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So.. I kinda forgot to scan the cover
I'll get it done someday

2006 - MW (lossless)

The first one is just pure sonic blast mostly. Ultra-raw and heavy, sludge-noise metal.
Primitive Neurosis with Skullflower noise level and Killing Joke backbone.
The obvious better one among the two, don't miss it.

1. I Don't Kill You
2. For David
3. The Calling Out Of Soldier's Mind
4. Sencitive (My Soul)
5. Who's Next
6. The Deadly Friends (R.I.P)

2010 - M.A.R.K.Z (lossless)

Is much weirder. The line-up changed completely except for Kan (vox), and although the first track is written by Hyo Kagawa (who was the guitar player on the first album, and wrote all of it's tracks), the music is drastically different.
This is like a pub band is jamming that same sludge-noise metal (oh yes, it's still heavy), feeling liberated to go where ever they want (Ska beats, East Bay Ray surf punk guitar, you name it), especially the bass player (the best thing on this album) with his in your face bass lines after bass lines. Great remix by Balata at the end.
Could have been better with some guidance at the recording probably.

1. Cancer
2. Murasaki
3. Black Rainbow
4. Waltz
5. Hate Song
6. Black Rainbow (Monke¥ Wa$ Dubbed Remix)

Thanks to Zager for lending me his copies.

Friction

Just two live sets by フリクション some might have trouble finding online.

1996 - Friction Live 1980

Recorded by the classic trio at Kanagawa University (Kanagawa, Japan) on 1980.05.25.

160kbps but audio is pretty good for 1980's live recording. The better show between the two.

Re-released in 2007 under Friction Live, Pass Tour '80.

1. Time Smoke

2. Big-S

3. A-Gas

4. Cycle Dance

5. No Thrill

6. 100 Nen

7. Ikigire

8. Automatic Fru.

9. Out

10. Kagayaki

2006 - Live At "Ex Mattatoio" In Roma

Recorded by the second incarnation at "Japan Japan Festival" in Rome on 1984.08.28.

Lossless rip. This was previously released back in 1985, with shorter setlist, this release includes as far as I know the full show.

1. Intro

2. Ikigire (Out of Breath)

3. Pick Up

4. New Baby's

5. New Sensation

6. Defence

7. Easy

8. Cushion

9. Crazy Dream

Shintaro Sugiyama - Newton's Oblige

1960-1996

杉山晋太郎 was mostly known for being bass player in The Stalin, later he also participated in Hijokaidan and late Daisuck & Prostitute, among being a guest player in a few other projects.
In 1986 he released through legendary Alchemy Records his only solo album (with help from some friends), Newton's Oblige, which was also re-released by Inudow in 2007.
To be honest it's far from being a perfect album, but it's still an album I like to listen to in gloomy days like this. Gothic, bleak post punk/darkwave, with even some hints of industrial or no wave. Not a single track is a "usual song", all are repetitive eerie compositions, a bit like Mass, only less experimental. If you're into dark 80's and or Japanese shit, you should give a shot.
Unfortunately I've got a pretty bad rip (128kbps), so also added to the zip, an extract of the title track, which was used in 1988 Alchemism compilation, and is ripped correctly, giving you a sense how this should sound when ripper does his job right.







1. Lose One's Sense
2. オレンジ [Orange]
3. I.C's
4. 睫 (まつげ) [Eyelashes]
5. Newton's Oblige / Qui Vous L'a Dit
6. シーツ [Sheets]
[google translations so..]

Shintaro died in 1996, slipped while drunk from a staircase at a cabin in the Japanese Alps.

Just passing your music on, Mr. Sugiyama

Daisuck & Prostitute - Daisuck & Prostitute

Those of you who were reading back in the days the legendary Mutant Sound are probably familiar with Daisuck & Prostitute, a psychedelic noisy rock group, which sounds like Friction jamming with James Chance & The Contortions in a Tokyo lunatic asylum.
This is their first self titled EP, released back in 1980, consisting the same line up you heard on the full length only with different drummer.
Contains 4 songs, 3 are early versions of the full length songs (Soshite Street will be titled そしてストリート・カーはゆっくり走る), with only one song unique for this one (Frogs)

    There it is, enjoy