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S-CORE 'Missing Volume' LP (US, Zabriskie Point, Catalogue #POINT 17) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 1998 Zabriskie Point label LP of Claustrophobia and Anxiety-inducing Layered, Textural, Dark, Crumbling Atmospheric Sound/Noise entitled "Missing Volume" by Japanese artist Yutaka Tanaka, aka S-Core. 

Adjacent to the "Extreme" and "Harsh Noise" of the 1980s and 1990s that the Japanese Noise scene is known world-wide for (i.e. Merzbow, Hanatarash, Hijokaidan, Incapacitants, Masonna, Third Organ, Pain Jerk, et al) is the more obscured realm of said Dark and Atmospheric Noise artists in Japan, such as the legendary Nord, whose debut LP was released on the Japanese Pinakotheka label in 1981 and perhaps the very obscure and obsessively sought-after "Mammalia" LP by Sakevi + Jojo (see also other Japanese artists in this realm, such as Club Skull and Contagious Orgasm.) The influence of the dark, droning, grinding and disintegrating electrical/industrial audio landscapes of the legendary early era recordings of M.B./Maurizio Bianchi, also, can not be overstated (possibly Zoviet France as well.)

S-Core appears to have been operative from 1985 to 1999, with primarily many releases (featured on numerous different labels across the globe) on cassette, quite a few 7" EP releases and several CD editions as well, but only two vinyl LP releases of S-Core were ever issued; "My Candle Has Died," from 1995 (note: highly recommend by this commentator) on the seminal and influential Praxis Dr. Bearmann label of Germany and this album, "Missing Volume," issued in 1998 on the Zabriskie Point label of Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. A fascinating discography that is well seeking out and aurally engaging with.

Note: For a fascinating hour-long program/audio commentary/discussion about this album, "Missing Volume," and the history of S-Core itself, please find online the November 4, 2020 upload of the "Noisextra" podcast; a valuable online resource which features group commentary from the show's hosts highlighting and dissecting a specific release from the deep annals of worldwide noise noise each and every week.

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)

Active since the mid of the eighties, japanese musician Yutaka Tanaka released his works under the name S-CORE. Early works are all cassette albums he put out on his own cassette label Afflict Records, many of those were recorded via mail collaboration with many sound artists from international underground scene, such as Stefano Biasin (Italy), Telepherique and Trigger B (Germany), Merzbow (Japan), Al Margolis/If, Bwana (USA), Rafael Flores (Spain).

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