Die Öwan – "Öwanism" (XA Record – XA-2007) 1981

 

Firstly,I have no idea what the Tracklisting is,but the pix and info here are the best I can be bothered to put forward. Its largely irrelevant anyway.Just see it as 4 long tracks that merge together to become something Avant Garde filtered through the dirty underpants of the collective teenage mind......which this stuff is ,if accidentally ,which always beats the deliberate nonsense that the intellectual elite like us to see as something unattainable.But...There are two types of unattainable; the genuinely unattainable or the pretentious shite that no-one wants to 'attain' anyway. The coming age of Artificial Stupidity is upon us,so the unlearning process that we hear mentioned so often is on its way like a cavalry of good taste coming to kill their women and children in the name of Art. Machines will free us from slavery very soon,and we can live the Nietzchean utopia of the creative ubermensch .

This particular example of Nietzchean Ubermenschen called Die Owan from former the former Axis Hinterland of Japan, involves the DIY lo-fi Punk of a couple of Teenage sons of Nippon banging out endless numbers of short barks and enregistering them within the noble medium of Audio Cassette,back in the daze.

Are these Prats the Japanese Prats, or West Germany's own bunch of Prat-a-like Punk Kinder Die 2.Liga? 

Who knows? Who cares? Either way, its great simple Japanese bedroom thrash,by those who had obviously heard Wire's 'Punk Flag' a few years after it's release.In fact somewhere within the rumpus there pops up a Wire cover,and even "Bored Teenagers" by The Adverts makes an unexpected,but welcome appearance. Dee Dee Ramone countin's and a frantic TR 606 drum machine, makes this an exhausting experience,so when you've had enough,just click the stop button and sit in a darkened room for half-an hour,then hopefully you may forget....until the next time....then you're back in the room

Tracklist: 

1		Anti Children = アンチチルドレン	1:17
2		Where Is Your Love? = ホエア・イズ・ユア・ラブ？	1:19
3		Keihan Ondo = 京阪音頭	1:17
4		No Love = ノウ・ラブ	1:16
5		Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha = ハ・ハ・ハ・ハ・ハ	1:01
6		Hirakata = 枚方	0:28
7		Loadstar = ロードスター	1:03
8		Red Hirakata = レッド枚方	1:39
9		Sadness Song = 悲しみの歌	0:28
10		Kue Song +4 = クエの歌	1:16
11		Gary Koketa = ゲイリー こけた	1:55
12		V's Song +12 = Vの歌 +	1:20
13		Kechi Theme = ケチのテーマ	0:49
14		Cholge Man Theme = チョルゲマン	0:08
15		Bald Eno = ボールド・イーノ	1:19
16		Floor No Kuchi +11 = フロアの口	1:42
17		Sakura = 桜	2:00
18		Lost My Head = ロストマイヘッド	5:12
19		Cholge Man Theme/ Bald Eno (live) = チョルゲマンのテーマ/ボールドイーノ	1:49
20		Ex. Buzzco Timer (live) = Exバズコタイマー	1:54
21		Floor No Kuchi +2 (live) = フロアの口	0:49
22		Harimoto Jin (live) = 張本人	0:16
23		Crying My Hage +11 = 俺のハゲは泣いている	2:42
24		Sabita Hage +12 = さびたハゲ	5:31
25		Hage No Chan Chaka Chan +11 = ハゲのチャンチャカチャン	0:30
26		Suterare Hage + 11 = すてられハゲ	1:53
27		Ikuzo Wa Rasta +12 = イクゾはラスタ	1:52
28		Keihan Dub = 京阪ダブ	2:02
29		Time Shock = タイム・ショック	1:23
30		Chotto Dekakeruwa  = ちょっと出かけるわ	2:18
31		Dareka Haitteruyaro Detekoi  = だれか入ってるやろ、出てこい	1:57
32		Rasta Theme = ラスタ・テーマ	0:44
33		Here Rasta Comes Now = ヒアラスタカムズナウ	3:43
34		Arigataya Song = ありがたやのうた	1:58
35		Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha (demo) = ハハハハハ	1:03
36		Anti Children (demo) = アンチチルドレン	1:25
37		Loadstar (demo) = ロードスター	1:09
38		GHC  (live)	7:53
39		Dareka Haitteruyaro Detekoi  (live) = だれか入ってるやろ出てこい	1:16
40		No Love (1979 version) = ノウラブ DOWNLOAD to achieve  OWANism like a spunking jap-eye HERE!	1:33