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Tenshō Daijin: the many guises of medieval Amaterasu (part 1)

I’ve been working on this article on and off since late 2021, and it’s the longest one I’ve published on my blog so far (some of my wikipedia contributions are bigger, but that’s a separate matter). In fact, it's so long I have to split it into two due to limitations of tumblr's post editor.

When most people speak of “Japanese mythology”, 99% of the time they effectively think just of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki (with some night parade scrolls sprinkled in, maybe, even though that’s not really mythology, but Edo period popular entertainment). The goal of this article is to challenge this incorrect view, and to shed some light on the mythology of the Japanese “middle ages” - roughly between the 11th and the 16th centuries. I decided to use Amaterasu as the main topic, as it’s hard to think of a better way to showcase how much mythology remains outside the general perception than using a figure who, at least at first glance, is well known as an example. From Brahma longing for a friend to Yang Guifei surviving own death, I’m sure everyone will find something new here. Myths obviously aren’t all that will be covered here, though. I’ll also discuss the theological doctrines which flourished in the middle ages, with a particular emphasis on honji suijaku, their social context, and more. You will be able to find out what rituals focused on Amaterasu had to do with Enma and Taizan Fukun, how economic woes of the Outer Shrine of Ise impacted Brahma’s role in Japan, why some secrets existed only to be deliberately revealed, and more.

Kami and Buddhism

In order to discuss the development of Amaterasu’s character and her associations with other figures through the middle ages, as well as the myths which developed as a result, I’ll first need to summarize the nature of interactions between kami and Buddhism through the Nara, Heian and medieval periods. I’m specifically saying kami, as opposed to Shinto, for reasons which will become clear later. It seems that at first the relation was rather standard as far as early interactions between Buddhism and preexisting religious traditions in areas where it was introduced go. Mark Teeuwen singles out Tibet and various kingdoms corresponding to parts of present day Myanmar as examples particularly similar, though obviously not identical, to early Japan. The parallel developments concerned the Bön faith in the former and the beliefs pertaining to the nat in the latter. The early sources appear to indicate that kami were envisioned as beings who need to strive towards enlightenment themselves. Recitation of sutras was described as a way to bring them closer to that state. However, some rather quickly started to be viewed as active protectors of Buddhism. As early as 741 Hachiman was already regarded as such, for instance. Additionally, combinative “shrine-temples” already existed in the same period too, attesting to a fusion of Buddhism and preexisting tradition.

A schematic representation of some examples of the honji suijaku from the Kasuga mandala (wikimedia commons)

A breakthrough occurred in the ninth century, with the development of honji suijaku (本地垂迹) - the theory on kami being “traces” or “emanations” (suijaku) of Buddhist figures, referred to as “original sources” (honji). Similar theories regarding Daoist figures were at times advanced by Chinese Buddhist scholars as early as in the fifth century, so it was hardly an unparalleled development, though its scope was fairly unique. By the end of the Heian period, honji suijaku became the default mode of understanding kami.

A common misunderstanding today is that honji suijaku meant exact correspondence between a single Buddha and a single kami. In reality, what it created is a “fluid pantheon”, to borrow the title of one of Bernard Faure’s books dealing with this phenomenon. Connections between specific kami and Buddhas (or bodhisattvas) certainly were often established. However, that was not all.

Kami could be connected to other kami, and Buddhas to other Buddhas; and on top of that both groups belonged to an elaborate network which also included devas, wisdom kings, astral deities, legendary heroes and historical figures from various countries (for example Daoist immortals), and beings which defy classification altogether. In Keiran Shūyōshū (溪嵐拾葉集), the notion of honji suijaku is even extended to silkworms (their honji is Aśvaghoṣa). Multiple identifications could coexist, sometimes in the same sources. On top of that, individual figures could change classification depending on context.

The new theological ideas also lead to the formation of new myths, collectively referred to as chūsei shinwa (中世神話; “medieval mythology”). As summarized by Sujung Kim, this term encompasses both the myths which arose in the Japanese “middle ages”, the Kamakura and Muromachi periods (1185-1600), and modern study of them. A closely related, though more narrow, term is chūsei nihongi (中世日本紀), which refers specifically to reinterpretations of preexisting classical myths, for example Nihon Shoki, from the same times.

One of the primary goals of the new myths was to create a metaphorical bridge between Japan and the lands described in Buddhist literature transmitted from China, Korea and beyond. Sutras and other literature were often set in fabulous distant kingdoms or in supernatural realms. At the same time, the material reality of Buddhism tied it to local institutions and landscape. As a result, the local was imbued with a new, universal meaning.

As Mark Teeuwen put it in his article The Buddhist Roots of Japanese Nativism, medieval literature “allowed a local warlord to pose as a golden cakravartin, a local mountain to take on the guise of the cosmic Mt. Sumeru, a local deity to embody an aspect of the World Buddha, and a local rite to aspire to the universal aim of bringing salvation to all sentient beings.” At the same time, the universal gained a local dimension, making it easier to grasp and more approachable.

However, that was hardly the end, more like the beginning - yet another prominent change which occurred over the course of the 12th and 13th centuries resulted in the formation of a new belief: select kami were in fact not emanations of secondary importance of Buddhist figures, but direct representations of enlightenment. These developments eventually culminated in what is sometimes described as “reverse honji suijaku”: Buddhas and bodhisattvas were merely manifestations of primordial kami, not the other way around.

The motivations behind the development of these ideas are not clear. While especially in the past it was commonly assumed that they represented the beginning of a “pristinely Japanese” spirituality reasserting itself against “foreign” Buddhism, most of the theologians involved were Buddhists themselves, or at least enthusiastically drew inspiration from Buddhist sources. Mark Teeuwen and Fabio Rambelli suggest they might have been motivated by a desire to take Buddhist theology to logical extremes in order to investigate the nature of reality before the emergence of the first Buddha and the current kalpa.

Furthermore, in addition to lofty theological speculation material motivations might have been at play. Many of the advocates of reverse honji suijaku might have been so-called “shrine monks”, tasked with maintaining the shrine parts of religious complexes. Possibly their need for broader recognition and greater authority made them keen on such theological reversals. This is ultimately speculative, though.

Curiously, reverse honji suijaku arguably might have led to the creation of Shinto in the modern sense. While the phrase 神道 has a long history, and it is applied to intellectual and religious movements active in the middle ages in modern literature (for example, the treatises of a certain priestly family I’ll discuss are often called “Watarai Shinto”), there is no strong evidence that it was commonly understood as shintō in the modern sense - a distinct religious tradition - predating an explicit statement in a treatise from 1419 written by the Tendai monk Rysōhen dealing with these topics. In the earliest sources the default reading was jindō, referring not exactly to a distinct system of beliefs, but rather to a “realm”of kami ultimately existing in Buddhist context. While Shinto did eventually develop into the tradition which came to define the kami, through the middle ages and the Edo period which followed, honji suijaku was the dominant paradigm, and permeated all spheres of society.

The early history of Amaterasu: sun, textiles and longing for companionship

An Edo period painting of Amaterasu emerging from the cave, by Kunisada Utagawa (wikimedia commons)

While the explanation of the basic nomenclature and a crash course in interactions between Buddhism and kami is now out of the way, before I’ll be able to move on to the impact of the medieval ideas on Amaterasu I need to briefly summarize her earlier history.

Through the article I will simply use the name Amaterasu consistently. However, it should be noted that the standard form of the name, 天照大神, in the middle ages and in the Edo period was often read not as Amaterasu Ōkami, but rather as Tenshō Daijin, in accordance with on’yomi or “Sino-Japanese” sign values. Therefore, don’t be surprised that this is the version used in titles of historical works mentioned. As a curiosity it is worth mentioning that this is actually the reading used fairly consistently in the first western source with reasonably reliable information about Amaterasu (unless I missed something even earlier), Engelbert Kaempfer's History of Japan from 1727.

On a similar note, I generally stick to describing Amaterasu as female. However, it needs to be pointed out that through the middle ages and in the Edo period male Amaterasu is also attested, depending on the source either replacing the female version or coexisting with her. Some modern authors go as far as speculating if Amaterasu wasn’t originally seen as male prior to being redefined as female, but this is not really fully provable. The existence of a tradition according to which Amaterasu manifested in male form is already mentioned by the Tendai monk Jien (1155-1225). There are also sources providing ambiguous information about Amaterasu’s gender. In at least some cases such phenomena were a result of identification with figures either regarded as male or portrayed as androgynous in art, as I outlined in a recent article discussing the case of Amaterasu and Uho Dōji (who won’t be brought up here in any meaningful capacity, since I'm not going to focus on the Edo period). It’s not really possible to make a blanket statement on this matter, though.

Additionally it’s important to bear in mind that identification between two figures could transcend the gender of the parties involved. As you’ll see later, there were even cases of Amaterasu’s identification with a male figure actually resulting in traditions particularly strongly emphasizing her typical gender.

The Inner Shrine at Ise in 2008 (wikimedia commons)

Throughout her entire history Amaterasu has been associated with Ise and its Grand Shrine. According to the Nihon Shoki, that’s where she originally descended from heaven to earth, and where she later returned in order to be enshrined. The term “Ise Grand Shrine” actually refers to a complex centered on two major shrines, though, and only one of them, the Inner Shrine (内宮, naikū), is dedicated to Amaterasu. The kami of the Outer Shrine (外宮, gekū) is instead Toyouke.

The earliest history of Amaterasu is effectively unknowable due to lack of available sources. While she does appear both in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki in a central role, both of these works only date to the eighth century, and their historicity is often at best dubious. When exactly was her shrine originally established is a matter of debate: supporters of treating Nihon Shoki literally argue for 4 BCE (during the reign of the legendary emperor Suinin), but historians and archeologists favor more vague dating to either the fourth, fifth or seventh century. The earliest detailed records of specific religious ceremonies at Ise can only be found in an administrative protocol compiled in 804.

Historically it was quite popular among researchers to essentially assume being a personification of the sun is all there ever was to Amaterasu’s character, and that she derives her importance entirely from her solar role. Today this view is no longer accepted quite as firmly, and it is even sometimes questioned if this was necessarily her original function, though this is ultimately neither entirely provable nor fully relevant here.

Obviously, the classical Amaterasu also served as a royal deity presented as an ancestor of Japan’s imperial lineage. She was also treated as a symbolic source of its authority by extension of her role as a heavenly ruler commanding the kami. This is an example of the well documented phenomenon of clan kami (氏神, ujigami). However, based on archeological data Ise was not particularly important early on in Japanese history, and the area around it was sparsely populated as late as in the seventh century On top of that it would appear that, if the early texts are to be believed, emperors actually had an ambivalent relationship with her. It has been suggested that her classical position was only established during the reign of emperor Tenmu in the late seventh century, perhaps due to his personal connection to clans from the Ise area.

It’s important to stress here that on multiple occasions in history, in particular recent history, the connection between Amaterasu and emperors was channeled to nationalist and imperialist purposes. For instance, the Japanese colonial government in Korea funded the construction of a complex enshrining Amaterasu and emperor Meiji in the 1920s, and subsequently legally obliged students (among others) to attend ceremonies held there to foster loyalty.

The Outer Shrine in 2015 (wikimedia commons)

A key moment in the early history of Amaterasu was the introduction of the kami Toyouke (豊宇; literally “abundant food”) to Ise. A legend about her arrival is preserved in the aforementioned administrative protocol from 804. According to it, Amaterasu appeared to emperor Yūryaku (second half of the fifth century, if his historicity is to be accepted) in a dream to let him know that she is distressed and lonely, and on top of that can’t receive offerings of food according to proper protocol. She explained that the only way to solve all of these problems is to bring her a kami responsible for divine food (御饌津神, miketsu kami), Toyouke, who is to be found in Hiji no Manai in the Tanba Province. Thanks to this precise guidance, the emperor was able to instantly solve the problem, and Toyouke was moved to Ise, where she symbolically took the responsibility for food offered to Amaterasu.

Presumably, the legend contains at least a kernel of truth, and Toyouke was initially enshrined in a facility meant to fulfill a specific ritual role for the Inner Shrine, which in time grew to rival it in size and importance. Save for these details, much about the early history of Toyouke is even more unclear than in the case of Amaterasu, though. She is only mentioned in passing in the Kojiki under the name Toyoukehime no Kami (豊受姫神) in the account of the birth of Wakumusubi no Kami (和久産巣日神), one of the many kami who came into being as a result of Izanami’s death. However, this passage does not provide any information about her character, it merely states that she is Wakumusubi’s child. This tradition was of limited, if any, interest to the Outer Shrine clergy through the middle ages, as I’ll later demonstrate.

While Wakumusubi also appears in the Nihon Shoki, though with a slightly different genealogy, Toyouke is entirely absent from this work. You can find a claim on the contrary in Michael Como’s Weaving and Binding. Immigrant Gods and Female Immortals in Ancient Japan, but he essentially treats Ukemochi as identical with Toyouke and asserts the myth about Tsukuyomi killing the former is effectively about the latter. It doesn’t seem like any subsequent publications picked up this idea.

The final early source of information about Toyouke is the Tango no Kuni Fudoki (丹後国風土記; “Records of the Tango Province”). It presents her as one of eight “heavenly women” (天津乙女, amatsuotome) who at some point arrived at a spring near Mount Hiji to bathe. An old couple stole the clothes of one of them, rendering her unable to return to heaven. They subsequently ask her to become their daughter, since they have no children. She agrees, and for ten years lives with them, brewing sake which could magically heal “ten thousand ills”. The old man and woman prosper thanks to her. However, they eventually decide to tell her that she is not really their child, and should go back to heaven. She tells them that she has lived among humans for so long this is not an option for her anymore, and leaves in anger. She only calms down after reaching a different village, Nagu, where she is eventually enshrined under the variant name Toyoukanome no Mikoto (豊宇賀能売命). Due to involving a heavenly being having to stay on earth due to her clothes being stolen, this myth has been compared to the better known Hagoromo. Michael Como also argues that it might reflect the perception of Toyouke as a Daoist immortal (hence her ability to bew something akin to the fabled Daoist alchemical elixirs meant to prolong life), similarly to how the legend of Urashima Taro does. While I found his Nihon Shoki argument somewhat dubious as I said, I think this is an interesting point which warrants further study. Similar possibility about Toyouke’s character has been suggested by Bernard Faure too.

It’s also worth noting a possible reference to the Tango no Kuni Fudoki myth has been identified in a painting of the two shrines of Ise from the collection of Shōryakuji, a Buddhist temple located in Nara (seen above; screencapped from Talia J. Andrei's Mapping Sacred Spaces: Representations of Pleasure and Worship in Sankei Mandara, for educational purposes only). It depicts eight female figures standing on a cloud around a container used to make sake in the proximity of the Outer Shrine.

Amaterasu and Buddhism: the ambivalent beginnings

Early sources pertaining to Ise discussed in the previous section are invaluable when it comes to Amaterasu’s position and her connection with Toyouke, but they don’t really shed any light on the development of associations between her and Buddhist figures. Quite the opposite - they indicate that around the year 800, even basic Buddhist terms like “pagoda”, “monk” or “sutra” were considered taboo (忌み, imi) by priests of the Inner Shrine, much like these pertaining to conventional sources of religious impurity like violence, death or illness. However, Mark Teeuwen notes at the same time these very priests most likely took part in Buddhist ceremonies themselves, and there is even some evidence that in the eighth century a Buddhist temple existed in Ise.

The reasons behind the implementation of the taboo were likely largely political, rather than strictly religious. For context: in the second half of the eighth century, empress Shōtoku famously appointed Buddhist monks to various prestigious positions in the royal court. Dōkyō from the Hossō school was even temporarily elevated basically to the rank of her equal (though he eventually fell from grace). This was generally poorly received by other officials, who might have viewed it as an attempt at establishing Buddhist theocracy in place of hereditary monarchy. This in turn likely led to tensions and fueled various succession controversies in subsequent decades. Further problems, like untimely deaths or exile of various members of the imperial family, kept accumulating, and by 804 the prestige of the court was severely damaged. Furthermore, there is evidence that there were various economic conflicts of interest between the Ise clergy and local Buddhist monks.

A sixteenth century painting of emperor Kanmu (wikimedia commons)

Since the oldest source to mention the taboo is an administrative, rather than religious, text, it is not impossible that it was intended by emperor Kanmu as a way to diffuse all these social and political tensions. Mark Teeuwen suggests his goal might have been a way to restore the prestige of his family and create a center of symbolic ancestral cult which would offer him additional legitimacy independent from the Buddhist establishment residing in Nara, which was crucial for many of the previous emperors. As a lifelong student of Confucian philosophy, he likely found many models to draw from in Chinese texts. His vision of Ise was presumably that of an ancestral mausoleum.

Regardless of Kanmu’s decisions, in the long run Buddhism retained its influence in royal affairs. In fact, it was arguably this emperor himself who indirectly caused its revitalization. In 804, he sent two young monks, Saichō and Kūkai, to China. They returned with something previously largely unknown in Japan: esoteric Buddhism. The new schools they established, Tendai and Shingon, captivated the imagination of virtually all strata of society in the nascent middle ages.

Amaterasu, too, came under esoteric Buddhist influence, and gained new roles, often completely detached from her earlier character - or at the very least from the part of it firmly tied just to the ruling family. Mark Teeuwen partially jokingly refers to this chapter in her history as an “escape” from Ise and notes that for a time she has “shaken off the imperial shackles”. There was a material aspect to these processes in addition to the purely theological considerations. In the Kamakura period, the role of warrior classes grew and the imperial court weakened. As a result, the Ise clergy - the Arakida clan of the Inner Shrine and the Watarai clan of the Outer Shrine - gained greater autonomy. The emperors weren’t able to enforce a symbolic monopoly on Ise, which therefore no longer served just as a center of ancestral cult. The downside was the loss of most of the imperial funding, which necessitated innovation to secure other sources of patronage.

The Ise taboos established earlier were not exactly abandoned, but the clergy found ways around them in order to enable Amaterasu to thrive in this new environment. A summary of the theological solution they developed is provided in Nakatomi Harae Kunge (中臣祓訓解; “Reading and Explanation of the Nakatomi Purification Formula) from the late twelfth century: “although on the surface performing ceremonies which are different from the Buddhist teachings, [Amaterasu] in essence protects the Buddhist laws.” Additionally, a myth reinterpreting one of the most famous episodes from the entire Buddhist canon, but with Amaterasu as a new protagonist, was developed to justify the taboo’s existence. I’ll discuss it in a separate section later on.

The reinvention was evidently successful. There is little evidence for widespread worship of Amaterasu in earlier periods. She was effectively little more than a royal deity. Even courtiers had limited, if any, knowledge of her. Only in the middle ages did she come to be widely recognized as a major figure in the Japanese religious landscape among all strata of society. Paradoxically it was the partial detachment from the imperial family that let Amaterasu claim a uniquely elevated position in the pantheon.

One of the best sources of evidence of Amaterasu’s newfound popularity are standardized oath formulas (起請文, kishōmon). In the Kamakura period, she came to appear in them quite frequently. She was invoked either simply as the foremost kami, or alternatively as the “lord of the land” (ie. Japan; 国主, kokushu). Either way, her purpose, much like those of other of the invoked figures, was to guarantee the oath will be upheld, and to punish those who will break it.

The spread of Amaterasu to new audiences resulted in the rise of numerous new interpretations. That’s where the already briefly discussed idea of honji suijaku came into play.

A twelfth century painting of the Buddha Dainichi (wikimedia commons)

As I said earlier, despite the popular understanding of this term honji suijaku did not necessarily just signify correspondences between kami and buddhas. However, in Amaterasu’s case the earliest example actually does match this model. She came to be associated with the Buddha Dainichi (大日, literally “great sun”; from Sanskrit Vairocana).

Some authors, like Bernard Faure, argue that the establishment of a link between Amaterasu and Dainichi was effectively the core of the early honji suijaku as a whole. Purportedly the belief that a connection existed between them went all the way back to the teachings of the famous monk Gyōki, active in the first half of the eighth century. The historicity of this claim is uncertain, but it was understood as historical truth in the discussed time periods, at the very least. Anna Andreeva, relying on earlier studies by Satoshi Itō, notes that it would appear Seizon’s (成尊; 1012–1074) Shingon Fuhō San'yōshō (眞言付法纂要抄; “An Abbreviated Compendium of the Transmission of Shingon Buddhism) from 1060 has a strong claim to being the oldest attested example which can be properly dated.

