{"product_id":"pressure-pressure-2","title":"Pressure – Pressure","description":"\u003cp\u003eLabel: Turukame Records – TK-002\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, 8\", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP, Gatefold\u003cbr\u003eCountry: Japan\u003cbr\u003eReleased:\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Rock\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Experimental, Avantgarde\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eOddball privately released 8” gatefold dredged from the deepest recesses of the 80s Japanese DIY underground.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eUnplayed dead-stock - red alert. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIt’s the scene that keeps on giving.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eWe’ve spent more time than we’d care to admit trawling the gutters of this off-shoot of Japanese music and it seemingly never bottoms out.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003ePressure was a short-lived group (2 releases) containing four musicians in their early years, the most notable being Mimic Records founder Sugibayashi Yasuo who also did that extremely collectable ritualistic mind-bender The Mask Of The Imperial Family.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eBack to this though, four cuts of naive dub\/funk\/avant-rock experimentation that slips out of any easy box you’d attempt to put it in.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe A1 is a tense \/ clattering atonal rhythm piece that feels like Remko Scha’s self-playing guitar machine finally breaking down, or Tony Sinden’s one-off LP on Piano, whereas A2 slides into a looser dub groove drizzled in spindly sliding guitar and frayed hi-hats.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eYou’re welcome to pick your own highlight, but B2 ‘What’ is an irresistible piece of awkward straight-jacket funk with that blasé vocal style that’s characteristic of the time, preceded by bizarre array of group vocal acrobatics.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eMaybe due to the Galapagos effect that a lot of this music never found homes internationally, but undoubtably this baffling one-off release fits right in with the likes of Viola Renea, Tristan Disco, P.T.A’s, Momoyo \u0026amp; Lizard! any many others we hold close to our hearts.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eIt literally never ends.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e(NM\/NM - unplayed deadstock, 8” gatefold with insert)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA1        悪い時間\u003cbr\u003eA2        67m·お正月\u003cbr\u003eB1        Sの仕事部屋\u003cbr\u003eB2        What?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"Pressure - 67m·お正月\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eneNXLY8qiM\" height=\"240\" width=\"387\" allowfullscreen=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe title=\"Pressure - 悪い時間\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jt34dmN2I24\" height=\"240\" width=\"387\" allowfullscreen=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe title=\"Pressure - What?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pmU2KRy5WRo\" height=\"240\" width=\"387\" allowfullscreen=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe title=\"Pressure - Sの仕事部屋\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CQzqjZIzLlQ\" height=\"240\" width=\"387\" allowfullscreen=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"All Night Flight Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57463119249790,"sku":"TK-002","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/7755\/6791\/files\/4HXnW.jpg?v=1732878064","url":"https:\/\/allnightflightrecords.com\/products\/pressure-pressure-2","provider":"All Night Flight Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}