Front cover of Waste Gate cassette — stark black-and-white artwork with a screaming figure and stenciled title, evoking underground noise and post-punk aesthetics.
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Cassette shell of Waste Gate, obscure demo with unknown origin — raw artifact from the underground.
Front cover of Waste Gate cassette — stark black-and-white artwork with a screaming figure and stenciled title, evoking underground noise and post-punk aesthetics.
Cassette shell of Waste Gate, obscure demo with unknown origin — raw artifact from the underground.

WASTE GATE

$54.00 USD
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Label: Self-released – WG01
Format: Cassette, Demo
Country: Japan
Released: c. 1990s–2000s (unconfirmed)
Genre: Rock
Style: Post-Punk, Indie, DIY, Experimental

Tracklist:
A – Some Day

Credits:
Words and Music by Kiyoshi
Arranged by Waste Gate
Vocals – Kiyoshi
Guitar – Ba Taka
Drums – Hirosiii
Staff – Sinkun Kanou, Cihihiro
Special Thanks – Mr. Masasiii, S. Kuriki, MJP, T. Natuhara, 11/K Home, BJC-210J, Kengo Gan, Iwasaki

Issued under the internal code WG01, Some Day stands as the first and possibly only known release by the obscure Japanese group Waste Gate.
Recorded and self-produced in a home setup, this cassette embodies the raw, minimal aesthetics of Japan’s underground rock scene equal parts post-punk isolation and DIY sincerity.
Its xeroxed cover, depicting a screaming figure beneath the words WASTE GATE, feels like a transmission from a private world of distortion, emotion, and youth.
Almost no public documentation of this tape exists, making it a true phantom object  a relic of the handmade era where music circulated hand to hand, unarchived and unrepeatable.

Intermission exists in the space between documentation and devotion an ongoing archive of cultural fragments that refuse to vanish. Each title within our portfolio is selected not for trend, but for tension: between what was meant to disappear and what insists on remaining.

We work with objects that speak quietly but persistently publications, recordings, and editions that define the undercurrents of art, sound, and design. Together they form a living record of marginal brilliance, a collection that privileges significance over scale.

Every Intermission title is handled as an artifact. We believe that preservation is an act of reverence one that begins the moment you open a cover or unspool a tape.

To experience a piece, do so slowly. Allow the air to touch the paper, let light fall softly over each page. Avoid excess pressure; handle edges rather than surfaces. Each mark, fold, or patina is part of its passage through time evidence of care rather than decay.

We encourage collectors to engage not only with the content, but with the gesture of preservation itself: a quiet commitment to memory.

Front cover of Waste Gate cassette — stark black-and-white artwork with a screaming figure and stenciled title, evoking underground noise and post-punk aesthetics.

WASTE GATE

$54.00 USD
$54.00 USD

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Close-up detail from the 12-inch vinyl Wunderbar / Health Dub — Christiane F.’s voice suspended in plastic and light.

Traces of devotion, arranged for a moment.

Traces of devotion, arranged for a moment.

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TULSA

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Front cover of the 12-inch vinyl Wunderbar / Health Dub by Christiane F., Playhouse Records 2003, Germany. Reverse sleeve of Christiane F. / Christiana’s 12-inch vinyl Wunderbar / Health Dub — Playhouse Records, 2003.

WUNDERBAR / HEALTH DUB

$261.00 USD
$261.00 USD
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