PALACE CONTRIBUTION / ZENI GEVA Sides 5-6 7 inch 1997

 

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Who is Palace Contribution? Will Oldham, who does a remake of AC/DC's classic, "Big Balls" and should be hailed here. On side B, Zeni Geva pounds out their rendition of "Let There Be Rock."

 

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A	Palace Contribution*–	Big Balls	3:10
B	Zeni Geva–	Let There Be Rock	4:26

THE FUTILITY OF A WELL ORDERED LIFE (A CATALOGUE SAMPLER) Various Artists 1994

 

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Compilation on Alternative Tentacles record label


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1	Lard–	Forkboy	3:56
2	D.O.A. (2)–	Already Dead	2:15
3	Hanson Brothers–	Jack Off	3:07
4	Tribe 8–	Manipulate	2:11
5	Alice Donut–	X-Postal Worker	3:42
6	God Bullies–	How Many Times	3:23
7	Brutal Juice–	Galaxy	4:17
8	Nomeansno–	The River	6:18
9	Tumor Circus–	The Man With The Corkscrew Eyes	4:07
10	Vagtazo Halottkmet*–	Porbol Varat Epitek	4:03
11	Amebix–	Largactyl	3:47
12	Zeni Geva–	Desire For Agony	2:44
13	Neurosis–	To Crawl Under One's Skin	7:51
14	Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon–	Will The Fetus Be Aborted?	3:42
15	Hissanol–	Angra	6:09
16	Grotus–	Marginal	3:14
17	Chill E. B.–	Menace To Society	5:43

ATTACK OF THE TENTACLES: AN ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES RECORDS SAMPLER Various Artists 1995

 

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1	Alice Donut–	Millenium	3:16
2	Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon–	Are You Drinkin' With Me Jesus	3:11
3	Dog Faced Hermans–	Fortune	4:21
4	Duh–	+1	2:28
5	M. Gira*–	I See Them All Lined Up	4:12
6	God Bullies–	Neighborhood Kid	2:33
7	Hissanol–	Anamesh	1:15
8	Jarboe–	Surgical Saviour	4:18
9	Life After Life–	Mexico	4:13
10	Nomeansno–	Lost	5:09
11	Peligro (7)–	King Of The Road	1:39
12	Tribe 8–	Manipulate	2:09
13	Ultra Bide–	Lovely Day	2:51
14	Victims Family–	Mousetrap	2:27
15	Wesley Willis–	Vampire Bat	2:40
16	Zeni Geva–	Death Blows	1:12

 

YONA-KIT Yona-Kit 1995

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Artist Biography by Stephen Howell

In the mid-'90s, guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke, bassist Darin Gray, and drummer Thymme Jones were performing and recording in the ambient/experimental rock outfit Brise-Glace. By 1994, a slight augmentation in this lineup took place, which led Brise-Glace to start the side project Yona-Kit. Japanese guitarist/vocalist Kazuyuki K. Null (aka K.K. Null), known for his noise rock trio Zeni Geva, joined the threesome. The new quartet was a cross-cultural supergroup of sorts, considering Gray was a member of Chicago's post-hardcore group Dazzling Killmen, Jones was the founder of experimental prog rock outfit CHEER-ACCIDENT and O'Rourke was gaining notoriety as a famed producer in the underground music community. Yona-Kit wasn't the first time that O'Rourke and Null had collaborated. The two had recorded an album together, titled New Kind of Water, that showcased incredible improvisations and various guitar duets. Yona-Kit was a different monster altogether though. The band wasn't as heavy as Zeni Geva's output, yet it wasn't as light as Brise-Glace. Yona-Kit even had puppet mascots that were associated with their debut album. This wasn't that unbelievable though, considering that the group was on Skin Graft Records, the home of Yona-Kit's members many other bands. Skin Graft was notorious for having puppet characters representing the label, such as Hot Satan. It was June of 1994 when Yona-Kit stepped into a Chicago studio with recording engineer Steve Albini, who had twiddled the knobs for similar groups like the Japanese-Chicago noise blend of Shakuhachi Surprise. The Yona-Kit sessions yielded a more subdued Null scraping out more trebly Shellac-type tones from his guitar rather than his typical blitzkrieg attack. Melt Banana's YaSuko Onuki even stopped by the proceedings to lend vocals to the record. Yona-Kit's self-titled album appeared a year later on July 25, 1995. The record's cover featured an array of puppets, including Chiller Whale and Serious Brown, and not excluding Hot Satan. The cover was designed by Skin Graft founder Mark Fischer, and it became the source of a ludicrous story as to how the band formed. The story was that Yona-Kit's members were on a Skin Graft cruise near the North Pole when their vessel capsized leading to Chiller Whale's consumption of the band. As the members were later regurgitated by the whale, they emerged with a handful of songs which became the album's tracks. Following the release, one of the record's cuts ("Skeleton King") appeared on the September 1997/50th release by Skin Graft, titled Camp Skin Graft: Now Wave. The compilation contained Yona-Kit alongside 32 other Skin Graft artists, who included the Flying Luttenbachers and Lake of Dracula, among others. This was the last time that Yona-Kit was heard from, however, as Gray and Jones began focusing their attention to a new side project called You Fantastic! Apart from the different band moniker, You Fantastic!'s music remained in the same vein as Yona-Kit. Jones also kept busy with his full-time band CHEER-ACCIDENT, while Null returned to Zeni Geva. O'Rourke went on to produce and collaborate with such artists as U.S. Maple, Sonic Youth, and Loren Mazzacane Connors. 

