Z - Violence Action (1988)

Z - Violence Action (1988)

Hey, wanna hear something that sounds like turd?
Violence Action is one of the two records by these mysterious marauders of music. Put out in 1988, Violence Action has become somewhat of a sought-after collectible. When compared to the other original Jap noisecore records, such as Damaging Noise, Nuclear Addicts, Zanin Seiji, etc, this is probably the least impressive. While the aforementioned records are powerful in their noisy extremity, Violence Action doesn't pack quite the same punch. But don't get me wrong. It's not horrible...well, it is really. But for noisy shit music, it's not THAT bad.

As you can see, the artwork is pretty...unique. A very crudely drawn (as if i could do better!) punk with a ridiculously large mohawk and pointy nose, walking past a broken brick wall which exposes, what seems to look like, a graveyard. And on the brick wall is an even cruder drawing of Mr. Punk (Who goes by the name Z Boy, apparently). Whats interesting is that in the right hand corner it says Z RECORD-002, which begs the question, what is Z RECORD-001?

Over at Shit-Fi, a guy called Zach Howard left this message:
The text to the left of Shingi on the line up photo says "Z Wa Urusai" or in English; "Z is noisy". To his right it says "Kane Ga Nai," which means something like "No money" ("Kane" means money, "Ga" is a particle and "Nai" is indicating the negative form).

The text on the back side of the sleeve is, I think, an ad for their 1st tape (I've put the literal Katakana pronunciation in brackets). It says something about 1st [Te-Pu] (tape in English) and sending 600 yen to an address. The Katakana in the last line says [Hebi Meta] Fuckoff,or when spelled in English; "Heavy Metal Fuckoff". Finally, it looks like the tape has 26 songs.

As for the band members themselves, they certainly look the part...sort of. I don't know what the spikey mouth covers are though!

This is some pretty neat raw-punk. Not essential when compared to the likes of Gai, Confuse, and Gudon, but neat nonetheless.

Linky, Link:
https://mega.co.nz/#!0RglzTJC!9LrcKYOZUI9sCUJ5MsVPr_OZwoQaIxg6mNnPFUygGhs