32-track 2CD compilation album from top international acts of DWA and partner labels overseas – all proceeds to Japanese Red Cross and Japan Platform to assist with earthquake/tsunami relief work. Includes 26 exclusive or rare tracks, plus 4 tracks previously unavailable on CD. Strictly limited to 1000 copies worldwide. On March 11 2011, the world watched in horror as a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan – and as the terrifying scenes replayed on TV and the Internet, people both here in Japan and around the world hurried to do what they could to help. Based in Osaka since 2005, DWA has long functioned as a bridge between the international alternative music industry and Japan - establishing trading relationships with many of the industry’s top labels, bands and magazines. Within hours of disaster striking Japan, we spoke to all our artists, friends and media partners around the globe to ask if they were interested in joining a relief project, and the response was immediate and overwhelming. Most artists instantly dropped what they were doing in order to find rare and previously unreleased material to donate – and in many cases sat down to create something specially for the project. Every label that we spoke to – from long-standing partners like Infacted Recordings, Black Rain/NoiTekk, Dark Dimensions and FiXT to others known to us like Dependent, Accession and Trisol - instantly agreed to give permission for material by their artists to be used: all completely royalty-free. Our regular mastering engineers Jan L and Kolja Trelle in Germany agreed to process the many tracks that began to arrive, and Nathan Winter (IndustriArts), UserDX, Mike Saga and Vlad McNeally (Kallisti:Design) - some of the best-known graphic designers in the industrial music scene - offered to make artwork. Leading international magazines like Orkus, Rock Oracle and Side-Line agreed to publicise and promote the album.
All administration, physical manufacturing costs of CDs, booklets, cases etc. plus shipping are being donated by DWA.
“Direct World Action for Japan” features
- 24 exclusive tracks or mixes from BE MY ENEMY, BINARY PARK, CAUSTIC, DETROIT DIESEL, DIE SEKTOR, DYM, ENCEPHALON, INERTIA, INTERFACE, MODULATE, NACHTMAHR, PANIC LIFT, PREEMPTIVE STRIKE 0.1, PROJECT ROTTEN, SHIV-R, SOMAN, STRAFTANZ, SUICIDAL ROMANCE, TERROLOKAUST, VIGILANTE, VPROJEKT, X-FUSION, XP8 and YADE
- 2 deleted tracks from MODULATE and FEINDFLUG
- 4 tracks never available on CD before from SQUAREHEAD, DIARY OF DREAMS, DOPE STARS INC. and SANGSARA
- remixes and guest vocals from A7IE, CELLDWELLER, DIE SEKTOR, FUNKER VOGT, JAN MOSER, KOMOR KOMMANDO, LATEXXX TEENS, MIGHTY MIKE SAGA & MINDBENDER, PHOSGORE, PSIONIC, THE SYNTHETIC DREAM FOUNDATION, TERRORKODE and XIESCIVE
- the latest singles from IN STRICT CONFIDENCE, DOPE STARS INC. and DIARY OF DREAMS, plus new album track from TYSKE LUDDER
- 8-page booklet featuring 4 “alternative covers” from Nathan Winter (IndustriArts), UserDX, Vlad McNeally (Kallisti:Design) and Mike Saga
- Mastered by Kolja Trelle (SOMAN) and Jan L (X-FUSION/NOISUF-X)
A strictly limited edition of 1000 copies worldwide, “Direct World Action for Japan” is presented in jewelcase with 8-page booklet.
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