Kazumoto Endo

Since the mid-'90s, Japanese noise artist Kazumoto Endo has released albums and EPs under his own name and the alias Killer Bug on noise labels in several countries. Growing up in the '80s, Endo listened to British bands like the Cure and the Smiths, then got turned on to groups such as Pussy Galore and Big Black, and began attending live performances by influential noise bands including Hanatarash and Hijokaidan. Endo was, however, unimpressed with how noise music came across on recordings. He wanted to learn to play something different and so took traditional Bolivian music ...