RZR | RZRecords - An Extremely Independent Music Collective

~ 20 Years of RZRecords, a Retrospective Revisiting Haggari Nakashe & gaop's Pictures of Gold and Terror (2006) 45 tracks of noise rock, grindcore, free jazz, and Japanoise (inspired) madness, and what twenty years did (and didn’t) change In the mid-2000s, the underground DIY scene was a wild west of file-sharing and CD-R trades. Blogs were the gatekeepers, forums were the community, and “going viral” meant someone posted your album on a Blogspot page that got 400 hits or mentioned you on Myspace. In the middle of this productive chaos, an unlikely partnership formed between  Haggari Nakashe , a Canadian-Japanese artist who at the time had been quietly terrorizing local noise shows in Montreal and Osaka simultaneously, and  gaop , a Eurasian multi-instrumental experimentalist. Their 2006 collaborative effort, Pictures of Gold and Terror , remains one of the most polarizing and fascinating relics of that era’s extreme mu...

RZRecords cat: RZR2025SUHg · UPC: 5063863770034  ·  New Release · Digital + Vinyl (CD coming soon) We don't do things quietly around here. You know that. But every once in a while, a release lands that even we weren't fully prepared for, something so unhinged in the best possible way that it makes you want to flip your desk and start moshing in the ruins. The super WOOPER split is exactly that release. Fifteen minutes and twenty seconds. That's all it takes. Fifteen minutes and twenty seconds of raw, beautiful, organized chaos, twelve tracks of free jazz, experimental noise, punk fury, and psych weirdness. All killer, zero filler. super WOOPER split by UIUIUI and Haggari Nakashe & gaop 🖤 Buy the Vinyl on ElasticStage 🖤 Who Are These People and Why Are They Like This UIUIUI is an experimental duo consisting of Ori Zornitzer (Plopsk6x) and Itay Raiten (Koala), officially headquartered in the legendary and entire...