Japanese combat radio plays

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Japanese combat radio plays
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Japanese Combat Radio Play (2014)
Japanese Combat Radio Play (2014)
General information
origin Krefeld (Germany)
Genre (s) Deathgrind
founding 1998, 2014
resolution 2011
Website www.japanischekampfhoerspiele.de
Founding members
Vocals, drums
 Christof Kather
Electric guitar
 Klaus Nicodem (1998-2011)
Current occupation
singing
 Christian Markwald (since 2016)
singing
 Martin Freund (since 2006)
Electric guitar
 Robert Nowak (2004–2006, since 2014)
Electric guitar
 René Hauffe (since 2008)
bass
 Marco Bachmann (since 2001)
Drums
 Christof Kather (since 1998)
former members
singing
 Markus "Bony" Hoff (2003–2011, 2014–2016)
singing
 Andreas "Paul" Paul (2003-2006)
singing
 Simon Schaffrath (2002-2003)
Electric guitar
 Daniel Schaffrath (2000-2004)

Japanese Kampfhörspiele (short: Jaka ) is a Deathgrind - band from Krefeld . Her texts often consist of loose sentence components (" collages ") and criticize today's consumer society . The band also describes their style as grindpunk or popgrind .

history

Foundation and early development (1996-2000)

In 1996 or 1997, the drummer Christof Kather recorded a cassette titled Japanese Combat Radio Play , in which Marcus Adam was the guest guitarist on three pieces. The actual history of the band began in 1998 with a two-man project by Kather ( drums , vocals ) and Klaus Nicodem ( electric guitar , vocals, partly bass ) with the publication of 8-track recordings on their website and the music Portal MP3.com . The name was invented by Uwe Engelbracht, a friend of Kather's. Engelbracht was known for his pointless word combinations and wrote to Kather in a letter “that Japanese cassette recorder manufacturers would manipulate their devices in such a way that they could use his' ??? 'Cassettes in order to be able to press their' Japanese combat radio plays' into the market better in return ”.

First record deal and full line-up (2001-2003)

In 2001, Blutwurscht Productions ( Switzerland ) received an offer for a recording contract, as a result of which a compilation of the demos previously published called Japanese Combat Radio Play and shortly afterwards Die Großstadt Stinkt, is loud and septical were released. Also in 2001 was the compilation Brandsatzliebe , which was published exclusively as a music download on the Internet and contained cover versions of a-ha , ATC , Death , The Exploited , Slayer and Slime . The guitarist Daniel Schaffrath, who joined in 2000, could already be heard on both compilations.

Singer Markus “Bony” Hoff at a performance in 2004

The band's popularity had grown significantly. In order to be able to perform live, a first full line-up was formed in 2002 with Marco Bachmann (a former colleague of Kather's at Cyclo Proganigma) as bassist and Daniel's brother Simon Schaffrath as the second singer. The first record in this line-up was Die Großstadt stinkt, is loud and septic and contained a futuristic CD-ROM bonus where you had to search an urban labyrinth for gas masks. After this album, JaKa stopped working with Blutwurscht Productions “for customs reasons” because the costs were too high for them.

Increasing national and international success (2003-2008)

During the production of their second studio album Fertigmensch in 2003, Simon Schaffrath unexpectedly left and was replaced by Markus “Bony” Hoff ( Screams ); the growled vocals took over again as Christof Kather did when the band was founded. The album, which Bastardized Recordings took into the label program as a thank you for Kather’s drums assistant on the Six Reasons to Kill tour , made the band known in the grindcore and metal scene and received almost exclusively good reviews.

In 2003 Andreas Paul (nickname "Paul") from Zeroed joined JaKa in order to be able to do the growls live. The band's first live appearance on October 25, 2003 took place at the first Neckbreaker Festival in AZ ( Mülheim an der Ruhr ).

