The Tokyo noise label run by Yasutoshi Yoshida of Government Alpha: begun as an outlet for his own work and grown into a home for noise artists worldwide, with more than eighty titles.
Xerxes is the noise label run by Yasutoshi Yoshida, the artist behind Government Alpha, and the Bureau files it at Tier II as the label-side of one of the second wave's key figures. Yoshida set it up as an outlet for his own work, free of artistic or contractual obligation, and it has grown well beyond that.
More than eighty titles deep, Xerxes carries not only Government Alpha but the work of noise artists from around the world, which makes it an international imprint as much as a personal one. It functions as a node in the global tape-and-CD noise network, the kind of artist-run label through which the Japanese and Western scenes have stayed connected.
Yoshida's own recordings have also appeared on labels such as Susan Lawly, Lasse Marhaug's Pica Disk, Hospital Productions and the Pittsburgh imprint Mother Savage, but Xerxes has been the constant home across decades.
The Bureau files Xerxes at Labels · Tier II as a curatorial and connective node rather than a vanity imprint: the standing infrastructure behind Government Alpha and a small but real hub of the international noise underground this archive documents.