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01. UP-TIGHT - Melt Rain
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02. UP-TIGHT - 異邦人
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03. UP-TIGHT - 夜明けは遠い
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04. UP-TIGHT - Just A Dreamer
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05. UP-TIGHT - 無題
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ARTIST
UP-TIGHT
TITLE
Up-Tight
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
DESASTRE
CATALOG #
DST 002LP
DST 002LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
7/22/2016
2025 repress.
Up-Tight
are a three-piece psych group based in Hamamatsu, Japan with a history dating back to 1992 has released around 10 records. Up-Tight's current line-up (2016) is original members
T. Aoki
(vocal & guitar)
T. Ogata
(bass) and
T. Shirahata
(drums). The ghosts of
The Velvet Underground
,
Les Rallizes Dénudés
and
Amon Düül
loom large over their personal feedback song-destruction universe. This LP is the first re-issue of their original CD-R-only release in Japan in 1999 in a very limited edition of 100 copies. It has been remastered in Berlin from original recordings and presented here in an edition of 300. Here is what
David Keenan
(Wire magazine) thought about this first CD-R released in 1999 : "
Up-Tight are a noxious young trio from south Tokyo, all acolytes of the legendary Japanese psych group Les Rallizes Dénudés, who augment their sound with crushing,
Sabbath
-styled dynamics, earsplitting acid leads and beautiful Velvets-inspired ballads... Song structures are mostly kept loose, allowing for lots of noisy improvisation. Generally the album is anchored by heavy riffs. Just when you thought you'd got to grips with Tokyo's paradigm destroying psych scene, this one hits like a sucker punch.
" All songs are five to ten minutes long, varying from very melodic ballads to psychedelic journeys. The album ends with an epic track, "無題", which is an 18 minutes tour-de-force, that takes you to another dimension as if the Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray" would have a child with
Acid Mothers Temple
, while listening to Amon Düül under codeine. Up-Tight are from the generation that emerged with the madness of the Tokyo '90s and the P.S.F Records scene. Close to Acid Mothers Temple (the two bands recorded an album together), Up-Tight has a unique sound and is one of the most important underground reference in the Japan psychedelic scene.
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