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Incapacitants

Alchemy Box Is Stupid

(Alchemy Records, YOUTH INC., YOUTH-176) (Japan) (11-CD + 2-DVD set)


Disc 1 - Repo

  1. Repo (23:40)
  2. Reverse Repo (23:45)
  3. Prelude to Pallo Remixed (bonus track) (26:36)

All sounds by T. Mikawa
Tracks 1 and 2 mastered by Dr. Murakawa at Studio Gorilla
Track 3 originally released in 1985 as Side B of the cassette tape △8000 with Hijo Kaidan, on Alchemy Records (ARCA-001), and remixed here by T. Mikawa
Originally released in 1989 as an LP with tracks 1 and 2 on Alchemy Records (ARLP-027)
The CD Repo, with all 3 tracks originally released in 2001 on Alchemy Records (ARCD-130)

Disc 2 - Feedback of N.M.S.

  1. Curse of Ceauşescu (29:13)
  2. F.L.S. Syndrome (14:51)
  3. Live (22:16)

Produced by Incapacitants and Alchemy Records
Originally released in 1991 as a CD on Alchemy Records (ARCD-022)

Disc 3 - Fabrication

  1. Go Bankrupt (15:47)
  2. Good Morning, Tajima (Live in Tajima, early in the morning, Aug. 25, 1991) (40:33)

Produced by Incapacitants and Alchemy Records
Originally released in 1992 as a CD on Alchemy Records (ARCD-039)

Disc 4 - Quietus

  1. No Risk, No Return (23:12)
  2. Backfire (4:22)
  3. Gody Fishing (21:07)

Originally released in 1993 as a CD on Alchemy Records (ARCD-059)

Disc 5 - No Progress: Dedicated to Takuya "Synapse" Sakaguchi

  1. Long Awaited (23:46)
  2. Fallen Banker (9:34)
  3. Inverted Yield Curve (11:17)
  4. Libra Was Dead. Since Then, He Has Gone to Morgan Stanley. (5:10)
  5. BIS Conspiracy (23:58)

Track 1 originally released as Side B of the cassette tape Pallo III, on Pariah Tapes (PT-05)
Track 2 originally released on the compilation cassette tape Hard Drugs, on Nux Organization (NUX-12)
Track 3 originally released on a Freudwerk/Incapacitants split 7-inch EP (Freudwerk-02)
Track 4 originally titled "Libra Will Be Dead" (unreleased)
Originally released in 1994 as a CD on Alchemy Records (ARCD-070)

Disc 6 - New Movements in CMPD

  1. 20 Years of Corporate (21:20)
  2. High Yield Cult (20:06)
  3. PT Team, What's That? (29:40)

Produced by Incapacitants and Alchemy Records
Photo by Takuya Sakaguchi
Originally released in 1996 as a CD on Alchemy Records (ARCD-092)

Disc 7 - Default Standard

  1. Securitization of Eel (14:42)
  2. Company Never Obtains theLoan but It Defaults (6:08)
  3. Domestic Administration, Bad Insect and Egon Schiele (23:25)
  4. Default Standard (6:08)
  5. Half Acoustic Night of 80 (18:26)

Originally released in 1999 as a CD on Alchemy Records (ARCD-110)

Disc 8 - Live Incapacitants

  1. Live at Wels, Austria, 1999.11.5 - "Mottomo Otomo" "Music Unlimited 99" (23:08)
  2. Live at 20000V, Tokyo, 1999.12.25 - "The Strongest Christmas Ever" (33:20)
T. Mikawa and F. Kosakai: electronics, voice
Tatsuya Yoshida (track 2): drums, electric drums, voice
Originally released in 2000 as a CD on Alchemy Records (ARCD-123)

Disc 9 - 73

  1. What a Stupid Bureaucrat!!! (7:34)
  2. Please Don't Try This at Home (Live at No Music Festival 20030926) (22:16)
  3. Fund Trap (4:01)
  4. Dedicated to Koji Tano (Live at Lush 20060610) (25:38)

Originally released in 2007 as a CD on Alchemy Records (ARCD-180)

Disc 10 (Bonus CD 1) - Live Incapacitants 2

  1. Bears Overcrowded (Live at Bears 20120211) (28:50)
  2. Taste of the Soup (Live at Soup 20120225) (26:36)

Disc 11 (Bonus CD 2) - Kazuo Imai & Incapacitants

  1. Live at Doors 20040908 (25:02)
  2. Live at Super Deluxe 20070429 (27:06)

Kazuo Imai: guitar
T. Mikawa and F. Kosakai: electronics, voice

Disc 12 (Bonus DVD 1) - Incapacitants Live in Cabaret Freak Out

DVD: NTSC, region free, 26 minutes 58 seconds
Recorded live at Club South BBC, Ashikaga, November 17, 2007
Originally released in 2008 as a DVD-R on Alchemy Music Store (AMSDVDR-016)

Disc 13 (Bonus DVD 2) - Incapacitants Random Live Sampler

  1. Live at Yaneura II 1993.10.31 (19:59)
  2. Live at Zenei Koi Ongaku Sai, Toyama City Citizen Plaza, Multi Studio 1994.8.27 (31:38)
  3. Live at Studio 80 1998.8.2 Studio 80 (17:41)
  4. Live at Gospel, 1993 - Extreme Gospel Noise 2 (22:47)

DVD: NTSC, region free


Incapacitants
Toshiji Mikawa: electronics, voice
Fumio Kosakai (except on Disc 1): electronics, voice

Includes liner notes by Jojo Hiroshige (in Japanese)

Released in August 2012