Pain Jerk is a noise music

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

 unit run by 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 musician Kohei Gomi (1963). Gomi started home-recording in the 1980s as private works. PAIN JERK was one of the more prolific and influential noise artists of the 1990s, and is one of the leading figures in the "dynamic" style of Japanese noise. Gomi is also the owner of the noise label AMP, and a member, along with T. Mikawa and F. Kosakai of Incapacitants

Incapacitants

are a Japanese noise music group formed in 1981. It consists of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai, whose stated aim is to produce "pure" noise, uninfluenced by musical ideas or even human intention, using primarily feedback, vocals, and various electronics...

, of the noise supergroup Gomikawa Fumio. He recently headlined the opening night of No Fun Fest 2007 (USA) and did a Scandinavian tour (Fylkingen / Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen, Denmark; Oslo and Trondheim, Norway). PAIN JERK contributed to the Avanto Festival 2007 in Helsinki, Finland, and in 2008 toured Poland, Berlin, Geneva, and Spain. Gomi also contributed to All Ears Festival 2009 (Oslo / Norway) and did his first UK tour.(Glasgow - Edinburgh - Newcastle - London - Bristol - London) then Paris and Antwerp.

Official discography

• PAINJERK / Emeralds split CD (No - Fi / UK / 0'9)
• Official Bootleg / CDR (AMP/Japan/'07)
• Live At No Fun Fest (split w/Incapacitants) / CD (No Fun Productions/USA/'07)
• Terrazzo (collab w/John Wiese) / CD (Harbinger Sound/UK/'07)
• Chocolate Grinder (collab w/John Wiese) / one-sided 7" (Helicopter/USA/'07)
• Mental Peace Liberation Front (collab w/John Wiese) / CD (Meatbox/Japan/'07)
• Anti-CD (AMP/Japan/'04)
• Slave Party-Live at Watts 2002 (w/Enema Syringe) / CDR (AMP/Japan/'03)
• Ingranaggi / CDR / MC (AMP/Japan/'03)
• Trash Can Musik / MC (AMP/Japan/'00)
• Tarenagash 2 / MC (AMP/Japan/'00)
• Vote Mr. Beaulieau / MC (AMP/Japan/'00)
• Imminent Economic Collapse (split & collab w/Bastard Noise) / 7" (Alternative Tentacles/USA/'99)
• Platinum Electronics / 2xMC (Philosophy Shop Records/USA/'99)
• Tarenagash / MC (AMP/Japan/'99)
• Alone / MC (AMP/Japan/'99)
• Burning Spear / MC (AMP/Japan/'99)
• XXX / MC (AMP/Japan/'99)
• Smudge / MC (AMP/Japan/'99)
• Low / MC (AMP/Japan/'99)
• Psychowars / MC (Panta Rhei/Canada/'98)
• Greater Curvature / MC (Spite/USA/'98)

･Warbeast / MC (AMP/Japan/'98)
･Raptus / MC (AMP/Japan/'98)
･Mobility Impaired Physical / MC (AMP/Japan/'98)
･Tribology / MC (AMP/Japan/'98)
･Wounded / MC (AMP/Japan/'98)
･Adulteration / MC (AMP/Japan/'98)
･A Wild Ride with the Aktion Bruit / MC (AMP/Japan/'98)
･for RRRon & Maria / MC+doll (AMP/Japan/'98)

• Teleagony / MC (AMP/Japan/'98)
• Noisentropy / MC (AMP/Japan/'98)
• Gravity The Existence / MC (AMP/Japan/'98)
• Unrelease Entertainment / MC (AMP/Japan/'98)

･Brainquake / MC (AMP/Japan/'98)
･Sound As Pornography / MC/DAT (AMP/Japan/'98)
･split (split w/Armenia) / MC (Bizarre Audio Arts/Ecuador/'97)
･Use Your Pain Jerk (split w/Use Your Pain) / LP (Dreizehn/Germany/'98)
･split (split w/Angel Dust Whore) / MC (Sound Probe/USA/'97)
･Gash / MC (Puncture/Canada/'97)
･Gallon Gravy / CD (Creativeman Disc./Japan/'97)

