Hospital/NWN Fest in Osaka / Machine Parts in Tokyo

[SS1535]

Jealous of all of you assholes that are going to be in Japan next week. Wanted to go so bad but it wasn't in the stars. Lifetime opportunity. Everyone better share a shit ton of pictures, stories, and video from the event.

Same feelings and same wishes here!

[Bubble-Congeries]

I'm bringing a couple of disposable cameras with me. I'll take lots of pictures of my sad hotel room. Would love to snap a few pics of Masonna's set too, if possible.

[junkyardshaman]

0g Today!! Also convinced Tamon to bring Weiches Loch records to the merch table, so a good opportunity to buy them. 12"split with Oboo and two new 7" splits with Vexation Soul and Kinzoku Taiko!

[Kenny]

Down to our last few spaces for Machine Parts.
it`s going to be cosy.

[adult human]

Big shout out for the Vomir show at Soup. Great little space and a very cool crew running things. Nothing like kicking around in a scummy basement amongst freaks to make you feel at home, even across the other side of the world! All great sets. Not to downplay the efforts of the international artists who all killed but for me the highlight was getting to see the locals. Blackphone 666 x Government Alpha is something I will never forget.

Hope everyone enjoys the fest in Osaka. Going to attempt some record shopping in Tokyo this weekend after you arseholes have got done with picking through.

[SS1535]

Big shout out for the Vomir show at Soup. Great little space and a very cool crew running things. Nothing like kicking around in a scummy basement amongst freaks to make you feel at home, even across the other side of the world! All great sets. Not to downplay the efforts of the international artists who all killed but for me the highlight was getting to see the locals. Blackphone 666 x Government Alpha is something I will never forget.

Hope everyone enjoys the fest in Osaka. Going to attempt some record shopping in Tokyo this weekend after you arseholes have got done with picking through.

The pictures of that set looked great!

[Ineffable Slime]

I do not think I will see a better set than Genocide Organ /Prurient/Grey Wolves in my life, utter MADNESS. Whole day was massively inspiring, cya at Machine Parts

[SS1535]

I do not think I will see a better set than Genocide Organ /Prurient/Grey Wolves in my life, utter MADNESS. Whole day was massively inspiring, cya at Machine Parts

Were all three of them performing together?

[confuzzled]

Greh from Noisextra live streamed most of the event on their instagram page. Had to be one of the biggest noise audiences I've ever seen.

[moozz]

Any schedule available for the Yokohama show? My hotel is not too close and the check-in is from 6pm to midnight which I feel might be pretty much the time of the event.

[SS1535]

Greh from Noisextra live streamed most of the event on their instagram page. Had to be one of the biggest noise audiences I've ever seen.

Sadly the videos are not up anymore... just clips...

[Ineffable Slime]

@ss1535 yea, set was GO for about 40 minutes, then Dom came out and did Civil War Scapegoat off the new LP with GO, then David from Grey Wolves came out and closed it out while GO and Dom were backing

[SS1535]

@ss1535 yea, set was GO for about 40 minutes, then Dom came out and did Civil War Scapegoat off the new LP with GO, then David from Grey Wolves came out and closed it out while GO and Dom were backing

Dang, that sounds awesome. Seeing the flyer, it didn't look like it could be topped---and then they did.

[Kenny]

Any schedule available for the Yokohama show? My hotel is not too close and the check-in is from 6pm to midnight which I feel might be pretty much the time of the event.

Yeah, doors at 6..
But it should be over by 11, so over should be able to get back and check in after the show.

[Bigsby]

looks like the yellow gas flames set was absolutely torrid blistering batshit all out fun. idk why I’ve slept on the project and maybe even been a little skeptical about it but that nosiextra insta clip looks like rock and fucking roll. uncompromising. I wonder if they stole the show.

are their records like this?

[Kenny]

Saturday at Machine Parts is now sold out. Still a couple of places for Sunday.

