C.C.C.C.

Real Name:Mayuko Hino, Hiroshi Hasegawa
Profile:Japanoise, power electronic act fronted by S&M pornstar Mayuko Hino and husband Hiroshi Hasegawa (also in YBO2 and Astro). CCCC (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center) is no longer active. Mayuko feels strongly about noise being an emotional outlet rather than an intellectual outlet. She has also pointed out that those artists who approach noise in this way end up with a very distinctive sound - a listener should be able to learn about the artist's personality from hearing their noise.
URLs:http://www.coldspring.co.uk/artists/cccc.php
Members:Fumio Kosakai, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Mayuko Hino, Ryuichi Nagakubo
Name Variations: All | C.C.C.C. | CCCC | Chaotic Custom Cock Commandos | Cosmic Coincidence Control Center
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Releases:
Deep Electronics Live (VHS)   Vanilla Records 1991
Reflexive Universe (Cass)   Vanilla Records 1991
Cosmic Coincidence Control Center (CD)   Endorphine Factory 1992
Live At Club Lower Links (VHS, NTSC)   T.G.P. 1992
Phantasmagoria (Cass, S/Sided)   Endorphine Factory 1992
Amplified Crystal (12", Ltd, Cle)   Endorphine Factory 1993
Amplified Crystal II (Cass)   Endorphine Factory 1993
Loud Sounds Dopa (VHS)   Endorphine Factory 1993
Loud Sounds Dopa / Live In U.S.A. (CD)   Endorphine Factory 1993
Community Center Cyber Crash / Live In Pittsburgh (LP)   RRRecords, SSS Productions 1994
Gnosis (Cass)   Drahtfunk-Products 1994
Test Tube Fantasy (7", Ltd, Cle)   Ant-Zen 1994
Live At AS 220 (7", Ltd, Blu)   Membrum Debile Propaganda 1995
Recorded Live At Broken Life Festival, Taipei, Taiwan September 9th 1995 (CDr, Ltd)   Tochnit Aleph 1995
Flash (CD, Album)   Cold Spring 1996
Love & Noise (CD)   Endorphine Factory 1996
The Beauty Of Pollution (CD)   Endorphine Factory 1996
Rocket Shrine ◄ (2 versions)   Creativeman Disc. ... 1997
Untitled (CD)   Freak Animal Records, Leg Meat 1997
Polygon Islands 1 & 2 (7", Ltd, Gre)   Syntactic 1998
Old Street In Taiwan - Aktion 950907 (CDr)   Tochnit Aleph 2002
Chaos Is The Cosmos (CD, Album)   Cold Spring 2007
Early Works (4xCD + Box, Ltd)   No Fun Productions 2007
Appears On:
Rising Mixes (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Rising (Thurston Moore... Capitol Records 1996
Tracks Appear On:
Tawamure - Come Again (3xAcetate, 7", Comp, Ltd) GS-15 Vanilla Records 1991
Noise Forest (CD, Comp) IRM-32 Les Disques Du Soleil 1992
Oh! Moro 5 (VHS, PAL, Comp) Live At Bears, Nanba, ... Kansai New Art Video Magazine 1992
Come Again II (CD) Sweet Scanning Furnace 1993
Kingdom Of Noise (VHS) Loud Sounds Dopa Endorphine Factory 1993
Land Of The Rising Noise (CD) Monde Bizarre Charnel Music 1993
Macrocephalous Compost (VHS, Comp) Reflexive Universe Old Europa Cafe 1993
The Fifth Complaint Concerns Emotional Disturbances (7") Analgesic Transmission... Regelwidrig 1993
Art - Vol. 3 "Entartete Kunst" (Cass) Untitled Drahtfunk-Products 1994
Cataclastic Fracture (A Noise Collection) (CD, Comp) Unconditional Sequence Deadline Recordings, Lazy Squid 1994
Eternal Blue Extreme: An Asian Tribute To Derek Jarman (CD) Into The Blue Age Somnus 1994
Howard 31 (CD, Comp, Ltd) Invocation Artware Production 1994
Ne Shi (2xCass + Box) Space Temple Banned Production 1994
Noise War (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Persistent Infection Mother Savage Noise Productions ... 1994
Sweet Music (Cass) Tight Seed Self Abuse Records 1994
Tearing The Wings Off Of Butterflies (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Live At Freakin' Pizza Taint Entertainment 1994
Violent Ambient (Cass, C90) Powder Injection Chocolate Monk 1994
Macrocephalous Compost II° (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Purification Old Europa Cafe 1995
Parasit (LP, Comp, Ltd, Cle) Live At Esterhofen Ant-Zen 1995
The Japanese / American Noise Treaty (2xCD) No Escape Release Entertainment 1995
Northern Psychedalia (CD, Ltd) Shounan Psychedelia Omega Point Records (2) 1997
Disco-Mortem ◄ (2 versions) Spectrum World The Releasing Eskimo 1998
Live From The Afterworld (2xLP, Comp) Loud Sounds Dopa, Part... Electro Motive Records 2000
Japanoise (CD, Ltd) Worm Wood Little Mafia Records 2003
Ne - The Anthology (2xCDr) Space Temple Banned Production 2006
Happy Boy Margarine (7") Female Trouble Tedium House Publications, Starlight Furniture Co.  
Unofficial Releases:
Noisedeath (VHS, Ltd) Untitled Mother Savage Noise Productions 1995
Macrocephalous Compost I (DVDr) Reflexive Universe (Li... Old Europa Cafe 2006
User Reviews:
thezovietdada, Apr 15, 2008

Cccc were and are a refreshingly different take on harsh noise. I mean yes Merzbow with his trillion releases is so diverse as to that many Merzbow releases cover the same ground as cccc, but doesnt all harsh noise sound the same to all but connoisseurs? Despite this, cccc carve out their own message of noise that seems to have more to do with the cosmos than buckling metal structures, more to do with extended drone, pain/pleasure (with an emphasis on the pleasure) dynamics, and sparkling phase effects. I see ccccs antecedents more in the earlier Japanese psychedelic underground, in the high-pitched emotional scree of Fushitsusha and Les Rallizes Denudes, than in aggressive post-industrial brutism like Whitehouse, New Blockaders, Incapacitants, etc. I dont want to presume, but I think the involvement of a woman in the band, unusual with Japanese harsh noise, especially one who is so thoroughly focused on a sexual/emotional philosophy to her music brings a separate element, a sort of right hand Path to the basement sociopathy noise usually brings. Beats cock-rock pissing contests of "whose harshest" any day.

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