24. August 07: West Germany/9pm:
Yximalloo (JP), Consumer Electronics (UK, Berlin), Heatsick (UK)
---------Psychedelic, Grinding, Rhythmic,Trancelike---------------------------------------------------------
Yximalloo is Naofumi Ishimaru alone, but he drafts a loose ensemble of players, including the core of Shigeo Ootake and Takashi Korgo (who appear on all discs), as collaborator-executors. All of his releases are on his own label, and none have seen a distributor yet (which is why you very rarely find his CDs in stores). Mr. Ishimaru recently visited Other Music, and left us with (_very_ limited!) quantities of his entire catalog. Ishimaru works like a Japanese Jandek without the angst, like the Boredoms minus the bombast. Spiritual kin to early artpunk and especially the LAFMS, he revels in mock-ethnic music and nonsense. Lo-fi, sweet and primitive, he uses ancient drum machines, hand percussion, and electronic droplet noises, sometimes set to melodies gathered from some imaginary South Sea island where the traditional instrument is seemingly an old '80s synth. Handclaps and chanting abound, but Yximalloo has also been painted as a Japanese Half Japanese -- Jad Fair himself has collaborated with Ishimaru and draws the covers for every release here (gorgeous dayglo and glow-in-the-dark covers in iridescent plastic cases). Recording since 1973 (!), he still has but one Yximalloo release in the States, last year's retrospective LP on Old Gold. Most CDs are around 70 minutes and usually contain over 30 tracks. Just listen to a few of the RealAudio samples to get a glimpse into his strange sound-world.-Other Music RE-
Consumer Electronics (Philip Best of Whitehouse)
consumer eBEEN EARNING MUCH KELLY?
OR STILL SCRATCHING AROUND
LIKE A MISUNDERSTOOD CIRCUS DOG
WANTING THE PLEASE PERSON HUG
BUT GETTING THE DRUG-LACED FEED
WELL, FUCK THAT
ROBOTIC SCHOOLBUS PROMISCUITY
AND SURLY PANSY STATE OF LEARNED HELPLESSNESS
YOU’RE STILL SOMEONE WHO STAYS
WAY TOO LONG STUMBLING
FROM ONE POINTLESS DISASTER TO THE NEXT
HOW LITTLE IT TAKES
HOW LITTLE THERE FUCKING IS
The Hiding/Philip Best
heatsickHeatsick is the solo guise of Steven Warwick, one half of ecstatic psychedelic duo Birds of Delay. Releases on own Alcoholic Narcolepsy Label and upcoming on New Age cassettes, Hiul City and Not Not Fun.
"dense tarp honey fly cobweb former and smashers. like being carried through a new portal at dusk with hazy recollections of the previous. looped memory melts transporting into a whole new fucked hybrid. sunset melts and babbling brook carries you along for the ride. January River and the lost sediment. Akin to travelling through sinotays (sic) with gaseous clouds of various densities"
phil best at wg
