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Session June.12.2016 – Kazuma Kubota / Mei Zhiyong

OOO-32 | CD

Kazuma Kubota, the noise artist gathering support from various strata, and Mei Zhiyong, the most important figure of modern Chinese noise music. This work is the live recording of a 2016 studio session from a chance encounter with Japanese and Chinese contemporary noise artists. It is a collaboration of a high purity that fuses the synchronicity, which can be felt from the two artists’ solo work, as a tight and stiff noise. This critical piece presents the current Japanese and Chinese noise — a limited edition of 300 copies.

Kazuma Kubota:

The harsh noise artists are active in the heart of the metropolitan area. He gathers the support from listeners who seek out the delicate yet dramatic composition style constructed by the noise that is filled with a sense of speed and breaking, a beautiful ambient droning sound and field recording, etc., as well as from those besides noise listeners, who seek electronica, shoegazer, hardcore, and all the other emotional sounds.

In 2013, He released his first full-length album, “Dis-connected,” from the American noise label, “Ninth Circle Music.”

Similarly, in 2013, he released the EP/CD “Two of a Kind” as their first domestically distributed work from the”[…]dotsmark”, which sold out immediately.

He has been gaining attention from domestic and international media for their conversation with Mr. T.Mikawa on Ototoy and publication for interviews in the Night Science magazine and the Wire magazine etc.

In August 2016, they were invited as the headlining act for the “Amplified Humans Festival” in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

In 2017, they planned on releasing their LP record “Utsuroi”(reissue) from USA’s Amethyst Sunset.

Mei Zhiyong:

Meizhiyong is China’s most crucial international noise experimenter and hardware noise instrument DIYer.He is also active in independent film and photography, etc. Meizhiyong thinks that noise is the carrier of breaking all the rules. Only impaling nothingness will eliminate the contradiction between voice and body, body and mind. The sign of his performance is the strong acting style and the electronic musical Instruments transformed by hacking and circuit-bending. Meizhiyonghas has already toured Europe and Japan successively since 2014. He is now becoming the new blood of noise and experimental music in Asia.

Expanding Antiverse – Sissy Spacek

OOO-33 | CD+DVD

This album has been recorded to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles blur/grindcore unit “Sissy Spacek” as its 33rd release.

This bold undertaking, including intense grind and noise elements, was recorded simultaneously as the new album released from Nuclear War Now! Productions.
In a characteristic display of Sissy Spacek’s continuous original developments of the potential in noise-grind and grindcore music through raging waves of sound, this album generously implements tape manipulations, noise, and other experimental techniques, not as systematic features of the songs, but by using sound itself to approach grindcore.
The DVD includes over 70 minutes of rare footage, such as the live performance with Sara Taylor (Youth Code), Aaron Hemphill (Liars), Mike Dubose (Raw Nerves, Superbad), rehearsal, and a Destructive gallery performance. The gatefold disc cover includes artwork referencing the performance art “The Haters” as designed by John Wiese.

Sissy Spacek:
A blur/grind unit was formed in 1999 in Los Angeles. Established by experimental musician John Wiese, various members have entered and left the band throughout the years as it overlapped different scenes, considering itself a grindcore band while employing noisecore, collage, tape music, free improvisation, large-scale ensembles, and more. The band has already released more than 30 full albums, within different genres and methods.
During live performances, Sissy Spacek, in the last 10 years, has been an unrelenting hellish grindcore assault, while releasing a wide variety of genres in their records.
Since 2013, the band has been a duo with Charlie Mumma (drums, and vocals since 2008) and John Wiese (bass, electronics, vocals), and is coming to Japan for the first time to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

Accumulation – 黒電話666

OOO-31 | CD | Digital

BLACKPHONE666’s music is fast, outline of each sound is very clear. He uses many high frequency sound, and play with real black phone, His show is awesome. I never get tired of listening to his songs with high volume at home. And he is a good guy. There are many points we, MELT-BANANA like about him!
[AGATA from MELT-BANANA]




BLACKPHONE666 is a very gentle guy, but his sound is noisy and fierce. What a difference between his personality and sound!
[kohei matsunaga (NHK yx Koyxen)]



I LOVED the new BLACKPHONE666 track !! Sick as fuck and soooo “Alien” !!!
[Eric Wood (BASTARD NOISE)]




BLACKPHONE666 is the most consumed harsh noise artist at today’s nightclub scene in Tokyo, Everyone should definitely listen, because almost all the people don’t even know the existence of current harsh noise.
[LOSSANGELS (ENDON)]