While other Buddhas, such as the historical Buddha, Amida (Amitābha), Miroku (Maitreya) or Yakushi (Bhaiṣajyaguru), are obviously also present in Japanese Buddhism, historically, especially prior to the rise of Amida-centrist schools, Dainichi was by far the most important one. This is especially pronounced in Shingon, where he is recognized as the “first Buddha” (Ādi-Buddha). Dainichi’s importance coupled with his solar associations made him a suitable match for Amaterasu in the eyes of theologians. Amaterasu’s solar role is pretty widely acknowledged in Buddhist sources, and she could be labeled as a “solar deity”, nisshin (日神). She was also identified with Nittenshi (日天子), the Buddhist version of the Hindu sun god Surya. However, Nittenshi could also function as a distinct figure and had his own iconography.

A twelfth century hanging scroll showing Nittenshi in the company of attendants (Kyoto National Museum; reproduced here for educational purposes only)

The development of a connection between Amaterasu and Dainichi brought a number of changes to Ise. As an extension of it, the Inner Shrine and Outer Shrine at Ise came to be identified with the Womb Realm mandala and the Diamond Realm mandala, closely associated with him.

The Ise clergy additionally argued that the taboo observed as the shrines does not impact Amaterasu’s connection to Dainichi - rather she (and by extension Toyouke as well) represents not a mere trace of this Buddha, but “original enlightenment” (hongaku). A new systematization of kami was built around the idea: at Ise, only Amaterasu and Toyouke were regarded as belonging to the category of “kami of original enlightenment”, with other divided into “kami of inception of enlightenment” (those who had to actively embrace Buddhism) and “kami of delusion” (those who opposed it). Similar categories were employed in different areas too, though, with the head local kami, for example Suwa Daimyōjin or Sannō (山王), taking the same role as Amaterasu at Ise. While Dainichi can be considered Amaterasu’s essential honji suijaku pair, I already pointed out, it was hardly unusual for a specific figure to develop multiple connections within the honji suijaku framework, though, and this holds true for her too.

Amaterasu, Enma and other functionaries of the underworld

Enmaten (wikimedia commons)

Next to Dainichi, Amaterasu’s best attested Buddhist “counterpart” is not a Buddha, but rather a deva, specifically Enma, the judge of the dead. While many other devas present in Japanese Buddhism largely languish in obscurity today, at least in popular perception, he is probably the most recognizable one next to the Four Heavenly Kings, so I do not think much of an introduction is needed. Even if you are not particularly interested in the history of religions, chances are you’ve seen him in one piece of media or another.

Technically there are two distinct forms of Enma in Japanese tradition - Enmaten (焔摩天), who is more of a “classical” Hindu-style deva fairly similar in appearance to the original Yama, and the more popular Enma-ō (閻魔王; “king Enma”), styled after the bureaucratic Chinese underworld deities - but this distinction is not very important here. His rise to prominence in Japan started in the early ninth century at the latest, and by the ten century he was also joined by Taizan Fukun (東岳大帝; originally Taishan Fujun), a similar deity incorporated into Buddhism from Daoism. The latter was essentially the model for all of the other judges of the underworld: from the Buddhist kings of hell, to various local gods who took this role in the popular religion of Qing China. He might have even influenced the development of Matarajin in medieval Japan, but that’s a topic for another time.

It seems that a link between Amaterasu and Enma was initially established through an intermediary, specifically Seoritsuhime (瀬織津姫). She is identified with the king of hell in the Nakatomi Harae Kunge. While much about this text remains a mystery, in this case the logic behind the equation is quite clear - both of them were invoked during ritual purification. The means were not quite the same: Enma throws the sources of impurity into the deepest hells, while Seoritsuhime casts them into the ocean. Still, the level of similarity was sufficient to warrant establishing a connection.

Seoritsuhime is described both as a servant of Amaterasu, and as her aramitama (荒魂), literally “rough spirit”. This term designates the wrathful, or at least impulsive, aspect of a given kami. In Nakatomi Harae Kunge Seoritsuhime as a manifestation of Amaterasu is also more specifically described as ara-tenshi (荒天子), “heavenly emperor manipulating the brutish force”.

An Edo period depiction of Taga Myōjin from the collection of Kyoto City University of Arts (via Bernard Faure's Fluid Pantheon; reproduced here for educational purposes only)

Tenshō Daijin Kuketsu (天照大神口決; “Oral Transmission Pertaining to Tenshō Daijin”), a fourteenth century theological treatise, also embraces the equation between Enma and Amaterasu. It explains that he corresponds to the form of Amaterasu associated with the Taga shrine, Taga Myōjin (多賀明神). She has a distinct iconography, and fairly consistently appears as a horsewoman on either a black or white steed (always shown frontally), with a sword in one hand and a box with a sutra in the other. The same source also equates Amaterasu with Godō Daishin (五道大神; originally Wudao Dashen), the “god of the five paths”, another king of hell. In the Nakatomi Harae Kunge, it is instead a purifying kami, Haya-Akitsuhime (速秋津比売神), “the beloved of the dragon king Nanda”, who corresponds to him, though. The passage establishing this also mentions a similar link between yet another purifying kami, Ibukidonushi, and Taizan Fukun (curiously, the explanatory line states that the river where Izanagi purified himself after fleeing from Izanami is identical with Mt. Tai, the residence of Taizan Fukun). However, the latter is also said to be the aramitama of Toyouke.

A Japanese statue of Baozhi (Kyoto National Museum; reproduced here for educational purposes only)

Tenshō Daijin Giki (天照大神儀軌; “A ritual manual [for the worship] of Tenshō Daijin”) states that Amaterasu as a judge of the dead commands eleven messengers referred to as “princes”. It’s not easy to date this text precisely, though it’s clear it was already in circulation by 1164. It claims to contain knowledge originally revealed to the legendary Chinese monk Baozhi (寶誌; 418-524), best known from a legend commonly referenced in art in which he tears his face apart to reveal the visage of bodhisattva. The text effectively redefines Ise itself as a place where the underworld officials gather, imbuing the temple complex with new meaning, detached from its older role as a center of royal ancestor cult.

The eleven messengers listed are Zuikō Tenshi (a manifestation of Enma), Ryūgū Tenshi (dragon king Nanda), Suijin Tenshi (dragon king Batsunanda), Tenkan (“magistrate of heaven”), Chikan (“magistrate of earth”), Shimei (an underworld official), Inin Tenshi (equated with Izanagi and with Shiroku, an underworld official paired with Shimei in other sources), Kōzan Tenshi (Taizan Fukun), Godō Daishin, Kazenagashi no Kami and Okitama (a water deity equated with Suikan, “magistrate of water”). They correspond to various auxiliary shrines at Ise. Each of them is said to command a retinue of “four thousand trillion spirits”. While abstractly big entourages are quite common in medieval sources, from Michizane’s 105000 thunder god subordinates to Tenkeisei’s 84000 shikigami, even by these standards the number is unusually high.

The Enmaten mandala, with Taizan Fukun (middle of the top row) and Shimei, Godo Daishin and Shiroku (bottom row) shown among his attendants (wikimedia commons)

The lists of underworld officials serving Amaterasu show a considerable degree of overlap with these present in ritual texts Enmaten Ku (閻魔天供) and Taizan Fukun no Sai (泰山府君祭; you may know it from the story of Tamamo no Mae). Notably, Tenkan, Chikan, Suikan, Shimei and Shiroku are all members of Enma’s entourage in origin. The last two are scribes responsible for keeping track of human lifespans, but the role of the former three is not well understood.

Another deity present both in these rituals and in Amaterasu’s entourage, Godo Daishin, is a king of hell in his own right. His origin is unclear, though the oldest sources which mention him are Chinese apocryphal episodes from hagiographies of the historical Buddha. As the “god of the five paths”, he is responsible for assigning the dead to one of the five realms of rebirth: these of gods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts or hell. Notably missing is the asura realm, which didn’t particularly catch on in East Asian Buddhism. In the oldest sources, he is portrayed as somewhat inept and after meeting the Buddha implores him to teach him how to fulfill his role better. Enmaten Ku and Taizan Fukun no Sai attained a considerable degree of popularity in the eleventh and twelfth centuries due to the spread of the bureaucratic image of hell, and many laymen sought Buddhist monks (in the case of the former ritual) and onmyōji (in the case of the latter) who could perform them. They were supposed to heal illnesses, prolong life, secure an easy birth or simply to guarantee good fortune. It’s not impossible that furnishing Amaterasu with a similar role to their central deities was meant to let her clergy from Ise capitalize on the popularity of such rituals too. The spread of the new image of Amaterasu as a judge of the dead was also likely tied to her judiciary role in the already discussed oath formulas, where she essentially acts as a supernatural enforcer of legal claims.

Hokusai's drawing of three dragon kings, including Nanda and Batsunanda (British Museum; reproduced here for educational purposes only)

The final matter that needs to be addressed here is the presence of dragon kings Nanda (難陀) and Batsunanda (跋難陀; Sanskrit Upananda) in Amaterasu’s underworld entourage. In contrast with their peers, they do not have anything to do with Enma. In Buddhist cosmology, they support the cosmic mountain Sumeru, on which the highest devas like Indra and Brahma reside. More context on their connection to Ise is provided in the treatise Bikisho (鼻帰書), which cites the Outer Shrine priest Tsuneyoshi Watarai (度会常昌; 1263-1339) as its source. It actually states that all eight of the dragon kings are protectors of Ise, though also that only two, one blue and one white (with no names provided), can be used to represent respectively the Inner Shrine and the Outer Shrine. The connection is said to depend on their role as protectors of the Womb Realm and Diamond Realm mandalas. Multiple sources from Ise indicate they were believed to dwell under the central pillars of the Inner Shrine and the Outer Shrine, in this context additionally identified with the cosmic abode of the gods, Mount Sumeru.

Amaterasu, Toyouke and Brahma (times two)

Bonten, the Japanese version of Brahma (wikimedia commons)

While Dainichi made a natural match for Amaterasu, and the reasons behind her association with Enma, while less obvious, aren’t hard to understand either, the third Buddhist figure most commonly associated with her, Bonten, is quite surprising. This deity, the Japanese Buddhist guise of Brahma, has limited presence in popular understanding of Buddhism, but generally much like his Hindu forerunner he is portrayed as a distant deity with limited interest in everyday human affairs. And yet, in medieval Japan Brahma was identified with a figure both commonly worshiped and understood as quite active.

This tradition is documented in Tenshō Daijin Giki. It reaffirms that Amaterasu - seemingly treated as a male figure in this case - is the Japanese guise of Dainichi. However, in the “Realm of Form” - a Buddhist term referring to the world inhabited by humans and deities - he takes the guise of Bonten, and acts as the deva king of Japan. His life will last a total of 105000 years, and he will defend exactly 1000 rulers over the course of this period, before ascending to the Realm of Form to hear the preaching of Miroku. He will also help the faithful reach it.

The already discussed Tenshō Daijin Kuketsu also recognizes the equivalence between Amaterasu with Bonten, though it also furnishes her with a similar connection to the other ruler of the devas, Taishakuten (Indra), and states that both of these equations depend on the doctrine of Abhidharmakośa. Perhaps more unexpectedly, the same work also equates Amaterasu with Shōten (聖天, literally “noble god”; a Japanese form of Ganesha), specifying that this reflects a Shingon view. However, the thirteenth century scholar Ieyuki Watarai (詳細表示; 1256-1356) in his Jingi Hishō (神祇秘抄; “Secret Comments about the Deities”) mentions a different tradition in which this god’s connection with Amaterasu is less direct. He is said to be identical with a nameless “heavenly fox” (天狐, tenko) who acts as her acolyte.

Yet another text already brought up in the previous section, Nakatomi Harae Kunge, does not equate Amaterasu with Brahma outright, but it does redefine terms from classical mythology around him. The High Plain of Heaven (高天原 Takamagahara) is said to be identical with the “First Meditation Heaven of the Realm of Form, ruled by Bonten”. Furthermore, the collective label Yaoyorozu no Kami (八百万の神; literally “eight myriad kami”) is said to encompass “Bonnō, Taishaku, the innumerable devas, the four Great Heavenly Kings, the innumerable devas of Bonnō, and eighty four thousand kami.”

The newfound interest in Brahma in the middle ages reflected an intellectual development arguably unparalleled in earlier Japanese religious tradition - a preoccupation with cosmology.

Kojiki and Nihon Shoki obviously do deal with this topic, but the relevant sections are incredibly brief. This new discourse about cosmology was, at its core, Buddhist, but a major issue was that Japanese Buddhism was not very concerned with cosmology either. The two main sources of inspiration were, therefore, not contemporary Buddhist literature, but Chinese (mainly Daoist) texts on one hand, and accounts of Hindu cosmology, especially the Puranas, preserved in Buddhist sources on the other. Figures such as Pangu, the Three Pure Ones, Shiva or Brahma as a result attained considerable renown among Japanese theologians, who reinterpreted myths about them to suit local context, creating new narratives in the process.

A contemporary statue of Kuni no Tokotachi (wikimedia commons)

In some cases the poorly defined primeval kami from classical mythology could be incorporated into the new visions of cosmology created in the middle ages. Ame no Minakanushi from the Kojiki and Kuni no Tokotachi present both in this work and the Nihon Shoki are both well attested in that context, though references to Ame Yuzuru Hi Ame no Sagiri Kuni Yuzuru Hi Kuni no Sagiri from the Sendai Kuji Hongi can be found too. They were effectively treated as almost interchangeable, or as stages of emanation of the same entity, as documented for example in the writings of the Tendai monk Jihen (慈遍).

Two strains of cosmological speculation, these focused on Brahma and primordial kami, were in particular enthusiastically embraced by the Outer Shrine clergy at Ise, who utilized both of them to improve the standing of Toyouke. As I mentioned before, her role, while seemingly initially relatively minor, grew with time. In many regards, she came to be presented as Amaterasu’s equal. She was furnished with an association with the moon to match Amaterasu’s solar character, for example. The first attempts at elevating Toyouke through theological speculation weren’t necessarily grand in scale. She was simply identified with other kami of similar characters every now and then, for example with Uka no Mitama. An isolated source, a letter from the early Kamakura period, appears to present her identical with Ninigi, Amaterasu’s grandson, instead, but this evidently did not stick.

A breakthrough occurred in the late thirteenth century. The outer shrine clergy developed a view that Toyouke didn’t originate as a servant brought in to deal with Amaterasu’s loneliness and other needs, but rather a primordial kami, identical with Ame no Minakanushi or Kuni no Tokotachi. Toyouke in this guise was the foremost kami of heaven, and Amaterasu “merely” the foremost kami of earth. However, as I already pointed out, the new cosmologies which influenced this reinterpretation of Toyouke depended not only on classical mythology. Therefore, the Outer Shrine’s kami could also be identified with Brahma, or credited with controlling the proper flow of qi and thus yin and yang, following a Daoist model. Much of this theological speculation might have originated in the works of a single priest, Yukitada Watarai (度会行忠; 1236-1305), though he was far from the only contributor.

It’s worth pointing out that there was a practical material component to the theological speculation about the identity of Toyouke. Regardless of the relation of their respective kami, Inner and Outer Shrine were ultimately rivals competing for patronage. To present Toyouke as equally, if not more, important as Amaterasu was also a way to make potential donors, from shoguns to commoner pilgrims, more inclined to support the Outer Shrine. While prior to the Kamakura period Ise could securely depend on imperial funding alone, that changed with the weakening of the court. Therefore, securing new supporters was vital for their continuous activity. This remained the case through the Edo period as well, but this topic obviously goes beyond the scope of this article.

Identification of both Toyouke and Amaterasu as Brahma was not necessarily contradictory thanks to the existence of sources in which more than one Brahma appears. Nobumi Iyanaga points out that two Brahmas, Mahābrahmā Śikhin (ie. Brahma as the king of the gods) and Mahābrahmā Jyotiṣprabha (“Great Brahma of Brilliant Light”), appear in the Yamato Katsuragi Hōzanki (大和葛城宝山記), with one reflecting traditional portrayals of Brahma and the other representing a reinterpretation of an account of Vishnu as a creator figure. Both of the titles used appear in the enumeration of deities listening to the Buddha’s teachings in the Lotus Sutra. Two Brahmas also appear in the Bikisho, where “king Brahma” descends from heaven, but instantly starts longing for a friend. In response, a deity named Harama, an alternate transliteration of Brahma into Japanese, appears to him. The notion of Toyouke and Amaterasu being two Brahmas might have developed in the thirteenth century at Senkūin, a Buddhist temple closely affiliated with the Ise shrines. A text from this location dated to between 1240 and 1275 states that Toyouke, addressed as identical with Ame no Minakanushi, corresponds to Shiki Daibontennō (尸棄大梵天王; “emperor Mahābrahmā Śikhin”) and Amaterasu to Kōmyō Daibontennō (光明大梵天王; “emperor Mahābrahmā Jyotiṣprabha”). It also specifies Toyouke is male and Amaterasu female, which reflects splitting Brahma into a male-female cosmogonic pair. Nobumi Iyanaga points out the theological treatise Tenchi Reikiki (天地麗気記) goes a step further: the two deities are said to partake in intercourse. He suggests this represents a development of the motif of Brahma longing for a friend in the Bikisho. Tenchi Reikiki also states the couple personifies the Womb Realm and Diamond Realm.

A Kamakura perioid painting of Kūkai holding a vajra (wikimedia commons)

As a digression it’s worth pointing out that while the Tenchi Reikiki was only written in the Kamakura period, it was actually attributed at the time to Kūkai, who lived centuries earlier. Obviously one reason was that there’s no better way to make a treatise seem more authoritative than to claim it was written by a celebrated historical figure. However, it’s also worth pointing out that at some point a connection between Kūkai and Amaterasu developed. A tradition known from a number of works, for example Monkan’s treatise Himitsu Gentei Kuketsu (秘密源底口決) presents him as a manifestation of her.

The Watarai theories about the nature of Toyouke and Amaterasu have originally been written down in the Kamakura period in the so-called “secret books''. This term has been used to refer to them collectively since the Edo period, when they were standardized for a relatively brief time into a “canon” of sorts. While tradition has it that there were five of them, research revealed the existence of further texts in medieval tradition, with one rediscovered in 1955, for example. At least in theory, the individual Watarai books present information contained within as a special sort of secret, designated by the Buddhist term shōgyō (聖教; literally “sacred teachings”). Originally it referred to the teachings of the historical Buddha, or to the Buddhist canon more broadly, but in medieval Japan the term came to refer to specific kinds of knowledge transmitted by monks and other religious specialists in general.

While sometimes referred to as “secrets” in English, shōgyō were not necessarily impossible to share. Through the entire middle ages, many temples and shrines all across Japan effectively actively built their identity around making it known that they possess religious secrets worth knowing and can transfer them. Sometimes, they were intentionally “leaked” to nobles, imperial courtiers or fellow clergymen to spark interest. They were also utilized in annual “debate rituals” (論義会, rongie) held by authorities for religious scholars, who treated them as a way to hone their rhetorical skills and gain new theological insights.

The divine and the vulpine at Ise: Amaterasu, Dakiniten and Sankoshin

The Dakiniten mandala (wikimedia commons)

The topic of shōgyō is fundamentally linked with ambivalent Buddhist figures which in medieval Japan came to be associated with the notions of non-duality combining enlightenment and ignorance, such as dakinis, which commonly figured in such “secrets”. While dakinis do not appear in the cosmological myths from the Watarai books, they nonetheless did play a role in the developments pertaining to medieval Amaterasu. A link between her and the dakini par excellence, Dakiniten, developed due to their shared connection with Dainichi. Under his original name Mahavairocana, Dainichi can be portrayed as a subduer of dakinis, taking the guise of Mahakala (Makaraten) in this context. The singular Dakiniten as a result of this association could be identified with Dainichi outright, as attested in the Rinnō Kanjō Kuden (輪王灌頂口傳), dated to the late Kamakura period.

