Japanoise

Infobox Music genre
name = Japanoise
bgcolor = silver
color = black
stylistic_origins = Noise music
Avant-garde jazz
Free improvisation
Psychedelic rock
Industrial music
Surrealist music
cultural_origins = Late 1970s Japan
instruments = Varies
popularity = Underground; height of popularity in late '80s and '90s
derivatives = Harsh noise
subgenrelist =
subgenres =
fusiongenres = Power noise — Onkyokei
regional_scenes =
local_scenes = Osaka
Tokyo
other_topics = Post-industrial

Japanoise, or ジャパノイズ, is a portmanteau of the words "Japanese" and "noise": a term applied to the diverse, prolific, and influential noise music scene of Japan. Primarily popular and active in the 1980s and 1990s but still alive today, the Japanoise scene is defined by a remarkable sense of musical freedom. Some of the most popular groups range from the high-energy free improv stylings of Hijokaidan, the punk demolition of Hanatarash and its subsequent psychedelic Boredoms evolutions, to the tabletop electronics of Incapacitants and Merzbow. Aside from artists often releasing tapes and records in extremely limited quantities, countless side-projects, and collaborations exist within and outside the scene, making the pursuit of Japanoise media an intimidating quest for collectors.

Japanoise, as opposed to some other post-industrial related styles, is often much less aggressively "serious" image-based, being focused more on the sole act of "jamming" as hard, loud or ridiculously as possible.

The United States's so-called "harsh noise" was spawned by certain Japanoise styles.

ee also

* Noise music
* Noise rock
* List of Japanoise artists

External links

* [http://www.japanoise.net Japanoise.net]