Incapacitants, Richard Ramirez

LP version. A split between Incapacitants and Richard Ramirez, one fifteen-minute piece each. It came out on cassette earlier in 2026 on Ramirez's own Deadline Recordings, and this is its first edition on LP and CD, remastered by Lasse Marhaug.

The pairing has a precedent. In 2006 Incapacitants shared A Purpose Not Necessary, on Dada Drumming, with Black Leather Jesus, the group Ramirez leads, and both titles here point back to that record. Incapacitants, the duo of T. Mikawa and F. Kosakai on electronics and voice, call their side Yellow Silk Buddha (Pt. 2), a sequel to their half of the 2006 split: unstable electronics, broken frequencies and surges of distortion that never settle. Ramirez answers with A Shield Not a Shelter, a slab of abrasive texture and pressure that holds its shape where the other side keeps changing. The label describes the two as contrasting forces, and the record is built on that difference.

LP and CD are each limited to 200 copies. Art layout by Nate Rulli.