Perfect Mother ‎– Youll No So Wit [7''] (1980, Vanity Records)

Perfect Mother is a Minimal Wave band from Japan formed by members Atsko (vocals), Fumihiro Nonomura (tape, effects, and also member of Taco, formed at the beginning of the 80s as a loose group/collective of varying members that belongs to the post-punk alternative music movement), Gacan (guitar, bass, percussion, vocals), and Summition (vocals, percussion). They released two cassetes, 'Memento' and 'Obsessional OPP', both in 1980 in the YLEM label, and a 7'', 'Youll No So Wit', in Vanity Records. 

YLEM were a Japanese art collective and label named after the primordial material of the universe as named by George Gamow in the 1940's. Lead by Ueda, the members worked in design, pictures, poetry, music, tapes, photos, video, movies and dance. Other members included Ohmori, Konishi, Nonomura, Ohyama, Fukushima, Kato, Shiraishi, Hara, Aoki, Hagiwara, and Kataoka. The artists coming from the YLEM collective were Airyfarm, Summition, Bushman-19, Perfect Mother, Mad Tea Party and A.N. They also collaborated with Junko Tange (Tolerance), Yoshifumi Niinuma (Sympathy Nervous), Ohtomo (Marionette Karma), and Takahashi Oda (Ka Chi Fu Sui). YLEM released 12 cassettes, several Ep´s and one amazing Compilation LP. They also did concerts and at one point simply disappeared from the musical radar. The music by unkown mystery bands and artist tended to be electronic, minimalist, melodic, technoid, ambient and incredibly adventurous. Each release comes with a hand typed insert listing artist and track titles is among the best from that era and any country. 

Vanity Records in Osaka was one of the unforgettable hallmarks of the early Japanese underground music scene of the late-70's. This label was founded by Yuzuru Agi, the music critic/editor of Rock Magazine. Agi was a sort of alternative visionary with a superb talent to assess new musical modes at a time when blues and West Coast-style rock still dominated the local music scene. He was also responsible for coining the Japlish term "techno-pop" -which he used to describe Eno-produced bands like Talking Heads and Devo- that later became internationally known via Yellow Magic Orchestra. Inspired by punk and the flood of indie labels that swept New York and London, Agi started Vanity Records in 1978, releasing 11 LPs, 3 singles, 12 flexis, and 6 cassettes between '78 and '82 (each release limited to 300-500 copies).  [SOURCE: DISCOGS]

 

Label: Vanity Records ‎– VA-S3 

Format: Vinyl, 7" 

Country: Japan 

Released: 1980 

Style: New Wave, Industrial, Synth-pop, Minimal, Minimal Wave, Post-Punk

 

Tracklist:

A Dark Disco - Da. Da. Da. Da. Da. Run 

B1 You'll No So Witt 

Ephemeral Pieces 

B2.1 Water 

B2.2 Muzzy 

B2.3 O - F 

B2.4 Echo-end 

B2.5 Fan 

 

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