Hiroshi Hashimoto's project, formed 1987: eclectic industrial, noise, dark ambient and sound collage across a deep catalogue, and a well-connected node in the international post-industrial network.
Contagious Orgasm is the project of Hiroshi Hashimoto, formed in 1987, and the Bureau files it at Tier III as a durable, wide-ranging Japanese industrial-and-noise act. It is one of the longer-running projects in this corner of the field, prolific across decades and several modes at once.
The work is eclectic by design. Across the catalogue it spans industrial, harsh noise, dark ambient and sound collage, moving as readily into immersive, atmospheric pieces as into abrasive ones. The method leans on collage and processed recordings as much as on noise, and the project rarely holds to a single register for long.
Hashimoto has a long history of international collaboration, with works alongside Bad Sector, Atrax Morgue, Telepherique and Guilty Connector among many others. The discography runs from the late 1980s onward, including mid-1990s works such as The Examination of Auditory Sense, released across small industrial and noise labels worldwide.
The Bureau files Contagious Orgasm at Artists · Tier III as long-running Japanese industrial and noise of documentary interest: a project whose breadth and web of collaborations make it a well-connected node in the international post-industrial network this archive keeps.