Boredoms
Of all the artists in Japan's thriving noise-music community, the Boredoms undoubtedly had the most fun. Although their maniacally extreme cacophony was by no means accessible listening, it was underpinned by a gleeful sense of humor that helped them find a limited (but still surprisingly wide) audience among alternative rockers. A typical Boredoms track might feature massively distorted guitars, squealing synths, any number of odd found-object noisemakers, or studio-manipulation effects; conventional song structures are thrown out the window in favor of abrupt, whiplash...[more]
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Japanese-only live release from Boredoms featuring audio from their 77 Boa Drum performance July 7, 2007 in New York on two CDs. Also includes a bonus photo book and DVD. "Deluxe package containing the full 100-minute '77 Boa Drum' performance on 2 CDs, split at the point in between the two sections of the piece. The two CDs are housed inside the front and back covers of a lovely 8"x12" hardcover book containing 28 pages of full color photos from the event. Also included is a DVD (NTSC format, All Re [ read more ]
2xCD+DVD $122.99
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It can still be said that they're the Boredoms, but it can also be said that they're not simply content to totally repeat themselves, established as the band's general formula is. The crowned princes and princesses of wackoaggro, here the Boredoms start to let more of their prog-rock fascination creep in, often doing so to brilliant effect. [ read more ]
MP3 $10.49
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It can still be said that they're the Boredoms, but it can also be said that they're not simply content to totally repeat themselves, established as the band's general formula is. The crowned princes and princesses of "wackoaggro," here the Boredoms start to let more of their prog-rock fascination creep in, often doing so to brilliant effect. "Acid Police," not merely a great opener but also one of the group's best songs, period, offers an a cappella call and response between Eye and his main vocal cohort, [ read more ]
CD $14.99
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2-disc Japanese-only release, from the same label that gave us Super Roots 9. The DVD features a 65-minute live performance, recorded in San Francisco, May 19th, 2005. The line up is Eye on vocals and electronics and general WTF, plus a circle of 3 drummers. The bonus CD features 2 new tracks: "U-bus" and "Relerer". The CD is a short EP, only about 11 minutes long. The info we received says: CD: "Yamataka Eye Original Breakbeats. DVD: Boredoms (V8REDOMS) live DVD." The DVD is NTSC format, all regions [ read more ]
CD+DVD $54.99
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This is a 12" x 18" Boredoms show poster for the March 16, 2008 show with Human Bell at The Music Box at the Fonda. Designed by: Ivan Minsloff.
Poster $17.99
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This is a 19" x 26" Boredoms show poster for the March 20 show with Human Bell at Crystal Ballroom. Designed by: Mike King/Crash America.
Poster $24.99
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Collecting the contents of the band's first two Japanese releases, Onanie Bomb shows that, from the start, the Boredoms were interested in musical chaos of a most unique degree. Rough but not lo-fi, Onanie rips, stomps, and explodes all over the place in several directions at once. Puris [ read more ]
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"Collecting the contents of the band's first two Japanese releases, Onanie Bomb shows that, from the start, the Boredoms were interested in musical chaos of a most unique degree. Rough but not lo-fi, Onanie rips, stomps, and explodes all over the place in several directions at once. Purists might object to calling some of what is whipped up 'songs,' but the goofy insanity in the death-march-meets-squalling-cartoon-voices of 'We Never Sleep,' and even the song titles that reach beyond over the top, like 'Lic [ read more ]
CD $14.99
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Appearing in America after an initial Japanese release, and with a revamped track listing and song titles to boot ("Bocabola" is called that here only because somebody somewhere was worried about what a certain soft drink company might think of the original title), Pop Tatari definitely holds the crown as being one of the strangest things to surface under a major label's auspices. Even the Butthole Surfers' major label debut that year looked straightforward in comparison. Starting off with "Noise Ramones," [ read more ]
CD $14.99
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"In what appears to be a match made in heaven (hell?), the Boredoms have enlisted Mo' Wax's UNKLE (James Lavelle and Richard File) to assemble this 'Dysfunctional Monster Jam', a lengthy (by Warner Japan standards) 46:01 non-stop DJ mix of various records from the Eye and Co.'s catalog, and it's a killer. This is trance music in the Paleolithic sense of the word, with occasional breakbeats and scratching (courtesy of the Nextmen); more of a reminder that the Boredoms still have a lot more in common with Amo [ read more ]
CD $36.99
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Second in a proposed trio of Boredoms mix CDs (DJ Krush will do the third one). A 51-minute mix by Ken Ishii, subtitled Unidentifed Freaked-up Outsteppers. More brilliant poster artwork by Ukawa J. Naohiro & Ausgang.
CD $36.99
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Third installment of this awesome BORE-manip program in which Krush works out (of) the back-catalogue over 44:51. 808 bass bombs, large amounts of guitar noise, some great gated phased drum bits (a nod towards early minimalism? you decide), parts of certain choons left intact, morphed with others. Surprisingly not the low-bit late-night crackle-pop stoner hip hop jam we were all expecting but something... slightly more challenging in a way, with a good deal of plunderphonia, digital editing, etc... An unlik [ read more ]
CD $33.99
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