Pacifiction Records

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CDs, DVDs & Vinyl Records

From J-punk and Garage to Psychobilly, Taiwan Post Rock to Asian Twee, Australian Mod, Korean Oi!, Hoklo Hip Hop, Indie Punk and Experimental Electronica, PACIFICTION RECORDS offers Asian music fans and indie audiophiles a growing number of CDs and other media from Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Australia, The US and beyond!

Online Distribution

PACIFICTION RECORDS works with numerous indie labels in cities as far reaching as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Seoul, Taipei and Taichung as well as many unsigned artists to make a variety of merchandise available to you online and by mail order. We are also always looking for indie stores and record shops interested in carrying our items in your neighborhood.

Booking and Tour Support

In order to give more exposure to relatively unknown bands and musicians, PACIFICTION RECORDS often helps book shows and festivals, promotes live events and makes arrangements with press and radio. We have organized NY tours for Tokyo bands FLIGHT OF IDEA, FALSIES ON HEAT, THE HARPY's, and also arranged for HEAD PHONES PRESIDENT to play the FORMOZ FESTIVAL in Taiwan and the PACIFIC MEDIA EXPO in L.A.

ON THE PLAYER!

Enjoy these spooky garage, punk, surf & psychobilly HALLOWEEN leftovers!! MUAHAHahahaha!

UPDATES!

The MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol. 4, will feature the no-wave, poetry rock and experimental garage of FLIGHT OF IDEA and ROCKET JACK VADERS! Also enjoy the new wave, post-punk, no-wave, and danceteria sounds of DJ LAKESHORE DRIVING (Gaijin from TTHE SLANTS) and DJ WAYNE MANOR! Come out and join us 4-hour party people!

Check out the greatest 7" split of the century... featuring THEEE BAT from Japan and ATOMIC SUPLEX from the UK! Four trashcan-banging garage punk doozers on full moon yellow vinyl!

KOREAN PUNK!

Straight to SKUNK HELL, boy! Here's the Korean punk scene! Check out new CDs and a DVD from the label that made Seoul mosh!

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JAPANESE STUFF!

GOLDEN play edgy post-punk with a mandolin-driven country style approaching gothic Americana which calls to mind artists like NICK CAVE and GALLON DRUNK.

We've added some new CDs and 45s from the Garage/Powerpop label TARGET EARTH including melodic country/folky rock band BEAT CARAVAN and a blistering live CD of the legendary TEENGENERATE!!

We also now have a wierd n wild comp featuring some of the craziest Japanese garage, jett RnR & punk bands around including ED WOODS, THE SPUNKS, ROCKET JACK VADERS, BLUE III, PEELANDER-Z and tons more!

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Big beat stomp and fuzzed out guitars Back from the Grave! With bands like ED WOODS, THE GO-DEVILS, BAIT ONES and THEE 50's HIGH TEENS!

J-Punks not Dead! Check out the best of the new gen of Japanese punk featuring bands like the drunk duo CRISPY NUTS, monster rock n' roll band THE VICKERS and '77 punks DOING LIFE!

Lot's of used CDs by major artists with genres ranging from Jrock to Jpop, punk and ska! Cheaper than Amazon and absolutely NO bootlegs!

TAIWANESE STUFF!

For some new Taiwan punk CDs, please visit the page below. Pacifiction Records now co-operates with the new youth punk label ZMN Records which has recently released several pop punk EPs by SEMI-CON, DUCT TAPE and STAY GOLD. We also got one of Taiwan's favorite taike punk bands the wild CHILDREN SUCKER as well as the Japanese/Taiwanese psychobilly, rockabilly and surf combo FULLHOUSE. Several expat punk outfits such as CONSIDER THE MEEK and THE DEPORTED make appearances on a split CD and anti-materialist SELLING US EVERYTHING brave the saccharine Asian pop culture with their new full length album Product Jingles. And it's all coming off a tiny pirate island in the Pacific!

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for TAIWAN PUNK!