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1		Franken-Bitch            2:44
2		Dancing Sumo Wrestlers	3:35
3		Desert Rose	1:14
4		Hi Ka Ri	4:45
5		Twa Corbies	4:26
6		Skeleton King	2:50
7		Get Out Of Here	2:34
8		Disembody	2:14
9		Slice Of Life	23:36

 

WOHLSTAND Various Artists 1994

German/Japanese compilation featuring grindcore, noise, experimental, industrial and punk artists

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1	–Ufo Or Die	Dog Wave	3:00
2	–Fünf	Anstatt	2:47
3	–Ground Zero (3)	ZERO 890604/Chine White	5:31
4	–Melt Banana*	P-Pop-Slop	1:27
5	–Knochengirl*	1234 Ihr	3:43
6	–Merzbow	Ooga Booga	5:25
7	–Kissfreak Steven*	Ice Cold Hut	5:05
8	–Omoide Hatoba	Anarchy	2:59
9	–Party Diktator	Big Mouth	2:40
10	–Zeni Geva	New Flesh	2:43
11	–Mutter	Wer Ist Das Mädchen	5:05
12	–Dead Chickens	Psycholomedo	4:55
13	–Ruins	Hyderomastgroningem	1:26
14	–Surrogat	Frauen Riechen	3:59
15	–Trickbeat	Dizzy Moonlight	4:06
16	–Violent Onsen Geisha	Scream Rock Balloon	4:14
17	–Space Streakings	Kaiki Suspense Kumo Otoko (Remix)	4:06
18	–Sielwolf	Rhythmisch/Animalisch	5:13
19	–Null*	Wall Of Silence	3:26
20	–HP Neidhardt*	Don't Cry For Me Katja	2:00

CAMP SKIN GRAFT: NOW WAVE COMPILATION 1997

 

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1	–The Browns (2)	My Name In Italics	0:45
2	–U.S. Maple	Missouri Twist	4:29
3	–The Flying Luttenbachers	Demonic Velocities	3:03
4	–Lake Of Dracula	Plague Of Frogs	1:26
5	–Yona-Kit	Skeleton King	2:49
6	–You Fantastic!	Riddler 5	4:14
7	–UFO Or Die	Zombie Tube	2:30
8	–Zeek Sheck Care Co.*	The Beeper Gets Digested	0:27
9	–Chuck Falzone, Telepath*	You're Just Too Scared Boy	1:06
10	–Shakuhachi Surprise	Nande	2:08
11	–Melt-Banana	Zoo, No Vacancy	0:21
12	–Strangulated Beatoffs	Satan's Pool Party	4:00
13	–Monitor Radio	Insouciance	0:50
14	–Colossamite	Bewilderbeast	3:01
15	–Flossie And The Unicorns	Chewing Gum From Outer Space	3:40
16	–Shorty (4)	Mitzy Lodge	3:01
17	–ZZZZZ	One, Two, Many	0:52
18	–Cheer-Accident	Filet Of Nod	0:04
19	–Denison Kimball Trio	Framed	2:15
20	–Ruins	Hydromasgroningem	1:24
21	–Latham's Snipe	Latham's Snipe	0:37
22	–Omoide Hatoba	Pikadom	4:23
23	–Last Of SG's	Bye To Bags	1:23
24	–Mount Shasta	S171	2:41
25	–Dazzling Killmen	Windshear	2:08
26	–Quintron	Bug Attack	3:52
27	–Bobby Conn	69 Annee Erotique	3:39
28	–Nood Ham	Tokyo Santa	0:50
29	–Tortured Machine*	Flash Fire	0:09
30	–Space Streakings	F.O.J.K.	1:58
31	–Zeni Geva	Terminal HZ	6:34
32	–F-Stein*	Mighty Fuckin' Robots	0:52
33	–Brise-Glace	Likeness	2:05