In 2004 the third studio album was released, Hardcore from the first world , on which the song Zieh diejacken to Miland “Mille” Petrozza ( Kreator ) acts as a guest singer. Since the band wanted to be noticed not only because of the prominent guest singer, only Petrozza's first name Miland is listed as a guest singer in the supplement.

On the following mini tour through Germany, together with Nasum , God Dethroned and Suffocation , the new guitarist Robert Nowak ( Unchallenged Hate ) could be seen and heard for the first time , who had replaced Daniel Schaffrath, who had dropped out due to lack of time. At the end of 2004, the first appearance abroad took place in Sevenum (Netherlands); concerts in La Ferrière and Alençon in France followed in spring 2005 .

The tour, called Fleischmarsch , took place at the turn of the year 2005/2006 and, together with the Excrementory Grindfuckers , Jack Slater and various support bands (including, for example, World Downfall and Guitar and Closet) all over Germany. The increasing stage presence of the band made singer Andreas “Paul” Paul increasingly time-consuming, so that in spring 2006 he announced his departure from the band. His last concert took place at the R (h) ein in die Fresse Festival VII in Bad Godesberg on April 16, 2006. Two weeks later, a successor for Paul was found in Martin Freund.

Bassist Bachmann was so badly injured in a motorcycle accident in mid-June 2006 that he was to be replaced by René Hauffe ( Shaxul , 21st Century Killing Machine) until further notice . However, the recovery process went better than initially assumed, so that Bachmann was able to perform again at the Up from the Ground Festival at the end of August . On the subsequent Austria / Switzerland tour, René Hauffe represented guitarist Robert Nowak, who recently had more and more problems reconciling the concerts with his job. After the album Smoking and Yoga , which was released in October 2006 , Nowak left Jaka.

In May 2008 the band performed at the Maryland Deathfest . Before and after the festival, Japanese Combat Radio Plays played two more concerts each in Richmond and New York , before recording a session on the radio station WFMU in Jersey City on the last day of their stay in the USA . To this end, they had been invited by Dan Bodah, who had already presented Japanese combat radio plays around the turn of the millennium in his radio show Airborne Event .

Own label foundation and dissolution (2009-2011)

In 2009, the band founded their own label with unundeux , as it was believed that they had done everything themselves up to now and that they no longer need anyone apart from a distributor and a promo agency. Thereupon they released the album Luxusvernichtung in 2009 and a year later the successor Bilder fressen Strom , in which Willi Wucher, singer of the band Mob and Gesocks , is performed as a guest singer.

On December 22, 2010, the Japanese Combat Radio Play announced its closure in January 2011. The farewell concert took place on January 29th in the Feierwerk in Munich . The live DVD "Farewell Concert" was also created. On January 28th, the band released their last studio album called Kaputte nackte Affen . Singer Markus "Bony" Hoffs commented on the band's breakup as follows:

“ The air is finally out after 13 years! We leave about 220 songs for posterity, the last album will be on January 28th. and the day after we celebrate my birthday with the very last show. It all fits perfectly! "

- Markus "Bony" Hoff

In the summer of 2011, JaKa called on fans around the world to record cover versions of any JaKa songs and send them to the band for a tribute album. By September 1, 2011, the band had received over 200 minutes of music from over 75 bands from a wide variety of music genres. The double CD tribute album A Tribute to Japanese Combat Radio Play has a total playing time of around 160 minutes and was released on December 1, 2011. In March 2013, the Brandenburg State Criminal Police Office indexed the compilation album Brandsatzliebe (2001).

Reunion (2014)

On December 24, 2013, Japanese Combat Radio Play announced a reunion. The following day, the band was confirmed as headliner for the Grind The Mine Festival on May 31, 2014 at Zeche Carl in Essen, where they played the first live show since the separation in 2011. In 2016 Hoff left the band to form Extinct the Scum (and later Napoleon Blownaparte) and was replaced by Christian Markwald from the band Diaroe.

style

Klaus Nicodem (2004)

The fact that in the first few years the drums were always developed first and then the guitar riffs played over it, the songs are very rhythmic . They are characterized by many breaks and speed changes. The music, like the lyrics, is therefore called a collage by the band. The alternating screeching and grunting of the two singers is also noticeable. The band calls their style grindpunk.

