consummate cataclysm. In compilation formation.
Somewhere around 2010, Kikanju Baku & some yardi yokels started compelling & compiling outings, experiments, excursions & escalations in noise, avant-lard, chamber music, jazz, gunk, technically proficient grindcore, & other hyper divarications & deformations in conterminous tissues & heavily modified eccentricity with mutating extremities in the orbit of speedcore, power electronics, prog, farrago, abnorm, & unorthodox improvisation.
never parochial, the effort was a highly-intercontinental bonanza, with a kind of death-wish intrepidity that gravitated towards creative zealotry at it’s most boundless & bountiful, adhering singularly to a kind of runaway-art-fundamentalism.
shit ran on nothing but pure artistic temerity, with-out-so-much-as a momentary compromise, & was expressly shrill, berserk & extravagant in this fanatical principle & commitment.
organizing & inducing collaborations & recording sessions as well as fostering exclusive or rare materials from obscure &/or established nut-fucks, the label agitated to precipitate pandemonium & preternatural permutation of the profoundest & purest calibre – with fuck all considerations to any obstructive or limiting criteria or interference.
no suits, business adherence or “arts” funding of any sort has ever been involved, & everything was/is decided, presided & operated by the artists alone.
manifesting mostly as spray-painted CDR’s – & the odd cassette – & swaddled in A4-sleeves with eye-gouging sleeve art, clasped together with a variant of coloured paper clips, the fuckers have just bequeathed their 28th edition – Okinawa Seafront Thuggin’ Kitter on a radioactive uranium-yellow hand-tagged CDR.
The x323-hand-numbered copies express-expel 95% elusive materials in over sixty-minutes, spanning eleven tracks between ten acts.
Sunjae Lee, Rui Ibana & Kikanju Baku – cuspid, turbulent & gracile ultra-avant-jazz from electric bassist Rui Ibana, saxophonist Sunujae Lee & Cursed One Kikanju Baku on drmmmmmmmmmmz … rekd live in Seoul summer 2024.
Sunjae Lee with Jeonghyeon Joo – absonant avant-warp from haegeum (traditional two-stringed Korean fiddle) player Joo & Lee performing as a duo.
Fallopian Disco Force – Oh you motherfukkuz!! ….. Tokyo trash noise, junk-out garbage roller with fem vox, blaring harsh tat & slop drums … what’s not to fall hopelessly besotted with whilst you snorkel hard sewage?!
屑拾い – over-driven, colossal, crass, cauterizing mass—mangling avant-grindnoise & improvised down-and-out dirt-cuisine from acid-eaten & scum caked Osaka storm drain from mad Nishimoto & Kikanju Baku.
Chris Pitsiokos & Kikanju Baku – further fantastical face-rip from leading “black element” luminaries – tearing away in a near-derelict barn with zero-electricity & maximum exemplitude.
Er Zhē – also known as “RJ”, the mercurial Hong Kong multi-instrumentalist & Chinese chamber & avant-garde impresario here performing a solo performance on a Morin Khuur (Mongolian horse head fiddle) & the Chinese pipa (tear shaped lute).
Bollock Swine – criminy! impossible avant-lard Gunk Neko-Neko-Noyzcore Abnorm screamcore blast-frenzy influessence that is beyond-the-barriers-of-all-bat-shit. Paroxysmed live in Osaka 2023, they contribute the track Blob Blab that features on their Wallop Cervix split tape with Kylie Minoise, & one exclusive, never-before-heard cut from the same recording session – Sherbet Scuttlebutt. Glorious garakuta Gunk godatsu.
Pataphysics – multi-instrumentalist, rapper, composer & activist Patrick Marks/Pataphysics lobs this exclusive tripped-out & powerful solo-trumpet track laden with masses of fx-pedal modulations.
Codehell – Japanese-Brazilian Industrial-IDM Noise-Glitch craft with digitally skewed & addled scream vocals … fresh-off a split cassette Hypnos Dream with Kikanju & Pitsikos on Ethnicity Against the Error.
Jazzy mayhem International – somewhere beyond the 57th parallel, there is this international Abnorm project esemplasticating avant-chamber music, avant-jazz, farrago, noise & extreme electronics by a cabal of musicians under the aegis of Canadian sound engineer & speedcore producer Chris Rivard grafting the debris onto solo drum imporivsations by Cursed One.
An impressive & uber-ecclectic task-force of musicians exact – with this debut track from JMI featuring Er Zhē on Gehu (Chinese cello), Rivard & Gauz on synths & noise, & Pataphysics on trumpet.
Howling & hurtling heteroclite heirophancy.
Never one to spare excess with art & design, this edition of Erst-while Antrum comes with the garbled photographic montages scrounged by Kikanju on itinerant amnblings of stray dogs, guttersnipe gangster-ass back-alley cats, mad mountain macaques, & other cult curio shit from backwoods Korea, small town Okinawa seafare & free-roaming Kaohsiung, jangled & junked by mental Monique.
A complete fuck-up f’ y’ ………..
physical copies only, available direct from the artists, at their gigs & more adventurous outlets operating under authentic independent autonomy.
die-hard artistic fundamentalism & art kamikaze or death.
