Ryo Murakami: Tiers / #2021reviews
Ryo Murakami came from a tech house / minimal techno background, but sometime around 2013, after he built up quite a name for himself in those circles with a series…
Toshimaru Nakamura: Culvert – No-Input Mixing Board 10 / #2021reviews
No-Input Mixing Board is Toshimaru Nakamura's long-running series, which started in 2000 and, as the title suggest, it includes music created with a no-input mixing board, which basically means that…
Controlled Death / Mayuko Hino split / #2021reviews
One of this year's surprise releases was a joint album from Controlled Death and Mayuko Hino, two seminal figures of the Japanese noise scene, that came out on UK's Cold Spring…
Grim: Totem Song / #2021reviews
Unlike the previous entries in the "A Year In Reviews" series, this one is not an album, but a 7" single, however it is a very special one, the kind…
Mainliner: Dual Myths / #2021reviews
Mainliner was originally formed in 1995 by Asahito Nanjo (of High Rise) on bass and vocals and Makoto Kawabata (of Acid Mothers Temple) on guitars and a few years, a…
A Japanese noise & experimental Who’s Who by Ochiai Soup
While the music industry and live music in particular was hit especially hard by the pandemic, there are also some great things coming out of all this and one of…
New collab album from Boris & Merzbow, inspired by 2020.
The first collaboration between Boris and Merzbow called Megatone was released back in 2002 and ever since then they drop a new joint album every few years. The new one,…
New collab album and cassette releases from Viviankrist
Viviankrist is the name Eri Isaka (probably still better known as Vivian Slaughter, singer / bassist of black metal band Gallhammer) started to use for her solo releases after she…
New “Cuts” album from the Merzbow / Pándi / Gustasfsson trio
In the fourth installment in their Cuts series (which started with Cuts in 2013 and was followed by Cuts Of Guilt, Cuts Deeper in 2015 and Cuts Up Cuts Out…
New collaboration from Merzbow and Gareth Davis out early next year!
After another very busy year, that included several new albums and reissues (the latter including the classic Venereology and countess long forgotten releases on Japan's Slowdown Records) Merzbow will start…