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A-ZAP

Artist: MELT BANANA Title: Bambi's Dilemma
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
AZ07CD
Price: $12.00 Label: A-Zap
Release
Date:
4/16/07
***On their sixth full-length studio release Melt-Banana exercise a hitherto undetected area of their musical musculature: the "rock" region. Summing up an entire album, and one as diverse as Bambi's Dilemma, with such a pedestrian qualifier is risky business, agreed, but it seems to fit like never before.

The band, of course, refuses to accommodate any such pigeonholing: "Maybe it is rock, but maybe not. We just make whatever we want. We just follow our own instincts!"

The truth is MxBx makes music as they please, relying solely on their own maverick talent to get them where they need to be.

Bambi's Dilemma's eighteen tracks careen from extreme, fast-blast attacks to more serene moments (usually reserved for non-album releases) to the band's revolutionary new, guitar and bass-less "Theremin-core."

Look for them on tour throughout the US, May through June, 2007.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Spider Snipe
Blank Page Of The Blind
Cracked Plaster Cast
Heiwaboke Crisis
Cat Brain Land
Plasma Gate Quest
Type: Ecco System
The Call Of The Vague
Green Eyed Devil
Crow's Paint Brush (Color Repair)
T For Tone
Slide Down
Lock The Head
One Drop, One Life
In Store
Dog Song
Chain Keeper
Last Target On The Last Day

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Artist: MELT BANANA Title: Bambi's Dilemma
Format: LP Catalog
Number:
AZ07LP
Price: $9.75 Label: A-Zap
Release
Date:
5/7/07
***On their sixth full-length studio release Melt-Banana exercise a hitherto undetected area of their musical musculature: the "rock" region. Summing up an entire album, and one as diverse as Bambi's Dilemma, with such a pedestrian qualifier is risky business, agreed, but it seems to fit like never before.

The band, of course, refuses to accommodate any such pigeonholing: "Maybe it is rock, but maybe not. We just make whatever we want. We just follow our own instincts!"

The truth is MxBx makes music as they please, relying solely on their own maverick talent to get them where they need to be.

Bambi's Dilemma's eighteen tracks careen from extreme, fast-blast attacks to more serene moments (usually reserved for non-album releases) to the band's revolutionary new, guitar and bass-less "Theremin-core."

Look for them on tour throughout the US, May through June, 2007.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Spider Snipe
Blank Page Of The Blind
Cracked Plaster Cast
Heiwaboke Crisis
Cat Brain Land
Plasma Gate Quest
Type: Ecco System
The Call Of The Vague
Green Eyed Devil
Crow's Paint Brush (Color Repair)
T For Tone
Slide Down
Lock The Head
One Drop, One Life
In Store
Dog Song
Chain Keeper
Last Target On The Last Day

If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

go to iTunes to browse downloads for Melt-Banana "Bambi's Dilemma" (AZAP)

If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks for purchase here.

For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service and emusic.com, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.


AZAP

Artist: MELT-BANANA Title: 13 Hedgehogs (Mxbx Singles 1994-1999)
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
AZ06CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Azap
Release
Date:
5/9/05
***One CD. 57 songs from 13 singles and splits. First time on CD.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

HEDGEHOG 7-INCH
Stick Out
So Unfilial Rule
Mind Thief
Screw, Loose
Scrubber
Pierced Eye
Ketchup-Mess
First Defy

SPLIT 7-INCH WITH GOD IS MY CO-PILOT
Ketchup-Mess
First Defy
Iguana In Trouble
IT'S IN THE PILLCASE 7-INCH
It's In The Pillcase
Rush &->Ward
Picnic In Panic

SPLIT 7-INCH SINGLE WITH DISCORDANCE AXIS
a href="http://www.midheaven.com/fi/audio1/13hedgehogs13.m3u">Buddhism Core
< Hangnail (Let It Go)
No One Wants Next One
Sicklist On Fire
One Dimensional
Not D, But M, Also

SPLIT 7-INCH WITH PENCILNECK
Mind Thief (Live)
P-Pop-Slop (Live)

SPLIT 7-INCH SINGLE WITH TARGET SHOPPERS
Making Fuss, Fuss, Fuss
Turtle Vs. Bunny (Who Won?)
Pig To Dog
Bird-Like Monkey In Cave, Singing In Drops

SPLIT 10-INCH WITH STILLUPPSTEYPA
Bad Gut Missed Fist.
It's Not My Fault.
Neck On Me.
Stop The Cook-Cu Test.
Scooped Brain In A Cup.
Capital 1060.
How To Parlare.
Say, "Shoot!"
Minus-Minus-To One.
Lupita Screams
Call Me Please-6824.
Popsy Teeth In Red.
Blackout Screen.
To Be Continued?

