Cargo Records

Super Roots

Boredoms' Super Roots recordings were released sporadically in Japan and various other world locales between the years 1993 and 1999.

At the time, the group was championed by Sonic Youth and Nirvana, and signed to a multi-album deal stateside with Reprise, culminating in the release of their groundbreaking album Pop Tatari and a slot on the 1994 Lollapalooza tour.

Super Roots, in a way, chronicles the dissolution of that arrangement as the group matured musically. Wildly divergent and endlessly challenging, the series of transitional albums, EPs, and remixes presented ideas that remain consistent in vision and approach throughout each release, but which did not fit within the major works released by the group in this period (1994's Chocolate Synthesizer and 1998's Super æ), and helped to usher in the multi-drummer electro-trance onslaught of the Boredoms as they exist today. Surely these are among the most bizarre recordings ever issued by a major record label in the history of popular music. There's no effective way to prepare yourself for this series, save just diving in at the start and eating your way through. But get about halfway through, and you'll find the group tempering their wild early years into something that wrestles its demons down, then force-feeds them happy pills and takes them to a rave. When's the last time you were able to make that claim?

Track Listing

01 POP KISS
02 Budôkan Tape Try (500 tapes high)
03 Finger Action no'5
04 CHOCOLATE _UT
05 Pitch At Bunch On Itch
06 Machine 3
07 Monster Rex & S_und'A'R_undus
08 NUTS ROOM
09 EAR_WIG_WEB_
10 96 Teenage Bondage
11 (untitled)
12 Super Frake 009
13 (untitled)
14 USED CD