The link between Amaterasu and Dakiniten is chiefly known from the Shingon ritual sokui kanjō (即位灌頂), “enthronement initiation”, meant for emperors freshly ascended to the throne. It was first performed for emperor Fushimi in 1287, and remained a part of ascension ceremonies all the way up to 1846. In this context, Amaterasu outright appears in the guise of Dakiniten. A similar statement can be found in Tenshō Daijin Kuketsu, which calls Dakiniten the honji of Amaterasu (it also links Dakiniten with Fujiwara no Kamatari and the rise of the Fujiwara clan, but I’ll cover that elsewhere in the future).

Keiran Shūyōshū specifies that the shinko was an appropriate form for Amaterasu because it is the only animal capable of emitting light on its own. This ability in turn reflects the fact that its body was identical with the wish-fulfilling jewel, a frequent attribute of Buddhist figures; the name is self-explanatory. Alternatively, the animal could be described as possessing three tails, each ending in a wish-fulfilling jewel. By the fourteenth century, this object was firmly associated with Amaterasu as well. This led to the development of the view that Nyoirin Kannon (如意輪観音), a form of Kannon directly linked to the wish-fulfilling jewel, was Amaterasu’s honji. The shinko similarly could be identified with this bodhisattva. Granted, so were prince Shotoku, Ryōgen and numerous other figures, but that’s a separate topic not directly relevant to this article.

A different belief developed around the shinko at Ise. Here this supernatural animal came to be identified with Sankoshin (三狐神), literally “three fox deity” or “three fox deities”. Despite the triplicity implied by the name, sources such as Tamakisan Gongen Engi (玉置山権現縁起) clearly describe Sankoshin as a singular figure who acted as the “king of the heavenly foxes” (天狐王, tenko-ō).

It is presumed that Sankoshin's name was in origin a derivative of Miketsu no Kami (御食津神), the kami of Miketsu, the granary of the Outer Shrine. The development of Sankoshin might have started as a misreading or wordplay, with Miketsu (御馔津) transformed into the homophone mi ketsu, “three foxes” (三狐). This phrase in turn can be alternatively read as sanko, as in the case of Sankoshin.

Miketsu no Kami is otherwise associated, or outright identified, with Uka no Mitama, who is obviously not a fox, let alone three foxes; or alternatively with Toyouke, who has even less to do with these animals; you might recall she is described as a miketsu kami in the legend of her arrival in Ise. Older copies of Nakatomi Harae Kunge also affirm this equation, but later on the reference was substituted for a statement supporting the equivalence between Toyouke and Ame no Minakanushi favored by the Watarai priests.

Sankoshin in the middle ages appeared in rituals from Ise associated with the kora (originally 子良, later also 狐良). This term refers to a class of female shrine attendants associated with the Outer Shrine at Ise. Jingi Hishō asserts they were manifestations of Dakiniten, and on the basis of homophony links their name with 狐 (ko), “fox”.

Part of a hanging scroll depicting Dakiniten riding on a fox (wikimedia commons)

Elsewhere, shinko is treated as another name of Dakiniten, or alternatively of her fox mount (which lacks serpentine traits proposed by Teeuwen, but sometimes does have snakes coiling around its legs and neck). It’s also a part of her well attested epithet Shinko-ō Bosatsu (辰狐王菩薩), “Bodhisattva King of Astral Foxes”. This connection is also partially responsible for the development of another of her titles, Shindamani-ō (真陀摩尼王), “king of the wish-fulfilling jewel”.

Being able to grant specific wishes immediately was commonly attributed to Dakiniten in the middle ages and beyond. However, due to her ambivalent perception and peripheral role between devas and demons in Buddhist theology it was commonly believed that the worldly benefits granted by her do not last and in the long run might lead to misfortune. With time, related rituals often came to be perceived negatively, often based on highly dubious reasons, as I discussed recently in another article. The ambivalent perception of Dakiniten ultimately was not unlike that of the animals she came to be associated with.

I plan to cover Dakiniten in more depth at some point, but I will only note here that her connection with foxes has a rather interesting history. Originally, dakinis were associated with jackals in India, due to their similarly unfavorable perception. When Buddhist texts dealing with this topic were transmitted to China, references to these animals posed a challenge to the translators, who were entirely unfamiliar with them. Based on context it was established that the name of a fox-like legendary animal, the yegan (野干), would make for a sensible translation. Since the yegan was described as fox-like, and since foxes in general had a major role in religion and literature of China at the time, eventually comparisons with foxes started to show up. Most notably, in the Tang period Śūraṅgama Sūtra the word dakini is provided with the gloss humei gui (狐魅鬼), something like “fox sorceress demon”. While unique, this term might have influenced the development of the image of dakinis in general, and Dakiniten in particular, in Japan.

A thirteenth century depiction of Benzaiten with entourage (wikimedia commons)

To go back to the core topic of this section, the development of a link between Amaterasu and Dakiniten had one more consequence: the establishment of a similar connection between Toyouke and closely related Benzaiten at Ise, to keep the theme of mirroring associations. This goddess is the Buddhist form of Saraswati. Today, she is best known as one of the Seven Gods of Luck, who emerged as a group in the Edo period, though her history goes further back and she enjoyed considerable popularity through the middle ages.

Outside of Ise, it was commonly Amaterasu herself rather than Toyouke who came to be linked to Benzaiten. According to a legend which originated on Chikubu Island, Benzaiten first appeared in Japan during the reign of emperor Kinmei, and instantly announced she is a manifestation of Amaterasu. A less direct reference might be present in the already mentioned Taiheiki, where Yoshisada Nitta at one point says he heard Amaterasu at times manifests in the form of a “dragon god of the blue ocean”, which might be an allusion to a common symbol of Benzaiten.

Benzaiten and Amaterasu could also be associated without being identified with each other. In a myth tied to the tradition of wandering blind singers (a group traditionally believed to be under her protections), she effectively replaces Ame no Uzume, and lures Amaterasu out of the cave by playing her biwa. In the Asamayama Engi (朝熊山縁起), she is addressed as Amaterasu’s mother instead, though she ultimately only plays a minor role in contrast with her daughter. The text largely revolves around Amaterasu (as noted by Anna Andreeva portrayed here as a “great conversationalist”) explaining theological matters to the monk Kūkai.

Amaterasu, Aizen and sericulture

The wisdom king Aizen (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

In addition to her links to Buddhas and devas, Amaterasu also offers an example of identification between kami and wisdom kings. They enjoy an elevated position among Buddhist figures, almost on par with Buddhas and bodhisattvas. She could specifically be identified with arguably the second most important member of this category, Aizen Myōō. Since he is regarded as a wrathful manifestation of Dainichi, the reasons appear fairly straightforward. Linking him with Amaterasu goes back at least to Eison, a long-lived thirteenth century Shingon monk. The connection additionally reflects Amaterasu’s association with the wish-fulfilling jewel. Aizen was outright identified with this object, which is actually responsible for many of his own associations. Last but not least, Aizen and his fellow wisdom king Fudō were identified with the same two mandalas as the two shrines of Ise. On this basis it was not hard to link Aizen with Amaterasu.

However, once again, association does not necessarily equal conflation. Therefore, Aizen and Amaterasu could also appear as two distinct figures in the same sources. For example, both textual and iconographic instances of a triad consisting of both of them and another wisdom king, Fudō, are known. The occasional identification between Aizen and Amaterasu is not the reason behind his appearance here. Instead he and Fudō are present because they are an archetypal Buddhist dyad used to represent duality.

The triad is a medieval reinterpretation of the cave myth which played a role in an initiation rite (灌頂, kanjō) focused on Amaterasu. In this context both of the wisdom kings take the roles of “rock cave assistants”, with Fudō corresponding to Takuhatachijihime (the mother of Ninigi and younger sister of Omoikane) and Aizen to Tajikarao (who famously opens the cave in the classical version of the myth). The opening of the cave Amaterasu hid herself in was compared to the opening of the legendary Iron Stupa, said to exist somewhere in the south of India. This event, as Buddhist treatises record, led to the reveal of esoteric knowledge to the early Mahayana thinker Nagarjuna. In Tenshō Daijin Kuketsu, it is actually Amaterasu herself who was transmitted to him by the bodhisattva Kongōsatta (Vajrasattva).

To go back to the depictions of the Amaterasu triad, another thing worth pointing out is that a unique iconographic variant of her appears in them: seated on the back of a horse, with a solar disc and scales in her hands. While at a first glance this might sound similar to already discussed Taga Myōjin, there is actually a difference: the latter is always depicted frontally, not facing left, in contrast with the other mounted form of Amaterasu.

A depiction of Memyō from the fifteenth or sixteenth century (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

However, Bernard Faure notes these paintings resemble yet another figure she could be equated with, Memyō Bosatsu (馬鳴菩薩; “horse neigh bodhisattva”). This name originally referred to the Buddhist author Aśvaghoṣa, but in this context it instead designates a sericultural deity of Chinese origin first attested in the Tang period, for example in a short text attributed to Varjabodhi. However, while the Chinese original, Maming Pusa, is male, his Japanese counterpart is generally portrayed as a female figure, especially in texts stressing her connection to Amaterasu.

A Meiji period illustration of Susanoo throwing the carcass of Ame no Fuchikoma into Amaterasu's weaving hall (wikimedia commons)

Presumably the two initially came to be associated with each other because of their shared interest in sericulture and weaving. The classical myth portraying Amaterasu as a weaver, in which Susanoo throws the carcass of the horse Ame no Fuchikoma into the room where she is engaging in this craft, has been channeled to highlight why she would be identified with a deity portrayed on horseback.

While Memyō is arguably the highest profile Chinese figure Amaterasu was identified with (unless you want to make a case for Enma but that would be a bit of a reach), it’s worth noting that there’s another such case. However, it involved a historical figure rather than a deity. While presenting Buddhist patriarchs or rulers as manifestations of Buddhas or deities was par for the course, this one strikes me as quite unique.

Yang Guifei, as depicted by Shōen Uemura (wikimedia commons)

Jindai no Maki Hiketsu (神代卷祕決) records a tradition according to which Yang Guifei, a consort of emperor Xuanzong of Tang, was a manifestation Amaterasu. It depends partially on the preexisting belief that the former did not commit suicide, but instead escaped to Japan, and came to be enshrined in the Atsuta Shrine, which on the account of its picturesque location was sometimes identified with Penglai, the land of Daoist immortals. A related legend is recorded in the sixteenth century treatise Utaishō (謡抄), which relays that the Atsuta deity (here not identified with Amaterasu) manifested in China as Yang Guifei to seduce emperor Xuanzong to distract him with a plan of invading Japan. After accomplishing this goal, she returned to her shrine.

Emperor Xuanzong wasn't exactly the conventional nemesis of Amaterasu, whether in classical mythology or in the middle ages. I'll look into the figures such a title can be applied to in in the second half of this article; due to tumblr's limits I cannot publish both halves as a single post. The bibliography will also be included in part 2.

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shintoinenglish · 5 years ago

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Hello i am a japanese american trying to reconnect with my culture and explore shinto are there any resources that you would recommend for me to start?

Hey! I really relate, and it really depends on who you would like to worship. I think the book I recommend the most is A New History of Shinto by Mark Teeuwen.

#my asks #miso-soup-cup

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porlockstompf · 5 years ago

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ALL BOMBS 2018 my favourite platterstompf

01 up-tight "live in europe" [cdr & k7]

02 france "à la recherche de la flexitude du temps" [cd]

03 dylan carlson "conquistador" [lp]

04 kawaguchi masami's new rock syndicate " now" [lp] + masami kawaguchi "13.3.18" [dl] + masami kawaguchi, fukuoka rinji & anla couris "ramen en los parlantes" [cd] 05 bardo pond / plastic crimewave syndicate "live amen" [k7] + bardo pond "volume VIII" [lp] + bardo pond & major stars "this inner light b/w s.l.t." [7"] + curanderos "on the glaze b/w danger bird" [lathe cut 12"]

06 hôpital de la conception the electric rockin' chair [k7] 07 skullflower "werecat powers of the crossroads at midnight" [lp] 08 ulaan markhor "helm" [k7] 09 roy montgomery "day of the lords" [lathe 8"] + roy montgomery "suffuse" [cd] 10 demdike stare & il gruppo di improvvisazione nuova consonanza "the feed-back loop" [k7] + demdike stare "passion" [dl] + demdike stare "stitch by stitch part IV (back)" [k7] ...

11 bridget hayden "pure touch only from now on, they said so" [lp] 12 brian ruryk & schakalens bror "2 guitars country style" [k7] 13 hex waves "canine rising" [k7] 14 altaat "maa on täysi" [k7] 15 yann gourdon "15.10.15" [cd & dl]

16 ian william craig "tresholder" [lp] 17 stephen o'malley & anthony pateras "rêve noir" [cd] 18 sunn 0))) downtown la rehearsal rifftape march '98 [lp] (2018)° + °sunn 0))) live @ echoplex los angeles 181118 [dl] (2018)° 19 wet tuna "great wet wonders" [cdx2] + wet tuna "livin' the die" [lp] + wet tuna "mountain busted" [cdrx7] 20 the opawa 45s "silver screen guitar" [k7] + the opawa 45s "the ostrich triptych" [dl] + the opawa 45s "live at lyttelton coffee company" [dl]

21 pro et contra "pro et contra " [cd] 22 the dead c "on the outbreak of civil war b/w good consul is punished [7"] 23 mainliner & expo 70 black hole bw totality wormhole [7"] + mainliner / plastic crimewave syndiate "no mellow" [k7] 24 midnight mines "stations b/w radio dub" [7"] + midnight mines "invisible insurrection of a million minds" [k7] aka midnight mines "live @ cafe oto 200517" [dl] 25 buñuel "the easy way out" [lp]

26 ilta hämärä "velloa" [7"] 27 fadensonnen "brut" [k7] 28 fukuoka rinji & michel henritzi "desert moon' [cd] 29 slift "la planète inexplorée" [12"] 30 black helium "primitive fuck" [lp]

31 keiji haino & konstrukt a philosophy warping... [live] [lp] + keiji haino & sumac "american dollar bill..." CF 2017 !!! + keiji haino & musqis "keiji haino & musqis" [cd] 32 wooing "daydream time machine" [7"] 33 fuji/ junzo "live at de audio plant" [k7] + fuji & suzuki junzo "live at de audio plant plus" [dl] 34 leda "japanese key b/w the silent contest" [7"] 35 the caretaker "everywhere at the end of time stage IV" [lpx2] + the caretaker "everywhere at the end of time stage V" []

36 albedo fantastica "culvert & starry night" [cd] 37 giegue "'77 tachikawa trip [hadaka no rallizes tribute]" [dl] + giegue "noise guitar pop" [ep] [dl] 38 the band whose name is a symbol "basement blowouts" [lp] 39 mark lanegan & duke garwood "with animals" [cd] + mark lanegan & duke garwood "mescalito" [10"] 40 suzuki junzo & ikuro takahashi "live phantasmagoria vol I helluva lounge 27/11/16" [cdr]

41 comacozer / blown out "in search for highs volume I" [cdr] 42 parades against parades "driving me stoned" [lp] 43 headroom / dire wolves (just exactly perfect sisters band) "split" [lp] 44 hastings of malawi "visceral underskinnings" [lp] 45 barth, hjorthol, & åm "the broken vessel" [cd]

46 "in death's dream kingdom" [lpx4] 47 le réveil des tropiques "big bang" [lp] 48 urthona "destruction blues" [cd] + urthona & the asterism "murmurations" [cd] 49 brant bjork "mankind women" [cd] 50 antony milton "(don't have) much to say" [dl]

Your Annual Bowery Eclectic:

& The Usual Baker Street Irregulars:

many many rereleases & the odd compilation (short list):

01 high rise "high rise II" [1986] [lp & k7]

02 public image ltd "the public image is rotten (songs from the heart)" [cdx5 & dvdx2] 03 einstürzende neubauten "grundstück" [2004] [lp] 04 earth "the bees made honey in the lion's skull" [2008] [lpx2] 05 ian william craig" a turn of breath [extended]" [2014] [lpx2]

06 tappa zukie "dubshot zukie" [dl] 07 bauhaus "bela lugosi's dead: the bela session" [1979] [lp/cd] 08 brainticket "zürich/lausanne" [1983-1984][cdx2] 09 snatch "snatch" [1983] [lp] 10 new york dolls "personality crisis: live recordings & studio demos '72-'75" [cdx5]

11 "step forward youth roots masters from the "punky reggae party" [cdx2] 12 augustus pablo "dub from the hills" [dl] + augustus pablo "presents dj's from 70's to 80's" [1997] [cd] 13 international harvester "remains" [1968-1969] [lpx5] 14 "birth work death - work, money & status in country music" [lp] 15 "hillbillies in hell volume 666 country music's tormented testament '52-'74" [lp] + "hillbillies in hell volume 777 country music's tormented testament '52-'74" [cd] + "hillbillies in hell the rapture country music's tormented testament '52-'74" [cd] + "hillbillies in hell the resurrection country music's tormented testament '52-'74" [cd]

16 simply saucer "cyborgs revisited" [rec '74-75] [1989] [lpx2] 17 the heads "rkt!" [1998-2002] [cdx2] 18 thisquietarmy "unconquered [10th anniversary edition]" [2008-2018] [cdx2] 19 ut "ut live at the venue" [rec 1981] [lp] + ut "early life" [1987] [lp] 20 siglo xx "box" [1982-1983] [lpx3]

most pleasing purchases:

01 cottonwoodhill "places of light b/w poetry" [1970] [7"]

02 batkin brothers "mai... b/w tropical" [1970] [7"] 03 worst "mmxvii" [2017] [k7] 04 shit & shine "bass puppy" [2010] [12"] 05 sister spliff & demon dread "marchena city dub" [1980] [lp] / king blood "eyewash silver" [2010] (2015) [cd]

gigs:

bardo pond live @ magasin4 040618

bootlegs:

01 bardo pond “live @ 100 club london 060618″ [dl] + bardo pond "live @ union pool brooklyn 170218" [dl]

02 van morrison "the catacombs tapes / live in boston '68" [dl] 03 einstürzende neubauten “live @ helsinki 241118″ [usb]

favourite record sleeve:

surprise ;)

the dream dates “the mess you’re in b/w search & destroy” [7’’] (1979)

radio:

... sadly, 2018 saw brian turner leaving wfmu ...

podcasts:

01 jim sclavunos "conway savage tribute @ soho radio 240918" [dl]

2018 summer hit:

your annual reminder:

youpi youpi yeah “youpi youpi yeah” [cd] (2010)

humorstompf:

01 hans teeuwen "real rancour" / "echte rancune" [dvd & dl]

ex aequo 01 stewart lee "content provider" [dvd]

02 simon munnery "renegade plumber" & "sings soren kierkegaard" [gfs] [dl] 03 jeroen leenders "jeroen leenders experience" [soundcloud] [dl] 04 tony law "lost show" [gofasterstripe] [dl] 05 james acaster "repertoire" [netflix] ex aequo luke mcqueen "the luke mcqueen pilots" [bbc]

dire times... the world needs lou sanders more than ever !

bilderstompf:

01 "here to be heard: the story of the slits" [dvd & scrapbook]

02 suburra "season I" [netflix] 03 counterpart "season I" [starz] / 12 monkeys "season IV" [syfy] 04 bas heijne "onbehagen" [vpro] 05 altered carbon "season I" [netflix] / queen of the south "season III" [usa network]

06 bron/broen "season IV" [sveriges tv / danmark radio] 07 endeavour "season V" [itv] 08 commissario monalbano "season XII" [rai 1] 09 killjoys "season IV" [syfy] 10 inside n°9 "season IV" [bbc] / david rodigan "reggae fever" [bbc]

favourite blog:

best interwebs:

... a rare glimpse of the true potentiality of the interwebs ...

may your home be safe from tigers, x leroy

HNY & stay hungry!

