Japan Bashing vols.1-3
2 March, 2010It’s strange to look back and realise that even as late as 1990, the new Japanese experimental rock music was a rarity in the West. Fuelled by the desperately tantalising reviews of discs on Alchemy, PSF and Bron in the pages of Forced Expsure magazine, noiseheads were drooling at the thought of this brain melting psych racket finally making its way beyond Japan’s borders. So praise was duly given to the fine people of Public Bath Records, creators of these three seminal EPs of new Japanese rock racketry. These days, as the saying goes, nobody knows if it really happened.
Japan Bashing Volume 1, 7″, Public Bath, 1990
A1. Boredoms – Discow Moscow
A2. UFO or Die – Space Disco
B1. Omoide-Hatoba – Linear Motor Jet Shop
B2. Hanadensha – Future Deadlock
Japan Bashing Volume 2, 7″, Public Bath, 1990
A. Subvert Blaze – Butterfly (Away Mix)
B1. Playmate – Upside Down
B2. Playmate – Life is Never Too Short
Japan Bashing Volume 3, 2×7″, Public Bath, 1991
A. Hijokaidan – Theme of the Taste of Wild West
B. Solmania – Highdrophobia Part 2
C. Hanatarash – Galaxy Boost & Hanataradelic Planet Dub (Sore Diamond Remix)
D. Masonna – Hot Licks From a Cunning Linguist
Excellent, you’re saving me the hassle of digitizing these myself! But Megaupload is saying that the files are “temporarily unavailable”…not sure what that means.
Just a bit of housekeeping at their end would be our guess – they’re all fine now.
Thorsten S—
[...] out the posting of these singles here. Volume 1 is sort of the Boredoms axis, with tracks from them, UFO or Die, Omoide Hatoba, and [...]
These are cool, thanks for posting. Public Bath was my introduction to the mighty Zeni Geva as well through Total Castration.