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9am-6pm GMT, Mon-Sat The GEROGERIGEGEGE As If It Had Always Been Determined Since This Day Was Born Toothpaste US LP + insert with obi-strip Cat: WC 104
Rel: 15 Apr 24
Industrial/Noise Side 1 - Track 1. Track 1Side 1 - Track 2. Water Business (remix 2022)Side 1 - Track 3. Track 3 (remix 2022)Side 1 - Track 4. Ensam I Natt (remix 2022)Side 1 - Track 5. Track 5 (NG take 1)Side 1 - Track 6. Track 6 (NG take 2)Side 2 - Track 1. Water Business (Remaster 2022)Side 2 - Track 2. Sexual Behavior In The Human Male (Remaster 2022)Side 2 - Track 3. Track 9 (Remaster 2022)Side 2 - Track 4. Ensam I Natt (Remaster 2022)Side 2 - Track 5. Track 11 (Remaster 2022)Side 2 - Track 6. Sexual Behavior In The Human Male (Gero 30 mix 2022)

Japanese industrial noise duo The Grogerigegege are something of an urban legend within the underground music scene. Apparently meeting at a sex club where a shared appreciation for envelope pushing sex acts, punishing aural sonics and a bizarre avant-garde perspective on art would lock them together for ensuing decades of musical mayhem. Known for incorporating nudity, violence, broken glass and hoovers into their live set, the pair would even take a lengthy respite while one of the members simply disappeared for years on end before reconnecting with his counterpart. As If It Had Always Been Determined Since This Day Was Born transports listeners back to the pair's earliest forays into calculated extremity with blown out, overdriven remixes taken directly from the master tapes of their first 7" single released back in 1988. This includes the long sought after remaster of 'Mistress' originally used in the legendary Enoshima Beach Flexi Burning Live (which the pair opted to burn all original pressings of rather than make readily available). You do have to remember these are the same lads who sold dried out octopus tentacles in cassette cases during one tour as a limited release, and smashed up the master recording of another work and put the broken pieces in a metallic box that the listener shook to hear the album, hence the title You Are The Music Maker. If the utter lunacy of The Grogerigegege isn't detailed enough here, well this pressing comes complete with 5500 word essay-style liner notes penned by 55 year old Gero himself (Juntaro Yamanouchi).