Def Master : Destroyer Has Godmind

Due to technical difficulties I am unable to upload my own photo's of this disk- and images are　nowhere to be found in the intertubes- which is a shame. It features a stamped clear plastic slip over a brilliant chromium foil* insert- and generally very nice and well put together packaging.

UPDATED & to the top with scans (which don't really capture the neat reflective qualities, and actually the colors look nicer in real life, too, but what are you going to do?)

This was difficult to track down- I'd been looking for it due to member connections with Coaltar of the Deepers (whose stuff I'll be posting soon) and other Japanese groups I like.
In the event, this is a 1990 disc is some solid industrial/electronic/metal, similar to Ministry of the same era- though with more extremity in vocals and variety in sound. Many parts are also reminiscent of the aforementioned Coaltar's heavier moments.　Certainly worth hearing if you don't find keyboards or programmed drums automatically objectionable.

*The same substance that, when I was younger and and less wise, induced me to pay an extra dollar per title each time marvel felt the need for a bottom-line padding 'special event'.


Destroyer Has Godmind

V/A : Great Blue Thing

Released in '96, this is a compilation of Japanese underground noise and experimental rock assembled by none other than Discordance Axis's Jon Chang (chances Zmaj already has this=>100%), and featuring lots of interesting stuff.Tatsuya Yoshida is half of Ruins, Multiplex bring killer grind, Merzbow does his noisy thing...pretty much everything on here is awesome with the exception of Tenyen ana kinoko (ten-yen hole mushroom) whose songs are just sort of annoying.



1.Tatsuya Yoshida - Orovela
2.Yeah - Barbie Ban Blues
3.The Sleep Walk - Forestic White
4.Merzbow - Seishoku Titl
5.Discordance Axis - Amphetamine Hollow Tip
6.Discordance Axis - Integer
7.Melt Banana - Ooze
8.Melt Banana - No Way to Bite the Crooked Doubt
9.Def Master - Hard Water
10.Spine Wrench - Spite Junkie
11.TenYen Ana Kinoko - We Are . . .
12.TenYen Ana Kinoko - Alzheimer
13.Multiplex - Nothing
14.The Love Apaches - Untitled 1
15.The Love Apaches - Untitled 2
16.The Love Apaches - Untitled 3



o'great blue thing

UPDATED: Now with a link that works!

Cocobat w/ Def Master & DJ Krush : Footprints In The Sky

Cocobat are a fairly prolific HC/Metal band who were active in Japan from the early nineties to the early aughts seem to have re-formed again. This album contains live versions of two of their songs as well as two DJ krush mixes (whose instrumental stuff I enjoy, though I find the result of these remixes perhaps a bit too rap-metalish), and finally, the real reason I'm upping this: 4 Def Master remixes of two different songs, all of which I rather liked (Cocobat members Take-Shit & Ryuji appear on Def Master's full length).

Footprints In The Sky