LAST COPY!

It's a great moment for reissues of ambitious, historical relics of Japanese noise. One after another, these artifacts have emerged from the shadows, entirely rewriting what so many of us thought we knew. Now, at long last, before us rests another piece of the puzzle - the first ever vinyl reissue of one of the most sought after artifacts from the '80s noise scene - INCAPACITANTS' Project Pallo '85, originally issued in 1985 by Pariah Tapes, and now reemerging in a new fully remastered edition by Andrea Marutti.

Few projects can claim the seminal importance of INCAPACITANTS on the worldwide noise scene. 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 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.

In the early eighties when based in Osaka, Mikawa occasionally performed as INCAPACITANTS as part of various duets, most notably with Yamatsuka Eye of HANATARASH and BOREDOMS, and set up the Pariah Tapes label in order to release the first INCAPACITANTS material. The label started in 1981 with Eternal Paralysis and Peony Crackers, and in 1985 released Project Pallo '85 as a triple cassette in a handmade box. About two and a half hours divided in 7 long tracks of pure, unadulterated electronic distortion of the highest quality from one of the true masters among those who have ever turned the knob on a distortion pedal. The noise here is fun, terrifying, hypnotic and fascinating all at the same time; it takes root not in violence or gimmickry, but in uncontaminated energy.

Pressed on 140gr black vinyl. Housed in a deluxe grey wooden box with front/back laser engraving plus three cardstock covers with imagery from the original box cover art, an original dragon drawing by Takuya Sakaguchi used for the box artwork and the original insert. Limited edition of 299 numbered copies. Essential.