the long list:

adam stone & dead sea apes "warheads" [cd] alvin lucier "criss cross b/w hanover" [lp] + alvin lucier "so you (hermes, orpheus, eurydice" [cd] amm "an unintended legacy" [cdx3] amt & the melting paraiso ufo "reverse of rebirth in universe" [cd] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo "hallelujah mystic garden part one" [lp] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo "electric dream ecstasy" [cd] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo "paralyzed brain" [cd] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo "the man who fell to us live in nagoya 2017" [cd] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo "either the fragmented body or the reconstituted soul" [cd] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo "sacred & inviolable phase shift" [cd] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo vs lee van cleef "psychic battles vol V" [lp] anna von hausswolff "dead magic" [cd] black spirituals "black access/black axes" [lpx2] black thumb "lucy leave [syd barrett]" [dl] bonnie 'prince' billy & roadie "hope is all i'm holding" [dl] + will oldham "songs of love & horror" [lp] + bonnie 'prince' billy / naked shortsellers "the best of folks b/w harbour men" [7"] + bonnie 'prince' billy "blueberry jam" [dl] boris "eternity - dear 25th anniversary tour live 28-12-17" [dl] + boris "phenomenon's drive" [12"] br'lâab "other people's crimes" [10"]

campbell james kneale "naamah" [k7] + campbell james kneale "o blessed fornicatrix" [k7] + campbell james kneale "timid seamstress" [k7] + campbell james kneale & anla courtis "one-1-I b/w two-2-II" [7"] chris forsyth & the solar motel band "rare dreams: solar live 2.27.18" [dl] connorparty "koko [keiji haino]" [dl] cousin silas & the glove of bones "spirits of afrodubism" [k7] dan melchior "the folksinger" [lp] + dan melchior & sigtryggur berg sigmarsson dark arc [lp] + dan melchior & dylan nyoukis "unusual dealers" [cdr] daniel bachman "the morning star" [cd] david nance group "peaced & slightly pulverized" [cd] --- "110 blues" --- + david nance group "stalled out b/w profit" [subscriber 7"] dhidalah "moon people" [k7/dl] ecstatic vision "under the influence" [cd] efrim manuel menuck "pissing stars" [lp] einstürzende neubauten "live in helsinki nov 24 0529pm" [usb stick] elkhorn "lionfish" [k7] + elkhorn "live fish" [cdr] eugene chadbourne "solo guitar volume 1 1/3" [dl] + eugene chadbourne "29.10.17" [dl] + eugene chadbourne, beresford & ward "pleasures of the horror" [lp] flame 1 [aka burial & the bug] "fog bw shrine" [12"] fuji yuki, michel henritzi, & harutaka mochizuki "shiroi kao" [cd]

gnod "chapel perilous" [cd] + gnod "be aware of your limitations" [12"] grouper "grid of points" [lp] heather leigh & peter brötzmann "crowmoon (the auckland concert)" [cd] + heather leigh & peter brötzmann "sparrow nights" [cd] + heather leigh "throne" [cd] "hexadic III" [lp] hibushibire "official live bootleg vol III" [cdr] + hibushibire "official live bootleg vol IV" [cdr] honey radar "psychic cruise" [7"] + honey radar / john peel "middle class revolt bw the fall as introduced by john peel" [7"] aka chunklet industries a mark e smith tribute single [7"] + honey radar & henry owings "wind-up man b/w 172 seconds over louisville" [7"] + honey radar & gotobeds "no present" [7"] ilta hämärä "himmeä kaihoisa sininen" [lp] it hurts "estuary" [lathe 8"] jean dupuy "all of the time: sound works 1969-2017" [lp] jo meares "back to the world" [cd] jjuujjuu "zionic mud" [lp] john zorn "insurrection" [cd] jozef van wissem "we adore you, you have no name" [cd] julia kent, jean d.l. "the great lake swallows" [cd] keaton is dead "treat me like I knew you would" [dl] + keaton is dead "flying woman machine" [dl] + keaton is dead "itzy bitzy [ep]" [dl] mainliner / expo seventy "black hole bw totality wormhole" [7"] marisa anderson "cloud corner" [cd] mark kozelek "mark kozelek" [cdx2] michael gira "the egg: stories by michael gira" [cd] michael gordon, kronos quartet "clouded yellow" [cd] michael nyman "mcqueen" [cd] moe / marhaug "capsaicin" [cd] moon duo "no fun b/w jukebox babe" [12"] mv & ee & the golden road "feral run live @ brattleboro 140118" [dl]

nick cave & the bad seeds "distant sky [live in copenhagen]" [12"] + nick cave & warren ellis "kings [ost]" [cd] + nick cave & warren ellis "wind river [ost]" [cd] norman westberg "after vacation" [lp] + norman westberg "idling live" [cd] + norman westberg "before the bridge" [dl] oneida "romance" [cd] orchestra of constant distress "distress test" [lp & k7] oren ambarchi, jim o'rourke, with special guest u-zhaan "hence" [lp] + oren ambarchi, kassel jaeger & james rushford "face time" [lp] + oren ambarchi, crys cole & leif elggren "certainly" [lp] + oren ambarchi, sprenger & sollmann "panama b/w suez" [12"] -"scale" [cdx2] peter brötzmann & fredrick lonberg-holm "ouroboros" [lp] purling hiss "out tonight b/w walkin' with jesus" [k7] schakalens bror "omelette of disease" [lp] + schakalens bror "overdrive" [k7] scientists "braindead (resuscitated) b/w survivalskills" [7"] + scientists "mini mini mini b/w perpetual motion" [7"] simon wickham-smith "extreme bukake" [dl] stefan christensen "city code" [lp] sumac "love in shadow" [cd] + sumac "wfmu" [k7] sun kil moon "this is my dinner" [cdx2] + sun kil moon "linda blair" [dl] suzuki junzo "the magus" [cd] tape loop orchestra "lead is into the light" [lp] + tape loop orchestra "return to the light" [lp] + tape loop orchestra "before the light" [lp] tashi wada with yoshi wada & friends "nue" [cd] the aints! "church of simultaneous existence" [cdx2] the band whose name is a symbol "ottawa psychfest 2018" [dl] + the band whose name is a symbol "symbol ensemble III" [dl] + the band whose name is a symbol "basement blowouts 2" [dl] + the band whose name is a symbol "droneverdose" [lp] + the band whose name is a symbol "codocil" [dl] the limiñanas "shadow people" [cd] touts "sleep" [dl] träden "träden" [cd] uh "uh" [cd] uncle jim "my niece's pierced knees" [dl] young fathers "coccoa sugar" [cd] zeal and ardor "stranger fruit" [cd]

-anthroprophh "omegaville" [cdx2] -black elephant "cosmic blues" [lp] -brigid mae power "the two worlds" [cd] -broeder dieleman "komma" [cdx2] -carlton melton "mind minerals" [cd] -civic "new vietnam" [12"] + civic "live on pbs" [k7] + civic "those who no" [7"] -dirtmusic "bu bir ruya" [cd] -la morte young "a quiet - earthquake style" [cd] -long hots "monday night raw" [k7] -mazzy star "still" [12"] -nicolas wiese "unrelated" [lp] -okkyung lee "dahl-tah-ghi" [cd] -sadahiro yamada "shitaiha" [k7] -sean mccann "saccharine scores" [cd] -stefan neville & greg malcolm "a nuance" [lp] -the final age "the final age" [lp]

moments of brilliance (long list B):

1/3 octave band "headlands" [lathe cut 12"] 20 guilders "il grande silenzio: guitar improvisation 2017" [cd] "a" trio & amm "aamm" [cd] a-sun amissa "ceremony in the stillness" [cd] akio suzuki & aki onda "ke i te ki" [cd] alexandra philips & jan henderikse "you b/w i" [10"] alien mustangs "alienation" [lp] alternative tv "her dark places" [12"] andreas ammer & fm einheit "sie sprechen mit der stasi" [dl] anji cheung "terma" [k7] + ani cheung & burial hex "solstice tape split" [k7] ash brooks "crown of thyme" [k7] ben bertrand "ngc 1999" [lp] benjamin boone & philip levine "the poetry of jazz" [cd] big blood & thunder crutch "big blood & thunder crutch" [cdr] + big blood "operate earth spaceship properly" [lp] blk w/bear "mo re b roken th an y ou" [cd] bill callahan "live at third man records" [12"] bill orcutt "neu bros/ok phone/rural beatles" [lp] + chris corsano & bill orcutt "brace up!" [lp] + bill orcutt & chris cosano "gucci tops & bottoms" [k7] bong "thought & existence" [cd] boris "secrets" [cd] brian eno w/ kevin shields "the weight of history b/w only once away my son" [12"] bruce russell & noel meek "classical music" [lp] bob bucko jr "under cover summer" [k7x2] + bob bucko jr "trade mark of quality" [k7x3] brownout "fear of a brown planet" [cd] capri-batterie & stewart lee "bristol fashion" [lp] cave "allways" [cd] claire potter & bridget hayden "i am come from a place" [k7] colin stetson "the first ost vol I" [dl] + colin stetson "hereditary [ost]" [cd] constant mongrel "living in excellence" [lp] corrupted "felicific algorithm" [lp] country heroes "honky tonk tears" [cd] -courtney marie andrews "may your kindness remain" [cd] dalot & sound awakener little things [dl] + dalot & sound awakener strangers in the city [dl] darksmith "hatred of sound" [lp] datashock "kräuter der provinz" [lpx2] dead fretts "howlin' wolf (live)" [dl] + dead fretts "third day (live)" [dl] death grips "year of the snitch" [cd] derridada "derridada waits for wolf" [k7] dreadful "attack of the space machine" [dl] dreamweapon "sol" [lp]

eagle twin "the thundering heard: songs of hoof & horn" [cd] ellen fullman & okkyung lee "the air around her" [dl] emmanuel witzthum "songs of love & loss" [cdr] epic beardmen "season 1" [12"] félicia atkinson & jefre cantu-ledesma "limpid as the solitudes" [lp] + félicia atkinson "coyotes" [k7] flower room "arrangement I" [dl] futurians "distorted living" [lp] + futurians "lta" [k7] gad whip "post internet blues" [lp] geography of hell "hiroshima 1945 / nagasaki 1945" [lpx2] gerald murnane "recites how i wrote elastic man by the fall" [dl] giuda "saturday night's alright for fighting" [7"] giulio aldinucci "disappearing in a mirror" [cd] + ian hawgood & giulio aldinucci "consequence shadows" [cd] + giulio aldinucci & star pillow "hidden" [cd] + martijn comes & giulio aldinucci "split" [lp] goat "let it burn b/w friday pt 1" [7"] grand veymont "route du vertige" [lp] heads "collider" [cd] henry blacker "the making of junior bonner" [cdr] hunderd year old man "breaching" [cd] + hunderd year old man "rei" [s-sided 12"] immersion "sleepless" [cd] jandek "houston tuesday" [cd] + jandek "san francisco friday" [cd] jah wobble "the butterfly effect" [cd] + jah wobble "dream world" [cd] john zorn "in a convex mirror" [cd] + john zorn "the urmuz epigrams" [cd] jon spencer "spencer sings the hits" [lp] kinky friedman "circus of life" [cd] kleistwahr "acceptance is not respect" [cd]

lajoie-tuttle "american primate" [k7] lee 'scratch' perry "the black album" [cd] + lee perry & diggory kenrick "the antisnake" [10"] lo carmen "gold guns and silver" [dl] l.o.x. "l.o.x. time" [k7] low "double negative" [cd] lydia lunch "marchesa" [cd] mad professor "elctro dubclubbing" [cd] + mad professor "ariwa 2018 riddim series" [dl] marianne faithfull "negative capability" [cd] marissa nadler "for my crimes" [cd] martin & bell "roman totale's death song [a tribute]" (040218) [dl] mary gauthier "rifles & rosary beads" [cd] -max rubadub "style & passion" [cd] mayuko hino "lunisolar" [cd] michael morley "blessed high regency" [dl] + michael morley "reverse bondage k.o." [dl] + michael morley "zéro de conduite" [dl] + michael morley "call back your dogs" [dl] + michael morley "here today gone tomorrow" [dl] + michael morley "rise above" [dl] + michael morley "we are here because of you" [dl] + gate "winter songs" [dl] + the righteous yeah "goodbye forever" [dl] + the righteous yeah "unknown album" [dl] + the righteous yeah "history of love" [dl] + the righteous yeah "game changer" [dl] + the righteous yeah "oiseau de paradis" [dl] mick harvey & christopher r. barker "the fall & rise of edgar bourchier & the horrors of war" [cd] minami deutsch "with dim light" [lp] ml wah & herbcraft "no slack" [k7] + ml wah "big air" [k7] more klementines "more klementines" [lp]

nagual & stefan christensen "third" [7"] + nagual "florida" [cdr] nww / artaud [mini cd] + nww "nerve junction" [cd] + nww "changez les blockeurs and" [cd] + nww "experimente [personal archive mixes]" [cdr] + nww "experimente II [son of trippin' music]" [cdr] + stapleton, ka-spel, potter & rollet "the man who floated away b/w the closer... etc" [cd] ocre "ocre" [7"] øjerum "selv i drømme lyser den første sne" [lp] + øjerum "a certain grief" [k7] okkyung lee "speckled stones & dissonant green dots" [dl] pama international meets manasseh "trojan sessions in dub" [cd] peter zummo "frame loop" [lp] [rec 1984] philip marino "chasing ghosts" [cd] philippe petit & friends "on top" [12"] phosphorescent "ç'est la vie" [cd] pierre vervloesem & alinovsky "invisible quality" [cd] pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs "king of cowards" [cd] pinch points "mechanical injury" [k7] platinum boys "we don't dance (anymore)" [7"] pumice "platelets" [7"] r stevie moore, alan jenkins & the kettering vampires "the embodiment of progressive ideals" [cd] razen "the night receptionist" [cd] rie fukuda & tabata misuru "precog" [cd] roy montgomery "jesus saves country boys too" [cd] ryan porter "the optimist" [cdx2] ryley walker "deafman glance" [cd] + ryley walker, z mark duo & extended fractures duo "lb 067" [k7]

sarry "oppidum desertum" [cd] + sarry "exspiravit planeta" [dl] scientist meets hempress sativa "in dub" [lp] seez mics "live long enough to learn" [cdr] sheku kanneh-mason "inspiration" [cd] shilpa ray "nihilism" [k7] sigur rós "route one" [lp] sleaford mods "sleaford mods" [12"] sleep "the sciences" [cd] + sleep "leagues beneath" [s/sided 12"] sly & robbie meet nils petter molvaer ft eivind aarset & vladislav delay "nordub" [cd] + sly & robbie meet dubmatix "overdubbed" [cd] sly & the family drone & dead neanderthals / mai mai mai "flesh logics b/w anatole" [7"] snakes don't belaong in alaska "interstellar harvester" [cdr] + snakes don't belong in alaska "radar ocean reconnaissance satellite" [cdr] + snakes don't belong in alaska II "astral audit" [dl] somesurprises "alt" [k7] stefan neville & hermione johnson "7/10/17" [dl] stoned earth "psycho city" [dl] + stoned earth "sonic planet" [dl] sundays & cybele "on the grass" [lp] suns of arqa "pressure drop: a tribute to the great lizard logan" [dl] tanz mein herz "une autre version de territory" [lp] tender crust "the earth's axis & hare" [k7] "the black book" [lpx3] the black vomit "black dada nihilismus" [dl] the limiñanas "remix" [12"] the oscillation "wasted space" [lp] + the oscillation "uef" [lp] thurston moore "mx liberty b/w panik" [7"] unknown artist "ijzeren rots" [12"] wild billy childish & ctmf "something's missing inside" [7"] young gods "figure sans nom" [dl]

-akira sakata, chikamorachi ft masahiko satoh "proton pump" [cd] -balmorhea "clear language: reworked" [lp] -bongripper "terminal" [lp] -charalambides "tom and christina carter" [lpx2] -chris butler "got it togehter!" [cd] -cinchel "a sad study in temporal dissonance" [k7] + cinchel "at once pleasant [live]" [dl] -cowboy junkies "all that reckoning" [cd] -dead valley girls "darkness rains" [cd] -dmbq "keeenly" [cd] -earthless "black heaven" [cd] + earthless "from the west" [cd] -foudre! "kami 神" [lp] -guiguisuisui & emerge "enchanted garden" [k7] -haley heynderickx & max garcía conover "among horses III" [cd] -idles "joy as an act of resistance" [cd] -james greer & neil luck "we all emerge some hours later baffled" [cd] -jfk "weapon design" [lp] -jochen arbeit & friends "jochen arbeit & friends webcast" [dl] + jochen arbeit, gerd beßler & hopek quirin "abq" [dl] + jochen arbeit, munsha & hopek quirin "live at roter salon" [dl] + jochen arbeit, martina bertoni, munsha & hopek quirin "live at volksbühne berlin" [dl] + jochen arbeit & hopek quinn "live at white rabbit" [dl] + jochen arbeit & paolo spaccamonti "cln" [lp] -kathryn joseph "from when i wake the want is" [cd] -keir vine "instance" [lp] -ktl "the pyre: versions distilled to stereo" [lp] -kyle bobby dunn & wayne robert thomas "kbd / wrt" [12"] -laurie anderson & kronos quartet "landfall" [cd] -lunar grace "the sunstruck forest" [dl] -randall dunn "beloved" [lp] -scot jenerik "drifting ash" [dl] -soundwalk collective "what we leave behind jean-luc godard archives" [lp] -sterile garden "concrete maze" [k7] -tales from the sleeping land "III" [cd]

the longest list:

