest with all my old zines to a kid when i was moving away from melbourne about 15 years a go. i dunno, he probably thru them out. i went to osaka for a few days in early '98 a friend in sydney who had been there a year or so before gave me a number for this guy satoru higashiseto who owed a shop called forever records in shinsaibashi. who, it turned out i had met briefly in sydney five or six years before when he came to see my band play. anyway i rang him up and met him at his shop. after he closed up we went out for drinks and a meal. then he took me to see 'melt banana' and some other bands at a place called fandango. that was cool a place. there were no shows happening at bears at the time. |
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Post by fuckface on Aug 4, 2023 4:25:12 GMT
U.F.O OR DIE!!!
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Post by fuckface on Aug 4, 2023 4:30:47 GMT
agree that is probably their best. another thing i had and have no idea what happened to. oh well. its on the youtube now. |
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Aug 5, 2023 6:59:05 GMT
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Post by sukebegg on Aug 5, 2023 16:11:24 GMT
Did you know Hopkins passed recently? Did you ever see Exile Osaka zine? Did you make it to Osaka during your time? david was one of the good guys. i was sad to read that. it was a couple of years ago now. i bought stuff direct from him thru the mail a few times the years and he was alway super helpful. i emailed him just before i went to japan the last time in 2017 asking if there was anywhere in tokyo that might have stock of a couple of recent books i was after. he told me which disc union in shinjuku to go to, but they were out of stock at the time i went. was finally getting around to emailing him about getting it shipped to me when i read that he'd died. big bummer. yeah i had a few copies of exile osaka. i gave a tea chest with all my old zines to a kid when i was moving away from melbourne about 15 years a go. i dunno, he probably thru them out. i went to osaka for a few days in early '98 a friend in sydney who had been there a year or so before gave me a number for this guy satoru higashiseto who owed a shop called forever records in shinsaibashi. who, it turned out i had met briefly in sydney five or six years before when he came to see my band play. anyway i rang him up and met him at his shop. after he closed up we went out for drinks and a meal. then he took me to see 'melt banana' and some other bands at a place called fandango. that was cool a place. there were no shows happening at bears at the time. a few years already for Hopkins...damn. He put out a book before he passed, so some great posteriority...I gave my collection of zines, including pretty good runs of early Flipside and MRR from #1 to 30 or 40, to some guy at MRR, Matt Average I think was his moniker, big into zines so at least appreciated. I saw Hanadensha and Hijo Kaidan at Fandango! Definitely a nice space. Right in the middle of a huge red-light district, Juso. Went there at least once more - it has relocated to Sakai, an Osaka suburb. Matt Kaufman who did Exile Osaka is still there and mostly focuses on food drink places. He has graciously taken me around to all kinds of fun and funky places for a few years but haven't been to the Big O since pre-covid. Dying to get back. I was there for the first time around New Year '97 because I was staying in Nara. Pretty dead but ended up at some late-night disco and I met this Brazilian woman. My Spanish/Portuguese was way better than my Japanese. We met up at a later date in Osaka and went to the Hard Rock Cafe for god knows what reason but Ozzie Osbourne and family came in at some point! Maybe he was playing Bears! (Matt has also done stuff for the Japan Times) www.osaka.com/author/mattkaufman/These guys were playing in the lobby when I saw the Boredoms: I played this comp a lot My first foray into the Boredoms was actually Super Roots 6. I think I had a friend who worked at Reprise and she sent me the tape that I played the shit out of in my shitty Mazda - it's more like fucked-up trip hop and just seemed to fit the shithole chaos of LA circa 1996... |
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Aug 6, 2023 0:29:02 GMT
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Post by fuckface on Aug 6, 2023 5:46:40 GMT
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Aug 6, 2023 8:33:50 GMT
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Post by fuckface on Aug 8, 2023 23:10:04 GMT
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Aug 8, 2023 23:26:40 GMT
Fucking arsehole. Nothing riles me like this shit, Ripping off the fans and keeping their hard-earned $$$ = I'm gonna find you motherfucker and I'm gonna smash your tiny cock and ballz to fucking bits. |
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