SATANICPORNOCULTSHOP



English / Japanese

SATANICPORNOCULTSHOP BIOGRAPHY

By integrating Levi Strauss’ concept of ‘bricolage’ (Tristes Tropiques, 1955) into hip-hop, the early duo comprised of Alan Folkroe and Ghammehuche cast the first stone of what was soon to become the surrealistic castle randomly named Satanicpornocultshop in 1997.

The first Satanicpornocultshop album voluptuously titled ‘Nirvana or Lunch ?’, released on their own label NuNuLaxNulan in 1998, was followed by a series of participations in various compilations: Trip Trap, LD&K, Subject, etc. The Art of confusion already prevailing in their work, their third opus ‘Baltimore 72’ (1999) was released before their second, ‘Belle Excentrique’ (2000). Since then, the gangrenous music of Satanicpornocultshop has continued spreading over sick, developed countries by using the saturated communication networks and mastering the art of satire and remixes.

The second act of Satanicpornocultshop story opens with the sudden and symbolic death of Alan Folkroe in 2001. As Ghammehuche could not be left alone with his sheer schizophrenia and creative delirium, fellow members boarded the demonic vessel within a few months: Meu-Meu and his dubious performance style, *es the mixing master with nerves of steel, Vinylman turntable-ing with attitude and Ugh overusing electronics and puking MC skills. All together, they slowly moved Satanicpornocultshop from distorted and perverted collage territories to accumulation of sound layers pierced by one single beat, futuristic hip-hop and eroticization of sounds, ‘erotronica’.

While Dada is the convenient hold all term used by music critics, the main players still think that the more accurate word of ‘bricolage’ best defines their work. Satanicpornocultshop influences and productions are not limited to music and sounds; they boil over the borders of art, spilling ideas and images with a unique and grandiose disrespect.

In the end of 2001, Satanicporncultshop were invited to perform at the peak time glory of the Batofar club in Paris, opening their first collaboration with the label Sonore with their participation on the ‘Batofar Cherche Tokyo’ CD compilation. The first Tour de France was organized for Satanicpornocultshop, mesmerizing an incredulous audience with absurd performances. The next year, 2002, brought their fourth and glossily produced album ‘Ugh Yoing’, released on NuNuLaxNulan.

Lisa from the band La Bossa, the hidden voice of Satanicpornocultshop, officially joined the gang in 2003 for the release of their fifth album ‘Anorexia Gas Balloon’ on Sonore. They made their first Japan tour together with Sonore label mates Carl Stone, Yuko Nexus6, Satoru Wono, Hoppy Kamiyama and L?K?O. International listeners were increasingly becoming aware of the Satanicpornocultshop phenomenon, with ‘Anorexia Gas Balloon’ getting reviews and airplay in Japan, Europe, US and Canada. The very same year, their killing cover of The Velvet Underground’s ‘Candy Says’ appeared on the UK Wire magazine compilation Wire Tapper 10 and they participated in the ‘Music for Babies’ project from D*I*R*T*Y website in France.

A strenuous yearlong work was necessary in order to release their 6th rich and complex album ‘Zap Meemees’ on Sonore in 2005. Like a twin, a lighter, pop and instantaneous 7th album ‘Orochi Under the Straight Edge Leaves’ bloomed on the Polish Vivo label the same year. What other band could release a pop album on an indus/gothic Polish label? A Satanicpornocultshop tour de force!

In the end of 2005, they made their first European tour (Netherlands, Denmark, Czech Republic, Italy and France), climaxing at Prague’s Alternativa festival in front of a crowd of 800 enthusiastic and frenetic people. At the end of this successful tour, Meu-Meu quit the band leaving Lisa, *es, Vinylman and Ugh on a sore note.

2006 is definitely opening the third act of Satanicpornocultshop. First, they participate in the thematic Italian fashion magazine Uovo by providing a track for their ‘Pink’ compilation. And they received the Digital Music Honorary Mention in Europe’s prestigious PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA competition with "Zap Meemees". And they also received the Research of the electronic music Qwartz Awards in France. Two new members join the band : MC Frosen Pine with his unique mimic rhyme style, and the magic organist Nakagawa aka Liftman. They performed at the prestigious Cite de la Musique in Paris in June. They release ".aiff Skull EP" on Vivo Records, Poland.

In 2007, Satanicpornocultshop participates in WFMU radio program feature "Raymond Scott", and  "52 short weeks" by peppermill records, Canada. "Custom Drum Destroyer Remixes" is released from neji in April. In September, they participates "U Can' t Touch Dis:The New Asian Art "at ZONE:Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York. In October they performs to "The Third Mind" at Palais de Tokyo, Paris and "Experimentaclub07". Disco_r.dance, UK release tytle song from "Custom Drum Destroyer Remixes" in December.