6majik9 ritual "zero / monk nun" [cdrx2] a place to bury strangers "pinned" [cd] + a place to bury strangers "frustrated operator [slowdive remix]" [dl] aesop rock "klutz" [7"] airway "live at moca" [cd] alejandro escovedo & don antonio "the crossing" [cd] amen dunes "freedom" [cd] ana da silva & phew "island" [cd] anton mobin, kris limbach & hopek quirin "live" [dl] antony milton "unrealised films" [dl] årabrot "who do you move" [cd] archie & the bunkers "songs from the lodge" [lp] + archie & the bunkers "play the damned" [7"] aries mond "come on let's wait" [cdr] asbest "driven" [cd] ashtray navigations "zoom up" [cdr] + ashtray navigations "neon eating stationary planes" [cdr] asian women on the telephone "so wot" [k7] awkward geisha & gx jupitter-larsen "final destination" [k7] bandulu dub & dub dillah "disconnect" [dl] bart de paepe "verdronken land" [lp] + bart de paepe "pagus wasiae" [lp] bas van huizen "kulverzuchter" [cd] bazuingeschal "bazuingeschal" [lp] beak> ">>>" [cd] bear bones, lay low "atlantean encrypted message" [12"] + bear bones, lay low & don't dj "plafond 3" [lp] blacklab "under the strawberry moon" [dl] black moon circle "psychedelic spacelord " [cd] black rainbows "pandaemonium" [cd] blóm "powerfrau" [k7] blood quartet "until my darkness goes" [k7] blue chelise "daughters of time" [lp] bras mort "give her this, she takes that" [lp] "braublff [materie und laut]" [7"x2] brecht ameel "polygraph heartbeat" [lp] bruce gilbert "ex nihilo" bruxa maria & casual nun "bruxa maria & casual nun" [lp] bryan's magic tears "4 am" [lp] bvdub "drowning in daylight" [lpx2] + bvdub "a different definition of love" [cd] + bvdub "nights of nine vigils" [dl]

camera "emotional detox" [cd] celer "malaria" [dl] + celer "a chance isn't really a chance at all" [dl] + celer "advert subversion" [dl] + celer "arc eye" [dl] + celer "something cathartic" [k7] + celer "plays ravel" [dl] + celer & forest management "landmarks" [k7] ceremony "east coast" [dl] + ceremony "darling" [k7] chaines "the king" [lp] chaos echoes & mats gustafsson "sustain" [lp] + chaos echoes "mouvement" [cd] charalambides "out of place" [k7] charlemagne palestine "interrvallissphereee" [lp] + charlemagne palestine "ttuunneesszz duh rruunneesszz" [lp] charlotte de witte "brussels" [12"] chihei hatakeyama "scene" [k7] + chihei hatakeyama "void XV" [dl] + chihei hatakeyama "void XVI" [dl] + chihei hatakeyama "butterfly's summer and vanished" [cd] + chihei hatakeyama "afterimage" [cd] + eraldo bernocchi, chihei hatakeyama "solitary universe" [cd] + vida voji´c, chihei hatakeyama "fts002" [12"] child's pose "child's pose" [7"] chlorine "the wanting seed" [dl] chris butler & ralph carney "songs for unsung holidays" [cd] chris carter "chemistry lessons volume I" [cd] church of cash "thank you sir" [cd] circuit breaker "hands return to shake" [lp] circuit des yeux ft moon bros "sœur de race [catherine ribeiro]" [dl] cocaine piss "my cake" [s-sided 12"] cold meat "pork sword fever" [7"] commodo "dyrge" [ep] connan mockasin "jassbusters" [cd] consumer electronics "the weight b/w hostility blues" [7"] coolies / the futurians "u. cs-01" [k7] cosmic ground "IV" [cd] craig gerdes "smokin', drinkin' & gamblin'" [cd] crash toto "crash toto" [dl] crayon sun "crayon sun" [cd] crazy doberman "lungs of carbon or urban paranoia without a tonal center" [k7] + crazy doberman "rust clatter for the midwest sun" [7"] + crazy doberman "confused debris from slow dreams" [k7] + crazy doberman "2038" [k7] + crazy doberman "acid gallery 3am empty bottle blow out" [cdr] + crazy doberman "live @ wfmu" [dl] + crazy doberman "live fall 2017" [k7] + crazy doberman "this land god has abandoned" [dl] + crazy doberman "get lost pens of baldwin particle one" [k7] + crazy doberman "th'basement mother 2" [k7] creep show "mr dynamite" [cd] cruel diagonals "disambiguation" [lp] current 93 "the stars on their horsies" [cd] + current 93 "the light is leaving us all" [cd] cyril cyril "certaine ruines" [cd]

d.u.d.s. "immediate" [lp] dagger moths & philippe petit "ovaries" [12"] dandelion "every other day" [7"] dark sun "innerspace astronauts rare & unreleased" [k7] datashock "banana spleen" [k7 ep] david eugene edwards & alaxander hacke "risha" [cd] dead meadow "the nothing they need" [cd] dead neanderthals "life" [cd] + dead neanderthals "birth" [dl] dead otter "bridge of weird" [lp] dead vibrations "dead vibrations" [cd] deafheaven "ordinary corrupt human love" [cd] deafkids "espiral da loucura" [dl] dean ween group "rock2" [cd] delacave "window has no glass" [lp] delaney davidson "shining day" [cd] delgres "mo jodi" [cd] deludium skies "aspirations" [cdr] dirk serries "epitaph" [cdx2] + n(52) & dirk serries "scatterwound" [cd] + dirk serries & colin webster "gargoyles" [cd] + dikeman, hadow, serries, verhoeven, vicente "ideal principle" [cd] dirk wachtelaer, jürgen de blonde, alec ilyine, gert de meester "tales from the hellhole" [dl] dj klakke "black thursday in luxemburg" [dl] dogs in reverse "drella" [k7] donkey bugs ancient chinese secrets [12"] downward spiral galaxy "dsg spacebarn bootleg live 2018" [dl] + downward spiral galaxy "remembering the sunshine on a rainy day" [dl] drew mcdowall & hiro kone "the ghost of georges bataille" [12"] drew's theory "future vintage" [dl] drinks "hippo lite" [cd] drudkh "they often see dreams about the spring" [cd] dub foundation "the good the bad and the dubby" [dl]

è-lg "vu du dôme" [lp] earthling society "mo - the demon" [lp] echotourist soundsystem "naomi" [k7] eiko ishibashi & darin gray "ichida" [lp] electric moon "live 2015 zeiss planetarium bochum aka kosmos" [dl/lpx3] eleh "home age 2" [cd] + caterina barbieri & eleh "bestie infinite b/w wear patterns" [lp] elephant9 "greatest show on earth" [cd] emma ruth rundle "on dark horses" [cd] ergo phizmiz "boîte - the end of music" [k7x3] + ergo phizmiz "fstarstark mstarn winkyface" [dl] eric arn & margaret unknown "paranza corta" [lp] eugene chadbourne "29.10.17" [cd] fermata "salvaged space" [k7] fire down below "hymn of the cosmic man" [cd] flowers must die "där blommor dör" [lpx2] forest management "21st century man" [12"] + forest management "rotating angle" [k7] + forest management "biqui" [k7] + forest management & v i c i m "arid fragments" [dl] former selves "forgiveness circles" [k7] free/slope "abracadabra" [lp] frustration "midlife crisis b/w sad face" [7"] fuc lerrari & nean jégroni "souvenirs uchroniques" [k7] futur.s mort.s "futur.s mort.s II" [dl] gallery six "kazemakase" [cdr] + gallery six "bansyun" [dl] + gallery six "geisyun" [dl] garcia peoples "cosmic cash" [lp] + garcia peoples "suite" [dl] gareth sager & the hungry ghosts "juicy rivers" [cd] gas "rausch" [cd] gashrat "rock on [do it for me]" [dl] ggallan partridge "eyesore" [8"] glasseyelashes "jellyfish" [k7] gnaw their tongues "genocidal majesty" [cd] + golden ashes "the desolation" [dl] goat "double date" [10"] goat bath eternity "downers" [k7] goatman "rhythms" [lp] gøggs "pre strike sweep" [cd] graham day & the forefathers "emmaretta b/w love help me" [7"] gudrun gut "moment" [lp] guerilla toss "twisted crystal" [cd] guru guru "rotate!" [cd]

hairbone "earth to momma" [lp] hank wood & the hammerheads "hank wood & the hammerheads" [lp] harutaka mochizuki & makoto kawashima "free wind mood" [lp] hawthonn "red goddess [of this men shall know nothing]" [cd] herman de vries & the eschenau chaos band "idem" [lp] hermann nitsch "traubenfleisch" [cdx2] high aura'd "if i'm walking in the dark, i'm whispering" [k7] + high aura'd & asama "oil pourer" [k7] holy motors "slow sundown" [cd] holy wave "adult fear" [cd] hookworms "microshift" [cd] hopek quirin "live at chateau gorilla" [dl] howlin' rain "the alligaor bride" [cd] i am johnny cash "i am johnny cash" [cd] iguana death cult "femme fatale b/w faster faster" [7"] ilsantobevitore "realm of consciousness" [k7] ilyas ahmed "closer to stranger" [lp] international observer "free from the dungeons of dub" [cd] j c satàn "centaur desire" [lp] j gallagher "unknown cowboy [demos]" [dl] james carothers "still country, still king: a tribute to george jones" [cd] jarboe "the cut of the warrior" [cd] jay glass dubs "plegnic" [lp] + jay glass dubs & bokeh edwards "earth two² [mixtape]" [k7] + jay glass dubs "the safest dub" [12"] + leslie winner & jay glass dubs "ymfees" [12"] jean grae x quelle chris "everything's fine" [lpx2] jeffrey lewis & the deposit returners "works by tuli kupferberg [1923-2010]" [cd] jem-one "endless days" [12"] jess williamson "cosmic wink" [cd] jessica93 "en public [live] in rennes" [dl] jim o'rourke "sleep like it's winter" [cd] + jim o'rourke "steamroom 38" [dl] + jim o'rourke "steamroom 39" [dl] + jim o'rourke "steamroom 40" [dl] + jim o'rourke "steamroom 41" [dl] + jim o'rourke "steamroom 42" [dl] jimi tenor& tony allen "oto live series" [12"] joanne cash "unbroken" [cd] joe talia "tint" [lp] jóhann jóhannsson "mandy" [ost] [cd] + jóhann jóhannsson & hildur gudnadóttir "mary magdalene [ost]" [cd] + jóhann jóhannsson "the mercy [ost]" [cd] john carter cash "we must believe in magic" [cd] john krausbauer & david kendall "pdrm" [cd] john parish "bird dog dante" [cd] john tilbury, keith rowe, & kjell bjorgeengen "sissel" [cd] jon porras "voices of the air" [cd] josh pearson "straight hits" [cd] joujou jaguar "cheap life" [7"] jsm "sound system" [12"] junkpile jimmy "wants you dead" [lp] just mustard "wednesday" [12"] julian cope "skellington III" [cd]

kapital & richard pinhas "flux" [cd] kawabata makoto "live @ akihabara goodman 281118" [dl] kikagaku moyo "masana temples" [cd] killing flies "killing flies" [cd] king bong "beekse bergen vol I old school cool" [dl] + king bong "beekse bergen vol II electric boogaloo" [dl] + king bong "beekse bergen vol III bong sulfur sax magick" [dl] + king bong "beekse bergen vol IV dreadful gate" [dl] + king bong "beekse bergen vol V to infinity & between" [dl] + king bong "dickus pickus live at circolo gagarin" [dl] klara lewis & simon fisher turner "care" [lp] kosmischer läufer "secret cosmic music of the east german olympic program '72-'83 vol IV" [dl] la muerte "la muerte" [cd] lärmschutz "dons" [k7] langham research centre "tics & ampersands" [k7] + langham research centre "gateshead multi-storey car park" [dl] + langham research centre "tape reworks vol I" [7"] lawrence wasser "the garden" [k7] lay llamas "thuban" [cd] + lay llamas "thuban dub ep vol I" [dl] lea bertucci "metal aether" [12"] leather jacuzzi "the whole hog" [lp] lee ranaldo "electric trim live @ rough trade east" [lp/dl] leroy "leroy" [12"] les horribles travailleurs, mechanical ape "collaborative soundworks" [k7] lincoln durham "and into heaven came the night" [cd] little wings & maher shalal hash baz "share" [12"] louise landes, bart de paepe, & paul labrecque "collodial love" [10"] + louise landes levi "ikiru or the wanderer" [dl] "losing today" [dl] ludo mich with jennifer walshe & w ravenveer "ludo mich with jennifer walshe & w ravenveer" k7] luke mawdsley "luke mawdsley" [dl] lumerians "call of the void" [cd] make flames ft gavin laird "a map is not the territory it portrays" [dl] mamuthones "fear on the corner" [lp] marianne schuppe "nosongs" [cd] marie davidson "working class woman" [cd] + marie davidson & lamusa II "la ecstase" [dl] mary bell "histrion" [12"] mary halvorson with bill frisell "the maid with the flaxen hair" [cd] mats gstafson & didi kern "marvel motor" [lp] matt lajoie "the fountain [k7] + matt lajoie "free to be.." [k7] maurizio abate "the maadi sessions" [lp] + maurizio abate "standing waters" [cd] + riccardo sinigaglia & maurzio abate "dialoghi nel vuoto" [lp] maze & lindholm "where the wolf has been seen" [lp] meg baird & mary lattimore "ghost forests" [cd] melvins "pinkus abortion technician" [cd] + melvins cock & bull bw reedy creek roast [7"] merzbow, balázs pándi, mats gustafsson, thurston moore "cuts up cuts out" [lp] [rsd] + merzbow "monoakuma" [cd] mésange "gyspy moth" [lp] meteor vortex "absorb / implode" [k7] mick jenkins "pieces of a man" [dl] miss red "k.o." [cd] + miss red "dagga b/w one shot killer" [12"] mythic sunship "another shape of psychedelic music" [cd] + mythic sunship "upheaval" [cd]

nathan salsburg "third" [cd] neneh cherry "broken politics" [cd] nickk dropkick "der club de faust" [dl] + nickk dropkick "sweet, sweet jazz for the soul" [dl] neil campbell "i must have my manias" [dl] neko case "hell-on" [cd] nerve beats "nerve beats" [lp] newaxeyes "black fax" [lp] nhung nguyen "illumination [piano day '18]" [dl] + nhung nguyen "oblivion" [dl] nordvargr "mx.tape.rn" [dl] no joy & sonic boom "no joy & sonic boom" [12"] obnox "templo del sonido" [lp] + obnox "bang messiah" [lp] olan mill "variations on the letter h" [k7] + olan mill "sounds of a new father" [cd] + olan mill "curves" [cdr] olympus "band on the gum" [dl] one eleven heavy "everything's better" [lp] øresund space collective "live in berlin '18" [cdx2] + øresund space collective "chatoyant breath" [cdx2] + øresund space collective "kybalion" [cd] + øresund space collective "space jam 160 live @ urban spree" [dl] orgue agnès "à une gorge" [lp] otherworld ensemble "live at malmitalo" [cd] oulu space jam collective "intergalactic spy music redux" [dl] + oulu space jam collective "the lotus-eaters" [dl] p j philipson "distante" [dl] + p j philipson "linotopia" [cd] p wits "blonde on blonde" [k7x2] + p wits "feel-be" [ep] [dl] + p wits "i will fall" [single] [dl] paint "paint" [cd] papa m "a broke moon rises" [cd] parquet courts "wide awake" [cd] + parquet courts "wide awake remixes" [12"] pausal "volume flow" [cd] perhaps "hexagon" [lp] + perhaps "hexagain" [cdr] + perhaps "excerpts" [dl] peter broderick "two balloons" [10"] peter strickmann "mellow toes" [lp] pharaoh overlord "chewing gum live" [lp] + pharaoh overlord "zero" [cd] pheek "returning home" [dl] pierre bastien, cabo san roque, anna homler, adrian northover, & dave tucker "fts003" [lp] pink fairies "resident reptiles" [cd] posset "another forever tomorrow" [cdr] prana crafter "enter the stream" [k7] + prana crafter "bodhi cheetah's choice" [k7] preening "greasetrap frisbee" [7"] primitive knot "thee opener of the way" [k7] pullout kings "sweat crimes" [k7] questions and answers "tell us the truth" [7"]

radar men from the moon & 10.000 russos "rmftm & 10.000 russos" [lp] rafael anton irisarri "el ferrocarril desvaneciente" [k7] + rafael anton irisarri "sirimiri" [k7] rainbow grave "sex threat b/w you are nowhere" [7"] + rainbow grave & orthodox "death pyramid b/w spain is the place"[7"] rainforest spiritual enslavement "red ants genesis" [k7] ras g "ras g meets moresounds" [12"] red lama "motions" [lp] richard youngs "endless futures" [lp] + richard youngs "belief" [lp] + richard youngs "fierce years etc." [dl] + richard youngs "six panels for dissolution" [dl] + richard youngs "foot guitar vol VI" [dl] + richard youngs "foot guitar vol VII" [dl] + richard youngs "arrow" [dl] + richard youngs "daybreak" [dl] rosanne cash "she remembers everything [deluxe]" sasha grey & pig "that's the way [i like it] remixed by youth" [10″] + sasha grey & pig "that's the way [i like it]" [12″] samara lubelski "flickers at the station" [lp] + samara lubelski / bill nace "samara lubelski / bill nace" [cd] sarah davachi "let night come on bells end the day" [cd] + sarah davachi "gave in rest" [cd] savage grounds "let your love groan" [7"] scarab "erect in the garden of grace" [dl] schwund "technik und gefühl" [lp] set and setting "tabula rasa" [lp] shame "songs of praise" [cd] + shame "all the hits" [12"] + shame "tasteless" [dl] shit & shine "bad vibes" [lp] + shit & shine "very high" [12"] simon felice "the projector" [cd] sister iodine "venom" [lpx2] snapped ankles "violations" [12"] sneers "heaven will rescue us, we're the scum, we're in the sun" [lp] sons of kemet "your queen is a reptile" [lpx2] sound awakener "duskiness" [dl] spaceslug "eye the tide" [cd] spiral galaxy with plastic crimewave "d machine" [dl] + spiral galaxy with plastic crimewave "celestial omen" [dl] spiritualized "and nothing hurt" [cd] starbirthed "citrine dreams" [2017] [k7] + starbirthed "starbirthed" [lp] + starbirthed "the dweller on the treshold" [k7] + starbirthed" messages from..." [dl] sterile garden "night loops III" [dl] + sterile garden "wandering in circles" [dl] + sterile garden "city corridors: sound & the city" [dl] + sterile garden "live recordings" [dl] steve ignorant & paranoid visions "1977220174u" [cd] stuart a staples "arrhythmia" [cd] sudden infant "buddhist nihilism" [cd] sugar pills bone "slack babbath plays peep durple" [k7] sutcliffe jugend "the hunger" [cdx2] + sutcliffe jugend "live at maschinenfest 2017" [k7]

the bleak engineers "introspecto b/w indiscriminate" [7"] the buckshot boys "perform the ultimate survival machine" [7"] the cool greenhouse "london b/w the end of the world" [7"] the dead brothers "angst" [cd] the dwarfs of east agouza "rats don't eat synthesizers" [lp] the ex "27 passports" [cd] the fadeaways "transworld 60's punk nuggets" [lp] the heartwood institute "secret rites" [lp] the staches "the great depression" [7"] trust "dans le même sang" [cd] uk subs "subversions" [cd] underworld & iggy pop "teatime dub encounters" [cd] vintage cucumber "arabische nächte II" [dl] vomir & discipline "split" [k7x6] wicked shimmies exile on 5th street [k7] °debris related (2018)° william shatner & jeff cook "why not me" [cd] + william shatner "shatner claus" [cd]

-adderall canyonly "museum of fire" [lp] -allen ravenstine "waiting for the bomb" [cd] -alpha steppa & nai-jah "the great elephant" [cdx2] -armonite "and the stars above" [cd] -arp "zebra" [cd] -atomonaut "inner space vol I" [dl] -axelle red "exil" [cd] -azusa "heavy yoke" [cd] -bebe buell "baring it all" [lp] -bitchin bajas & dsr lines "encyclopedia of civilizations vol II atlantis" [lp] -black space riders "amoretum vol I" [cd] + black space riders "amoretum vol II" [cd] -bonnacons of doom "bonnacons of doom" [lp] -brix and the extricated "breaking state" [cd] -brother jt "tornado juice" [cd] -catherine britt & the cold cold hearts "idem" [cd] -cave story "punk academics" [cd] -cavern of anti-matter "hormone lemonade" [cd] -charlotte gainsbourg "a-ring o'roses [sebastian on the beat remix]" [dl] -chris dooks joppa waves [dl] -christophe clébard on va crever [dl] + christophe clébard & carrageenan "split" [7"] -connorparty "flying colors!" [dl] -damo suzuki & jelly planet "damo suzki & jelly planet" [cd] -deniz tek "lost for words" [cd] -die wilde jagd "uhrwald orange" [cd] -dungen & woods "myths 003" [lp] -easy life "creature habits mixtape" [10"] -echo & the bunnymen "the stars, the oceans & the moon" cd] -eddy mitchell "le meme tribu vol II" [cd] -exitmusic "the recognitions" [cd] -glenn matlock "good to go" [cd] -grant-lee phillips "widdershins" [cd] -hatis noit "illogical dance" [cd] -hilary woods "colt" [cd] -ida sofar "mind" [cd] -jack ladder & the dreamlanders "blue poles" [cd] -jenny hval "the long sleep" [12"] -john grant "love is magic" [cd] -johnny jewel "themes for television" [cd] -juan d'oultremont "je pense donc je fuis" [dl] + juan d'oultremont "ma fiancée" [dl] + juan d'oultremont "otages b/w invisible" [dl] + juan d'oultremont "avant l'incident" [dl] -khalab "black noise 2084" [cd] -king dude "music to make war to" [cd] -kode9 & burial "fabriclive" [cd]

