Browse by Artist: BOREDOMS

Artist:	BOREDOMS
Title:	Super Are
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 019CD

Domestic jewel case issue of the most recent Boredoms album (previously available on Japanese Warner Bros. in a puffy plastic case). "On their 10th full length album Japan's Boredoms turn on, tune in (to each other) and drop out to an astral plane that you never even knew existed. Gone is the hyperactive, channel surfing, genre hopping of the past. In its place is communal psych jamming the likes of which have not been heard since vintage Butthole Surfers (remember that anyone?) or Amon Duul 1 or the most psychedelic sounds Funkadelic ever made all channeled through Eye and the band's encyclopedic musical knowledge. It all adds up to one disorientingly great listen that you will not soon forget. The US release is packaged with a massive 16 page booklet of Eye (damaging) artwork."

Artist:	BOREDOMS
Title:	Vision Creation Newsun
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 028CD

New domestic version now available. "Vision Creation Newsun follows the groovitude of the much-love Super Are with additional funkiness and space-time continuosity. It is funk, it is trance, it is drum'n'bass, and it is wayyyyy psychedelic. The Boredoms' pirouettes into new musical highs with each subsequent release have consistently impressed the world's rich supply of joyless humbugs, impressed the clinically indifferent, and amazed the unamazeable. They've been doing it for years. The same reliable line-up -- vocalist Yamantaka Eye leading a celebratory loin-cloth journey to the heart of the sun; guitarist Yamamoto Seiichi surfing grooves effortlessly with the silkiest pickin' since Ry Cooder discovered Sangria; Yoshimi P-we adding her graceful-as-the-kitchen-sink drumming style while keeping it with the corps; plus a new starship trooper who just pushes the beat farther into space -- that has always created music for all 'noids to rejoice to."

Artist:	BOREDOMS
Title:	Live At Sun Flancisco
Label:	COMMMONS (JAPAN)
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$50.00
Catalog #:	RZCM 45758CD

2-disc Japanese-only release, from the same label that gave us Super Roots 9. The DVD features a 65-minute live performance, recorded in San Francisco, May 19th, 2005. The line up is Eye on vocals and electronics and general WTF, plus a circle of 3 drummers. The bonus CD features 2 new tracks: "U-bus" & "Relerer". The CD is a short EP, only about 11 minutes long. The info we received says: CD: "Yamataka Eye Original Breakbeats. DVD: Boredoms (V∞REDOMS) live DVD." The DVD is NTSC format, all regions, for worldwide play. Approx 65 mins., Color, 4:3 aspect ratio.

Artist:	BOREDOMS
Title:	77 Boa Drum
Label:	COMMMONS (JAPAN)
Format:	2CD/DVD
Price:	$115.00
Catalog #:	RZCM 46037CD

Japanese-only live CD release from Boredoms featuring audio from their 77 Boa Drum performance July 7, 2007 in New York on two CDs. Also includes a bonus photo book and DVD. "Deluxe package containing the full 100-minute '77 Boa Drum' performance on 2 CDs, split at the point in between the two sections of the piece. The two CDs are housed inside the front and back covers of a lovely 8"x12" hardcover book containing 28 pages of full color photos from the event. Also included is a DVD (NTSC format, All Region) including approximately 20 minutes of short segments from the performance. The presentation on this is truly top-notch. It's easily the most extravagant Boredoms artifact since 1999's Vision Creation Newsun box. The performance itself is an extraordinary example of the modern-day Boredoms approach to sprawling, rhythmic psychedelia. Their current lineup of three drummers (including mainstay Yoshimi P-We) plus EYE on electronics and vocals is further bolstered by an all-star cast of 74 additional drummers, including Hisham Bharoocha (Soft Circle, ex-Black Dice), Kid Millions (Oneida), Aaron Moore (Volcano The Bear), Tim DeWitt (ex-Gang Gang Dance), Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band), Andee Connors (A Minor Forest, Lumen), Sara Lund (Unwound), Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs), Josh Madell (Antietam) and Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt) at #77." -- ning nong

Artist:	BOREDOMS
Title:	Super Roots 9
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	THR 197CD

"Long regarded as musical pioneers, Boredoms have continually pushed sonic boundaries and inspired musicians for over 20 years. Their albums and performances defy categorization, each one a completely unique event. The one commonality is that the members of Boredoms have amazing technical skills as musicians, limitless imagination and the ability to combine the two -- as no others have. Finally, the first new edition in eight years to the Super Roots series, Super Roots 9, gets a worldwide release. Super Roots 9 is a recording of a live show on Christmas Eve in 2004, in Japan. The performance featured a 24-person choir alongside the group. Super Roots 9 is the first live recording of the band ever released. The CD, packaged in a special custom-made mini gatefold LP style jacket, features artwork by Eye and a 40-page perfect bound booklet with music scores and notations."