In 2008. Release "Takusan No Ohanasan" in Vivo Records, Poland. Also featured on WFMU's "Beware of the Blog" in my "Vote for your favorite WFMU Myspace Friends" series and were voted a favorite band. And Otsechka (Czech) choose "Takusan No Ohanasan (Vivo Records)" to ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2008.

First release in 2009 is "Closer ep (neji)" cutting from the compilation of Somme Bizzare Record’s "Some Bizzare Double Album".

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A multiplicity of sound layers pierced by one single beat. That would be a simple definition to describe the complexity but straightforwardness of the music from this band from Osaka. However, there is no special Japanese flavor here, and it would be best if we could please once and for all retire these tired clich?s. Satanicpornocultshop is global, linked with their fellow collagists, plagiarists and other plunderphonist counterparts (Kurt Schwitters, Negativland, John Oswald, etc). Human absurdity and its results are their main influence: the Iraq body count, Bush re-election (How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?), a Japanese female worker trapped in a haunted hotel attraction in the Tokyo suburbs, the Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and its worldwide contagion, and so on...

When cutting worms and re-assembling them in a different order, do they still remain worms ?


Zap Meemees (SONORE, SON-22) 2005


Why make new music when everyday the industry discharges a discontinuous flow of spoiled idols and reanimated heroes? Re-using fragments from this huge musical garbage dump, it is possible to create new meanings and suddenly catch a glimpse of our modernity and its excesses. But it becomes difficult to judge where exactly the nonsensical aspect of this newly created music comes from. Is it really just because this type of new sound organization makes you feel funny? Or is it because we unexpectedly realize, by listening these bits of global collective unconsciousness scattered out of context, what kind of dumb mash the industry keeps feeding us.


Satanicpornocultshop chucks a puzzling, destabilizing and futuristic hip hop. One of the main features of this band is that they make music gush from the most arid field recording session. Give a Stanley knife or a red-bear shaped lighter to Ugh, and he?fll make it swing in a snap. Ugh is a real human sampler, a junk sound edit virtuoso. And that is undoubtedly Satanicpornocultshop main strength. Just ad to that an immense musical culture, a taste for ultimate groove and pop music satire, and you will have a pretty good idea of what makes that band so unique.

Satanicpornocultshop collective have been active since 1998 with their own label NuNuLAXNuLAN (blog) and CD-R sub-label NEJI. We hope that this collaboration with SONORE will bring them the audience that their musical creativity definitly deserves.
(Franck Stofer/Sonore Records)

 


myspace: http://www.myspace.com/satanicpornocultshop
discogs: discogs.com/Satanicpornocultshop
Last FM: http://www.lastfm.jp/music/Satanicpornocultshop?autostart=1

 

 


 

 


 

DISKO

 

ALBUM

1998"Works of Flea"Digitaloss com

1998"Nirvana or Lunch?"Nu NuLAX NuLAN

1999"Baltimore1972"Nu NuLAX NuLAN

2000"Belle Excentrique"Nu NuLAX NuLAN

2002"Ugh Yoing" (Nu NuLAX NuLAN)

2002"Sirocco"Imprinting Norse Rerease

2003"Piss'en Ass - Piss Off remixes"neji

2004"Anorexia Gas Balloon"(Sonore)

2005"Zap Meemees" (Sonore)

2005"Orochi under the Straight Edge Leaves" (Vivo Records)

2007"Custom Drum Destroyer remixes"  (neji)

2008"Takusan No Ohanasan" (Vivo Records)

 

EP

2002"Piss Off EP"Chakra Smile!

2004"Punusunuc, remix" (Sonore)

2004"Jag Meemee EP"[ph]uturistic-beatz

2006"Pope ep"Vaatican Records

2006".aiff Skull ep" (Vivo Records)

2007"remix by ugh ep" (Vaativan Records)

2007"Custom Drum Destroyer ep" (disco_r.dance)

2009"Closer ep" (neji)

COMPI

1995"Listen' Up"Universal Ape

1995"Echole"Ritto Music / Sony

1996"Love Sonic Strategy 4 LP"(Subject)

1996"Froating on the 1st Floor"Trip Trap

1996"Bubblier than Movie Stars"EQUIVALE'NTE

1996"Music for Strabnge Lovers"Subject

1996"Froating on the 2nd Floor"Trip Trap

1997"A Record of Tropical Headz"QK

1997"Anthology32"LD&K

1998"Lum Dubbler"OTOYA JAPAN

1998"Internet Arena"(MD)SONY MUSIC ENTERTIMENT

1998"Groove Magazine" free CD Ritto Music

1998"The Garden of Nu NuLAX NuLAN"Nu NuLAX NuLAN

1999"Groove Magazine" free CD Ritto Music

2000"Love is This"Vaselin RecordsTDK(HK)0Cha-Bashira

2000"Groove Magazine" free CD Ritto Music

2001"The Exotica of Nu NuLAX NuLAN"(Nu NuLAX NuLAN)

2001"Groove Magazine" free CD Ritto Music

2001"Batofer Cherche Tokyo"(SONORE)

