PUZZLE PUNKS Budub 1996

 

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Puzzle Punks is a conceptual noise-punk/experimental duo formed by Japanese artists Shinro Ohtake and Yamantaka Eye (a founding member of legendary groups Hanatarash and Boredoms). All music by Puzzle Punks is made exclusively with children toys.

In the Ohtake's studio at Uwajima artists set up a workshop full of toy instruments and objects to perform and record Puzzle Punks material. In spring and early summer of 1995, the duo recorded material for a Pipeline: 24 Smash Hits By 24 Puzzle Punk Bands "compilation", where they presented each track under a different moniker. The CD album was accompanied by the Ohtake's Yamantaka Diary book.

Their second album Budub was released in the autumn of 1996 by Time Bomb Records on CD and picture disc LP. Soon after the same year, Puzzle Punks recorded more material at Osaka, with Yojiro Tatekawa on drums. It was released as Puzzoo album over a decade after in 2006 by Time Bomb.

Tracklist

1		Ouck Nuff
2		Unlimited Toothpicker
3		Pep & Kep
4		Xicotepecker
5		Budub
6		Techno Wear
7		Yahowa 1.30
8		Uwazima's Most Hardcore Car
9		Best Brain
10		Magic Poopers
11		Yahowa 13000
12		Ohioueo Players
13		Budub Air Port
14		Vuduv
15		We Are Budubber

PANTYCHRIST Pantychrist 1999

 

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AllMusic Review by Tom Schulte

PantyChrist is a dense mixture of samples, sounds, and rhythms. The instrumentation is only voice, sampler, turntables, and guitar. The trio behind this small arsenal is San Francisco's sampler Bob Ostertag (John Zorn, Fred Frith, Lynn Breedlove, etc.), Tokyo noise DJ Otomo Yoshihide (Yamatsuka Eye, Boredoms, Ground Zero, etc.), and New York drag queen Justin Bond (Hedwig and the Angry Inch). The resultant mix seethes with anger and sociopathic content. At their most wrong, PantyChrist mixes the simple, bright melodies of childhood with the obscenely suggestive notions of an unleashed pervert. The record was released on Negativland's label and has that group's enthusiastic support, so you know no holds are barred in the "culture jamming" iconoclasm displayed in these decidedly non-PC audio collages. And definitely don't let someone like your parents or the FBI find PantyChrist in your possession. 

Tracklist

1	Overture	5:14
2	Feet So Low	3:12
3	Bitter Mommy	3:14
4	I Love Animals	3:34
5	Sunshine	1:13
6	Giddy Up Cowboy	7:20
7	Purple Butterflies	1:43
8	When I Come Back	2:18
9	Coconut	2:06
10	King Kong	6:10
11	Wooden Shoes	2:40
12	Suzanne	4:18
13	Just Whistle	2:15
14	The Tigress Inside	3:32
15	A Dreadful Thing (Coda)	1:34

 

 

DJ CARHOUSE & MC HELLSHIT Live! 1996

 

Play this at your next dinner party!

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MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse was a short-lived duo of Japanese artists Yamantaka Eye (MC Hellshit) and Otomo Yoshihide (DJ Carhouse). The band played a few improvised live performances with EYE vocals and Otomo on turntables, mixing board and effects. A concert at the Disobey Festival in Manchester was released as a limited edition mini-cd Live! by Blast First in 1995, with a second album Live!! soon following. Recordings from the UK performances also appear on a split mini-cd with Masonna and Merzbow attached to the Frieze magazine, as well as on the 7-inch accompanying a Special Japanese Issue of Resonance magazine. 

Tracklist

1	Buzzsaw Outlet	0:40
2	Kick 'O' Man	1:45
3	I'm EEP	1:44
4	QQQ	1:53
5	Hit City	2:38
6	My Mic	3:02
7	EFO	2:28
8	This Is It!	2:13
9	PPP	2:35
10	Tendelic
11	Sleep Help
12	?

BOREDOMS Pop Tatari 1992

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Artist Biography by Steve Huey

Of all the artists in Japan's thriving noise-music community, the Boredoms undoubtedly had the most fun. Although their maniacally extreme cacophony was by no means accessible listening, it was underpinned by a gleeful sense of humor that helped them find a limited (but still surprisingly wide) audience among alternative rockers. A typical Boredoms track might feature massively distorted guitars, squealing synths, any number of odd found-object noisemakers, or studio-manipulation effects; conventional song structures are thrown out the window in favor of abrupt, whiplash-inducing changes of direction. With Sonic Youth and Nirvana counting themselves among the Boredoms' fans, the group actually signed major-label deals during the early '90s, both in Japan and the U.S., and played the Lollapalooza main stage. Although the Boredoms' American deal eventually fell through, they continued to record steadily in Japan, progressing into a sort of trance-inducing, psychedelia-tinged experimental rock indebted to the '70s Krautrock movement. 

Tracklist  

1	Noise Ramones	0:30
2	Nice B-O-R-E Guy & Boyoyo Touch	0:55
3	Hey Bore Hey	1:40
4	Bo Go	7:20
5	Bore Now Bore	2:42
6	Okinawa Rasta Beef (Mockin' Fuzz2)	3:58
7	Which Dooyoo Like?	2:08
8	Molecicco	2:47
9	Telehorse Uma	4:36
10	Hoy	4:32
11	Bocabola	3:54
12	Heeba	3:21
13	Poy (Mockin' Fuzz1)	4:26
14	Bod	1:19
15	Cheeba	9:00
16	Pop Tatari	1:58
17	Cory & The Mandara Suicide Pyramid Action Or Gas Satori	10:10

BOREDOMS Super Ae 1998

Contributed by Sean

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Tracklist  

1	Super You	7:37
2	Super Are	8:30
3	Super Going	12:24
4	Super Coming	12:17
5	Super Are You	8:47
6	Super Shine	12:45
7	Super Good	6:06