UNTITLED (PIANO ONE) 7-INCH
$10 A Pile (Ax Version)
Disposable Weathercock (Helpful 80 Points Version)

SPLIT 7-INCH WITH PLAINFIELD
Y-Axis
Aquatic Bee

ELEVENTH 7-INCH
Wedge!
Seesaw Semiology
Cough, Coughed, Coughing
Q For Quinine
Bird-Like Monkey/Part 2
Least Clipper
Baby Buggy Spitted
Drill The Dentist

SPLIT 5-INCH WITH XEROBOT
Last Finger Split

SPLIT 7-INCH WITH KILLOUT TRASH
Wrest The Wrist (Just For Reflection)

DEAD SPEX 7-INCH
Dead Spex
Sonic Brain Burst
Ether Twisted
Shoot The Moon

  • 56 tracks from 13 different singles and splits
  • Highly sought after and long unavailable tracks

    If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

    Melt-Banana "13 Hedgehogs (MxBx Singles 1994-1999)"

    If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks here.

    For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.


Artist: MELT-BANANA Title: Cactuses Come In Flocks
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
AZAP002CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Azap
Release
Date:
9/13/99
***An album from the morning hours of the Melt-Banana history, the second release on Melt-Banana's label was originally released in 1994 on cassette by Scottish label Chocolate Monk. More than half the extant copies were lost between the Chocolate Monk dubbing deck and the nearest post office, thanks in no small part to the bar located between the two; consequently Cactuses Come in [the] Flocks has been heard by an extremely random sampling of extremely patient tape traders and hardly anyone else.

The first half of Cactuses is a live recording from a 1992 improv festival that took place in a small room at Tokyo University; the second half is made up of four-track recordings created in mid-1994. As many voices from across the literacy rainbow are quick to point out, Melt-Banana is nothing if not a force to be reckoned with. Because they have unlocked the secrets of prime-number hardcore and gorged themselves on influences ranging from the Damned to Patty Waters, Jim O'Rourke to Merzbow, and Gertrude Stein to Mr. Bungle, they appeal to a fairly wide range of freaks and lovers of high-decibel controlled chaos. Compared to every kind of animal on every kind of drug imaginable, Melt-Banana and their weird blend of mystical awareness, hysterical screech, and moderately robotic attention to detail are magnets for believers in ampheto-core, avant garde appreciators, and no wave loyalists.


Artist: MELT-BANANA Title: Cell-Scape
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
AZ05CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Azap
Release
Date:
6/2/03
***A band who have justifiably been championed across the world, Tokyo's Melt-Banana have been responsible for some of the most complex punk rock ever made ... that far outshines ninety-nine percent of most other bands out there. The band once described their live show as "Shooting machine gun and laser beam, chaos in order." And I think that pretty much sums them up. - Olli Siebelt, BBC

No wave without the self-conscious pretension, avant garde composition compressed into one-minute-or-less bursts, urgency, intricate destruction, pure glorious abandon. Melt-Banana play the same way that Repulsion, Naked City, The Ruins, or The Boredoms all make you want to scream and dance and kill your neighbors. This is not music that we are conditioned to accept. This is you delirious with joy scraping your five senses off the floor.-Matthew Moyer, ink19

Melt-Banana are in a league of their own. There are other extreme hardcore bands out there who are experimental and unique but Melt-Banana are more than that. They area giants amongst infants. Masters amongst pupils. Kings amongst serfs. Nobody can do what they do and nobody can adequately use words to describe them. -Jeb, Crass Menagerie


Artist: MELT-BANANA Title: Charlie
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
AZAP001CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Azap
***Another all-out spazztak of scream-and-careen mathified skree core from Tokyois most tightly wound springs. Fourteen tracks of mind altering, brain boggling, and spine crushing shrapnel punk with vocals that hit your head like high-pitched knives and music that bores through your flesh like some kind of new super drill. Sure they look nice enough, but donit get your ears too close, these yaros bite. Like getting stabbed in the face and bragging about the conquest later. Embarking right this second on a trans-continental tour that will bring them perilously close to each and every one of you. Our advice, go see them you obviously havenit been using those ears for any good purpose anyhow. Guest appearances from MR. BUNGLE, the THREE DOCTORS BAND, THE WINTERMITTENS, and members of DIESELHED.

