Also known as インキャパシタンツ Years active 1981 (1981)–present Record label Alchemy Records | Labels Alchemy Genre Japanoise Members Toshiji Mikawa, 小堺文雄 | |
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Website www.japanimprov.com/incapa/ Albums As Loud as Possible, Box Is Stupid, Pariah Tapes Similar Hijokaidan, Masonna, CCCC, Macronympha, Hanatarash | ||
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Incapacitants (インキャパシタンツ, Inkyapashitantsu) are a Japanese noise music group formed in 1981. It consists of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai, whose stated aim is to produce "pure" noise, uninfluenced by musical ideas or even human intention, using primarily feedback, vocals, and various electronics. Kosakai calls this sound "hard noise", as a nod to hard bop.
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History
The group was formed in 1981 in Osaka, Japan, as the solo project of Mikawa, a member of the noise improv group Hijokaidan. Mikawa, a bank employee, later moved to Tokyo, where he joined with government office worker Kosakai (of C.C.C.C., and who would later become a regular member of Hijokaidan) to make Incapacitants a duo. Many of the group's track titles reference their professions, but because of their day jobs, the two have not often been able to tour abroad. Incapacitants are counted among the more well known of the Japanese noise bands formed in the 1980s, along with such names as the aforementioned Hijokaidan and C.C.C.C., as well as Hanatarash, Solmania, The Gerogerigegege, Merzbow, and Masonna. The group also recorded sessions with Vivian Slaughter of Gallhammer.
Songs
Stupid Is Stupid2008
I Hate Derivatives1995
Choir of Solenoglypha Polipodida1993