Limited edition of 300 copies from the 'bootleg' label run by C. Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core. This one features an excellent archival live show mastered straight from cassette from Damion Romero's legendary noise outfit Speculum Fight recorded live in Tokyo, Japan in 1995, a time/place that was pretty much ground zero for modern noise. Romero claims this show was primarily influenced by Keiji Haino's early Milky Way recording, as well as the ritualistic energy of early CCCC. The sound is extremely primitive and comparatively unsophisticated, with Romero working crude, ululating codes from his electronics on top of tape noise, phantom broadcast frequencies and chunks of monolithic atonal void-gargling that feel more tactile and hands-on than much contemporary digital noise. The set comes with a silkscreened sleeve, a repro of the flier for the show (that also featured Hijokaidan, Merzbow and CCCC!) and an original hand-numbered photograph from the trip by Romero. Recommended.

Edition of 177 copies on Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core’s own label documenting two live performances from this group that features Sara O’Keefe (Handicapper Horns/Eyes & Arms Of Smoke) and Trevor Tremaine (Hair Police/Burning Star Core/Death Unit et al). The sound is primitive, laid-back/stoned free jazz and electronics, with O’Keefe blowing brief halos of folk tone that Tremaine echoes and mutates via subtle shots of electricity while the two of em raise revenant vocal tones high above the din. One of the nicest reconciliations of free/folk in a while. Packaged in individually unique screened/sprayed sleeves. Already sold out at source.

Collaboration between Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core and artist Justin Lieberman, that Yeh describes as combining their love of “sound poetry, psychedelic rock, Japanese scum noise and Japanese psychedelic rock.” There’s also a more conceptual/absurdist cultural critique running through many of these tracks, using samples of voices, advertising inanities and surrealist interventions in a way that - at points - comes across as a more psychedelic Residents. The whole deal is beautifully packaged with the picture disc wrapped in a full-colour gatefold sleeve. Edition of 250 copies.

Unlikey compilation of early song-based pieces by C. Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core et al in an edition of only 135 copies on his own private imprint. Guitar and vocals from 2001 that seem to bridge the whole Twisted Village/Northwest USA basement songwriter vibe with the contemporary Brooklyn DIY style. Pretty surreal, played this to a few people and no one could believe it was Spencer.