If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the iTunes button immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

Charlie

If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks here.

For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.


Artist: MELT-BANANA Title: Charlie
Format: LP Catalog
Number:
AZAP001
Price: $8.25 Label: Azap

Artist: MELT-BANANA Title: Speak Squeak Creek
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
AZAP004CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Azap
Release
Date:
6/18/01
***Produced by Melt-Banana and K. K. Null of Zeni Geva, engineered by Steve Albini, recorded in a Chicago basement, June 1994, the 24-track 30-minute Speak Squeak Creak was originally released in '94 by Null's Nux Organization label, was sporadically available throughout the decade, and is now reissued by the band's own label - on vinyl for the first time.

The band for this recording consisted of Yasuko, Agata, Rika mm' and Sudoh. They have long been admired by everyone - from the highest brows within the ranks of the avant garde such as John Zorn and Mike Patton, to shorts-draggin' munters who need to carry their wallets on a leash - for their riotous cacophony in which free jazz, math-rock, speed-metal, and grindcore all enjoy equal opportunity deployment.

Vocalist/principal songwriter Yasuko regards Speak Squeak Creak as the band's "base camp. Everything started from this album. Pop with rhythm and noise," but what she really means is "a cross between God Is My Co-Pilot, Napalm Death, and Love Sculpture's version of Khatchaturian's Sabre Dance."

    ...Melt-Banana whiplashes through 25 blistering, ear-shattering, no wave-inspired songs, most of which wiz by at less than two minutes...[The] music lurches and flows even as it sizzles in a difficult and corrosive avant-stew... -Option

    ...This Japanese quartet takes all the scrabbling, atonal dissonance of deconstructionist rock and no wave (DNA, God Is My Co-Pilot, Dawson, Big Flame) and imbues it with the hysteria and acceleration of hardcore and speed-metal... -Alternative Press

  • Produced by K.K. Null, engineered by Steve Albini
  • First time on vinyl
  • Admit it: you're insane with curiosity about what a track called "Chicken Headed Racoon Dog" sounds like

    30-second RealAudio excerpts:

    Tail in Garbage (TEKEPAKE)
    RRAGG
    IN x OUT = BUG
    SCRUBBER
    So Unfilial Rule
    DUST HEAD
    A Teaspoon of SALT
    STICK OUT
    Plus 17 other blister-lancing blasts!!

    If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the iTunes button immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

    Speak Squeak Creak

    If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks here.

    For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.


Artist: MELT-BANANA Title: Teeny Shiny
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
AZAP003CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Azap
Release
Date:
10/30/00
***Melt-Banana describe their third self-released album as "pop and nice," a claim to which numerous incredulous subscribers to the band's mailing list have replied, "No pop!" and "Extreme, please!" This angular Pythagorean-core HC quartet supposes that the words "pop" and "nice" have slightly different nuances those outside their native Japan are failing to see; perhaps they mean "pop" not in the Celine Dion sense, but in the Andy Warhol sense, "nice" not as in smashing a bunch of garbage together and expecting fans to swallow it out of habit, but as in well-crafted, hairball mania. Even as the band acknowledges that Teeny Shiny is punk, noisy, screeching, and fast, they steadfastly maintain that it is pop and nice for them. Even though a mad scientist from 2788 has given vocalist / lyricist Yako a heart the size of a lion's (engorged with futuristic steroids) and her voice goes spitting and whizzing above it all as 5,000 volts surge through her skinny torso; and given that the mad scientist has screwed with guitarist Agata's brain so that his guitar-playing resembles a synth and two turntables; and even taking into account the Melt-Banana rhythm section's ability to keep up with a machine gun demonstration without breaking a sweat - conditions that all apply to Teeny Shiny, fictionalized or not - they're not backing down from the assertion that their new album is pop and nice. Sometimes you just gotta trust people.


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