music collection nerdery - GEROGERIGEGEGE

this is an older picture of my entire collection of GEROGERIGEGEGE music that i collected from the years 2001 ~ 2006.  it was during a weird time period in my life whenever i find solace in collecting obscure music.  i spent roughly 1K on the entire collection and i bought the various "components" from around the world, including japan, australia, sweden, the uk, canada, germany, and all over the US.  i feel a slight regret in having sold off the collection, but i now associate the entire time period spanning those years with a sense of morose indifference, so it is probably better that i didn't have those pieces laying around to remind me.

STATS

2 LPs

15 CDs

23 7''s
1 polaroid (i got this on ebay through some guy who apparently met juntaro and gero 30 and took a picture of him masturbating. so yeah, i can now say that at one point in my life, i owned a polaroid of an old naked japanese man masturbating. comparisons of the man in the photo with known photographs of gero-30 were conclusive: MATCH )

i had to turn the polaroid around because it would have been considered "pornography"

ANYWAY, the entire collection was the basis for me and travis coming up and creating the artnotart gerogerigegege website, which has now apparently become the go-to source of information on the internet for this totally obscure band..  i'm very proud of that site, from its minimalist look to the amount of effort i put into cataloging and reviewing almost every single release.  my writing style definitely could have used some polish, but it was how i wrote back then and i wouldn't change a single thing about it.  

the gerogerigegege remain my all time favorite noise group, their only rivals being the OTHER giants of japanese noise: the incapacitants, hanatarash  and hijokaidan (sorry masonna and merzbow, your records never compared). i can't really say too much about them that hasn't already been said ad nauseam;  they recorded themselves jerking off... and they became infamous for their brilliant cover of the rolling stones' "i can't get no satisfaction"  (0:54):

the gerogerigegege were genuinely one of the weirdest bands that EVER existed and their completely bizarre, tasteless, offensive, disgusting, and hilarious albums are made all the more interesting whenever you compare them to their cryptic , dark ambient, musique concrete and droney counterparts.  somewhere in juntaro yamanouchi's mind, there was an artist who was able to simultaneously create the most transgressive forms of art with a sense of humor that very few seemed to genuinely understand. it seems almost natural that someone as unique as juntaro would just seemingly disappear, which is essentially what happened since no one seems to know what happened to him or where he went after about 2006 or early 2007.    

here's to you, juntaro: 1,2,3,4!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

one of the holy grails of japanese noise: the 1st gero album, SENZURI CHAMPION from 1987