P.S.F. Records is a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 specialising in underground psychedelic

Psychedelic

The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή and δηλοῦν , translating to "soul-manifesting". A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly...

 and folk music

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

, and free improvisation

Free improvisation

Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....

. P.S.F. are named after the 1985 High Rise record Psychedelic Speed Freaks and were established in Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

 by Hideo Ikeezumi (生悦住英夫) with the philosophy "I only release to what I like, and I hope that some of these sounds will appeal to the more discerning listener". The label is linked to a Tokyo record store, Modern Music, and a Japanese-language underground music magazine called G-Modern.

P.S.F. have released records by Acid Mothers Temple

Acid Mothers Temple

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. is a Japanese psychedelic band, the core of which formed in 1995. The band is led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and early in their career featured many musicians, but by 2004 the line-up had coalesced with only a few core members and frequent guest...

, High Rise, Mainliner, White Heaven, Ghost

Ghost (band)

Ghost is an experimental rock group formed in Tokyo, Japan, in 1984.- History :Core-member Masaki Batoh grew up in Kyoto, Japan where he attended a private school...

, Kousokuya

Kousokuya

Kōsokuya is a Japanese dark psychedelic rock band. This rock outfit, founded by guitarist Jutok Kaneko in the late 1970s, has released only a handful of recordings internationally, and scant more in their local Tokyo underground scene...

, Masayuki Takayanagi

Masayuki Takayanagi

Masayuki 'Jojo' Takayanagi was a Japanese jazz / free improvisation / noise musician. He was active in the Japanese jazz scene from the late 1950s. In the 1960s he formed New Directions , which recorded several albums throughout the 70s...

, Kaoru Abe

Kaoru Abe

was an influential Japanese avant-garde alto saxophonist, who is often regarded as having the greatest abrasive saxophone sound.He generally performed solo. He was married to the author Izumi Suzuki, and a cousin to singer Kyu Sakamoto. He died of a drug overdose at the age of 29.-References:* Yuko...

, Keiji Haino

Keiji Haino

Keiji Haino born May 3, 1952 in Chiba, Japan, and currently residing in Tokyo, is a Japanese musician whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise, singer-songwriter, solo percussion, psychedelic, minimalism and drone styles...

, Fushitsusha

Fushitsusha

Fushitsusha is a Japanese rock band specialising in the psychedelic rock, space rock and noise rock genres. The band consists of electric guitarist and singer Keiji Haino, and a shifting cast of complementary musicians. The group released the majority of its material in the 1990s.-History:Haino...

, Masayoshi Urabe

Masayoshi Urabe

is a Japanese musician, best known for his intensely physical style of free improvisation on the alto saxophone and his deployment of long, laden silences. He has sometimes been compared to the late Japanese free jazz altoist Kaoru Abe...

, Kazuki Tomokawa

Kazuki Tomokawa

Tenji Nozoki , best known by the stage name Kazuki Tomokawa , is a prolific Japanese musician, active in the Japanese music scene since the early seventies. He is often described as a "screaming philosopher" due to his idiosyncratic singing style...

, Toshiaki Ishizuka

Toshiaki Ishizuka

Toshiaki 'Toshi' Ishizuka is a Japanese drummer.He played on Kazuki Tomokawa's albums and is part of the band Vajra .His last album, released in 2006 on P.S.F. Records, is entitled Drum Drama....

, Aural Fit, a split LP feat. Six Organs of Admittance and many other artists.

Japanese bands and musicians featured on P.S.F. Records have also had music released and reissued by labels such as La Musica, Charnel, Riot Season, Squealer, Fractal, aRCHIVE, Assommer and etc.

External links

• P.S.F. Records English site
• P.S.F. Records Japanese site
• P.S.F. Records Discography
• 2000 Ongakuweb Interview with Hideo Ikeezumi
• 2008(?) Jrawk Interview with Hideo Ikeezumi
• P.S.F. Records discussion at ihatemusic forum
• and related discussion at noise.as forum.