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
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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) 2009"Catholic Sunspot Apron" (Vivo
Records) 2009"Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos"
(Some Bizzare) 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) 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 Records／TDK(HK)／0／Cha-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"Billboaｒd 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 - "
(Peppermill 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) 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"Café w_pao" Yuko Nexus 6 (vivo
records) 2007"bekambe uku" Zoogoo 2008"ooparts 199408xx " CHRONO(INR-036) 2008"Nada De Nada" Farmacia(vivo records) 2008"Green Vinyl EP" Cercueill (Label
Brasseuse) 2008"Gmehendge" Phish (Little Fury Thing Records) 2008"edo" Venon LeNoir(vivo records) 2008"Sittin On The Bucket" Koppen(vivo
records) 2008"Juicy Fruit" Koppen 2008"Sunchild"
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