Top Bar
Musique Machine Logo Home ButtonReviews ButtonArticles ButtonBand Specials ButtonAbout Us Button
SearchGo Down
Search for  
With search mode in section(s)
And sort the results by
show articles written by  
 Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

The Incapacitants - Box Is Stupid(boxset) [Pica Disk - 2009]

Box is Stupid is a really luxurious and rather neat boxset that brings together 10 cd's worth of early out print 1990’s tape releasers by Japanese noise tearing duo The Incapacitants. It's really a must have item item for any serious and discerning noise fan

Each of sets ten disk's come in a full colour cardboard sleeve with original artwork from the tapes on each. There is also a 40 page plush, mainly colour booklet with Japanese and english texts and write up’s about The Incapacitants by Otomo Yoshihide, Jim Sauter(from jazz noise terrorist Borbetomagus), Fumio Kosakai(of  The Incapacitants & C.C.C.C) Toshiji Mikawa(of The Incapacitants and many other projects). And it’s all packed inside an luxurious and plush hard card black box with sliver embossing on. Really this is one of nicest presented noise based sets you’ll have come across; not quite to Merzbox standards but near.

So it’s all very well having nice packaging etc but what's the noise and sound like inside I hear you ask?; well un-surprisingly there’s a fair bit on offer with each disk lasting near or over an hour a piece. And some of sets highlights come in the form of the following: The lengthy, honking, revered-up & dense Residents like mayhem  meets twisted sped-up easy listening and electro discharge of Stupid is Stupid live materials. The pained, slowed yet wonderful bending of steel hunks of noise that is the first track on Ad Nauseam( Edition Mikawa). The addictive, layered, dense and at times harmonic noisy feedback oscillations of the two tracks that make up The tongue. And lastly the urgent, joint tone shriek and feed-back ear smarting wonder of the last disk in the set I, Residuum. There is really much to like and torture your self with through-out the set.

There is of course with so much material on offer a few indifferent and not as inspired points on the set, but really that’s expected with a collection of this size and scope. Moments like the impressive at first stormy static walls of the two tracks that fill up D.D.D.D (Destroy Devastating and Disgusting Derivates); which sadly too soon slip into noise monotony-as too little is done with them. But on the whole much of this is rewarding, varied and high level caustic noise, and of course it’s also a highly important historic noise document in it’s self. So really if you have more than a passing interest in noise this is a must have item; but I would act fast as it's un-surprisingly ltd to only 500 copies, to find out more & see more pictures of the impressive set drop in here

Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5

Roger Batty
Latest Reviews

The Incapacitants - Box Is Stupid...
Box is Stupid is a really luxurious and rather neat boxset that brings together 10 cd's worth of early out print 1990’s tape releasers by Japanes...
241225   Wrathchild America - Climbin'...
241225   Rushab Nandha - Tear
241225   Hitcher-Hiker - Hitcher-Hiker...
231225   Devil Fetus - Devil Fetus (B...
221225   Zoltán Huszárik-1963- 1979 ...
201225   Re-Animator - Re-Animator( Bl...
191225   Venus DIE-trap - Venus DIE-tr...
191225   Coyotes - Coyotes(VOD/ Blu Ray)
181225   Various Artists - Santa Is Ro...
181225   Death Ride - Death Ride( DVD)
Latest Articles

Creepy Images Books - Killer Art
Of all the cult/exploitation genres, Giallo stands as one of the more visually & art-based- be it with the grand/ dramatic location, choreographed murder...
231225   Creepy Images Books - Killer Art
221225   Best Of 2025 - Music, Sound &...
041225   The Spectral Sounds of The Pr...
281025   Michael Hurst Interview - Unb...
071025   Xiphos - The Rise And Fall Of...
030925   Third Window Films - A Label ...
130825   HNW fest- Barcelona- 12th Apr...
250725   Raté interview - Walled-in F...
180625   Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sha...
280525   The Residents - Visits From T...
Go Up
(c) Musique Machine 2001 -2025. Twenty four years of true independence!! Mail Us at questions=at=musiquemachine=dot=comBottom