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Artist:	FRICTION
Title:	'79 Live
Label:	P-VINE RECORDS (JAPAN)
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	SSAP 001/2CD

New series of reissues and archive vault material from Pass Records, licensed to P-vine. Pass was the quintessential Japanese no-wave/art-punk label of the late 70s, although they only released a handful of items (best know for Friction and Phew). This Friction CD/DVD is a new archival release, issued for the first time. The CD is live material from 1979, recorded live at Taku-Taku, 12/16/79. 10 tracks, 3 of which are not from their first LP. The DVD features Friction filmed live, from 1979, plus an 8mm movie by Reck and Mogi Emiko, simply called 1979-80 8mm Film. Dedicated to Sam Fuller.

Artist:	FRICTION
Title:	Friction
Label:	P-VINE RECORDS (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	SSAP 003CD

Deluxe reissue, packaged in mini-LP jacket sleeve. This is the second Japanese-only reissue of the debut self-titled Friction album, originally issued by Pass in 1980. Friction was the trio of: Reck, Tsunematsu Masatoshi & Chico Hige. Bassist Reck had resided in NYC in the late '70s and played with James Chance and the Contortions as well as Lydia Lunch in the No Wave heyday. Friction was the band he formed upon returning to Japan in 1978. The band continued to exist for the better part of two decades and eventually issued a domestic album on Tzadik in 1999 (Zone Tripper), but this heavily charged debut (aggressive rock/punk, informed by No Wave and Japanese noir aesthetics) was their defining moment. Considered the most legendary underground Japanese group of the time (their albums were at least barely available in the US, unlike the earliest efforts from Keiji Haino or the Alchemy label), now reissued for the second time in equally definitive fashion.

Artist:	FRICTION
Title:	Zone Tripper
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 7224

"Arriving in New York City in early 1977, Reck was a vital member of the New York No Wave punk scene, playing bass with James Chance and the Contortions and Lydia Lunch. Returning to Tokyo in 1978 he founded Friction, one of the most important and longest running underground bands in Japan. Together over 20 years, Friction has gone through many changes, while still retaining its hard-edged style and unique combination of hard rock, punk and noise. Zone Tripper presents some of their greatest songs and some surprising remixes by Tokyo's greatest DJs. Friction's first release outside Japan, Zone Tripper is a powerful introduction to one of the most legendary bands in the Tokyo underground." Features 2 remixes each by Audio Active and Fumiya Tanaka! Sensitive listeners should beware that the genres of "rock" and "punk" appear on this disc in apparently non-ironic fashion.

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