Mesh-Key Records

20/12/2023

major thanks to Boomkat.com for putting our divin release in the top (!) slot of their best reissues of 2023 list!

https://boomkat.com/charts/boomkat-end-of-year-charts-2023/2313

15/12/2023

thanks rush hour!

14/12/2023

13/12/2023

many thanks to kerry cardoza and Bandcamp for featuring our INU reissue in their best punk of 2023 list!

These are the most crucial punk albums released in 2023.

11/12/2023

many thanks to and for including anonym in their reissues of the year 2023 list!

18/11/2023

Here are the first and second pressings of Alchemy Records’ 1984 release of live INU recordings from their ’79 tour. The title translates to something like F**k With Ushiwakamaru and You'll Get Your Ass Beat! #町田町蔵

10/11/2023

thanks to Sorry State Records for the staff pick/write-up of our INU reissue:

What’s up Sorry Staters? S**t, it’s been so long since I wrote anything for the newsletter. Whether that’s a good or bad thing, I’ll leave for you to decide. I do try to pass on my enthusiasm for good music and hopefully that comes across regardless of how eloquent. So, since the last time w...

10/11/2023

flyer for 1980 Ramones tour of Japan. INU opened one show.

09/11/2023

a couple of ads for the Dokkiri comp. from ’s liner notes to our INU reissue: “In ’80, Machida produced a compilation of Kansai bands titled Dokkiri Record that featured INU, Ultra Bidé, Henshin Kirin, Alcohol 42%, and Chinese Club. Only 200 copies were pressed. This was before the establishment of Japan’s independent label system, so the majority of the records were sold directly to acquaintances and audience members, or on consignment at friends’ record shops. The pressing sold out quickly, and Machida used the profits to move INU’s base of operations from Kansai to Tokyo.”

07/11/2023

shintaro sakamoto with tim bernardes the night before last in tokyo. sakamoto-designed mesh-key shirts available now, exclusively on bandcamp. #坂本慎太郎

31/10/2023

thanks to for highlighting our INU reissue. grab your copy today on bandcamp.

17/10/2023

flyer from INU show at doshisha university, kyoto, 1980

16/10/2023

for the japanese speakers - deep inu info and an amazing flyer collection here.

INU「メシ喰うな！」のリマスターLPが10月4日にアメリカのMesh-Key recordsからリリースされました。 […]

11/10/2023

"Get it or regret it" says Erika Elizabeth in Maximum Rocknroll on our INU reissue:
https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/band/inu/

26/09/2023

mesh-key will have a table at the brooklyn flea record fair this saturday, september 30th. i’ll have the entire in-print catalog at discounted prices as well as some rarities — out-of-print titles, test pressings, etc. i’ll post shots soon of specific items i’ll be bringing. this fair’s always a blast, come by and say hello.

18/09/2023

here’s the 8-page booklet that comes with each INU lp, featuring an essay (in jp+en) by syojiro ishibashi who was around for INU in real time, full lyric translations by daniel joseph, who recently translated inu vocalist machida kou’s ’rip it up’ novel for , and photos by yuichi jibiki and tadashi hirose, including some never before seen shots. really happy with how these came out. #町田町蔵 #町田町蔵

07/09/2023

INU records start shipping this week

15/08/2023

flyer for inu show

14/08/2023

chie mukai eps have landed. $16 each on bandcamp.

11/08/2023

a friendly reminder that our deluxe reissue of aunt sally’s brilliant debut album is in stock and shipping now. remastered from the original tapes, in an illustrated inner sleeve, and a film-laminated, extra heavy stoughton tip-on jacket. order on bandcamp.

04/08/2023

it’s bandcamp friday! a fine day to pre-order our deluxe reissue of INU’s classic 1981 album メシ喰うな! (don’t eat food!).

02/08/2023

a meta post for today - here’s machida machizo wearing a sweater embroidered with the cover art of inu’s don’t eat food! (featuring his own face)

28/07/2023

tokyo flashback to some shots i took of shintaro sakamoto's yura yura teikoku live at shelter in shimokitazawa, sometime in the early 2000s. saw yyt play tens of times over the years and each and every show was incredible. what a band. for a good stretch there, mesh-key was mainly focused on promoting/booking/distributing yyt outside japan. many fond memories of seeing unsuspecting audiences around the world lose their s**t when these guys came outta nowhere and just completely destroyed. #ゆらゆら帝国 #坂本慎太郎 #亀川千代 #柴田一郎

21/07/2023

latest issue of AGI magazine has a 50(!) page feature on tolerance as well as a “young person’s guide to stephan mathieu” in japanese and english! order yrs today.