Artist:	BOREDOMS
Title:	Super Roots 10
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	2x12"
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	THR 221LP

"Long regarded as musical pioneers, Boredoms have continually pushed sonic boundaries and inspired musicians for over 20 years. Their albums and their performances defy categorization, each one a completely unique event. The one commonality is that the members of the Boredoms have amazing technical skills as musicians, limitless imagination and the ability to combine the two -- as no others have. After only being released on CD in Japan, Thrill Jockey is proud to bring Super Roots 10 to the US. The album will only be available as a limited 2 x 12" release. The album is produced by EYE and all the artwork was created and designed by EYE as well. Super Roots 10 features a remix from Norwegian artist Lindstr�m who has released music on the label Smalltown Supersound and has also done remixes for artists as varied as Franz Ferdinand, LCD Soundsystem, and The Juan MacLean. Also featured is a remix from Japanese artist Altz who has recorded albums for Bear Funk and Jet Set Records Japan and previously done remixes for the Boredoms in addition to Tal M. Klein, Cro-Magnon, and Harp On Mouth Sextet." Includes poster.

Artist:	BOREDOMS
Title:	Super Roots 8
Label:	WARNER BROS (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WPC6 10011

Three song EP, in the 13-minute range. Mirror-embossed hard jacket sleeve. "We'd all been hearing rumours of the Boredoms' short-lived metaphorphosis & successive re-cocoon-ization from the premier Osaka-based trance/noise rock combo into a full-blown live jungle outfit but had nary seen or heard any proof of this phase in tangible documentation (aside, perhaps, from eYe's mix of Boredoms 'sister' band OOIOO on a now mythical Shock City 12"). Until now. Or not. Here are three separate takes of what seems to be an Isao Tomita (yes, THAT Tomita) original ("Jungle Taitei"), first interpreted by the Boredoms ensemble, then mutated by eYe (on the "DJ Let's TRY & D.I.Y.-Drum Machine" Mix), then reinterpreted by Yann Tomita (the "Laughter Robot's Hemp" Mix). The word 'jungle' here seems to be used in the more traditional (i.e.,. Martin Denny) sense; exotica-laden samples & enchanted island vox & human rhythms (sped up to completely alien tempos; perhaps the only 'jungle' jungle oriented activity herein) that don't fail to confound your sense of well being. Finely sussed & well 'out-there'. Sublime." --Hrvatksi

Artist:	BOREDOMS
Title:	Rebore Vol. 1 (Compiled and DJ Mixed by UNKLE)
Label:	WARNER BROS (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$34.00
Catalog #:	WPC6 10098

"In what appears to be a match made in heaven (hell?), the Boredoms have enlisted Mo' Wax's UNKLE (James Lavelle and Richard File) to assemble this 'Dysfunctional Monster Jam', a lengthy (by Warner Japan standards) 46:01 non-stop DJ mix of various records from the Eye and Co.'s catalog, and it's a killer. This is trance music in the Paleolithic sense of the word, with occasional breakbeats and scratching (courtesy of the Nextmen); more of a reminder that the Boredoms still have a lot more in common with Amon Duul than Amon Tobin. Considering the fact that the Boredoms have been leaning more towards a non-stop approach both live and on record, always relying on a core musical vision that would be termed percussive, this works on a number of levels. Phasing, the stray bird or two, plenty of vertiginous edits, flutes, the heavy guitar on occasion, and Eye's vocals that resemble the chattering of the DMT Elves that sit at an infinite number of typewriters and control the universe. Oh, and the Deputy Dawg Rorschach test on the mini-CD poster by Naohiro Ukawa and Ausgang is quite a stunner in it's own right. Unique is as unique does." -- Billy Kiely

Artist:	BOREDOMS
Title:	Rebore Vol. 3 (Compiled and DJ Mixed by DJ Krush)
Label:	WARNER BROS (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$32.00
Catalog #:	WPC6 10119

"Third installment of this awesome BORE-manip program in which Krush works out (of) the back-catalogue over 44:51. 808 bass bombs, large amounts of guitar noise, some great gated phased drum bits (a nod towards early minimalism? you decide), parts of certain choons left intact, morphed with others. Surprisingly not the low-bit late-night crackle-pop stoner hip hop jam we were all expecting but something... slightly more challenging in a way, with a good deal of plunderphonia, digital editing, etc... An unlikely match that works... oh so well (on so many levels). Just damn gratifying." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	BOREDOMS
Title:	Seadrum/House Of Sun
Label:	WARNER BROS (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$35.00
Catalog #:	WPCL 10119

Japanese release of the most recent Boredoms studio album! [since licensed to Vice in the US] "Shaking! Amazement! A Thundering Blast of Fresh Air! Tears of Gratitude! Astounding! It's been a long time since their last release back in 1998, but a new work under the name Boredoms has been completed! The members have individually been playing in innumerable other bands over an incredible range, but finally the real thing starts! With the Boredoms' following of hardcore fans not only in Japan but overseas as well, what type of album is coming? This is an album to look out for!"

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