I just heard about this today and I'm pretty psyched about it but I heard it was rare.
http://www.l-m-c.org.uk/texts/favejaps.html says
"It's a cassette compilation entitled Gomi-Akta (Gomi and Akuta roughly translate as Trash and Dirt, metaphorically as something with absolutely no value). It's released by Masonna's Coquette label and a weird, wild assortment of the Japanese noise underground is present on this tape. Yamazaki Takushi from Masonna gave all participants a set of rules:
1. No electricity or batteries allowed
2. One take, no corrections
3. Recording time less than three minutes
4. All recording done on Yamazaki's Walkman. The tape is wrapped in aluminium foil and has ripped Sony cassette wrappers rubber-banded to it and it's all dumped in a crinkled plastic bag."
So getting down to brass tax, does anyone have this? I can imagine it'd be either a classic or a dud with such random stuff on each track like "people shaking pachinko balls in beer cans, breaking chopsticks, screaming underwater, hitting cash registers, teeth brushing, ordering yakitori, a paper cup leaking cola, teeth being extracted."
If someone has this and can YSI, I'd be very much obliged. And if not, is this something that's worth the trouble of finding it and then possibly paying a lot for it? Cuz I am in a pretty big Boredoms phase right now....
― buyabiznatch (buyabiznatch), Saturday, 1 April 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)
Wow. This actually sounds pretty interesting, considering I'm going through a Japanese music phase too. Sorry I can't offer any info, but I have been really wanting to hear the Boredoms for a while, any recomendations??
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Saturday, 1 April 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)
I like vision creation newsun a lot but it's different than the spazz out craziness that a lot of their other albums (pop tatari and soul discharge especially) which can get pretty frantic at times. vision creation newsun is more accessible because it's more consistantly melodic whereas with others there are times when songs will break down into someone making some ridiculous noises...
...which is sweet since they're usually coming from peoples mouths but it's not stuff you can necessarily put on at any time. Soooo I guess this won't really narrow it down too much but I'd look further into reviews of Super AE, Vision Creation Newsun, and Pop Tatari and see which one would fit you best. They're all pretty different.
― buyabiznatch (buyabiznatch), Saturday, 1 April 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)
Cool. Are any of these still available? Or are they out of print and hard to find now, like some other Japanese artists?
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Saturday, 1 April 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)
obscure noise cassette compilation from 1995, nobody knows anything. amazing.
― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)
Har Dee Har Har!! .....well, I at least would have expected more people to be interested, even if they hadn't heard of it.
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)
Ah, cool. I'm definitely going to have to put some time aside to check that out.
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)