VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA!!

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What can all you more informed fellas out there tell me about this wonderfully titled (group?/one man band?)???
I have recently become incredibly interested in Japanese music since seeing AfriRAMPO live earlier this month, probably the best show I've ever seen so far. But, whenever I read about Japanese music, Violent Onsen Geisha always seems to pop up, and since the name is so memorable, I cannot ignore it anymore! What releases should I get!? Is Violent Onsen Geisha worth checking out?? If not, (or even if so) what other Japanese music is worth checking out???

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 07:07 (twenty years ago)

violent onsen geisha similar in style to merzbow's more dada-esque cut-up style work - not great by any stretch - possibly very derivative -= nonsequiturs & random blatant plunderphonia & tin lid banging & screaming .
what I think it wished it was was the Arschloch-Onna CD by masonna, rudolf eb.er & dave phillips which is the daftest and most disturbing hour long fidget of screams, noise, giggles & vomit splutter.
seek out something worthwhile of japanese music like taj mahal travellers, koenji hyakkei, denki groove's "A", or "orange", tomoe shinohara's "super model" album, "ISO" by ISO

― bob snoom (vestibule), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

yo snoom, get out the room. Violent Onsen Geisha are awesome. Check out their stuff with NNCK. Below is their discography, from their (not frequently updated) website. "Que Sera Sera" and "Shocks" are probably the best albums to work off of, if you can get your hands on a copy.

CASSETTES
-Cry Baby Killer
-Dada Junk Spew collaboration with Prick Decay
-Electric Orgasm
-Live At Ass Hall
-Psychedelic Hardcore Blues
-Shocking Early Works 83-85
-Shocks! Shocks! Shocks!
-Show Business
-Super Sly
-Tenderly
-The Black Elvis '70
-Wagamama Na Ofukuro
-Wood Splitter
-untitled split with Reiko A.
-untitled collaboration with Cock ESP
CDs
-Black Lovers: Early Lost Tapes 1988
-Excrete Music
-Nation Of Rhythm Slaves
-Otis
-Que Sera Sera
-Shocks
-Teenage Pet Sounds
-The Midnight Gambler
-U.S. Tour '95
-Violent Onsen Geisha
VINYLs
-Balloon Collector In The Wilderness (Who Is Totally Naked)
-Erotic World
-Reprovisers split with Jim O'Rourke
-untitled split with Masonna
VIDEOS
-Death Geisha 1999
COMPILATION AND REMIX APPEARANCES
-69/96
-A Musical Souvenir Of Trattoria Menu.100's Musical Kingdom
-Angels Of Life In A Psychic Wasteland
-A True Star
-Boogie With The Wizard
-Cataclastic Fracture
-Charnel House Sampler
-Come Again
-Come Again II
-Conflagration
-Cycle Hits
-Digital Catastroph
-Dry Lungs V
-Entertainment Through Pain
-Garbage Sandwich
-I'm Stupid
-Keep On Burning
-Kill The All Noise Japanese Artists
-Kingdom Of Noise
-Lo-Fi
-Mi Caballito Chulo....! Como Lo Quie Ro.....
-Mimikaki
-Monthly Radio Show On The Alternative Radio Station LoRA, Zurich - Mar. 1992
-Ne San
-Noise And Junk Omnibus
-Noise Forest
-Rearcar Vol. 1
-Reprovisers
-Sountrack For The End Of The World
-The Miracle Of Re-Creation
-Violent Ambient
-Vidas Ilustres
-Wohlstand

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

bob snoom OFF THE MONEY

VOG is one Masaya Nakahara but frequently collaborates with others. And he's great if you like the Hanatarash end of the noise spectrum, far more interesting than any distorted fart from Merzbow's tired ass. Shocks! Shocks! Shocks! is the one most easily found but isn't that great. I would suggest:

-Black Lovers: Early Lost Tapes 1988
-Teenage Pet Sounds

I've heard the "U.S. Tour '95" but I can't remember how good it was. I'd love to hear the other albums but damn that shit is hard to find.

