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12" LP · (Urashima)

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INCAPACITANTS are the best noise band to ever come out of Japan. The group was formed in 1981 in Osaka, as the solo project of Toshiji Mikawa, a member of the amazing noise group HIJOKAIDAN. Mikawa, a bank employee who then became a deputy general manager of one of the largest securities brokers in Japan, later moved to Tokyo, where he joined with government office worker Fumio Kosakai (also an occasional member of HIJOKAIDAN, as well as a former member of C.C.C.C.) to make INCAPACITANTS a duo. Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai are no ordinary salarymen, though. They've been making some of the most unremittingly ear-shattering racket for decades as INCAPACITANTS, one of the most significant noise outfits to emerge from the groundbreaking Japanese scene in the early 1980s, and still one of the most radical and powerful. They've consistently been responsible for some of the most complex, chaotic, loud and downright fun releases in the genre.

Explore Gospel Nights is a shocking cassette from 1993, released by one of the Japanoise-defining labels, Vanilla Records, whose sound is particularly exciting, agonizingly dense and full of detail. There's very little air to breathe here. "Gospel" refers to the place (in Tokyo) where the recordings were made, so don't expect traditional spirituals. Instead you get some truly alien performances, complete with the sporadic screaming of vivisected baboons drowning in sonic sludge. There are two tracks on the release: "Bitter Insect" on side A and the super lo-fi "Accelerated No(i)sebleed" on side B, in all probability recorded directly from the soundboard. Just pure, unadulterated electronic distortion of the highest quality done by two of the highest masters who have ever turned the knob on a distortion pedal. Fun, terrifying, hypnotic and fascinating all at the same time; their noise takes root not in violence or gimmickry, but in pure energy. It also serves as great example of just what makes well-done noise so great: the layers of complexity that build upon each other reveal new and different textures and patterns on subsequent listenings.

Limited to 300 copies. Mastered by Toshiji Mikawa and reissued for the first time on vinyl. Pressed on 140g black vinyl with black center labels and a black inner sleeve. Housed in a black cardstock sleeve with deluxe silver silkscreen printing. Includes a cover photo of a Tomyodai Lighthouse in the late Meiji and an insert on classic ultra-bright paper with glossy finish featuring a perfect replica of the original art from the Vanilla Records tape cover. Each copy is housed in an envelope of golden tissue golden paper sealed with a sticker, just as the original tape release.

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