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“...Despite the nearly psychedelic Xpressway-sounding dense guitar pop at the onset, the record eventually descends through homemade banging & clanging and enough tweeter-shredding noise to please the Merzbow fans of this planet.”

LUXURIOUS BAGS review by SUPERDOPE contributor DOUG PEARSON

SUPERDOPE #5 no page # 1992 JAY HINMAN, Editor

LUXURIOUS BAGS Quarantine Heaven at Forced Exposure in stock today (9/10/18) for $12.50: “Luxurious Bags is a one man basement project with St. Johnny & Vermonster connections. This CD stacks his two previous limited LPs from the past coupla years (From Heaven To My Head + Voluntary Lifelong Quarantine) one after the other. Churning guitar-noise density and indie splatter consciousness.” 

Jay publishes in the 21st century in/at Dynamite Hemorrhage, formerly @dynamitehemorrhage, now https://dynamitehemorrhage.com/ on the word-press

The word on the street about Doug Pearson? It’s possible he’s the very same Doug Pearson who played keyz in MONOSHOCK and served up narco waves with NOTHING PEOPLE. It is possible.

XPressway? We got that.

Merzbow 

“...these CDs...unquestionably belong in the record collection of anybody with the most remote interest in psychedelic and/or experimental music.” - Doug Pearson

BLACKJACK RECORDS CATALOG page 36 Winter 1997 SCOTT DERR, Cruise Director

For those of you living under a rock, The Black Editions reissued Tokyo Flashback, Volume 1  in 2017, with more to come! 

From The Black Editions site: “Tokyo Flashback is a defining statement of late 20th Century Japanese psychedelic music and an essential primer to the world of P.S.F. All tracks are exclusive, this edition features the first time translation of the original liner notes. Black Editions’ deluxe edition is entirely re-mastered and marks the first release of Tokyo Flashback outside of Japan and it’s first ever vinyl issue.– Remastered at Infrasonic Sound and pressed to high quality vinyl at RTI. Newly created artwork and design expanding on the original by SEEN Studio.– Housed in custom printed deluxe Stoughton gatefold jacket and slipcase, including full color printed inner sleeves and inserts with soft touch and spot UV gloss finishes.”

“This band achieves a murky otherworldliness unmatched by any other on the planet...Mere words can’t describe the intensity of a album so good it literally floored my friend the first time he heard it...”  

FUSHITSUSHA review by SUPERDOPE contributor DOUG PEARSON

SUPERDOPE #5 1992 (no page #) JAY HINMAN, Editor

The PSF catalog is being reissued on vinyl in 2017 as The Black Editions! 

What did Jay Hinman said about Superdope #5 since he published Superdope #5 in 1992? This is what he wrote on 2/24/11: “Finally, I find way more to cringe about in this issue than even in the earlier ones. I was getting cocky, with a fanzine that (a few dozen) people actually liked, and started writing a little over my head. I was just 25 years old, but should have known far better than to start cracking so many BANANAFISH-like dumbass in-jokes that I don’t even understand to this day. My credo at the time appeared to be, “If this line will make my friend Brett (or Doug, or Steve, or Grady, or Mitch, or whomever) laugh, then I’ll put it in there”. Other fanzines seemed to employ this trick, and perhaps at the time I thought it helped cultivate an air of mystery – like something I might want to get in on – but there are things in this one that would have made me just put the thing down and call the editor an insufferable bore. But it was a blast at the time, and perhaps you’ll like it better than I do.”

Jamaica

Roscoff, Finistere, Francia Bretagne   -   Doug Pearson

SUPERDOPE #5 1993 (no page #)

AGUATURBIA review by JAY HINMAN, Editor

There was this point in 1992 where the incipient Forced Exposure catalogue tilted toward gonzo psych obscurities, about four years before the website and prior to Jimmy’s conversion to outré 808 digitalis. Jay references this early turn in the header above. 

Aguaturbia  were easily one of the more exciting early rediscoveries of the era for former B.A.L.L. fans. As we all know, the late 6Ts/early 7Ts period has been mined quite extensively during the past twenty years, and much has been offered up in exhaustive legit reissue digit/vinyl formats. Our 1992 heads would swoon. 

Interested in the complete remastered works of Aguaturbia? Try Record Runner, South America's finest exporter of vintage hard rock and symphonic prog. 

Alternately, you should consider...Forced Exposure!

What has Jay Hinman said about Superdope #5 since he published Superdope #5? From 2/24/11: "Finally, I find way more to cringe about in this issue than even in the earlier ones. I was getting cocky, with a fanzine that (a few dozen) people actually liked, and started writing a little over my head. I was just 25 years old, but should have known far better than to start cracking so many BANANAFISH-like dumbass in-jokes that I don’t even understand to this day. My credo at the time appeared to be, “If this line will make my friend Brett (or Doug, or Steve, or Grady, or Mitch, or whomever) laugh, then I’ll put it in there”. Other fanzines seemed to employ this trick, and perhaps at the time I thought it helped cultivate an air of mystery – like something I might want to get in on – but there are things in this one that would have made me just put the thing down and call the editor an insufferable bore. But it was a blast at the time, and perhaps you’ll like it better than I do."

We L-U-V it!