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A radio broadcast by Tsuruko Shōfukutei, recorded by Juntaro in 1980. He's apparently a comedian, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was a comedic aspect to it and it wasn't really made for hog cranking. Understanding what they're saying would probably help.

Some really nice jazz plays, a man and a woman have a conversation, then it gets reverbed, and they do some fake moans later on. The recording has this nice lo-fi quality to it. ... read more

Another Gero 1-2-3-4 noisecore release, but the thing that differentiates it from the rest is the very loud bass rumble that ensues after each countdown. This makes it more accessible, as there aren't many ear-piercing high frequencies stabbing you in the ears, but also less interesting because the rumble is all there is besides Juntaro's screaming (he even gets drowned out by the bass; he sounds more tortured here). Most of the track titles are in Japanese and seem slightly more ... read more

In classic Gero fashion, a compilation of rare unreleased tracks is full of masturbation and noise.

B-Men No Saisho No Kyoku from SBITHM returns with its awkward phone call masturbation; I don't need to say more. Senzuri Twilight features nice flamenco guitar and trumpet playing, with a drum machine on top while a man jerks off. Stairway to Promotion is a recording of a piano solo cut in a Flexi-Disk using a cutting machine prepared for a 7" EP—it's similar to Piano/River ... read more

Well, I guess this is the longest HNW release I've heard up until now, as it's nearly 6 hours long! As you can see from the title, it's a split album between Vomir (who needs no introductions) and Trou (also a French HNW artist). Despite its length, I'd say it's accessible if you want to dip your toes into the genre, thanks to the diversity on display. Vomir does his signature walls with no change at all (though there are some exceptions, like the ambient droning on ... read more

Juntaro, who plays audio tapes, record players, and electronics, teams up here with Takeshi Ohmura on sax and FuJui Wang on "Taiwan radio tape" to make a sound collage—or they just provided him with these sound sources, because Fujui lives in Taiwan and Takeshi only played drums and guitar on prior releases, not to mention that the sax seems to come from Maceo Parker's & Fred Wesley's Horn Riffs For D.J.'s.

Original Hotel Ultra begins with free sax playing ... read more

The Gerogerigegege always had a more serious side from the beginning, but Endless Humiliation is their first release to be depressing. Atonal piano improvisation is paired with the ramblings of a homeless man. He talks, he sings, and he raises his voice, but it doesn't seem like it's directed towards anyone but himself. The rain and occasional traffic in the background just add to the loneliness. The man eventually stops speaking, and the fluctuating piano playing starts to get slower ... read more

The Geros infiltrate the dance music and hip hop markets! Juntaro plays the same loop for a few minutes, placing what I assume is audio culled from his ero tape collection on top. Document One features a sample of T La Rock's Three Minutes of Beat Box and some dude panting and talking. Document Two has this cool tribal house beat, and the grunting, masturbating fellow from Senzuri Champion's Rock'n Roll / Dutch Wife ABC and Singles 1985-1993's Violence Onanie makes a return! ... read more

Remember the meatier-than-usual versions of Rock'n Roll and Dutch Wife ABC on Senzuri Champion? This is the entire session, recorded on a cheap shit tape recorder to get the most pristine quality. The thing differentiating Senzuri Fight Back from other Gero noisecore releases is the "heavier" sound, as the low end is the most present here besides the feedback, the drums are steady and sound pretty nice, and Juntaro's screams sound more pained. The only exception to the ... read more

170 SONGS!!FUCK HEAD!!

This is the peak of the Gerogerigegege's noisecore output and perhaps even the genre itself, although I haven't heard many releases, so I can't speak on that. Instruments Disorder follows the same formula as every other Gero noisecore release: someone shouts the title, goes 1234!, and then noise follows; but unlike its siblings, it's noise all the way through—the guitars and any other noise-making equipment are somehow even less coherent than on ... read more

Goat's Holy Mountain is perhaps a bit too dynamic to be full-on HNW, but that doesn't make it a bad album. A rumble at the bottom and swirling/shifting static collide and fluctuate constantly: at times, it's the low end that reigns supreme; at other times, it's the high end; and, of course, there are times when both are very happy to enter your ears. It's the experience of being assaulted by yetis in the form of a 53-minute-long harsh noise track.