Can`t wait to see everyone who is coming.

as a reminder, here are the timetables

OPEN 16:30
16:30-17:00 DJ SCUM
17;00-17:40 SUPPRESSION / SHITSTORM
17:50-18:10 SD.KFZ
18:20-18-40 THE NAUSEA
18:50-19:10 SEHKTOR8
19:20-20:00 DISSECTING TABLE
20:10-20:40 MO*TE
20:50-21:20 DETERGE
21:30-22:00 K2
22:00-22:30 DJ SCUM



OPEN 16:30
16:30 - 17:00 DJ MOSHIMOSHI (BLACKPHONE666)
17;00-17:20 MALFORMED GENTLEMEN
17:30-17:50 FACIALMESS
18:00-18-20 CHIA - CHUN XU
18:30-18:50 NAPALM DEATH IS DEAD
19:00-19:30 SVARTVIT
19:40-20:00 EBOLA DISCO
20:10-20:40 DxIxE
20:50-21:20 CRACKSTEEL
21:30-22:00 KILLER BUG
22:00-22:30 DJ MOSHIMOSHI (BLACKPHONE666)

[confuzzled]

looks like the yellow gas flames set was absolutely torrid blistering batshit all out fun. idk why I’ve slept on the project and maybe even been a little skeptical about it but that nosiextra insta clip looks like rock and fucking roll. uncompromising. I wonder if they stole the show.

are their records like this?

Theres a video somewhere on youtube of them playing a club in cali right before the Osaka show. Great filming and sound. They tore it up.

[XXX]

yellow gas flames set was absolutely torrid blistering batshit all out fun.

had the pleasure of seeing them in 2022 & can confirm they are indeed AMERICAN noise in the finest traditions. hell, the crowd stated chanting USA after they finished (unprompted.)

[Bigsby]

[media] [/media]

looks like the yellow gas flames set was absolutely torrid blistering batshit all out fun. idk why I’ve slept on the project and maybe even been a little skeptical about it but that nosiextra insta clip looks like rock and fucking roll. uncompromising. I wonder if they stole the show.

are their records like this?

Theres a video somewhere on youtube of them playing a club in cali right before the Osaka show. Great filming and sound. They tore it up.

This one? 🤟🏻⚡️ 🤯

[confuzzled]

Yes!

[moozz]

