SHOW KAI #1 1991 (cover)
Show Kai was affiliated with the PUBLIC BATH label and Show Kai #1 included two cassettes of prime blurt, featuring Omoide Hatoba, Folk Tales, Daihakase, Dub Squad, Soap-Jo Henshi and The Goonzees.
Subterranean Mail Order has some info on these artists, but their site hasn’t been updated since June 2002.
Browbeat #1 reviewed Show Kai #1 in 1993.
Public Bath was founded by David Hopkins. It seems to have ceased operations in 1996. Here’s a neat, if brief, December 2012 post from Friendsound about PB and their three essential (at the time) Japan Bashing 7” comps. As Friendsound writes, “Nobody knows if it really happened.”
Although he posts infrequently, Mason Jones shares some relevant data about yesteryear’s Kansai underground and related carbonics at ongakublog.
