New EP and music video from Qujaku
Sometime after their European tour and our interview, Qujaku kinda disappeared for a while: ever since mid-summer there weren't any news posted on their official or facebook site and rarely…
New solo project from Mono’s Taka: Behind The Shadow Drops + EU tour!
Mono's leader & composer Takaakira "Taka" Goto announced last year that he will start a new solo project, but for a long while there wasn't any further info about until…
Merzbow & Pándi Balázs takes Northern Europe in October!
The duo of Merzbow and Balazs Pándi will return to Europe yet again, this time for a short trip to the northern regions of Europe: - Finland, Helsinki: Ääniwalli -…
Three new releases from Contagious Orgasm!
Hiroshi Hashimoto's industrial / noise / experimental project Contagious Orgasm is very active nowadays with three new releases out in a matter of a few weeks: a new tape, a…
Grim’s Jun Konagaya returns with his third solo album!
Grim's upcoming 10" was only announced recently (as I posted about it last week), but it is already time for more new material from Jun Konagaya! Besides his ritual industrial…
Japanese New Music Festival with Tsuyama, Yoshida & Kawabata in Europe NOW!
It is a bit late as the tour already started two days ago, but the crazy Japanese New Music Festival, a traveling showcase / music circus which features three underground…
Haino / Merzbow / Pándi trio, OOIOO & Afrirampo in Europe!
One of the best and most interesting Japanese noise release from last year was a trio recording, out on UK's Rare Noise by Japanese noise / experimental legends Merzbow, Keiji…
Qujaku’s new 10″ EP and longest EU tour to date!
Back in 2015 when Qujaku (still under their old name, The Piqnic) played a totally out-of-the-blue show in Budapest during their first, short European tour, I went to check them…
ENA continues his Divided series with two new releases
Despite its Japanese name, Horo, a part of Samurai Music Group is a German label, based in Berlin, however they do have one prominent Japanese producer in their roster: who…
Akiko Kiyama, Sapphire Slows & Kyoka @ Boiler Room Tokyo! [Updated!]
The online stream site Boiler Room already broadcasted several great shows from Tokyo during the past few years, that featured acts like Muro, Merzbow, Boris, Goth-Trad, Broken Haze, plus the…