2002"The Sound of Warabimochi"(Warabimochi)

2002"Stylus #3" (CCJ / Stylus)

2003"Unacknowledged Pop-Song Collection vol.666"(Xerxes/Nu NuLAX NuLAN)

2003"CD Journal" free CD Ongakusyuppansya

2003"Stylus #8" (CCJ / Stylus)

2003"Tapper10" (THE WIRE)

2004"Music for Babies" (d-i-r-t-y.com)

2004"Data Pop" (Discograph)

2006"Billboad Head Soup" (Nu NuLAX NuLAN)

2006"UOVO - Pink Compilation" (UOVO)

2006"Session5" (Tribute to John Peel)

2006"Qwartz Electronic Music Award Ed2 3-CD Compilation" (Qwartz)

2006"Spacemoth Compilation" (Spacemoth)

2006"CyberArts 2006 International Compendium" (Prix Ars Electronica)

2006"disco_r.dance volume one." (disco_r.dance)

2007"52 short weeks - winter - " (Pepper Mille Records)

2007"Vaatican Records sampler No.2." (Vaatican Records)

2008"UOVO – Sound Postcard" (UOVO)

2008"The Night of Nu NuLAX NuLAN 1" (neji)

2008"ROLAX SNAX vol.1 " (Rolax Records)

2008"The Only Failure Is To Cease To Try (Beatport Exclusive Sampler)" (Some Bizzare/Beatport)

2008"TRUNCULENCE Locked Groove Compilation 7"" (Permanent Records)

2008"Some Bizzare Double Album" (Some Bizzare)

2008"In Myspace No One Can Hear You Scream" (WFMU)

2008"Vaatican Records sampler No.7." (Vaatican Records)

2008"The Box" (Peppermill Records)

2009"Vaatican Records sampler No.8." (Vaatican Records)

2009"Monographic 35: Peppermill Records" (INQ Mag)

2009"The Disco_r.dance 3 Inch Series Sampler CD " (disco_r.dance)

2009"SPORT HIT PARADISE A word that describes something extremely romantic" (12mail)

2010"THE SUN IS DOWN! remix competition – THE 20 WINNING REMIXES" (Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band)

2010"VA - Metronomicon Audio Compilation 4.0" (Metronomicon Audio)

 

REMIX_OTHERS

2000"Greates Hits 2000" Electric Cafe Nu NuLAX NuLAN

2000"Genocidal Discotheque" Swedish☆Panic☆Porno Nu NuLAX NuLAN

2001"Fundara_Abunai_De" N.M.L (Neji / INR / Subject)

2001"Are We Pervert?" Com.A (Notek / Zod)

2003"Ghost" *S (Neji)

2004"Jusco Punk" Baiyon and Hans Fjellestad (b.e.s.r.)

2005"tournent en rond (vinyl LP) " Gangpol und Mit (wwilko)

2005"Baptized Troopers" Conceal (b.e.s.r)

2005"Bonus EP" Conceal (b.e.s.r)

2005"You know what I'm saying?" Frosen Pine (dynarock records)

2005"Government Alpha Remix Compilation Reconstruction of Ruins" (ALIENATION ENTARTIMENT)

2005"Under the Bridge" Baiyon (b.e.s.r)

2006"Boule" Dragibus (Nu NuLAX NuLAN/Sonore/Exerxes)

2006"OK" Sailer-Fuku Ojisan (Ningen Daigaku/Vivo Records)

2006"Wholepole" Ergo Phizmiz (BBC Broadcasting/Vivo Records)

2006"ur Nishikawa is not my Yamashita" Norio Nishikawa (neji)

2006"Ssri - the chauffer" Yuko Nexus 6

2006"Lamento" Dag Shen Ma (Nu NuLAX NuLAN)

2006"kakke_no_tonkachi" ECD (disco_r.dance/Vivo Records)

2007"Ur Face" Missmeln

2007"Night and Day" Raymond Scott (WFMU)

2007"Baltimore Gas and Electric CO" Raymond Scott (WFMU)

2007"K2r" Raymond Scott (WFMU)

2007"c'est bien trop tard" Catherine Ferroyer Blanchard (vivo records)

2007"chanson d'amour" Catherine Ferroyer Blanchard (vivo records)

2007"Free Open Tune" Steeple Remove (vivo records)

2007"Cafe w_pao" Yuko Nexus 6 (vivo records)

2007"bekambe uku" Zoogoo

2008"ooparts 199408xx " CHRONO(INR-036)

2008"Green Vinyl EP" Cercueill (Label Brasseuse)

2008"Gmehendge" Phish (Little Fury Thing Records)

2009"New Adventures of Vernon LeNoir" Venon LeNoir (ProOt Records)

2009"Strømmen Gamelan City" Koppen (Metronomicon Audio)

2009"Sunchild" Sous les pieds, la terre

2009"Nada De Nada" Farmacia (Some Bizzare)

 

 

 

 

 


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