New Gerogerigegege album 2019-08-01 by dimsim3478 | 11 Comments | Legendary Japanese "ultra shit band" The Gerogerigegege have revealed a new LP titled 『UGUISUDANI APOCALYPSE』, proclaiming it their first new full-length since the mysterious 2016 "comeback" album 『燃えない灰』 (Moenai Hai). The LP will be released through the London-based label The Trilogy Tapes, known for their commitment to outlandish underground music and striking graphic design. Copies will be available from the band in "early-to-mid August" (this month), while The Trilogy Tapes will be ready for distribution "soon".
The announcement on The Gerogerigegege Facebook page seems to describe the concept behind 『UGUISUDANI APOCALYPSE』 as some kind of "soundtrack" relating thematically to the "dangerous" Uguisudani Station in Tokyo which serves "the smallest number of commuters per day on the Yamanote Line operated by the East Japan Railway Company". The announcement also states that the album will be composed of 12 "domestic deep groove" tracks, drawing on electronica and "left-field dance music from all over the world" including alternative house, techno and dub.
As such, it is possible that the album will merely consist of obscure old songs by other artists, or new material composed from samples of these songs. The Gerogerigegege has pulled this prank repeatedly over the course of their history. Most recently, they released a "new" 12" EP through German label Scrotum Records in 2017, which featured only a couple of '70s live recordings by Japanese enka legend Hiroshi Itsuki on the A-side, and the same songs broken down into samples on the B-side. The band previously lifted songs from the very same Hiroshi Itsuki live album for a 2001 split 7" with Netherlands noise group Crowd Surfers Must Die. Their 7" All My Best to You, With Love Juntaro--released in the U.S. in 1990--was also comprised of two re-appropriated Asian pop songs (in this instance, from Cambodia).
The Gerogerigegege were originally active from 1985 to the early 2000s and became notorious around the world for their random, seemingly nihilistic, and often explicitly sexual noise, experimental, and non-musical releases and performances. Since their inexplicable return in 2016, the band has been unusually active (but no less enigmatic than ever) in their efforts to independently issue numerous unconventional compilations and archival releases, usually comprised of old recordings from the band's heyday.
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woke band
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Didn't realize we ran out of tolerable band names in the 80s
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is it a reference to Gegege no Kitaro?
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stoked
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Next, tour with Hanatarash and Japan will sink in the ocean.
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wow. i have stumbled onto something great. thanks.
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lmao lets go
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Epic
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this is an acceptable situation
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I love their cover of Light My Fire, "Raito Mai Faya"
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I only just started getting into these maniacs recently and they suddenly announce a new LP lmao what timing
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