-la race "drancy ostinato" [lp] -laraaji, arji oceananda, dallas acid "arrive without leaving" [12"] -larry heard "heaven dub" [12"] -len leise & jura soundsystem "for adrian b/w udaberri blues" ]12"] -life education "earth tones" [cd] -malcolm middleton "bananas" [cd] -matthew "doc" dunn "lightbourn" [lp] -nurgul jones "carcosa" [dl] -okkervil river "in the rainbow rain" [cd] -oneohtrix point never "age of" [cd] + oneohtrix point never "love in the time of lexapro" [dl] + oneohtrix point never "the station" [dl] -open mike eagle "the dark dark purple tape" [k7] + open mike eagle "what happens when i try to relax" [12"] -orchestre tout puissant marcel duchamp "sauvage formes" [cd] -paolo conte "live in caracalla 50 years of azzurro" [cd] -peter hammill "x/ten" [cd] -protomartyr & spray paint "irony prompts a party rat" [7"] -ramble tamble "outlaw overtones" [k7] -rimjob texas "buttleg jan18" [dl] + rimjob texas "plačilni nalog" [dl] -ruby karinto "ruby karinto" [lp] -silencaeon "dead channel (music inspired by william gibson's neuromancer)" [dl] -sink ya teeth "sink ya teeth" [cd] -slightly stoopid "everyday life, everyday people" [cd] -stephen inglis "cut the dead some slack" [cd] -suishou no fune "moonlight" [k7x2] -territorial gobbing "circle of dads" [k7] -thalia zedek band "fighting season" [cd] -the decemberists "I'll be your girl" [cd] + the decemberists "traveling on" [10"] -the lumineers "c-sides" [dl] + the lumineers "live tracks" [dl] -"veterans in dub [deluxe version]" [cd] -zacht automaat "memory of the world" [12"] + zacht automaat "commercial waste" [dl] -zola jesus "wiseblood (johnny jewel remixes)" [12"] + zola jesus "okovi: additions" [dl] -тпсб "sekundenschlaf" [lp] - bevis frond "we're your friends, man" [cd]

- bevis frond "we're your friends, man" [cd] - bloody hell "my boss ross" [7"] - bobby body "rock on" [7"] - chocolat billy "délicat déni" [cd] - colin self "siblings" [lp] - dita von teese "dita von teese" [cd] - father john misty "god's favorite customer" [cd] + father john misty "live at third man records" [12"] - gary war "gaz forth" [cdr] - jennifer warnes "another time, another place" [cd] - jonathan richman "sa" [cd] - marc ribot "songs of resistance 1942-2018" [cd] - meghan patrick "country music made me do it" [cd] - no age "snares like a haircut" [cd] - nytt land "odal" [cd] - pablo raster "dub addicted" [dl] - pascal comelade & ivette nadal "arquitectura primera" [7"] - piloot "recuerda tu futuro" [k7] - rosali "trouble anyway" [lp] - ry cooder "the prodigal son" [cd] - salad boys "this is glue" [cd] - sarah shook & the disarmers "years" [cd] - satis "saturnalivm" [dl] + satis "planetarivm" [dl] - simon love "sincerely, s. love x" [cd] - spain "mandala brush" [cd] - spiny normen "spiny normen" [cd] - the johnny clash project "the johnny clash project" [cd] - the mountain goats "hex of infinite binding" [dl] - vanessa paradis "les sources" [cd] - weiland "perruche b/w vakbond" [7"]

#rewind #2018 #platterstompf

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Last tuesday evening Jatinder and I assisted to a talk at The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation titled : 21st Century Shinto Studies, by Mark Teeuwen, John Breen and Aike P. Rots. I particularly enjoyed the latest part of the talk which lead to relevant questions such as “What is the role of religions, religious leaders and religious communities towards the environment ?” and “How to translate religious values of appreciation of nature and compassion to daily actions and policies?”. Aike P. Rots' talk also encouraged us to rent the documentary film うみやまあひだ (In Between Mountains and Oceans) by Masa-aki Miyazawa, focusing on Ise Grand Shrine. Featuring among other botanist Akira Miyawaki, Masaru Tanaka and Tsutomu Ohashi. I recommend it to all.

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tyree-hfl · 6 years ago

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A New History of Shinto John Breen and Mark Teeuwen eBook - click to read

#Religion

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yamayuandadu · 2 years ago

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Which authors and books do you recommend for those starting studies in Japanese topics? I know Faure and I already have his books. Is Mark Teeuwen a reliable author? Thanks in advance.

Teeuwen isn't just reliable, he is arguably the single best author to start with when it comes to history of religion(s) - and secularism too, for that matter - in Japan. His focus is somewhat more narrow than Faure's - as you'll quickly notice after looking through his works, he writes on Ise a lot of the time - but I'd still recommend reading some of his books and articles even if that doesn't interest you. That's because he talks a lot about current trends in scholarship, necessary changes in methodology, etc. and it will help you with picking other sources and evaluating what you already know in new light.

Since you're already familiar with Faure I won't say much about him, but I also can't recommend him enough. He's not as focused on specific topics as Teeuwen, and I think he's sort of prone to rambling every now and then, but he is still one of the best in the field imo. Gods of Medieval Japan is in all due likeness going to be an invaluable resource for decades to come.

Assuming you're only looking for sources in English, some other authors I would recommend are, in no particular order, Haruko Wakabayashi, Nobumi Iyanaga, Fabio Rambelli, Sujung Kim, Noriko Reider and Hiroo Sato.

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tenjin-no-shinja · 8 months ago

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A New History of Shinto, By John Breen and Mark Teeuwen

One of my favorite books to recommend people who want a more in depth look at the history of Shinto itself, and all the political and social changes.

Chapter 1: An Alternative Approach to the History of Shinto

Hearkening back to the concept mentioned here:

Of course, the fact that Shinto hardly functions as a religious identity does not mean that shrines are taken lightly. As "religious juridical persons" (shūkyō hōnjin) in law, shrines cannot be supported by public funds under Japan's postwar constitution. ①They depend for their upkeep on the largess of the inhabitants of their "parish" and the general public. Without a steady stream of income, no shrine can survive; a shrine priest much less so. When a shrine ceases to make itself relevant to the community on which it depends, it will disappear almost instantly.

⁠—Page 2

① From the end notes: "Shrines can, however, receive public subsidies for the maintenance of buildings and objects that are recognized as cultural properties (bunka-zai) or national treasures (kokuhō), or for the staging of events that have been designated as intangible cultural properties (mukei bunkazai)."

Apart from New Year, festivals (matsuri) are the main occasions on which shrines really come to life. Shrine festivals reflect local traditions and are spread across the year. Large festivals last for many days and give cultural identity to whole cities, as well as attracting thousands of visitors and tourists. Small festivals are intimate affairs, not unlike neighborhood parties... Festivals tend to be run by the local community it's rather than the shrine priests, who take center-stage only as ritual specialists performing liturgical tasks such as the transfer of the kami to the mikoshi or the recitation of prayers... Typical of shrine festivals is that they engage large parts of the community in their proceedings and that they envelop the community in a carnivalesque atmosphere in which much is allowed and all is forgiven.

⁠—Page 4

#A New History of Shinto #Shinto

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black-rabbit-razumikhin · 11 months ago

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July Reading Wrap-Up

The amount of books I got through this much is statistically anomalous. For the most part, I really enjoyed these and some of them I think even deserve re-reads in the future. Also working on going to the library more often and getting back into that habit.

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Reclaiming The L-Word edited by Alleyn Diesel - Even though this book is about 20 years old now, it still feels relatable and an important window into part of global queer history. 4/5

The Sword-Master's Apprentice by Edward Burke - I enjoyed the story and the layout of the lessons and anecdotes far more than I enjoyed this specific writing style. 3/5

E=mc^2 by David Bodanis - Anyone who knows this blog knows that I'm not in STEM, but this book was easy to follow, interesting and exceptionally informative about the history of a topic always espoused as far too complicated for anybody to understand. 4/5

The Business by Iain Banks - My second Banks book this year and just as entertaining as the first, and the ending had me yelling at the pages. 4/5

Karate-Do: My Way Of Life by Gichin Funakoshi - One of those books where the line between anecdote, fable and reality is so deliciously blurred. 3/5

The Call Of The Wild by Jack London - That was far more brutal than I expected going in, why is this marketed as a children's book? 3/5

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks - I've had this book for years and never opened it; what I read is so far from what I was expecting. 4/5

The Kojiki - The august deity augusted down the stairs augustly. 3/5

Kyoto's Gion Festival by Mark Teeuwen - Hands down, this is the best and most comprehensive social history of Japan I have read so far; really, really impressed. 4/5

#reclaiming the l word #the sword-master's apprentice #e=mc² #the business #karate-do #the call of the wild #birdsong #the kojiki #kyoto's gion festival

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podapsiweb · 8 years ago

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The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion by Bernhard Scheid and Mark Teeuwen About The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion…

#culture #japanese #religion #secrecy

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porlockstompf · 7 years ago

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ALL BOMBS 2017

FAVOURITE PLATTERSTOMPF OF THE YEAR

~ BURN THE AMPLIFAYA! ~

01 doronco gumo "man star" [k7 & dl] (+ doronco gumo "our bloody valentine live [140207] [first show]" [dl])

02 france "live à metamórfosi 2019" [lp] (+ france "untitled [live @ vilnius 2017]" [cdr] )

03 bardo pond "under the pines" [lp] (+ curanderos "curanderos" [lp])

04 the bug vs earth "concrete desert" [lp]

05 deep frosty "blues band" [k7]

06 ulaan passerine "the landscape of memory" [12"] 07 miminokoto "koenji 07-02-2016" [cd] 08 worst "MMXVII aka in/out" [k7] 09 swans "deliquescence" [cdx2] 10 keiji haino megapack volume I - nazoranai "beginning to fall in line befor me, so decorously the nature of all that must be transformed” [lp] - keiji haino & fushitsusha "unheard pieces of the late XXth & early XXIst centuries" [cd] - oren ambarchi, jim o'rourke & keiji haino "this dazzling, genuine ''difference'' now where shall it go?" [lpx2]

11 blown out "superior venus" [lp & cdr] (+ blown out "live @ the windmill brixton 160317" [dl]) (+ blown out "live @ stag & hounds bristol 180317" [dl]) (+ blown out "live @ desertfest [dl]") 12 babils "ji ameeto" [lp] 13 junko & michel henritzi "live at asaga ya ten, tokyo 01.11.16" [k7] 14 matt lajoie [aka herb] "the accidental eye" [k7] + ash & herb "northern lights" [cdr] 15 dread "in dub" [cd]

16 otto lindholm "alter" [lp] 17 suzuki junzo "shizuka na heya de ashioto wa" [cd] 18 oren ambarchi "stacte karaoke II" [12"] 19 sun kil moon "common as light & love are red valleys of blood" [cdx2] + jesu & sun kil moon "30 seconds to the decline of planet earth" [cd] + mark kozelek with ben boye, & jim white "mark kozelek with ben boye, & jim white" [cdx2] + mark kozelek "night talks [ep]" [cd] (+ mark kozelek & sean yeaton "yellow kitchen" [cd]) 20 duke garwood "garden of ashes" [cd]

21 object collection "it's all true" [cd] 22 leda "gitarrmusik III-X" [lp] 23 aaron dilloway & tom smith "the dutch viruses" [dl] 24 ecstatic vision "raw rock fury" [lp] 25 ian william craig "durbē" [cd]

26 burial "subtemple bw beachfires" [10"] + burial "rodent bw rodent kode9 remix" [10"] + burial "pre dawb bw indoors" [12"] 27 giulio aldinucci "borders & ruins" [lp] 28 10 000 russos "distress distress" [lp] + 10 000 russos "fuzz club session" [lp] 29 the telescopes "as light return" [cd] + the telescopes "stone tape" [12"] 30 hibushibire "freak out orgasm!" [lp]

31 kikagaku "moyo stone garden" 32 robedoor "new age sewage" [k7] 33 bill seaman "erasures & displacements" [cdx2] + bill seaman "the epiphanies" [cd] 34 bonnie 'prince' billy "wolf of the cosmos" [lp] + bonnie 'prince' billy "troubadour" [cd] + bonnie 'prince' billy "mama tried" [dl] + bonnie 'prince' billy & nathan salsburg "untitled" [7"] + bitchin bajas & bonnie 'prince' billy "live: cafe oto residency 22-24 march 2016" [dl] + bitchin bajas & bonnie 'prince' billy "live at 7th floor tokyo" [dl] 35 william basinski "a shadow in time" [lp]

36 olan mill "orient" [cd] 37 norman westberg "the chance to" [cd] + norman westberg "somewhere else" [cdr] + magic crystal dirt "moon star" [dl] (norman westberg & daughter ) 38 behind the shadowdrops "h a r m o n i c" [cd] + takaakira 'taka' goto "suliyaki - inori" [dl] 39 françois couturier & tarkovsky quartet "nuit blanche" [cd] 40 godspeed you! black emperor "luciferian towers" [cd]

41 lo carmen "lovers dreamers fighters" [lp] --- “sometimes it’s hard” single of the year !--- 42 hugo race & michelangelo russo "john lee hooker's world today" [cd] + catherine graindorge & hugo race "long distance operators" [cd] 43 lydia lunch & cypress grove "under the covers" [cd] 44 boris "dear" [cdx2] + boris "live at third man records" [12"] 45 totensonnen "winter solstice" [dl]

46 gravetemple "impassable fears" [lp] 47 aseethe "hopes of failure" [lp] 48 dhidalah "no water" [10"] 49 eola "hamamatsu" [k7] 50 giegue "psychedelic noise art" [dl] + giegue "les rallizes denudes flames of ice remix" [dl] + giegue "記憶は遠い/Memory is Far [hadaka no rallizes / 裸のラリーズ]" [dl]

... and hors série volume I: THE ANNUAL BOWERY ECLECTIC SELECTION

01 skullflower "the spirals of great harm" [cdx2] --- “yuggoth within” ! --- 02 skullflower "the black iron that fell from the stars..." [lp] 03 skullflower "wisdom of venom" [dl] 04 skullflower "dragons lair abyss" [dl] 05 skullflower "autumn cannibals" [dl] 06 skullflower "cicada domino effect [honeysuckle rose]" [dl] 07 skullflower "bayou perfume advert" [dl] 08 skullflower "penguin fringed abyss" [dl] 09 the yllustrous forger of dreams/skullflower "the 108" [dl] 10 the yllustrous forger of dreams "sweet little skunks" [dl] 11 the yllustrous forger of dreams "aries wolf" [dl] 12 the yllustrous forger of dreams "utter the weapons" [dl] 13 the yllustrous forger of dreams "clear seer" [dl] 14 the yllustrous forger of dreams "all my buttons" [dl] 15 the yllustrous forger of dreams "solstice" [dl] 16 the yllustrous forger of dreams "blues for algol" [dl] 17 the yllustrous forger of dreams "fireside angels" [dl] 18 the yllustrous forger of dreams "a bao a qu" [dl] 19 the yllustrous forger of dreams "burning swamp of pitch" [dl] 20 gyr [aka samantha davies] "fdhuafhusa" [dl]

(2017 long list continued after the break)

favourite gigs of the year:

01 up-tight @ les atelies claus "zennestraat 88 bxl" 20-11-2017

02 france @ les atelier claus “zennestraat 88 bxl” 20-11-2017

03 grand jojo "palce jeux des balles" 21-07-2017

most pleasing purchase of 2017:

finally managed to replace my battered copy of alien (frans lelieveld) “celebrating your victory” [12″] (1983)

belgian waffles continued their pioneering belgian punk archive series with:

and always a hit at our household:

most anticipated release of 2018-2019-20??:

still hoping that the good folk at http://blackmassrising.bigcartel.com can convince stephen o'malley to release sunn o)))’s “the moog ceremony live” tape from 06/04/06 @ the ab bxl … if anyone can it’s them. fingers crossed!

the many many reissues short list:

01 "tokyo flashback p.s.f. - psychedelic speed freaks" [cdx2] --- hideo ikeezumi gewidmet ---

02 witcyst "real folk- lathe cut singles 1993-1997" [cdx4] 03 "bingo! french punk exploitation 1978-1981" [lp] 04 "musica futurista nell'italia e nel mondo" [lpx2] 05 gate "hate" [1990 k7] [dl]

06 "paul major feel the music volume I" [lp/cd] 07 "even a tree can shed tears japanese folk & rock '69-'73" [cd] 08 pierre henry "polyphonies" [cdx12] 09 y pants "y pants" [1980] [12"] + y pants "beat it down" [1982] [lp] 10 "like nashville in naija" [lpx2] ex aequo "habibi funk: an eclectic selection of music from the arab world" [lpx2]

dop's preferred sex music of the year: "funky chimes belgian grooves from the 70's" [cdx2] ...

yeah, too much information, i know !

favourite bootlegs:

01 bardo pond "live @ knockdown center maspeth ny 010417" [dl] --- thanks to nyctaper ! ---

02 einstürzende neubauten "greatest hits tour 2017: live @ patronaat harlem 190117" [usb] + einstürzende neubauten "live @ elbphilharmonie hamburg 210117" [dl] + einstürzende neubauten "live @ boiler shop newcastle 050517" [usb] 03 nick cave & the bad seeds "live @ myer music bowl melbourne 270117" [dl] 04 doronko, rari wa, yoshino & kosugi "live @ earthdom '16-'17" [dl] 05 henry flynt "solo electric boogie @ issue 070417" [dl]

2017 summer hit:

mountain bike “good for nothing” from “too sorry for any sorrow” [lp]

and - of course ! - youpi youpi yeah “youpi youpi yeah” (2010)

favourite record sleeve:

. the dream dates “the mess etc” … STILL ! favourite radio:

brian turner on wfmu... unmatched !

favourite podcast:

01 baconface "global globules" @ resonance fm [dl]

http://www.baconfacecanada.com/global-globules/

02 global psychedelia "the suzuki junzo tribute" 231117 03 soma "acid quarry paris: the man in black" ex aequo the bug "killing sound chapter VII ambient riff" + the bug "killing sound chapter VI blue" 04 don letts & turtle bay "reggae 45" [x4] 05 david keenan "exemplars of regional madmenism the first 10" + david keenan related “bruce russell take over 240317″

favourite comedy of the year:

01a hans teeuwen “real rancour” (netflix) & 01b bridget christie “stand up for her” (netflix)

02a daniel kitson "the impotent fury of the privileged" [bandcamp] 02b tim fransen “het failliet van de moderne tijd” (vara) 03 taskmaster “series V” (dave) 04 richard herring “aiotm” (go faster stripe) 05 sofie hagen “shimmer shatter” (self-published)

still kudos to nextup comedy ! https://nextupcomedy.vhx.tv/browse

... plus the world needs way more lou sanders !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

favourite bilderstompf:

01 berlin babylon “staffel einz und zwei” [sky]

02 12 monkeys “season 3″ [syfy] & the expanse “season 2″ [syfy] 03 montalbano “season 11″ [rai] 04 giro d’italia [rai] & vuelta a espana [rtve] 05 het filosofisch kwintet “democratie” [omroephuman]

06 no offence “season 2 (& 1)” [4] 07 twin peaks “the return” [showtime] 08a queen of the south “season 2″ [usa network] 08b fortitude “season 2” [sky] 09 the end of the fucking world “season 1″ [4] 10 dark matter “season 3″ & killjoys “season 3″ [space]

& - with regards - nick cave “one more time with feeling [dvd]

and jcvd in “jean claude van johnson” (season I) of course!

favourite blog:

http://exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com

and

http://noise-admiration.blogspot.com

particularly the jonty tiplady interview cf:

https://noise-admiration.blogspot.be/2017/10/the-interview-42017-jonty-tiplady.html

best interwebs:

www.ubuweb.com... a rare beacon of hope

. may your home be safe from tigers, x leroy

HNY & stay hungry!