• split (split & collab w/Skin Crime) 7"+MC Boxset (Self Abuse/USA/'97)
• split (split w/Skin Crime) / 7" (Self Abuse/USA/'97)
• split (split w/Masoquista Industrial) / MC (Charito Recs/Ecuador/'97)
• Snake Charmer's Beautiful Daughter (split & collab w/Dogliveroil) / CD (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers/UK/'97)
• Spitfire / LP+CDR Metal Box ver. (Harbinger Sound/UK/'97)
• Spitfire / LP (Harbinger Sound/UK/'97)
• Collaboration (collab w/Strict) / 7" (Art Konkret/Germany/'97)
• Jello vs. Mothra / MC (AMP/Japan/'97)
• Savage Extreme / MC (AMP/Japan/'97)
• Autocatharsis / MC (AMP/Japan/'97)
• V / MC (AMP/Japan/'97)
• Neurotten / MC (Slaughter Productions/Italy/'96)
• Great Invisible Crashing / MC (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers/UK/'96)
• From Nothing To Nothingness / MC (Less Than Zero/Italy/'96)
• split (split w/Steam Symphony) / MC (Steam Symphony/Czech/'96)
• Transcription Of Piss Angel / MC (Bloodlust!/USA/'96)
• Trashware 2 / MC (AMP/Japan/'96)
• Snuff Electronics / MC (AMP/Japan/'96)

･Spitfire / MC (AMP/Japan/'96)
･It Has Been Raining Since This Afternoon / MC (AMP/Japan/'96)
･Cacophony of a Thousand Pleasures / 3xMC (AMP/Japan/'96)
･Pleonasm / MC (AMP/Japan/'96)
･Epistasis / MC (AMP/Japan/'96)
･Quiet-Noisy / 7" open-real anti record Box (AMP/Japan/'96)
･Decollaboration (collab w/Emil Beaulieau) / MC (AMP/Japan/'96)
･Fragmentagraph (split w/Monde Bruits) / MC (AMP/Japan/'96)

• Recycled Music / MC (RRRecords/USA/'95)
• Retrogress / CD (Self Abuse/USA/'95)
• Trashware / CD (RRRecords/USA/'95)
• Exhibition Of Electro-Disease / MC (G.R.O.S.S./Japan/'95)
• Aktion Bruit / MC (AMP/Japan/'95)
• Fatamorgana / MC (AMP/Japan'95)
• Alchemisitry / MC (AMP/Japan/'95)
• Loud Acoustics For Nude-Mobile / MC (AMP/Japan/'95)
• Dermatozoon 7" celluloid vinyl(AMP/Japan/'95)
• Osaka Eye & Ear Control / MC + anti record+contact mic+insert Boxset (AMP/Japan/'95)
• Fore-Skin / MC (AMP/Japan/'95)
• Damaged / MC (AMP/Japan/'95)
• Brutalica / MC (AMP/Japan/'95)
• Tape Bomb / MC (AMP/Japan/'94)
• Angel Smith/Down Hill Motor Race / 7" acetates vinyl (AMP/Japan/'94)
• No Title / 7" celluloid vinyl (AMP/Japan/'94)
• Plastic Torture / 7" celluloid vinyl (AMP/Japan/'94)
• Aufheben / 7" celluloid vinyl (AMP/Japan/'94)
• Head-Womb / 7" anti-record ver. (AMP/Japan/'94)
• Head-Womb / 7" acetates vinyl +MC (AMP/Japan/'94)
• Thrill Killer / MC (AMP/Japan/'93)
• Pain Jerk / MC (AMP/Japan/'93)
• Demo / MC (AMP/Japan/'92)