Label: Vanity Records (3) – vanity 0012 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Japan Released: 1981 Genre: Electronic Style: Electro, Experimental, Minimal
Holy embryonic proto-techno / minimal wave electronic artefact from an enigmatic Japanese dental assistant. 1981 Tolerance OG on Vanity.
Great records ask questions. Few within the experimental music canon have left a bigger gaping hole in people’s understanding than Tolerance’s two for Yuzuru Agi’s seminal Vanity label. Where? Osaka. When? 1981. Who? Still to this day all we know Junko Tange said she was a dental student, nothing is known of Masami Yoshikawa and neither of them did anything else after. That leaves the hardest to answer, what? and why? The duo’s intensely analogue aesthetic sounds like it’s been recorded in the bathtub, all bombed-out rhythm machines left to splutter and dreaded drum thud. Full of eerie negative space and acutely distant, it’s hard to imagine anything more alien and perplexing being made in the early 1980s. So why? Answers on a postcard. Divin is one of the singular prime number records that shares no common ancestry with anything prior. Yet its influence is felt right through the entire arc of dance music, minimal synth, Industrial music and beyond. Tange’s most cryptic epitaph reads, ‘dedicated to the quiet men from a tiny girl’… What more can be said? Museum piece. (NM/VG++ - rare Vanity original, with insert and printed inner - great copy, ask for pics if unsure).
Tracklist A1 Pulse Static (Tranqillia) A2 1 F Yuragi A3 Misa (Gig's Tapes In "C") B1 Sound Round B2 Bokw Wa Zurui Robot (Stolen From Kad) B3 Sacrifice B4 Motor Fan B5 Tiez Rekcuz