16 late 2016 releases:

still to add (29-12-2017)

some late non 2016 releases:

01 anne la berge & joe williamson "the hum" (2014) [lp] 02 falling man "shine on" (2015) [10"] 03 ecstatic vision "sonic praise" (2015) [lp] 04 baron saturday baron saturday (2015) [dl] 05 hardworking families "happy days" (2015) [cdr]

... and hors série volume II: THE ANNUAL AIDEN BAKER BATCH

aidan baker "aberrations" [cdr] aidan baker "silent world" [k7] aidan baker & claire brentnall "delirious things" [cd] aidan baker & karen willems "landlos" [k7] aidan baker & karen willems "nonland" [lp] aidan baker "bsp live series 2017-10-21 paris" [dl] aidan baker "bsp live series 2017-10-25 [dl] aidan baker "bsp live series 2017-04-02 spektrum berlin" [dl] aidan baker x lärmschutz "heteroticisms volume IV" [k7] aidan baker, simon goff & thor harris "noplace"[dl] whisper room "ravvpovver" [k7] adoran "egregore [drone compendium six]" [dl] orchard "serendipity" [cd] werl hh 2016-09-08" [dl] baker, bloor & baker "terza rima II [drone compendium four]" [dl] caudal "live at 79sound" [dl] caudal "slope/land" [k7] nadja "stripped" [dl] whisper room "longjing [drone compendium five]" [dl]

the 2017 long list:

a sun amissa "the gatherer" [lp] aaron dilloway "switches" [lp] + aaron dilloway "the gag file" [lp] acid mothers temple & the melting paraiso ufo ft pika "astro infinity discothèque" [cd] + amt & melting paraiso ufo "those who came before" [cd] + amt & melting paraiso ufo "wandering the outerspace" [cd] aesop rock & homeboy sandman "triple fat lice" [12"] + aesop rock "hot dogs" [7"] + aesop rock "bushwick [ost]" [cd] af ursin “itinera” [lp] --- introducing once again an impressive batch of timo van luijk releases --- aging "suitable for the night" [k7] amenra "mass VI" [cd] + amenra & raketkanon "nachtschade bw bohr" [10"] antony milton "off/white" [lp] atv "negative, primitive b/w rebel proof glass" [7"] babe roots "babe roots" [lp] + babe roots ft ixm "dub sessions 1" [7"] "babylon berlin original movie soundtrack" [cd] ball "ball" [cd] baron saturday "concrete poetry" [k7] big blood "the daughters union" [cdr]

big/brave "ardor" [cd] brötzmann / leigh "sex tape" [cd] bruce russell "metallic ok" [cdx2] carlton melton "hidden lights" [12"] centralstödet / the myrrors "ljudkamrater" [lp] chino amobi "paradiso" [lpx2] + chino amobi "minor matter" [lp] chromesthetic "goldsound" [k7] + colin stetson "all this i do for glory" [cd] dan melchior "road not driving" [12"] david kirkland garner "dark holler" [dl] dead sea apes "central nervous system" [7"] + adam stone & dead sea apes "in the year 2039" [single-sided 12"] + dead sea apes "sixth side of the pentagon" [cd] demdike stare "cosmogony" [k7] + + demdike stare "circulation" [k7] diamanda galás "at saint thomas the apostle harlem" [cd] + diamanda galás "all the way" [cd] dino spiluttini "to be a beast" [lp] dodge meteor "real soon now" [k7] dope knife "nineteeneightyfour" [cd]

earth "live at third man records" [12"] elodie "balayes de la main du hasard" [lp] + elodie "vieux silence" [lp] evan caminiti "toxic city music" [lp] exploded view "summer came early" [12"] fabio orsi "il ricordo improvviso dell'assoluto stupore" [s-sided lp] félicia atkinson "hand in hand" [lpx2] föllakzoid ft j spaceman "london sessions" [12"] gad whip "in a room" [single-sided 12"] + gad whip "cartoon head" [ep/dl] + gad whip "trapped in a pinhole camera" [k7] ghostpoet "dark days & canapés" [cd] gnod "live at roadburn 2012" [lp & cd] + gnod "just say no to the psycho right-wing capitalist fascist industrial death machine" [lp] gunn - truscinski duo "bay head" [lp] hayley thompson-king "psychotic melancholia" [cd] henning christiansen "opus 67 strategygetarts: a symphony, hommage à richard demarco" [lp] hiiragi fukuda "happy birfday fuyusoubi" [dl & cdr] hills "alive at roadburn" [cd] ian william craig "slow vessels" [12"] + ian william craig & olivier alary "remixes" [dl] irma vep "no handshake blues" [cd]

irreversible entanglements "irreversible entanglements" [lp] jac berrocal, david fenech & vincent epplay "why" [7"] jo meares "lost gun" [ep] john zorn "the interpretation of dreams" [cd] + john zorn "the garden of earthly delights" [cd] + john zorn "here's no more firmament" [cd] + john zorn "midsummer moons" [cd] junko "junkoo)))" aka "junko/bergegas mati split" [k7] keiji haino megapack vol II - keiji haino & sumac "american dollar bill..." [lpx2] - keiji haino & john butcher "light never bright enough" [lp] - keiji haino, dumoulin & verbruggen "the miracles of only one thing" [cd] - konstrukt & keiji haino "a philosophy warping, little by little..." [lp] kiku ft blixa bargeld & black cracker "eng, düster und bang" [cd] korto "korto" [lp] krause "2am thoughts" [cdr] kungens män "bränna tid" [cdr] + kungens män "tomhetens furste" [k7] + kungens män "dag & natt" [cdx2] lee 'scratch' perry & subatomic sound system "super ape returns to conquer" [cd] leif ove andsnes "sibelius" [cd] leyland kirby "we, so tired of all the darkness in our lives" [dl] loren connors "angels that fall" [s-sided lp] luke & wendy "tony conrad" [7"] lumine "all the unnamed" [lp] --- timo van luijk ---

lure, burke, stinson & kramer "l.a.m.f. live at the bowery electric" [lp] marcia bassett & samara lubelski "live nyc" [lp] -mark lanegan band "gargoyle" [cd] + mark lanegan band "still life with roses: gargoyle remixes" [12"] + mark lanegan band "teatro kapital: live in madrid april 1 2012" [cd] + mark lanegan band "live at the abc glasgow april 21 2016" [cd] me and that man "songs of love and death" [cd] melting hand "live in europe 2016" [k7] moon duo "occult architecture vol I" [cd] + moon duo "occult architecture vol II" [cd] mountain bike "too sorry for any sorrow" [lp] mystery hearsay "where the latex meets the asphalt" [dl] obnox "niggative approach" [lp] oxbow "thin black duke" [cd] peter kris "dutch flat" [k7] --- “four-walled mural” !--- + peter kris "jacumba" [cdr] pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs "feed the rats" [lp] post-materialists ft electro-haram "secret eye dub" [dl] prettiest eyes "pools" [lp] private sorrow "fake lions" [k7] prurient "rainbow mirror" [cdx4] ramleh "procreation bw religion" [12"] --- ramleh's "discipline" ;) --- ray wylie hubbard "tell the devil i'm getting there as fast as i can" [cd] razorlegs "bloodshot" [k7]

richard skelton "towards a frontier" [cd] sammartano "rompighiaccio destiny" [s-sided k7] scanner "nomadic concrete" [dl] scott wollschleger "soft aberration" [cd] simon joyner "step into the earthquake" [cd] + simon joyner & david nance "last stand blues: live @ the barn deluxxe" [k7] sleaford mods "english tapas" [cd] sodastream "little by little" [lp] sophia "bad man (v2.0)" [dl] --- includes the armenia-like sample --- "sounds & pressure volume VII" [cd] spaceslug "mountains & reminiscence" [cd] + spaceslug "time travel dilemma" [cd] steve jansen "the extinct suite" [cd] strange broue "seance: the satanic sounds of strange broue" [lp] sundays & cybele "enter the time mirror" [k7] sunken "slab/floors" [lp & dl] sutcliffe jugend "nude and full of wounds" [cd] teho teardo & blixa bargeld "fall" [12"] --- blixa does neil young... hey hey my my ... --- tex, don, & charlie "you don't know lonely" [cd] the caretaker "everywhere at the end of time stage II" [lp] + the caretaker "everywhere at the end of time stage III" [lp] + the caretaker "take care, it's a desert out there" [cd] --- dedicated to mark fisher ! ---

the cosmic dead "psych is dead" [cd] + the cosmic dead "psych is live" [cdr] the fall "new facts emerge" [cd] the frightnrs "more to say versions" [lp] the liminanas "istanbul is sleepy" [12"] -the sonic shamen "tribute to lemmy" [lpx2] + the sonic shamen "jam with dave #1" [cd] the space spectrum "the dark side of the red eyed queen" [dl] + the space spectrum "drone jams vol II" [lp] those who walk away "the infected mass" [cd] thurston moore "rock n roll consciousness" [cd] tonstartssbandht "sorcerer" [lp] träd, gräs och stenar "tack för kaffet / so long" [cd] trouble "snake eyes bw mother's gone" [7"] --- son of twin peaks --- waylon jennings "new stuff" [lp] --- “a few decembers ago” --- white manna "bleeding eyes" [cd] william ryan fritch "behind the pale" [cd] wolf eyes "undertow" [cd] �� zaïmph "transverse presence" [k7] zbigniew karkowski "the last man in europe" [lp]

... lasciate ogni speranza ...

the even longer list (with added moments of brilliance):

a.r.c. soundtracks "dereliction/mirror" [cd] adderall canyonly & ak'chamel, the giver of illness "adderall canyonly & ak'chamel" [k7] alan vega "it" [lpx2] (2017) alexander hacke "irrlicht" [rio reiser] [dl] algiers "the underside of power" [cd] all them witches "sleeping through the war" [cd] alvarius b "with a beaker on the burner & an otter in the oven" [cdx2] + alvarius b & sir richard bishop "strange fruit" [10"] andrea porcu "schorre" [dl] angel dust "excavatum" [k7] appalachian yard art "total trash" [dl] + appalachian yard art "spacehelmethead" [dl] arbouretum "song of the rose" [cd] astrïd & rachel grimes "through the sparkle" [cd] aude romary & jérôme noetinger "discordes" [cd]

beaches "second of spring" [cd] ben bertrand "era/area live @ ateliers claus" [dl] ben frost "treshhold of faith" [12"] + ben frost "music from fortitude" [cd] betty bonifassi "lomax" [cd] bill orcutt "bill orcutt" [cd] billy woods "known unknowns" [cd] bison "you are not the ocean you are the patient" [cd] black thumb "you know it's true" [dl] + black thumb "therapeutic levels" [dl] bnnt "multiverse" [cd] body count "bloodlust" [cd] brian eno "reflection" [cd] brian reitzell "american gods [ost] [cd] brother ali "all the beauty in this world" [cd]

campbell kneale & thaniel ion lee "wormhole fallen sephira" [lathe 7"] + campbell kneale & uton "ravens of dispersion" [lathe 7"] cannibal "cannibal" [lp] career crooks "good luck with that" [k7] -celer "alcoves" [cd] + celer "in the end you'll just disappear" [cd] + celer "fragile that eventually breaks" [dl] causa sui "vibraciones doradas" [lp] + causa sui "live in copenhagen" [cdx3] chris forsyth & the solar band "dreaming in the non-dream" [lp] clarinette "the now of then" [lp] corky siegel's chamber blues "different voices" [cd] courtney marie andrews & bonnie 'prince' billy "i wish i knew how it would feel to be free" [dl] crème de hassan "technique & rite" [lp] crys cle & oren ambarchi "hotel record" [lpx2]

damo suzuki network "the swiftsure session" [lp] daniel lentz "river of 1000 streams" [cd] david keenan's this is memorial device related "sufferage tapes" [cdr] demian castellanos" ether" [lp & dl] dirt & space "ten million ways to die" [k7] dj caesar presents hus the kingpin "16 waves" [dl] + hus kingpin "cocaine beach" [lp] do make say think "stubborn persistent illusions" [cd] dog lady island "chopin" [lp] earthling society "zen bastard" [cdr] + earthling society "ascent to godhead/crooked under moonlight" [lp & cdr] eat lights become lights "nature reserve" [lp] electric moon "stardust rituals" [cd] emptyset "borders" [cd] + emptyset "skin" [12"] --- très remko scha !!! --- endless boogie "vibe killer" [cd] evan parker e.a. "reunion live from cafe oto" [cd] ex eye "ex eye" [cd] --- colin stetson related ---

falling man "ghost" [cd] --- dommage no more sam louwyck on vocals [vega] --- farflung "unwound cellular frown" [12"] --- you will kill for me --- faust "fresh air" [cd] firefriend "the black hole" [12"] flat worms "red hot sand" [7"] fred jannin "un bal" [dl] freek & de jonges "koffers" [cd] fret "over depth" [lpx2] gareth sager "88 tuned dreams" [lp] --- oblong malfunctions --- gates "viscera" [k7] + gates "deliverer/redeemer" [k7] gee tee "thugs in cars" [7"] + gee tee "death race" [dl] + gee tee "live 'n dangerous" [dl] gianni giublena rosacroce "crepusculo bw declino" [7"] girls pissing on girls pissing "songs of sodomy & the compost of aethyr" [cd] goat "goatfuzz bw goatfizz" [7"] + goat "fuzzed in europe (live)" [lp] goldfrapp "silver eye" --- because of systemagic --- grant evans "and the body beneath" [cdr] greg malcolm & stefan neville "a nuance" [dl] growing "disorder" [lp] gutter knife "demo" [k7]

hamsters "basically johnny moped bw freudian ships" [7"] heaters "fuzz club session" [lp] "hendrix in the spirit of jazz" [cd] hisato higuchi "kietsuzukeru echo" [lp] hope sandoval & the warm inventions "son of a lady" [10"] hotel wrecking city traders "passage to agartha" [lpx2] i-lp-o in dub "capital dub chapter 1" [lp] ignatz "coffee, no cigarettes" [k7] isis "live VII - 02.25.10" [lpx2] jah wobble "the usual suspects" [cdx2] +/- + jah wobble "get carer pressure sounds mixes" [dl] jarboe / father murphy "jarboe / father murphy" [10"] jefre cantu-ledesma "on the echoing green" [cd] + jefre cantu-ledesma "hermeneutics" [dl] jenny & jade "day release" [12"] jlin "black origami" [cd] john mcbain "accidental soundtracks vol I the alpha particle" [lp] + elk army "elk army" [dl] john mellencamp ft carlene carter "sad clowns & hillbillies" [cd] john murry "a short history of decay" [cd] john wiese "escaped language" [s-sided lp] jonwayne "rap album two" [cd] julien baker "funeral pyre bw distant solar systems" [7"]

kevin morby "city music" [cd] king krule "the ooz" [cd] kleistwahr "music for zeitgeist fighters" [lp] krautwerk "computerrock" [dl] kronos quartet "folk songs" [cd] laibach "also sprach zarathustra" [cd] langham research centre "tape works vol I" [cd] leandro fresco & rafael anton irisarri "la equidistancia" [lp] + leandro fresco & rafael anton irisarri "la espera" [10"] les filles de illighadad eghass malan" [lp] lichen gumbo "boilin'" [lp] lisa mezzacappa "avantnoir" [cd] little axe "london blues" [cd] lords of altamont "the wild sounds of lords of altamont" [cd]

manni dee "throbs of discontent" [12"] + manni dee "your public image" [12"] map 71 "gloriosa" [k7] mario batkovic "mario batkovic" [cd] marvin pontiac "the asylum tapes" [dl] --- aka john lurie --- mastodon "emperor of sand" [cd] + mastodon "cold dark place" [cd] melanie de biasio "lilies" [cd] melvins "a walk with love & death" [cdx2] mésange "heliotrope" [12"] michael morley "memorial gardens" [dl] michael vincent waller "trajectories" [cd] midnight mines "we are the primitives of a new era" [k7] milo "who told you to think ??!!?!?!?!" [cd] mojo presents murder ballads that inspired nick cave & the bad seeds (2017)° mono "live in melbourne" [cd] moses sumney "aromanticism" [cd] moths & locusts "intro / outro" [lp] motörhead "under cöver" [cd] mount eerie "a crow looked at me" [cd] mt. mountain "dust" [lp] myra davies w beate bartel & gudrun gut "sirens" [cd]

neil campbell & richard youngs "six scores" [lp] neville staple "return of judge roughneck" [cd] nick cave & warren ellis "war machine [ost]" [cd] + nick cave & warren ellis "wind river [ost]" [cd] + nick cave & warren ellis "mars [ost]" [cd] + warren ellis "gauguin [ost]" [cd] night loner "night loner I" [dl] + night loner "night loner II" [dl] no ufo's "nu lp for rs" [lp] noel akchoté "i shot the sheriff" [dl] noveller "a pink sunset for no one" [cd] øjerum "when birds fly, the eyes of heaven can rest" [lp] + øjerum "needle shaped silence" [cd] + øjerum "skygge" [cd] obnox "murder radio" [lp] oiseaux-tempête "al-'an الآن (and your night is your shadow - a fairy-tale piece...)" [cd] olan mill, leniad "cavade morlem leniad remodeled" [dl] oneida "live at secret project robot" [lpx2] + oneida "town crier bw golden age of the pariah" [7"] oulu space jam collective "holes of the universe" [dl]

our love will destroy the world "temptress factory chapels" [dl] + our love will destroy the world "second temptress factory chapels" [dl] + our love will destroy the world "thick dark number" [cdr] + our love will destroy the world "thinkpower" [k7] + our love will destroy the world & guilty c. "split" [k7] paul rooney "lucy over lancashire" [single-sided 12"] pauline paris [feat die kammer] "au lit" from "carousel" [cd] pere ubu "20 years in a montana missile silo" [cd] peter broderick "all together again" [cd] phurpa "gyud" [cd] pierre & bastien "musique grecque" [lp] pig//control "vor den mauern" [12"] pikacyu & makoto "galaxilympics" [cd] pistol disco "assault 2" [s-sided 7"] pool people "it's all any non rnglish language to me" [k7] porest "flimsy tombs" [k7] + porest & people like us "optimized!" [lp] pucker up "i live in your mouth" [k7]

radar men from the moon "subversive III de spelende mens" [dl] + radar men from the moon "fuzz club session" [12"] rafael anton irisarri "the shameless years" [dl] rakta "rakta at kexp" [k7] + rakta "oculto pelos seros" [7"] richard h kirk "dasein" [cd] richard pinhas "reverse" [cd] richard youngs "this is not a lament" [cdx2] + richard youngs "foot guitar vol I-IV" [dlx4] + richard youngs "brief walk outside" [dl] + richard youngs & simon wickham-smith "pulse of the rooster" [dl] robert turman "veiling reflections" [cd] roll the dice "born to ruin" [lp] run the jewels "mean demeanor" [cds] + run the jewels "down (z dot uk remix)" [dl] + run the jewels "panther like a panther (original demo version)" [dl] + danger mousse ft run the jewels & boi "the chase" [12"]

sachiko "jangala flamed with deep red" [cdr] scattered purgatory "sua-hiam-zun" [lp] sherwood & pinch "man vs sofa" [cd] six organs of admittance "burning the treshold" sophia "as we make our way the live recordings" [cdx3] sqürl "ep #260" [cd] + sqürl "paterson [ost]" [lp] stavesacre "mcmxcv" [dl] sundays & cybele "chaos & systems" [cd] superorganism "something for your m.i.n.d." [s-sided 7"] + superorgansm "it's all good bw nobody cares" [7"] sutcliffe jugend "shame" [cd] taiwan housing project "veblen death mask" [lp] tape loop orchestra "solar light emissions" [cdx2] + tape loop orchestra "held against the light" [cd] + tape loop orchestra "the 1915-16 panama pacific expo" [10"] temple ov bbv "temple ov bbv" [lp] tenhornedbeast "death has no companion" [cd]

the anarchy arias "the anarchy arias [deluxe]" [cdx2] the cult of dom keller "paradiso is on fire" [k7] the focus group "stop-motion happening with the focus groop" [cd] the lovely eggs "i shouldn't have said that bw melody for meathead" [7"] the myrrors "hasta la victoria" [cd] + the myrrors "archives vol I lunar halo" [k7] the necks "unfold" [lpx2] the tiger lillies "cold night in soho" [cd] + the tiger lillies "edgar allan poe's haunted palace" [cd] thisquietarmy "métamorphose" [cdx2] + "thisquietarmy "democracy of dust" [lp] + thisquietarmy & thank u for smoking "subsound split series #7" [12" & dl] timber timbre "sincerely, future pollution" [cd] timmy's organism "eating colors" [lp] + timmy's organism "lick up your town" [7"] + timmy's organism "revolution eyes" [7"] tom carter & robert horton "lonesome bootleg" [lp] touts "sickening & deplorable" [cdr] + touts "lit" [ep] + touts "sold out" [dl] "twin peaks music from the limited event series" [cd]�� - nin "she's gone away"! -

vatican shadow "luxor necropolitics" [10"x2] + vatican shadow "rubbish of the floodwaters" [10"] + vatican shadow & ancient methods "bunkerterror" [10"] vibracathedral orchestra "live at total inertia" [10"] video nasties "video nasties" [lp] + vintage cucumber "schnecke" [dl] + vintage cucumber "liebesbried" [dl] + vintage cucumber "abflug" [dl] violinbwoy ft junior dread "soundsystem" [10"] walker harris english "walker harris english" [k7] warm bodies "eat snot & rot!" [k7] weasel walter " a ound of flesh" [cdx4] william ryan fritch "birkitshi eagle hunters in a new world" [cd] + william ryan fritch & matt finey "a history in boxes" [dl] willy billy childish & ctmf "brand new cage" [cd] + willy billy childish & ctmf "in the devil's focus" [10"] + ctmf ft dear watson sound "brand new cadillac" [7"] wim mertens "nature's largess" [cdx2 & dvd] winter family "south from here" [cd] wolf eyes "no hate" [dl] youngs & meek "lullaby for lubieniecki" [k7] zahnfleisch "am bergen" [k7] zone six "forever hugo" [lp] zu "jhator" [lp]

