遂にリリース!!2026年最重要出版物!!多くの説明は不要、過去にArt into Lifeレーベルからも音源を出版している英アンタイ・ミュージックの最高峰The New Blockaders。本書は1982年の1st [Changez Les Blockeurs]から、当店も配給を行なった2025年末の最新作[Antibox]まで、TNBの活動の全貌を描いた全416ページに及ぶ最強ブック。著者はコイル、ニルヴァーナ、ソニック・ユース、スワンズに関する画期的な著作で知られるNick Soulsbyで、徹底的な調査に基づき全10万語、450点以上及ぶイラストと共に書き上げた豪華内容。更にTNBリチャードによる、氏お気に入りのTNBコラボレーション楽曲を収録した2枚組CD、そして現存するすべてのTNBライブ映像(1982年の[アンチ・フィルム]や、NAGのライブ映像を含む)を収めたDVDも付属。
[Collaberrations CD1:] I: The New Blockaders with Organum – “Wrack” (Part I) – 3:03 II: The New Blockaders with Coil and Vortex Campaign – “The Melancholy Mad Tenant” (Part I) – 14:45 III: The New Blockaders with Ferial Confine – “The Final Recordings” (Part I) – 17:04 IV: The New Blockaders with Nobu Yamada – “Prickle/Crevice” – 15:52 V: The New Blockaders with The Haters and Vomir – “Nichts Fur Niemand” – 19:26 Runtime = 70:22
[Collaberrations CD2:] I: The New Blockaders with Blue Sabbath Black Cheer and Irr. App. (Ext.) – “Fecundum Excidium” (Edit) – 17:20 II: The New Blockaders with Raymond Dijkstra – “Kunst In Gebreke” (Part II – Edit) – 16:00 III: The New Blockaders with Incapacitants – “Blockading Of Incapacitants” (Edit) – 17:03 IV: The New Blockaders with Das Synthetische Mischgewebe – “Morceau De Cire” (Edit) – 17:08 V: The New Blockaders with Anomali and Merzbow – “Kali-Yuga Karma” – 4:57 Runtime = 73:48
[The New Blockaders DVD:]
Anti-Film (1982) Morden Tower, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (June 1983) – Audio Only Hinoeuma Soundclash – Red Rose, London (2003) Filmed By Julian Ronnefeldt NK, Berlin (2012) Filmed By Stahlmusik Never Say When Festival – The Dome, London (2012) Filmed By Jeroen Frencken Schimpfluch Carnival – The Arnolfini, Bristol (2012) Filmed By Moju Tower Transmissions Festival – Club Puschkin, Dresden (2014) Filmed By Thorium Heavy Industries The Soundroom, Gateshead – The Old Police House, Gateshead – The Snuff Trap, Blyth (2016) Filmed By Paul Coates Cafe OTO, London (2017) Filmed By Baby R.L. With Post-Production By Kenny Johansson Sonic City Festival – Depart, Kortrijk (2017) Filmed By Jens Branck The Auxiliary, Middlesborough (2023) Filmed By David Howcroft Summer Scum Festival – TV Eye, New York (2024) Filmed By Katy Mongeau & Tyrone B Nihilist Assault Group: No Fun Festival – The Hook, New York (2005) Filmed By Evan Leed Nihilist Assault Group: The Grosvenor, London (2009) Filmed By Stuart Nippard & Mari King With Post-Production By Kevin Trundle.
The book presents the story of The New Blockaders’ work from the groundbreaking 1982 LP Changez Les Blockeurs to their most recent Antibox. Forensically detailed and beautifully written by Nick Soulsby, this represents his latest infatuation after groundbreaking books on Coil, Lydia Lunch, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Swans and Centre Iberico.
Limited to 400 copies, this beautiful volume is 416 pages, with full-colour printing throughout, on 130gsm art silk paper, board cover 350gsm silk board, featuring original photos of many of the incredible releases by TNB. Limited to 400 copies.
VIVA NEGATIVA! The New Blockaders — The Noise of Art and Nothing is the most extensive consideration ever given to the evolution of noise music. The most comprehensive evaluation of any artist operating in the modern-day realm of experimental, avant-garde, industrial, power electronics and noise. A compelling tale of raw individuality, determination and endurance with no regard for financial reward or popularity. This is art. This is noise. This is the sight, sound and story of a powerful NOTHING.
A recording made in a garden shed in a small rural village north of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (in the far north of England) now stands as the recognised catalyst for the entire global phenomenon of noise music. You would be hard-pressed to name any noise artist who hasn’t, directly or indirectly, been influenced by the work of The New Blockaders or by their debut LP, Changez Les Blockeurs.
In this sweeping narrative, Nick Soulsby lays out the five decade-long journey of TNB and their vast influence over the development of noise which has seen them eulogised by key figures throughout the worldwide network of noisicians in Japan, America, Europe and beyond.
Across Viva Negativa!’s 400+ pages and 450+ illustrations, the case is made for TNB as the first idiomatic noise artists, unique minds who progressed beyond the use of noise as an assault on music, to the creation of a rich, complex language of subtlety, shade, and pure feral power.
Accompanying the book, the two-CD compilation Collaberrations features a fearsome selection of TNB’s collaborative works spanning 1982-2026 with artists including Coil, Organum, Ferial Confine, Anomali, Vortex Campaign, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Raymond Dijkstra, Vomir, The Haters, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, irr. app. (ext.), Merzbow, Incapacitants, and Nobuo Yamada. There is also a DVD component comprehensively documenting live footage from every TNB performance for which film or video exists, including an unseen anti-film from 1982, and two performances by TNB’s shadowy extreme alter-ego Nihilist Assault Group.
Richard and Philip Rupenus’ refused any kind of public profile to the extent that fan theories and guesswork in the 1980s solidified into a belief common among many of the world’s best noise artists that the two brothers are not, in fact, real people; that the masks worn on stage and in photos conceal any number of other culprits who have moonlighted as TNB over the years. Few artists in music have retained such mystique and mystery while continuing to issue such an expansive sprawl of new work which extends to this present day.
With forewords by Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), and Masami Akita (Merzbow) marking TNB’s transcendent level of respect and appreciation, Viva Negativa! traces their origins in the post-punk DIY cassette underground; their forging of connections to key artists in the nascent industrial and power electronics scenes — including Whitehouse, Coil, and Ramleh; the way in which their slim catalogue was beloved by Japan’s extreme music underground — including artists like Merzbow, Incapacitants, and Hijokaidan; then their resurrection in the golden age of noise in the 90s and early 2000s which saw them acquire well-deserved status as the founding fathers of the entire edifice of noise music.
Perhaps the world’s most uncompromising experimental group, TNB’s ethos of rejection, their blockade, their eternal NO exploded the self-seriousness of bourgeois art, music and culture. Using little more than a pile of scrap metal, barely functioning equipment, machine guts, broken gadgetry and coruscating feedback they blew a hole right through music into sound worlds beyond. This is the story of five decades of untrammelled, boundless creativity and the most important DIY outsider (anti-)art sonic terrorists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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