Rotting Telepathies - Rotting Tapes II (1996/2026) [Hi-Res]

The first full-length document of Rotting Telepathies, the group of the late Japanese post-punk legend, Kadotani Michio and High Rise founder Nanjo Asahito. Kadotani’s music has previously only been documented on a 1991 CD on P.S.F. (entitled Rotting Telepathies), and the recently rediscovered ’87 KAD 3:4:5:6 set, which makes this disinterring of a highly limited 1990’s 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.”

“Document of a live performance from February ‘82, where they “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.”
- from the original La Musica cassette release