... and - finally - the longest list:

"23 bangers! the casual lurkers guide to emotional response" [dl] a savage "thawing dawn" [lp] adult. "detroit house guests" [cd] akatombo "short fuse" [lp] alvarius b alvarius b vs abdel baqy byro in cairo [lp] amazone "amazone" [k7] anahita tourmaline [lp] andromeda space ritual "satellite" [dl] arrington de dionyso & ted byrnes "the ballot or the bullet" [k7] ash ra tempel experience "live in melbourne" [cd] ashtray navigations "insert genre gere" [cdr] + ashtray navigations "epson's bladder salts" [dl] avenir "nous ne sommes plus vierges et nous avons raté nos examens" [lp] --- noir --- b dolan ft jasiri x & bambu depistola "bannon" [dl] benedict drew crawling through tory slime [lp] beyt al tapes "you are now entering zimbabwe" [cd] bitchin bajas "bajas fresh" [lpx2] black cab "empire states" [dl] black merlin "proto world" [12"] "blade runner 2049 [ost]" [cd] blonde redhead "3 o'clock" [12"] blues pills "lady in gold live in paris" [cdx2] bob dylan "triplicate" [cdx3] + bob dylan "live in san diego" [cdx2] + bob dylan "under the covers" [cd] bobby bare "things change" [cd] böse "son of the connoisseur" [dl] + böse "knauben schnaucer" [dl] boss hog "brood x" [cd] brain damage & harrison stafford "liberation time" [cd] brix & the extricated "part 2" [cd] buck gooter "100 bells" [lp] c spencer yeh "the rca mark II" [lp] c.i.a. debutante "moly's cabinet" [k7] carla bruni "french touch" [cd] casey daniels band "bible on the dash" [cd] cavalier song "a deep well" [lp] + cavalier song & agathe max "cessna bw pagan" [7"] celer "plays liberace" [dl] + celer "ecco" [dl] + celer "vapour" [dl] chelsea wolfe "hiss spun" [cd] cheval rétréci, will guthrie & junko "cheval rétréci" [lp] chief keefe "thot breaker" [dl] + chief keef "two zero one seven" [dl] chiyoko szlavnics "during a lifetime" [cd] chris dooks "alpenoo" [dl] + chris dooks "long piece" [dl] circle "terminal" [cd] circuit des yeux "reaching for indigo" [cd] cleared "serpens" [cd] coldcut x on-u sound "outside the echochamber" [cd] colin vallon trio "danse" [cd] --- ook tinguely --- colour haze "in her garden" [cd] common eider, king eider "shrines for the unwanted, respite for the cast aside" [cd] conway "rejects on steroids" [cd] cosmic ground "cosmic ground live" [cd] courtney barnett & kurt vile "lotta sea lice" [lp] curvs "hauntropics" [cd] cyanide pills "sliced and diced" [cd] dalia raudonikyté with "solitarius" [dl] daniele luppi & parquet courts "milano" [cd] danielle de picciotto & sonae "leise fäden" [cd] david greenberger, glenn jones & chris corsano "an idea in everything" [10"x2] dead boys "still snotty: young, loud & snotty at 40" [cd] dead fucking serious "squalor" [dl] dead neanderthals "womb of god" [lp] + dead neanderthals "the depths" [cd] + dead neanderthals "craters" [cd] deutsch nepal & mama baer "klinik der praktischen vernunft" [lp] dire wolves "drumbar & basspear" [k7] dirk serries & martina verhoeven "innocent as virgin wood" [cd] + dirk serries & martina verhoeven "citadelic" [dl] dirty songs "play dirty songs" [lp] dodge meteor "real soon now" [k7] dreamdecay "yu" [lp] --- bass jam --- dub engine "psychosteppa" [dl] --- burn the amplifaya --- dustrider "event horizon" [cd] eberhard kranemann & harald grosskopf "krautwerk" [lp & cd] edgar wappenhalter "het spuit de oorgaten uit" [dl] electric wizard "wizard bloody wizard" [cd] eleh "home age" [lp] elko b "i bambini di basilisco" [cd] --- if only for cochon torrero" --- endless melancholy "the vacation" [cd] entrance "book of changes" [cd] erika stucky "papito" [cd] eriksson delcroix & sun sun sun orchestra "magic marker love" [cd] f ingers "awkwardly blissing out" [lp] feature "banishing ritual" [lp] feral ohms "feral ohms" [cd] fever ray "plunge" [dl] flat worms "flat worms" [cd] floris vanhoof "talking gongs" [cd] flowers must die 'kompost" [lp] foudre! "earth original soundtrack live at the church of saint-merri paris" [lp] four candles "killing the image" [dl] free dust "names for wind" [dl] --- [aka matthew sage] --- frozen planet... 1969 "electric smokehouse" [lp] + frozen planet... 1969 "from the centre of a parallel universe" [cd] fucked up "year of the snake" [s-sided 12"] full dub "the full tape" [dl] gabi losoncy "security besides love" [lp] + gabi losoncy "nobody's pushing you" [cdr] gary business "zero to clean" [dl] --- penderecki my ass!" gate "highway ghost" [12"] + gate "freedom ghosts" [dl] + gate "btylcs" [dl] gaute granli "animalskt" [lp] gewalt "tier bw so geht die geschichte" [7"] ghetto priest "every man for every man" [lp] gl harlev organ "bare spil noget orgel [the orgel sessions]" [lp] gnod "live at concrète" [k7] + gnod related dwellings & proximity sensor "ecc_bcn" [k7] + gnod related "famous moon king "light travels in straight lines" [k7] gnoomes "tschak!" [cd] godflesh "post self" [cd] grails "chalice hymnal" [cd] guerilla dub system "pound of dub" [dl] guerilla toss "gt ultra" [cd] gunwale "ceasing" [k7] hackedepicciotto "menetekel" [lpx2] havania whaal "elaborate minor crisis" [k7] heavy metal "smash criticism smash optimism smash arachnophobia" [dl] heaters "matterhorn" [lp] hecker "a script for machine synthesis" [cd] hersencellen "we ploeteren voort" [k7] hisko detria "mal du sciècle" [lp] hiss golden messenger "hallelujah anyhow" [cd] holy fuck "bird brains" [10"] holy monitor "holy monitor" [lp] honey "new moody judy" [lp] house & land "house & land" [cd] hypochristmutreefuzz "hypopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia" [cd] ilk "glitterfish" [dl] --- richard youngs --- illiminine "#2" [cd] "illuminations [the new year 2017 free compilation]" [dl] impotentie "demonstratieve opnamens" [s-sided k7] in zaire "visions of the age to come" [lp] institute "subordination" [cd] irie nanara & raggattack "full of vibes" + irie nanara meets variedub "showcase" [dl] james holden & the animal spirits "the animal spirits" [cd] jamie saft, steve swallow, bob previte ft iggy pop "loneliness road" [cd] japan blues "sells his record collection" [lp] jarboe "as mind dissolves as song" [cd] jarvis cocker & chilly gonzales "room 29" [cd] jason isbell & the 400 unit "the nashville sound" [cd] jay glass dubs "endless-nameless" [k7] + jay glass dubs / guerilla toss "jay glass dubs vs guerilla toss" [k7] jeb loy nichols "country hustle" [cd] jessi colter "the psalms" [cd] jim o'rourke "steamroom 31" + jim o'rourke "steamroom 32" + jim o'rourke "steamroom 33" + jim o'rourke "steamroom 37" jim white "waffles, triangles & jesus" [cd] johnny moped "catatonic bw hard lovin' man" [7"] jon langford "four lost souls" [cd] josy & the pony vs the poneymen "hippodrone club" [cd] julian cope "drunken songs" [cd] julianna barwick & rafael anton irisarri "thesis 10" [10"] junior natural and sly & robbie "miltant" [cd] kairon; irse! "ruination" [cd] kaitlyn aurelia smith "the kid" [cd] kara-lis coverdale "grafts" [s-sided 12"] kassel jaeger, jim o'rourke "wakes on cerulean" [lp] kate carr "the story surrounds us" [k7] kaz mirblouk "sidesteps bw paint stains" [7"] khaki blazer "heaven is tacky" [dl] + khaki blazer "didn't have to cut" [k7] king chubby "demo" [k7] king gizzard & the lizard wizard "polygondwanaland" [cd] klein "tommy" [12"] kohn "kreis plön" [cd] konrad sprenger "stack music" [lp] kraus "grip the moon" [k7] l'amour est un os" [dl] --- la nòviarlt "tu m'as encore crevé un cheval" --- l'ira del baccano "paradox hourglass" [cd] la chasse "noir plus noir que le noir" [lp] la tène "tardive / issime" [lp] lärmschutz & sietse singers "requiems" [k7] larkin grimm "chasing an illusion" [lp] lawrence english "cruel optimism" [cd] leaaves "first sickness" [k7] leather jacuzzi "slander, lies & soda" [k7] lee ranaldo "electric trim" [cd] left lane cruiser "claw machine wizard" [cd] les chants du hasard "les chants du hasard" [cd] les discrets "prédateurs" [cd] life stinks "hanging from the ceiling" [7"] linda catlin smith - apartment house & quatuor bozzini "drifter" [cdx2] linecraft "the man who was plugged in" [k7] [2008] lorette meets the obsolete "the sound of all things" [7"] luna "a sentimental education" [cd] + luna "a place of greater safety" [10"] + luna & cheval sombre "play the vu's lonesome cowboy bill" [7"] lustmord "maschinenfest" [cd] mach hommy "dump gawd hommy edition" [cd] + mach hommy machinefabriek "snoepgoed" [7"] mad professor meets jah9 "in the midst of the storm" [lp] magnet "feel your fire" [cd] make-overs "learning curve bw time warp" [7"] male gaze "miss taken" [cd] mark mcguire "ideas of beginnings" [lp] mark so "and suddenly from all this there came some horrid music" [cdr] martin rev "demolition 9" [cd] mary ocher "faust studio sessions & other recordings" [10"] matthew edwards & the unfortunates "folklore" [cdr] maurizio bianchi "the second death" [cdr] + maurizio bianchi & abul mogard "nervous hydra bw all this has passed forever" [dl] michael begg/mélenchon brève "one true vine" [cd] michel banabila, eric vloeimans, mehmet polat "new land" [dl] mike "may god bless your hustle" [dl] mikey young "your move vol I" [lp] + mikey young "you feelin' me?" [k7] moebius "musik für metropolis" [cd] mogwai "every country's sun" [cd] monkey marc "post traumatic dub bw deception dub" [7"] mozart "nasty" [7"] mr zèbre & sensi t "travelling on the riddim" [7"] mutation III "dark black" [cd] mythic sunship "land between the rivers" [cd] naaahhh "themes" [12"] nhung nguyen "an ordinary narrative" [dl] + nhung nguyen & sleep orchestra "disparate (piano day 2017)" [dl] nik turner "life in space" [cd] novi_sad "wound burner" [cd] nurse with wound "kafka's parachute" [3"cd] øjerum "træerne & intetheden I-II" [lathe 7"] + øjerum "træerne & intetheden III-IV" [lathe 7"] + øjerum "træerne & intetheden V-VI" [lathe 7"] + øjerum "træerne & intetheden VII-VIII" [lathe 7"] + øjerum "træerne & intetheden IX-X" [lathe 7"] + øjerum "træerne & intetheden XI-XII" [lathe 7"] old 97's "graveyard whistling" [cd] omit "negative pulse logic" [k7] oneohtrix point never "good time [ost]" [cd] shiri pen penz "crystal body" [cd] oulu space jam collective "deep harpalonia" [dl] + oulu space jam collective "strike of the death anvil" [dl] p.o.s. "chill, dummy" [cd] paul kelly "life is fine" [cd] "pauline oliveros tribute the last sense to leave us" [cdr] pelt + mike & care gangloff with matt payton "split" [10"] penguin cafe "the imperfect sea" [lp] "penny rimbaud's kernschmelze II cantata for improvised voice" [cd] peter fengler "vegetarians" [single sided 7"] peter perrett "how the west was won" [cd] phew "light sleep" [lp] pia fraus "field ceremony" [cd] piano magic "closure" [cd] pickin' on nirvana [lp] pierre bastien "the mecanocentric worlds of pierre bastien (live)" [lp] + pierre bastien & eddie ladoire "phantoms" [lp] pink void "pink void" [k7] pool people "i should have said swearwords" [k7] + pool people "show 07 - show 12" [dl's] poulainjar "cabaret sous mondain en public" [lp] prayer "prayer I & II" [k7] + prayer "seeing" [dl] prostitutes "dance tracksz" [lp] protomartyr "relatives in descent" [cd] public enemy "nothing is quick in the desert" [dl] public psyche "no new violence" [lp] purling hiss "breeze [ep]" [dl] quindar "hip mobility" [lp] r.l. boyce "roll and tumble" [cd] raxola "guts out" [lp] razen "the xvoto reels" [cd] "resistance radio the man in the high castle [ost]" [cd] richard chartier "removed" [cd] richard youngs "cavalcades" [cdr] + richard youngs "lovey uou 343 virtual box" [dl] richie wohlfeil "east bound and down bw along the cosmic wheel" [dl] + richie wohlfeil "belle island demos [dl] ricky koole with ocobar "ricky koole with ocobar" [lp] riddim research lab "research program #1" [lp] ride "weather diaries" [cd] rimjob texas "proljev" [dl] rkss "brostep in the style of florian hecker" [dl] robert plant "carry fire" [cd] robyn hitchcock "robyn hitchcock" [cd] robyn ludwick "this tall to ride" [lp] roll the dice "born to ruin" [lp] roméo elvis et le motel "morale 2" [cd] salad boys "giving compliments to strangers" [k7] scanner "the great crater" [cd] schakalens bror "truck cabin fever" [k7] sex scheme "live 11-01-2017" [dl] + sex scheme "show at the glove 18-03-2017" [dl] shit & shine "total shit" [lp] + shit & shine "some people really know how to live" [lp] + shit & shine "musica lavapiatta" [k7] + shit & shine "that's enough" [dl] + shit & shine "hamburger" [12"] simon fisher turner "picture from darkness" [cd] + simon fisher turner "giraffe" [lp] slowdive "slowdive" [cd] sly & the family drone + the dead neanderthals "molar wrench" [lp] sneaks "it's a myth" [cd] snowdrops "live at the archaelogical crypt paris" [dl] songs: ohia "live at wobc oct 12, 1994" [lp] sophie cooper & julie bradley "the blow volume III3 [K7] soul sugar "chase the light" [cd] space debris "behind the gate" [cdx2] spain "live at the love song" [cd] + spain "spider room los angeles 24-11-1996" [dl] + spain "live at love song 07-02-2017" [dl] + spain "love song one year anniversary show 25-05-2017" [dl] spray paint & ben mackie "get legless" [7"] + spray paint "live at third man" [7"] steeden mustik "steeden mustik" [dl] stefan neville & the doll "1974" [8" lathe cut] + hermione johnson, ben holmes & stefan neville "02.10.16" [ep] sterile garden "live at the apohadion 11/27/17" [dl] stratocastors "autre regard" [k7] stupid cosmonaut "algol" [lp] + stupid cosmonaut "state of the universe" [dl] + stupid cosmonaut / boobs of doom "signals from a dying star / vibrations from a dying soul" [dl] sula bassana "organ accumulator" [cd] + sula bassana "the ape regards his tail" [cd] talweg "est in chemin, loin en sombre" [lp] tamino "tamino" [10"] tarotplane "358 oblique" [lp] tengger cavalry "die on my ride" [cd] the afghan whigs "in spades" [cd] the belligerents "science fiction" [lp] the black angels "death song" [cd] the black seeds "fabric" [cd] the bug "bad bw get out the way" [12"] the comet is coming "death to the planet" [12"] the contributors "the contributors" [lp] --- dan melchior & spray paint --- the duke spirit "sky is mine" [cd] the galileo 7 "tear your minds wide open!" [cd] the guru guru "p chew" [cd] the hacker "le théâtre des opérations" [12"x2] the janitors "horn ur marken" [cd] the master musicians of jajouka ft material "apocalypse live" [dl] the oscillation "evil in the tree" [7"] + the oscillation "dissorted tracks [dl]" + the oscillation "from tomorrow [blue sun ambient mix]" [dl] the professionals "what in the world" [cd] the spunks "trips into a tray of plaster & arises as a ghost" [dl] the stroppies "the stroppies" [k7] the tenses & bren't lewiis ensemble "daughter of the boot" [cdr] "there is no music in china" [k7] thomas dimuzio & alan courtis "monk style or scream" [lp] thor & friends "the subversive nature of kindness" [cd] thor harris & friends and woven skull "triangles bw the cracking of the limbs" [7"] tindersticks w thomas belhom & christine ott minute bodies the intimate world of f percy smith" [cd/dvd] tom russell "folk hotel" [cd] tomaga "greetings from the bitter end" [12"] tony bevan & richard youngs "the two monarchs live at the hairdressers" [dl] trio da kali & kronos quartet "ladilikan" [cd] trust "live hellfest 2017" [cd & dvd] "turn on, tune in [lullabies for insomniacs]" [lp] ty segall "ty segall" [lp] ubek "ubek" [k7] umberto echo "oneness in dub" [dl] unearthly trance "stalking the ghost" [cd] uniform "wake in fright" [cd] united waters "the narrows" [lp] unsane "fix it bw wrung" [7"] upper wilds "guitar module 2017" [lp] urarv "aurum" [cd] usa-mexico "laredo" [lp] --- shit & shine related --- uuuu "uuuu" [lpx2] vandoliers "the native" [lp] varg "nordic flora seies pt III gore-tex city" [lpx2] + varg "i'll hold you till we die" [12"] venom "100 miles to hell [ep]" [dl] verbraak van bijnen "2nd line city" [cd] vintage cucumber "abu abu" [dl] + vintage cucumber "arabische nächte" [dl] violinbwoy "død" [12"x3] warm digits "wireless world" [lp] whit dickey, mat maneri, matthew shipp "vessel in orbit" [cd] white hills "stop mute defeat" [cd] wiegedood "de doden hebben het goed II" [cd] will guthrie "people pleaser" [cd] wire "silver/lead" [cd] wolf alice "visions of a life" [cd] wooden wand "clipper ship" [cd] + wooden wand "toth's law" [dl] + wooden wand "toth's law volume II" [dl] + wooden wand "toth's law volume III" [dl] woopheadclrms "meeting room + rare plants" [dl] wrongtom meets the ragga twins "in dub" [dl] wu-tang clan "the saga continues" [cd] xiu xiu "forget" [cd] xordox neospection" [cd] yabby you "mighty counselor" [12"] zwangere guy "zwangerschapsverlof vol III" [cd] zeitkratzer "duft" [lp] +/- + zeitkratzer "performs songs from kraftwerk & kraftwerk II" [cd] + zeitkratzer & elliott sharp "oneirika live at berghain berlin" [cd] zeroh "kurost.blqlordtesla" [dl]

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