Artist: VA
Album: Vanity Records - Finest Selection 1978 to 1981
GENRE...: Avantgarde
LABEL...: Save Music Before SCENE DATE.: 2010-10-22
bITRATE.: 320 kbps avg STORE DATE.: 2010-10-20
ENCODER.: GarageBand 5.1 TRACKS.....: 12
SiZE....: 122.8MB SOURCE.....: LP
- TRACKLIST
1 BGM - And 4:46
2 Sympathy Nervous - Inverted Type 3:31
3 Dada - Tuuen Inraaku Gaki 5:39
4 Mad Tea Party - Hide & Seek 3:09
5 RNA Organism - Yes, Every Africa 3:12
Must Be Free Eternally
6 Arbeit - Bundes Nachrichten 7:15
Dienst
7 Aunt Sally - Aunt Sally 6:41
8 Morio Agata - Koi no rajio shiti 5:29
9 Normal Brain - Music 4:28
10 Perfect Mother - You'll No So 4:23
Wit
11 Tolerance - Sacrifice 2:10
12 Kiro Radical - Denki Noise Dance 2:51
3
Total Playtime: 53:34
URL..: http://https://agiyuzuru.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/vanity-records-19
- NOTES
1. "Vanity records is one of the best Japanese music secrets. Sounds like
New York's late '70s post-punk scene such as James White, Martin Rev or even
ESG. Early techno gems, disco-punk and noisy landscapes with a real Japanese
flavour. Founded in Kyoto in 1978 by chief editor of Rock Magazine, Agi
Yuzuru, this label has a short but very interesting production. Only 10 long
play albums, 3 7" singles, one double compilation, and few cassettes were
recorded between 1978 and 1980. Some flexi discs were given with Rock
Magazine issues during 1980. All of the records were extremely limited and
released in editions of 200 and 500 copies. Most of the covers were handmade
and nowadays original pressing are impossible to find and change hands for
hundreds of dollars. Here's your last chance to get the finest selection
from one of the best underground and experimental Japanese movement."(back
cover)
Vinyl only release. 2010 French press. Probably bootleg. Even the record
label is spottily translated: Save Music Before Loose It.
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2. I am not a fan of bootleg's... I almost never buy them and I never will
sell them in my webshop... but here is a record that is an exception. I will
still not sell it in my webshop but it deserves to be mentioned. Also this
bootleg is for a part justified as all music concerned is very hard to
get... if not impossible. Next to that most artists will be very hard to
trace down.
What we are dealing with here is a compilation around the well known but
obscure Vanity Records label. This Japanese label was active between 1978
and 1981 and released ten albums, some singles, one compilation album and
some cassettes and flexi discs. The music released on Vanity Records was
experimental, avant-garde, proto elektro/techno among some other noises...
often with a typical Japanese twist.
On this LP are twelve tracks by twelve artists. The liner notes are in bad
English, but the tracklisting states the origin of all the music. But more
imnportant it is a real trip into some excellent minimal and experimental
music.
What to think of the track by Dada for example?! A deep scary bass drum is
the basis on top of which some Pink Floyd like guitar improvisations are
played... mind blowing! Equally good but very much post-punk is the Mad Tea
Party piece. A track Joy Division or The Cure could have done when on a
trip. A twisted reggae tune is served by RNA Organism and a strange and dark
soundscape is delivered by Arbeit.
Then I did not mention yet a Japanse cover of a Joy Division track by Morio
Agata, or a piece of Kraftwerk like minimal proto elektro by Normal Brain or
the outstanding weird but scary minimal music tune by Tolerance or or or...
If you need more references... well I could name two of my favorite 1980's
band to give an idea of what to expect... think Alesia Cosmos and think
Ptose... if you dig those bands you will love this compilation.
While the originals are almost impossible find, or if you find a good copy
you will need to pay a few hundred euros for it, I advice to pick up a copy
of this LP now... or be sorry later...