What a trip! Out of my 9 full days in Japan I went for gigs on 5 and they kinda already start bleeding into each other in my mind. All the beers make it even more so. The start of the trip was promising, slightly jetlagged (I tried to prepare and adjust beforehand) arriving at my hotel and finding out it was a love hotel. Also visits to a local brewpub and the club that was supposed to be the after party club for the weekend.
Saturday's metal menu was solid, the ones I liked the best were Departure Chandelier and Beherit. The after party was NOT at the same club and we could not find any updated info so we just went to an izakaya for beer and food. I was looking forward to Sunday much more than Saturday and it did not disappoint. Skin Crime, Thirdorgan, Yellow Gas Flames, Prurient, Linekraft, Genocide Organ and Masonna all in one night, incredible. Masonna's 3-minute rock star noise freakout was perfect. There was no way Beherit would feel like much after that (and it did not). I met so many people during the weekend it was insane. Even Dominick had time to stop for a chat despite he must have been super busy organizing a fest like that and performing on both days. Also bought a collage Kristian Olsson that fittingly had a piece from an old Swedish porn mag talking about "dreaming of moose cock". Also heart warming was that two people wanted to take a picture of my Moozzhead shirt with the Revenge ripoff design AND send the picture to members of the band. The remaining days in Osaka were "filled" with kinda disappointing sex shops, awesome record stores and more beer.
In Tokyo we did not even get out of the railway station before parking ourselves at the Antenna America craft beer bar that had like 20 meters of fridges full of yummy cans. The following few days were filled with tens of bookstore visits (I was staying in Jimbocho so it was super easy), better sex shop visits (found a Hitomi Tanaka DVD box set with 23 hours of censored greatness) and more beer. Even ended up going to a bookstore asking for Namio Harukawa books and when the lady said she did not know the name I googled some pictures for her and then she said "no, this is a children's bookstore". Also visited the awesome Vanilla Gallery that this time had SIGNED Trevor Brown books for like 25 EUR each. On my previous Tokyo trip I managed to miss NEdS but this time I made it. International noise freaks had bought "everything" already in the two weeks before but it was still great to feel the intimacy of the place, especially with 6-8 people inside. Afterwards beer in the Golden Gai district. Deathmatch In Hell was an awesome tiny bar with horror movie VHS tapes, props and posters everywhere plus two screens playing horror movies. All drinks were 666 yen.
On Friday I got my ass to Yokohama for the pre-fest gig which was organized in a tiny punk/hardcore basement with a bar. Again a solid night with most memorable sets being Anti Itch Cream delivering great one-woman noisecore, Deterge blowing the whole place up and finally Nikudorei doing 15min feedback and then like 200 songs. I seemed to be the only one not returning to Tokyo after the gig and ended up in a love hotel. Again.
On Saturday mister Government Alpha was our guide in Tokyo and he took us to a record store that had not been raided dry. I already had my luggage at the weight limit with all the books and magazines I had bought so no LPs for me but my friend found Hijokaidan's Limited Edition LP and No Paris/No Harm LP originals for a nice price. Then it was time for the main reason I decided to go to Japan, the Machine Parts fest! A legendary venue (Ochiai Soup) in a small basement (70 people max) with cheap beer. Shitstorm and Suppression started the evening with super intense hardcore. And it had to be super compact as I heard they were going to play in Yokohama still that same night! Other top moments for the evening were Deterge (this time with more gabber/hardcore techno in the set that made the place go wild), Mo*Te the fragile Japanese man who still conjured some great noise, and K2 who was totally amazing to see live as his stuff is some of the earliest Japanese noise I ever heard. Ended up in a small "semi-private" bar in Golden Gai and bumped into mister Ames Sanglantes while Death Race 2000 was playing on the tv (the cover of VMS Elit - Todesrennen tape is from this movie). Only in Japan!
On Sunday it was time for the best night of the whole trip. I had the pleasure to see (among other things) Scum as 50% of Malformed Gentlemen, Facialmess do perfect cut-up stutter assault, Napalm Death Is Dead doing a long guitar intro that sounded like Gerogerigegege's Piano River (which I love) and then a super short burst of an "actual" set, Cracksteel playing total '90s Japanese noise and finally Killer Bug playing a great noise set with minimal stutter (I was afraid it might have been like recent Kazumoto Endo solo stuff which is a bit too much for me). Don't get me wrong, everything else was great as well but these were my absolute highlights. I had many great chats with great people (like discussing the finer points of early Finnish death metal with Ben of Ebola Disco), heard great music (even between bands!), and drank lots of average beer. What's not to love?
Super mega thanks to Kenny for organization and helping out people with problems with Japanese websites and for being such a gentleman!

[Bubble-Congeries]

Chia-Chun Xu was great too. I was not at all familiar before. There were moments where I was watching him and looking at his setup and I could not figure out how he was making some of the sounds!

Despite my aching feet, I feel very grateful for the opportunity to have been there. Very nice seeing so many people in person (and meeting a few new ones) both on and off the stage.

[SS1535]