― smokemon (eman), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure I've seen the US Tour 95 cd available too, its live collaborations w/ Thurston Moore, Smegma, Truman's Water

― smokemon (eman), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

lol

http://members5.boardhost.com/onsengeisha/

― smokemon (eman), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Shocks is good VOG? i've been trying for years now to find even one moment redeeming enough to keep this CD out of the trade-in pile. still trying. i do like Otis and that Bloody Butterfly 3CD thing (which isn't on the official discog?), but i get nothing at all from Shocks, no matter how much i put in.

VOG has a (juvenile) sense of humor, which immediately makes his stuff more than Merzbow redux japanoise. i'd say it's closer to the spirt of Sylvie & Babs Nurse with Wound or Schimpfluch Gruppe/Sudden Infant.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (echoinggrove), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

http://members5.boardhost.com/onsengeisha

perfect how that worked out..

― Russell (Russell), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

yoo don't like beastie boy samples???
yoo don't did ANAL MACHINE MUSIC???
party jamz

― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

I like some of what I've heard by this band, the 'Balloon Collector in the Wilderness (Who Is Totally Naked)' 7" is just short enough to last

however my tastes also run a little closer to the other records Snoom mentions, and that Arschloch-Onna CD is definitely worth checking out if you like VOG

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

though they're very different, the Arschloch-Onna CD is brutal noises, and VOG is more cut-up cartoon yay fun

haven't heard Black Lovers or Teenage Pet Sounds, will have to check those out, somehow

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Teenage Pet Sounds is amazing
he also did a great Cornelius remix around that same time
you can't go wrong with VOG (except for that Live CD)

some short Hair Stylistics samples here:
http://www.daisyworld.co.jp/discs/3_19.html

― Russell (Russell), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

"yo snoom, get out the room"

That line's a classic!

Okay, well it seems like this stuff may be a little hard to get.
I appreciate the thorough discography though, which brings me to....
probably the most contoroversial question here on ilm. And that is..

.....ysi???

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 30 March 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)

that RRR cd (gambler) suuuucked so hard i never bothered looking for anything else. which is just as well because it's impossible to find.

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Thursday, 30 March 2006 04:34 (twenty years ago)

I'd have to digitize bootlegged tapes-- maybe this summer, gurgle.

(blah blah blah

― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 30 March 2006 06:03 (twenty years ago)

Ok then, this summer it is! Don't forget now buddy. : )

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 30 March 2006 07:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm a patient guy, I'd say......

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 30 March 2006 07:16 (twenty years ago)

that RRR cd (gambler) suuuucked so hard

that was my first exposure to VOG, and it's still a good listen
one of the best CDs in the "Pure" series
It may even be in print today...I got a 2nd copy just last year

nobody's mentioned his collabs with Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy...

― Russell (Russell), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Well then, it looks like I just may check it out then!

For a second there I almost thought he collaborated with Paul McCartney.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 31 March 2006 03:21 (twenty years ago)

here's the best track off the not-so-good Shocks! Shocks! Shocks! remix 93 cd:

Violent Onsen Geisha "Ander the Cover Night"

― smokemon (eman), Friday, 31 March 2006 04:21 (twenty years ago)

Cool. I appreciate it.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:38 (twenty years ago)

I've struggled abit with what I've been able to hear of VOG, but I gotta say the shout-out to him/them on Cornelius' '1996' is wink-wink amusing.

― BARMS, Friday, 31 March 2006 08:46 (twenty years ago)

wait, did he do "fuck off rrrecords, bye bye noise music?" because that's a good time.

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:33 (twenty years ago)

That one song kind of reminds me of "Freak Out" style Frank Zappa stuff. Is it pretty representational of VOG? 'Cuz I like that type of stuff.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

yoo don't like beastie boy samples???

Why do so many Japanese noisers love the beasties so much?

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

only guys who rap worse than them.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=2FC61FC62F1B6181

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

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