A telephone is a transmitter, a receiver, and also a part of symbol of cutting-edge technology in our daily lives. Its shape keep changing with the times. His intense scream through a receiver is very spontaneous, and he perfectly mixed his voice as harsher sound material in tracks. (Extract from main text)
[PAINJERK]


それぞれ異なる音楽的背景を持つ若い音楽家たちが集う21世紀の東京の地下に、まるでノイズが憑依しているかのような状況そのものに僕は注目している☎黒電話666はこのような場をオーガナイズしながら15年にわたり演奏活動を継続してきたノイズ音楽家であり、このEP『Accumulation』は黒電話666より提出された、現在“そこ”で起こっている出来事についての最新のレポートだ☎（※本文より抽出）
［アート倉持 （黒パイプ）］

to such noise-obsessed underground music scene in Tokyo with young musicians having each different musical background☎BLACKPHONE666 has been active for 15 years as a noise musician, also organizes many gigs, and this EP “Accumulation” is the recent report about “the scene” from him☎(Extract from main text)
[Art Kuramochi (Kuropipe)]

BLACKPHONE666 is a very gentle guy, but his sound is noisy and fierce. What a difference between his personality and sound!
[kohei matsunaga (NHK yx Koyxen)]

BLACKPHONE666 is a very gentle guy, but his sound is noisy and fierce. What a difference between his personality and sound!
[kohei matsunaga (NHK yx Koyxen)]

Extreme electronic music act/original harsh noise sound seeker from Tokyo, renowned for tons of gigs, “BLACKPHONE666” drops his long-awaited 1st official release.

“BLAZE” is started with nervy electronic sound, then, gradually torture your ears. “OXD” destroys your audible field with rough energy.
When you listen these 2 tracks, you must notice why worldwide listeners from various genre rocks out by his sound. 
“BLACKPHONE666” is the leading act of relentless electronic music in the 21th century. The time has come when his “Accumulation” of pitch-black noise overflows from speakers around the world.
The remix tracks by ENA (Samurai Horo, KYOKA (raster-noton) are recorded as the bonus tracks only for CD.
These 2 impressive artists create edgy and dope re-construction of his blackphone noise, like no one else can do.The mastering is by noguchi taoru, who has worked with Nisennenmondai ,Kukangendai, Atsuhiro Ito, etc, as the recording/mastering engineer.Masterd by noguchi taoru
Art work & Designed by ticotu YOKO
Movie Edited by Masashi Narita



黒電話666 （Blackphone666）

http://www.geocities.jp/made_in_nakano/

BLACKPHONE666

http://www.geocities.jp/made_in_nakano/

Extreme electronic music act from Tokyo, who pursues original harsh noise sound.He has unique playstyle at his show, with old dialer style desk phone and tons of effector pedals.
He “plays” noise tightly with dynamism of harsh noise and musical development.

His tough, strong and furious sound is created from his skill and considerable experience of his fierce gigs. His music follows noise music manner, but also has great expectation for new development of extreme electronic music and attracts attention in various areas.
His sound is extreme characteristic, excessive sound density, solid and stiff sound is opposite to psychedelic, and massive sound pressure has affinity for dub.

He plays gigs anywhere and borderless, like at live bars, nightclubs, galleries, etc, and genre of gigs are noise, hardcore, techno and electronica. He is like a cross-over bridge between noise music and various genre of music.

BLACKPHONE666 is started on 2001, continues to be active mainly for live performances.
He has good relationship with a lot of underground artists in Tokyo. In 2007 to 2012, he organized electronic music event called “Discord Proving Ground”(http://www.geocities.jp/made_in_nakano/dpg/index.html).
Tujiko Noriko, Ichiro(ex-Yurayura Teikoku), NUMB, AGATA(Melt-Banana), Tomomi Adachi, MARUOSA, PAINJERK, Fuyuki Yamakawa, KYOKA, T.Mikawa(Hijo Kaidan), Kukan Gendai, Atsuhiro Ito, and many more artists played at this event.

His overwhelming live performance was spread as a rumor and attracted eager support worldwide. Before his first independent release, he toured Korea on 2012, and toured EU(UK,France and Swiss) on 2013. On EU tour, he shared stages with Yoshihide Otomo, ENDON, Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Jello Biafra (ex.Dead Kennedys) etc.

On 2014 to 2015, he played gigs together with many artist from overseas such as MATMOS, Russel Haswell, Bastard Noise, Sickness, Dick El Demasiado, TM404, etc.
His gig at Dommune and 2.5D was streamed online. Also he played at Red Bull Music Academy Tokyo and at Chichibu 4D.
Recently, he shared the stage with Naohiro Ukawa, Melt-Banana, DJ NOBU, Aoki Takamasa, Keiji Haino etc.