Electric Pure Land

   

The Jacks-Vacant World

Vacant world is a Japanese psychedelic record that shifted  Japanese rock's sound from copycat American rhythm and blues to a sound that is strictly Japanese. I don't need to mention how beloved this album has been by those that transcended psychedelic rock but just take a look at the singer, Yoshio Hayakawa. That look did for Japan what Brian Jones did for England or Bob Dylan for the U.S.

             LOVE GENERATION

Shiny Crystal Planet

Masona and Angel'in Heavy Syrup getting together to form Christine 23 Onna; psych that is too good to pass up. This project eventually became Acid Eater, a more rough around the edges, fuzzed-out version of the original incarnation with two members added.

                                           Steady Dose of Acid in my Diet

SPACE FUNERAL

The end of the road in the search for the ultimate cult band.

FRICTION

Eat your heart out insert no wave post punk from anywhere in the world . Jagged guitar sounds,  tons of low end, another Japanese legendary band gone unnoticed.

Go HERE to download.

Cock Rock

GEZAN

Whoah Baybee!

Noise-A-Go-Go

So this one has stuck with me for a while and I get a huge grin on my face every time I pop the fucker in. With tracks like Cock Rock Incineration and Horrendously Anal-drilled, It's the type of album that'll make the right party get its dance on. So good makes you want to kill the cock rock greedy hog.

Gore Beyond Necropsy

Tokyo Flashback Comps

I don't know about you but I am a HUGE fan of what Japan's psychedelic bands have to give to the rest and especially to our Americentric ideals and culture. It's thanks to Japan that psychedelia is alive and well but to just call it psychedelic seems to rob them of the credit they're due. When that word comes to mind, the cheese comes a tumblin' over with thoughts of farfisa organs, paisley everything, and advocates of the psychedelic movement like Timothy Leary educating squares on acid. The Japanese seem to have incorporated not only the "brown acid" feel to it but with an overwhelming, destructive sound of feedback, reverb, and let's not forget, NOISE!!!
Keiji Haino, The Jacks, Les Rallizes, Flower Travellin' Band, the list goes on and on. Today, great bands like LSD March will seriously fuck you up inside if you sit down and let the music go on cruise control. So without further a do, all the credit and love in the world to the giving people at wehavenozen.blogspot.com for putting up these ultra lovely compilations of that sound, ya dig?

BROWN ACID

The Night Gallery Compilation (alchemy records)

Here is the underrated and excellent compilation by the great Japanese label, Alchemy Records. This is one that has been known to give PSF's Tokyo Flashback Comps a run for their money. If blissed-out, feedback drenched psych is your mojo, then stick your dick or vagina in the mashed potatoes because it's going to be that kind of party. Featuring lsd march, miminokoto, Doodles, Chouzu, and Up-tight. Don't miss out!

Props to japanunderground.blogspot.com (RIP) for initially putting this up for people on the web.

Psych Vomit

Les Rallizes Denudes

What can be said about this dejected, psychedelic, eastern-version of the velvet underground that some have dared call glam rock? Reverb/Delay drenched rock and roll with enough phaser and wah-induced rhythm to send you on a trance through the third-eye and back. Before Phoenix Records from the U.K. officially released the outstanding "Heavier than a death in the family" lp and the underrated "Blind Baby has its mother's eyes" lp, this bands bootlegs were being sold for a bit beyond the weighted price of gold. Having only had one official release in their discography, and the rest being bootlegs of live performances, Les Rallizes Denudes or sometimes known as, Hadaka no Rallizes offers a distinct and primitive form of rock-and-roll that any true lover of the genre will enjoy.

Read up on them from the great drudion himself, Julian Cope, on his book Japrocksampler, which ends up being snubbed on his list at number 3 by the following: Flower Travellin' Band-Satori (great release) and speed,glue, and shinki-eve (I nod my head in disapproval)

Go to wehavenozen's blog for access to all their stuff. He's done a great job putting the whole discography together and online for you guys and gals to enjoy. Here's the link:

http://wehavenozen.blogspot.com/2008/02/les-rallizes-denudes.html