Pacifiction Records also carries many of the experimental, instrumental and shoegazer post-rock CDs found on Taiwan. Check the link below for great bands like NIPPLES, 8MM SKY, SELF KILL, ORANGEGRASS, SUGAR PLUM FERRY and APHASIA!

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for TAIWAN POST-ROCK!

Taiwan has recently become well-known for its Indie Pop scene full of young female musicians making simple and sincere melodies. For your listening pleasure, BRACES, DOLLY'S PILLBOX, RADIO BEAR, BAD DAUGHTER and NYLAS are available on Pacifiction Records.

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for INDIE POP CDs from Taiwan!

MISCELLANEOUS STUFF!

Check out these VARIOUS ARTIST from Taiwan that feature Taiwanese and other Asian indie bands side by side. White Wabbit Record's Lobo series as well as Silent Agreement's Grass Fest comp are valuable collections for those into the pan-Asian indie scene.

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for VARIOUS ARTIST CDs from Asia!

Featured Video:

THEEE BAT - Live at House of Mystery

Member Since:

October 23, 2006

Members:

These bands are now available from Pacifiction Records! Check them out on the Pacifiction website. You can order using a major credit card securely and safely via PayPal! Just click the "Add to Cart" button!

Or email me at order(at)pacifictionrecords.com if you would like to order by mail with a check or money order!

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Influences:

ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL INFLUENCES:

Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era compiled by Jac Holzman and Lenny Kaye

Nuggets, Vol. 2: Original Artyfacts From the British Empire & Beyond compiled by Rhino Records

The Anthology of American Folk Music edited by Harry Smith (www.harrysmitharchives.com)

Alan Lomax (www.culturalequity.org)

John Peel (www.bbc.co.uk)

From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World by Clinton Heylin

ARTICLES OF INTEREST:

AMCHAM: Travel and Leisure: Notes From Taipei's Underground

CHINA DAILY: Hearing the music

THE FAR EAST AUDIO REVIEW: Taiwan Chronicle 4: Coffee with Wan-ting Huang

PETITE MORT: Musica Formosa: Taiwan Indies

RICECOOKER: UPDATED: Andy Deported: Taiwan Punk 2006

TAIWAN JOURNAL: Waking Up The Neighbors

MUSIC, ART & CULTURE SITES:

www.brokeinkorea.com

www.catfoodmoney.org

www.childismine.com

www.commeleschinois.ca

http://croquiscrisis.wordpress.com

www.fareastaudio.com

www.thehvscene.com

www.indizoo.com

www.islandofsound.org

www.jpopexpress.com

www.jrawk.com

www.jrockeventsusa.com

http://jrockrae.wordpress.com

www.jrockrevolution.com

www.karaterice.com

Korean Punk & Hardcore (Myspace)

www.live-house-movie.com

www.themodernist.com

www.passoutrecordshop.com

www.petitemort.org

www.radicalrecords.com

www.therealtaiwan.com

www.ricecooker.kerbau.com

www.rockofjapan.com

www.shuggashuggashug.com

www.singalongtogether.com

www.taintedworld.net

www.tokyogigguide.com

www.tokyonorecords.com

www.yellowbuzz.org

RADIO STATIONS, RADIO SHOWS, INTERNET RADIO & PODCASTS:

www.wfmu.org

www.dragonradio.hk

www.genjirock.com

NIKKEI SINDEX

www.radionowhere.org

Shibuya-FM: Everybody Knows?

THE ZERO HOUR

MUSIC FESTIVALS & EXPOS:

www.formoz.com (Taiwan)

www.grassfest.net (Taiwan)

www.hohaiyan.com (Taiwan)

www.pacificmediaexpo.com (LA)

Passport 2 Taiwan (NYC)

Rebel Night Weekender (NYC)

www.springscream.com (Taiwan)

Sounds Like:

experimental indie punk world rhythms girl bands guitars drums laptops loops shouts rhymes anything you can imagine and some things you can't.

Record Label:

Swamp Fiction