After Hanatarash ended, Yamataka Eye turned his attention to his new project, The Boredoms. They’ve come to seem somehow emblematic of Japanese experimental music: their mutation into heavy-lidded psychedelic Kraut-jam freaks helped, no doubt, as did their 77-drum epic performances from across the past decade. It’s all fantastic stuff, but the brutish jump-cuts of early Boredoms also has its own charm – after all, this was the material that brought them to the attention of figures like Sonic Youth, whose Thurston Moore was already a rabid collector of Japanese noise – and his label, Ecstatic Peace!, eventually released a trio of excellent 7” singles from Boredoms drummer/vocalist, Yoshimi. (She would also join Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon in Free Kitten; there’s also a great Sonic Youth/Yamatanka Eye EP, TV Shit.) But this disorienting edit of footage from the 1993 US tour proves The Boredoms’ true soul brothers and sisters in the USA were the heaving psychedelic mess of The Butthole Surfers: the performances twist from the ridiculous to the sublime to the inexplicable in a matter of seconds; sometimes, it just takes one splatter-scene of guitar feedback, vocal squeal, or knotty electronics to push the whole thing into overdrive.