20/07/2023

andy beta on tolerance's divin:

Divin (Tolerance)

20/07/2023

Anonym is back in stock and shipping now! Also created a new Anonym + Divin vinyl bundle for those who want both (you want both). On Mesh-Key bandcamp page.

17/07/2023

machida machizo, singer for inu. pre-order their classic 1981 album don’t eat food! today

16/07/2023

11 track album

13/07/2023

for the japanese speakers - machida ko talks inu in this brand new interview. fun stuff:

町田康『INU／メシ喰うな!』を語る町田康が、1981年にリリースされた自身が率いたINUのデビューアルバム『メシ喰うな!』を語る。『INU／メシ喰うな!』町田町蔵率いるINUのメジャー・デビューアルバムであり、同バンド唯一.....

10/07/2023

ANNOUNCEMENT: Mesh-Key is thrilled to announce a project now six years (!) in the making — a deluxe reissue of Don’t Eat Food! by legendary late ‘70s/early ‘80s post-punk group, INU. This first-ever fully-licensed edition has been remastered from the original tapes and cut by Kevin Gray, and includes an 8-page booklet with never-before-seen photos, lyrics in English and Japanese, and liner notes by Syojiro Ishibashi in English and Japanese.

Out October 6th. Pre-order your copy now at Mesh-Key bandcamp.

https://inujapan.bandcamp.com/album/dont-eat-food

More about INU and Don’t Eat Food!:
A high-octane tour-de-force widely considered in Japan to be one of the all-time greatest punk records, 1981's Don’t Eat Food! remains shockingly unknown to the rest of the world. Led by literate but unhinged Machida Machizo, a magnetic stage presence who sang in a thick Osaka dialect that sounded like nothing else at the time, INU took Japan by storm in the late '70s with their powerful and often belligerent live show. Their membership changed frequently but INU's final lineup -- the group that recorded Don't Eat Food! -- was sharp as a knife, and the band's airtight debut still wows forty-plus years later.

It's hard to describe INU's unique sound in comparison to other bands, but maybe imagine a more fidgety Richard Hell & The Voidoids jamming with PiL? Better yet, just listen for yourself.

13/06/2023

PSA: i’m down to my last ten copies of .theraincoats and ‘s brilliant collaborative album, Island. order now on mesh-key bandcamp, ships from nyc.

07/06/2023

PSA: i’m down to my last box of divin 2lps. if i do another run, they won’t come with the thick stoughton tip-on gatefold sleeves that this first pressing does, so if you want the most deluxe version, now’s the time to grab one.

01/06/2023

added a bundle option to bandcamp for our jacks vinyl. pick up vacant world and the live double lp at the same time and save some money. #早川義夫

31/05/2023

New Distributed Product: Tolerance Complete Discography + Demos 5CD set. Yuzuru Agi's colleagues at Studiowarp/Kyou Records released this deluxe box set in 2020, and just sent us some brand new, shrink-wrapped dead stock. Limited copies available, so order while supplies last.

Each box contains 5 CDs:
Anonym: 1979
Divin: 1981
Dose: 1980
Today's Thrill: 1980

Extras:
- 1 Vanity Records sticker
- 2 folded inlays

Disc 3 contains an unlisted 7th track.

Note that this same box is included in the full Vanity discography CD box set, which is available here:
vanityrecordsbox.bandcamp.com/album/vanity-records-complete-discography.
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13/05/2023

tolerance in the wild in greenpoint, brooklyn. should have more any day now too, for those of you in europe or thereabouts

12/05/2023

thanks for the orders. anonym vinyl is now sold out on bandcamp and divin is well on its way.

06/05/2023

much gratitude to philip sherburne for this wonderful review of the two tolerance transmissions for pitchfork

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/tolerance-anonym-divin/?mbid=social_facebook&utm_brand=p4k&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook

Read Philip Sherburne’s review of the albums.