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Nikkatsu Erotica: Volume One is a new Blu-ray box set from Australia’s Imprint, as part of their Imprint Asia sub-label. It brings together two rather creative, well-shot & well-acted examples of Japanese Roman porno from Nikkatsu, one of the country's biggest studios. Between the early 70s and late 80’s, they completely switched over their production to producing softcore adult films, which would become known as Roman Porno- the company produced around 800 to 1000 of these titles. This boxset features a commentary track from genre expert Jasper Sharp for each title, a few video essays, trailers and two classy ‘n’ crisp HD scans.
29 Sept 2026
Olion Interview
Active since the early 2020’s, Olion is one of the key projects within the euro wall-noise scene. To date, it’s put out around seventy releases- taking in both physical and digital form- with stand-alone releases, splits, and collaborations. Sound-wise, their output moves between pummelling, thick-yet oddly soothing. To more texturally layered, and forays into ANW. Behind the project is Olek Browiński from Olsztyn in northern Poland, and he kindly agreed to give us an email interview
29 Sept 2026
It’s a bold and precarious thing to try and marshal sound into a viable relationship with events, things, etc., that are not, strictly speaking, about sound. Sound is so ephemeral that it can be easily bent to whatever agenda, as score or testimony, or something in between.
Berlin-based composer Eliad Wagner, whose work with Serge modular synthesisers I have previously heard as part of the Modulisme series, is here collaborating with Werner Dafeldecker, Austrian bassist and composer, for a thirty-seven-minute album called Fray Field. It is an evocative deep listening electroacoustic work, a modern musique concrete, with an esoteric and otherworldly post-industrial feeling, and sound textures you can taste.
James Shearman — The God Of The Sea
25 Sept 2026Uitgeschakeld & See Through Buildings — Split
25 Sept 2026Mats Erlandsson & Gus Loxbo — Minnets Långa Kedjor
25 Sept 2026The Last House On The Left — The Last House On The Left( Blu Ray)
23 Sept 2026My Only Friend's a Corpse — My Only Friend's a Corpse( Blu Ray)
23 Sept 2026Godflesh — Decay
23 Sept 2026Vomir — Energia Exhausta
22 Sept 2026Stéphane — Stéphane (Blu Ray)
22 Sept 2026
A Julian Cope Primmer
Erupting into the mainstream on February 19th 1981, The Teardrop Explodes’ debut ‘Top of the Pops’ television performance featuring their brassy, bouncy hit ‘Reward’ is to this day probably the moment from which most people recall Julian Cope. If your image of Julian remains that of an earnest young budding pop star sporting a fleece-collared flying jacket and a shaggy bowlcut of shoulder-length tresses, if you failed to maintain pace with his entry into the cosmos, if you dismissively describe him (as I’ve seen thereabouts) as “a Smash Hits pin-up”, you have one hell of a lot of catching up to do. Musique Machine have tasked me with leading their readers through the psychedelic jungle and beyond, here, and I have to say that Julian probably merits the ‘beginners’ guide to’ / ‘recommended records’ treatment more than just about any other artist in the music sphere, at least in terms of how public perception and the ‘reality’ (if such a word is appropriate in this extreme case) have a near-unbridgeable gulf.
Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere Interview
Early this year, the band released their most recent album Theta 7, on Discus Music-which is sadly to be their last. Band leader Martin Archer kindly agreed to give us an email interview, discussing the project's history & why they’ve decided to call it a day.
Vacant Align Interview
Active since October 2025, Wisconsin’s Vacant Align is one of the more atmospheric and texturally inventive wall noise projects to appear in some time. It’s a project that takes its time in releasing work, and you can certainly hear it, as each of their releases so far is a perfectly crafted blend of expressive and engaging textures. Behind the project is John Engman, who very kindly agreed to give us an email interview
Jasper Sharp interview
In the year 1971, Nikkatsu, the oldest/ at one point, the biggest film production company in Japan. Did something quite daring/ some would say crazy- they completely switched over their production to softcore adult films, which would become known as Roman Porno. Between 1971 and 1988, the company produced around 850 of these titles. The thing that made these films stand out from general softcore films is the often creative & inventive choices made- yes, the films primal focus is sleaze, but great examples of the genre are so much more than that. In the last year or so, there has been a spate of reissues of films in the genre from labels such as 88 Films, Third Window Films, and Klubb Super 8. One of the key figures/contributors behind these releases is Jasper Sharp- one of the world's experts on the genre, and the wider Pink genre it’s connected to. Jasper kindly agreed to give us an email interview discussing his history with the genre, his contributions to releases, and the new/updated edition of his book Behind The Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema on Fab Press.