What a trip! Out of my 9 full days in Japan I went for gigs on 5 and they kinda already start bleeding into each other in my mind. All the beers make it even more so. The start of the trip was promising, slightly jetlagged (I tried to prepare and adjust beforehand) arriving at my hotel and finding out it was a love hotel. Also visits to a local brewpub and the club that was supposed to be the after party club for the weekend.
Saturday's metal menu was solid, the ones I liked the best were Departure Chandelier and Beherit. The after party was NOT at the same club and we could not find any updated info so we just went to an izakaya for beer and food. I was looking forward to Sunday much more than Saturday and it did not disappoint. Skin Crime, Thirdorgan, Yellow Gas Flames, Prurient, Linekraft, Genocide Organ and Masonna all in one night, incredible. Masonna's 3-minute rock star noise freakout was perfect. There was no way Beherit would feel like much after that (and it did not). I met so many people during the weekend it was insane. Even Dominick had time to stop for a chat despite he must have been super busy organizing a fest like that and performing on both days. Also bought a collage Kristian Olsson that fittingly had a piece from an old Swedish porn mag talking about "dreaming of moose cock". Also heart warming was that two people wanted to take a picture of my Moozzhead shirt with the Revenge ripoff design AND send the picture to members of the band. The remaining days in Osaka were "filled" with kinda disappointing sex shops, awesome record stores and more beer.
In Tokyo we did not even get out of the railway station before parking ourselves at the Antenna America craft beer bar that had like 20 meters of fridges full of yummy cans. The following few days were filled with tens of bookstore visits (I was staying in Jimbocho so it was super easy), better sex shop visits (found a Hitomi Tanaka DVD box set with 23 hours of censored greatness) and more beer. Even ended up going to a bookstore asking for Namio Harukawa books and when the lady said she did not know the name I googled some pictures for her and then she said "no, this is a children's bookstore". Also visited the awesome Vanilla Gallery that this time had SIGNED Trevor Brown books for like 25 EUR each. On my previous Tokyo trip I managed to miss NEdS but this time I made it. International noise freaks had bought "everything" already in the two weeks before but it was still great to feel the intimacy of the place, especially with 6-8 people inside. Afterwards beer in the Golden Gai district. Deathmatch In Hell was an awesome tiny bar with horror movie VHS tapes, props and posters everywhere plus two screens playing horror movies. All drinks were 666 yen.
On Friday I got my ass to Yokohama for the pre-fest gig which was organized in a tiny punk/hardcore basement with a bar. Again a solid night with most memorable sets being Anti Itch Cream delivering great one-woman noisecore, Deterge blowing the whole place up and finally Nikudorei doing 15min feedback and then like 200 songs. I seemed to be the only one not returning to Tokyo after the gig and ended up in a love hotel. Again.
On Saturday mister Government Alpha was our guide in Tokyo and he took us to a record store that had not been raided dry. I already had my luggage at the weight limit with all the books and magazines I had bought so no LPs for me but my friend found Hijokaidan's Limited Edition LP and No Paris/No Harm LP originals for a nice price. Then it was time for the main reason I decided to go to Japan, the Machine Parts fest! A legendary venue (Ochiai Soup) in a small basement (70 people max) with cheap beer. Shitstorm and Suppression started the evening with super intense hardcore. And it had to be super compact as I heard they were going to play in Yokohama still that same night! Other top moments for the evening were Deterge (this time with more gabber/hardcore techno in the set that made the place go wild), Mo*Te the fragile Japanese man who still conjured some great noise, and K2 who was totally amazing to see live as his stuff is some of the earliest Japanese noise I ever heard. Ended up in a small "semi-private" bar in Golden Gai and bumped into mister Ames Sanglantes while Death Race 2000 was playing on the tv (the cover of VMS Elit - Todesrennen tape is from this movie). Only in Japan!
On Sunday it was time for the best night of the whole trip. I had the pleasure to see (among other things) Scum as 50% of Malformed Gentlemen, Facialmess do perfect cut-up stutter assault, Napalm Death Is Dead doing a long guitar intro that sounded like Gerogerigegege's Piano River (which I love) and then a super short burst of an "actual" set, Cracksteel playing total '90s Japanese noise and finally Killer Bug playing a great noise set with minimal stutter (I was afraid it might have been like recent Kazumoto Endo solo stuff which is a bit too much for me). Don't get me wrong, everything else was great as well but these were my absolute highlights. I had many great chats with great people (like discussing the finer points of early Finnish death metal with Ben of Ebola Disco), heard great music (even between bands!), and drank lots of average beer. What's not to love?
Super mega thanks to Kenny for organization and helping out people with problems with Japanese websites and for being such a gentleman!

Ok, now I am really jealous.

[Ineffable Slime]

Machine Parts ruled, echo the sentiments of moozz above, I met your friend who scored the Hijokaidan LPs...you Finns are my kind of people! Much more to say about the whole thing but my brain is somewhere over the Pacific still. Shout out Soddy.

[papp diin]

What is Dom's role in Departure Chandelier? Listening to the albums I just naturally assumed he did vocals, but watching the videos clearly prove otherwise.