The Incapacitants — Box Is Stupid(boxset)
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