BASEMENT TAPES: A KSPC Compilation Of Live Recordings 1995

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A1	–The 5.6.7.8's	Oh My Soul	1:32
A2	–Some Velvet Sidewalk	Loch Ness	2:10
A3	–Loomis Slovak	Band Stab	2:05
A4	–Ruby Falls	Evangeline Falls	4:23
A5	–The Mountain Goats	The Anglo-Saxons	1:48
A6	–Evergreen (3)	Untitled	3:53
A7	–Solmania	Sample And Hold (Edit)	3:00
A8	–Crayon	The Snap-Tight Wars	4:00
B1	–Shoeface	Six	3:38
B2	–Love Child (3)	Cigarette Ash	2:10
B3	–Bastard Noise	Live Improv On The At Random Show	1:00
B4	–Cambria	Platinum	2:10
B5	–Nothing Painted Blue	Rag Content	3:46
B6	–Zeni Geva	Skullfuck	1:46
B7	–Unwound	Broken E-Strings	3:12
B8	–Refrigerator	Generic Hardcore Fusion	3:15
B9	–Nomeansno	I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement	2:34

ZENI GEVA Maximum Money Monster 1990

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Artist Biography by Eduardo Rivadavia

One of Japan's more eccentric and intriguing extreme music exports of the late '80s and '90s, self-professed "progressive hardcore trio" Zeni Geva (their name derives from an ancient Japanese word for "money" and a corruption of the German "gewalt," or violence) forcibly fused elements of heavy metal, hardcore, industrial music, noise rock, and the avant-garde, gaining no small underground recognition in the process.

Having already made a name for himself via several experimental outfits (Absolut Null Punkt, YBO2) and collaborations with Merzbow and Null earlier in the decade, vocalist, guitarist, and programmer K.K. Null (real name Kazuyuki Kishino) founded Zeni Geva in 1987, calling on guitarist Fumiyoshi Suzuki and drummer Ikuo Taketani to join him on debut album How to Kill, released on Null's own NUX Organization label. Said album also featured a short-lived vocalist named Elle who was replaced by bassist Bunsho Nishikawa come 1988's amusingly named Vast Impotenz cassette EP, but he too would be gone by the release of 1990's watershed Maximum Money Monster LP, which brought industrial discipline to Zeni Geva's savage sonic outbursts while introducing new guitarist Mitsuru Tabata (ex-Boredoms) and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida, briefly borrowed from Ruins. Finally, Zeni Geva found stability with the recruitment of drummer Eito Noro, and with it came greater international touring and success, beginning with Steve Albini-produced albums like Total Castration (1991), Live in Amerika (1992), Desire for Agony (1993), Freedom Bondage (1995), and others. These efforts reined in some of the band's former flair for chaos with a heavier focus on noise rock, and the final pair was released by Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label, while 1993's All Right, You Little Bastards! constituted a proper Albini/Zeni Geva collaboration.

When Noro decided to leave the band in 1996, Zeni Geva carried on touring irregularly (with American percussionist Blake Fleming stepping into the breach), but recording activities came to a standstill as Null increasingly immersed himself in a string of solo and collaborative releases. The next Zeni Geva album, 10,000 Light Years (featuring Null, Tabata, and drummer Masataka Fujikake), did not emerge until 2001 through Neurot Recordings, and its highly experimental nature clearly reflected Null's recent avant sound exploits. The album also proved to be a one-off, as Null resumed his prolific solo endeavors shortly thereafter and Tabata also remained busy, primarily with Acid Mothers Temple. The Zeni Geva engine was not refueled again until 2009, when onetime drummer Yoshida rejoined Null and Tabata for a spate of touring that yielded 2010's Alive and Rising, but it remains to be seen whether there will be more band activity in the future. 

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1	Slam King	16:03
2	炎 (Blaze)	1:20
3	Blackout	3:34
4	Sweetheart	5:42
5	Guystick Bodie	4:34
6	Skullfuck	3:15
7	War Pig	6:50
8	On Suicide	5:56