Japanische Kampfhörspiele

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Name = Japanische Kampfhörspiele


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Origin = Krefeld
Genre = Grindcore
Years_active = 1998 — Present
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Japanische Kampfhörspiele, formed in 1998, is a grindcore band from Krefeld, Germany. On later releases, they incorporated some death metal influences, but the band refers to their current sound as "grindpunk"."

History

Japanische Kampfhörspiele (JaKa) is a German grindcore band with six members. The band was founded in 1998.

Klaus Nicodem when he moved to Krefeld in 1998 to study towards the serious side of life. In his student hostel’s kitchen he met Christof Kather and both started by celebrating some self-sufficient sort of war-coverage on Christof’s whacked 8-track recorder. This started the madness.

They cobble together something one might call metal, but the results sound as distraught as independent due to the fact that Christof only consumed jazz, easy listening. Ilse Werner, in the past ten years, Klaus did not listen to anything else besides one Ratos de Porao record.

The vocals are grunted and screamed (in German) on rancid sounding audio cassettes that were recorded onto 1000 times before. In the following years design-students published their student-hostel grind on several records, most of them DIY (do it yourself) and given away to friends. While bands and industry bother about growing net-piracy and declining sales numbers, JaKa use the virtues of the internet and offer all their songs including artwork for free download. Christof, once said about this, “We’re not creating music for money, but against it.”

After their official Debut-CD on Blutwurscht Productions (Switzerland) in 2001, Christof adds Daniel, Marco and Daniel’s brother Simon to the line-up to be able to play live performances. In 2002 Japanische Kampfhörspiele publish ”Die Großstadt stinkt, ist laut und septisch”. However, Simon left again due to lack of time. The dreams of playing live were put to an end and this directly resulted in the process of writing even more new material and caught the attention of Bastardized Recordings.

Bastardized Recordings released the EP ”Fertigmensch”. After, Paul offered assistance with his deep-growls, the full band is played its first livepremier in october 2003.

In spring 2004 the band went into the studio again to record the next album "Hardcore aus der ersten Welt" with crushing guitars, nasty screaming, lowest barking and blast beats on a little higher level than in earlier years.

Japanische Kampfhörspiele continue to record and release their music through various labels, the latest being "Rauchen und Yoga" under the label Bastardized Recordings.

Discography

* 1998 - "Sektion Jaka"
* 1999 - "Le Menu de L'Autopsie des Gagnants du Grind Prix"
* 1999 - "Gott ist Satt" ("God is satiated")
* 2000 - "Oslo"
* 2000 - "Transportbox für Menschen" ("Transport box for humans")
* 2001 - "Nostradamus in Echtzeit" ("Nostradamus in real-time")
* 2001 - "Brandsatzliebe" ("Love for incendiaries")
* 2001 - "Japanische Kampfhörspiele" compilation album (Blutwurscht Produktion)
* 2002 - "Die Großstadt stinkt, ist laut und septisch" ("The city smells, is noisy and septic"; Blutwurscht Produktion)
* 2003 - "Fertigmensch" ("Complete human", lit. "Ready human", Bastardized Recordings)
* 2004 - "Hardcore aus der Ersten Welt" ("Hardcore from the First World", Bastardized Recordings)
* 2005 - Split with dasKRILL (Silentstagnation Records)
* 2005 - "Deutschland von Vorne" ("Germany from the front", cover album, Bastardized Recordings)
* 2006 - Split with Poostew (Silentstagnation Records)
* 2006 - Split with Bathtub Shitter (Relapse Records)
* 2006 - "Früher war auch nicht alles gut" ("Earlier also not everything was good", compilation of early works)
* 2007 - "Rauchen und Yoga" ("Smoking and Yoga", Bastardized Recordings)
* 2008 - Split with Are You God? (Baskat recordings)

Trivia

The band's name translates to Japanese Combat Radio Plays.

External links

* [http://www.japanischekampfhoerspiele.de Official band site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/jaka Japanische Kampfhörspiele on MySpace]