The band chose the pieces on the cover album Germany from the front , which was released in November 2005, primarily because of the lyrics. You can hear cover versions of musically diverse bands such as Die Goldenen Zitronen , Fasaga, Extrabreit , Funny van Dannen , EA80 , Tocotronic , Eisenvater and Trio .

Discography

Studio albums

  • 2002: The big city stinks, is loud and septic (Blutwurscht production)
  • 2004: Hardcore from the first world ( Bastardized Recordings )
  • 2007: Smoking and Yoga (Bastardized Recordings)
  • 2010: Pictures eat up electricity ( unundeux )
  • 2011: Broken naked monkeys (unundeux)
  • 2014: World without advertising (unundeux)
  • 2016: The Golden Anthropocene (unundeux)
  • 2018: Back to ze Roots (Bastardized Recordings)
  • 2019: Verk Ferever (Bastardized Recordings)

Compilations

  • 2001: Japanese combat radio plays (Blutwurscht production)
  • 2001: Brandsatzliebe ( cover album , only digital publication in self-distribution, indexed )
  • 2005: Germany from the front (cover album, Bastardized Recordings)
  • 2006: In the past, everything wasn't good either (DIY recordings 1998–2002 compilation , Bastardized Recordings)
  • 2010: Das große Verbrauchen - The Bastardized Years and Before (unundeux)
  • 2011: A Tribute to Japanese Combat Radio Play (unundeux)

EPs

  • 2003: Finished People (Bastardized Recordings)
  • 2009: Luxury Destruction - Fifty-four short poems set to music (unundeux)

Split life

  • 2005: Japanese Combat Radio Play / Das Krill (split EP with Das Krill, Silentstagnation Records)
  • 2006: Marriage for hate / divorce for fun (split with Poostew, Silentstagnation Records)
  • 2007: Slimewave Series Volume 4 (Split with Bathtub Shitter , Relapse Records )
  • 2008: Japanese Combat Radio Play / Are You God? (Split with Are You God ?, Baskat Recordings)
  • 2009: Eisenvater / Japanese combat radio plays (split with Eisenvater , Power it up )
  • 2009: Les Vingt Secondes De Sodome (7 "split with White Eyes, Bastardized Recordings)
  • 2010: Japanese combat radio plays / Killer (Split EP with Killer, Beau Travail)

Live albums

  • 2009: Live in Trier (Ecocentric Records)

Music DVDs

  • 2008: Japanese Fighting Feature Films (Bastardized Recordings)
  • 2011: Farewell concert (unundeux)

Web links

Commons : Japanese Combat Radio Play  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Band History - Japanese Combat Radio Play . metal-observer.com, online October 2004; accessed on November 18, 2011.
  2. ↑ Zombie: Japanese Combat Radio Play - Interview With Christof . metalglory.de, accessed on November 18, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b c Lennart Riepenhusen: Interview with Christof Kather from Japanese combat radio plays . metalnews.de, accessed on November 18, 2011.
  4. ^ Stephan Voigtländer: Japanese combat radio plays - pictures eat electricity . powermetal.de ; Retrieved November 18, 2011.
  5. ↑ Japanese combat radio plays dissolve . metal-hammer.de; accessed on February 17, 2016.
  6. ↑ Lord Obirah: A Tribute To Japanese Combat Radio Play: the 160-minute homage is coming . heavyhardes.de; Retrieved November 18, 2011.
  7. ↑ mik.brandenburg.de
  8. ↑ facebook.com
  9. ↑ Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People: Announcement No. 4/2013 on carrier media harmful to young people of March 19, 2013