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Les Rallizes Denudes - '77 Live Disk 1 (1991)


Sounds like: Psyche-Noise, Blowing out your speakers in Japanese, if Boris and Merzbow covered Flower Traveling Band underwater
Mp3:'77 Live Disk 1 [full album]

Les Rallizes Denudes are the godfathers of Japanese psyche. They took a basic bass line that sounds like something ripped out of "My Girl", some lazy drumming, a singer with way too much reverb for his own good, and a guitar lead that builds its way from hazy to furious over the course of a song. As the set goes on things only get louder, until everything is a blistering sheet of noise. By Yet through each song, the basic bass line never falters. The result is a trippy groove of static. Boris and the Boredoms wouldn't have been shit without these guys. Be warned though, it was the 70's, the songs all chart in at over 11 minuets.

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