This album is the closest thing to an HNW Gero release before Juntaro made those bootlegs of bootlegs. It's not wall noise, but it is a monolithic slab of noise. It swirls and rumbles, changing between high-pitched assaults and meatier sections across the album's duration. A storm of bass guitar, feedback, screaming, and who knows what else from hell—distorted bliss for nearly an hour. If you've enjoyed Violence Onanie from Senzuri Champion, you'll like this one too, ... read more

In my eyes, this is just a boring, albeit slightly weird, ambient/ASMR/sound effect/whatever record. There's the classic 1-2-3-4 countdown, and I don't think what comes after it is someone doing a number 2. It sounds like someone splashing water and fucking around with something in it, or maybe someone is eating without manners. No way it's actually a person taking a dump: no farts, no grunts, nothing. The fact that this "defecation" session goes on for 8 minutes makes ... read more

"NOT FOR SALE
FOR GIFT TO GREAT FRIENDS
SILENCE IS THE BEST MUSIC.
THIS E.P. IS NOT NIHILISTIC PRODUCT.
PLAY AT 75 rpm OR ANY SPEED. YOU CAN HAVE SILENT TIME"

This blank flexi-disc given out to friends by Juntaro is nothing special, as plenty of silent records came out before it. The thing that differentiates these "anti-records" is the intention behind them. I like the message that Juntaro is sending with this one; I think it also ties into Juntaro's thoughts that ... read more

Mother Fellatio is another session with Jeff Warmouth, just like Yellow Trash Bazooka, except that there's no drum machine here, no G theme going on in the track titles (I think they're even in Japanese here), and it feels like the two are going faster than on that one. The noise here is bassier and harsher; it's like a noisier, funnier All You Need Is Audio Shock. It isn't as hilarious as its sibling, but it's on the same level of quality when it comes to the noise ... read more

Yellow Trash Bazooka is one of two sessions with Jeff Warmouth (the other being Mother Fellatio). It's probably the funniest noisecore Gero release, as Jeff and Juntaro have lots of fun with the title shouts and countdowns (they laugh and switch things up once in a while). Every track title begins with the letter G, and you can actually understand them, as Jeff just says a lot of them normally with his American accent (Juntaro only screams out 1-2-3-4). This makes the short blast of noise ... read more

A fun little EP with tracks recorded in 1985. Kosei and Seiyoku are just excerpts of I'm Herpes, Yes I Am and Absolute Rape Beat from Senzuri Champion, respectively. Both have these mechanical pulses; on the former, there are also people talking, and on the latter, there's this electronic swishing. The title track is similar to Ai Jin, as it features Juntaro's distorted, unrecognizable vocals on top of noise and a synth. The first recording shows off an attempt at the 1234 ... read more

Juntaro tortures the shit out of two records and the record players they're on while also running that through reverb or something. It results in overblown needle scraping and scratching, which makes for a decent noise record—it's cool, but not really interesting.

Shinsekai is both more and less aggressive/crazier than Aratamemashite; when they go insane, they are absolutely unhinged, and when they get poppy, they are pretty nice. I feel like people don't like this one as much because not every track has some heaviness in it, and they just want Mariko screaming into their face for the entire runtime. I do enjoy having my face torn to shreds for an album's entire duration a lot, but I think this is Midori's best album; all the songs, ... read more

I haven't heard much D-Beat, but this is certainly one of the best albums, as it doesn't go on for half a fucking hour and actually kicks ass for its entire runtime of 18 minutes. Apparently Gauze attempted to sound faster than the speed they're actually playing at, and I think they actually manage to do that here. It's far from the fastest piece of music I've heard, but at the same time it's blazingly fast fun that gets your blood pumping.

The Geros decide to make some hardcore, and the result isn't bad at all—you can actually hear what they're playing on here. The first track, Hate & War, is the closest to a proper song on here, as it's almost 2 minutes long. The rest (except for TV Eye) doesn't even surpass the 30-second mark! There's a little variety on here, and as I mentioned before, this isn't a noisefest. Pretty decent for when you need to get your fix of the Geros doing ... read more