Rotting Telepathies

The first full-length document of Rotting Telepathies, the group of the late Japanese post-punk legend Michio Kadotani and Asahito Nanjo. Kadotani's music had previously only been documented on a 1991 CD on P.S.F. (entitled Rotting Telepathies) and the recently rediscovered 1987 KAD 3:4:5:6 set, which makes this disinterring of a highly limited 1990s La Musica cassette edition particularly significant.

The unrelenting dunt of the rhythm section here, locked-in and revolving around Nanjo's bowel-rumbling bass, is the perfect foil for Kadotani's guitar - sometimes cutting, sometimes spindly - and the stream of babble that was his vocal style. It's frazzled but underpinned by viciously sharp logic. A beautiful representation of Kadotani, the man Nanjo once called "the only real punk in Japan."

As noted on the original La Musica cassette, it documents a live performance from February 1982, where the group deliberately brought in some alternative punk-style tunes and displayed the most band-like of all the incarnations of Rotting Telepathies. As a result, Kadotani's madness is not so much to the fore as usual, but this is still one of the best recordings still extant.

Remastered and pressed to vinyl for the first time.