Incapacitants (インキャパシタンツ Inkyapashitantsu) are a Japanese noise music group formed in 1981. It consists of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai, whose stated aim is to produce "pure" noise, uninfluenced by musical ideas or even human intention, using primarily feedback, vocals, and various electronics. Kosakai calls this sound "hard noise", as a nod to hard bop.[1]
The performances of Incapacitants--the physically incongruous combination of Hijo Kaidan member T. Mikawa and former C.C.C.C. member Fumio Kosakai--are so wide-open that they explode the usual image of noise music. The noise sound is completely integrated with the convulsive, leaping, swinging movement of the musicians' bodies--one big, the other small. This is conveyed to listeners in such a direct way that the question "What is noise?" becomes meaningless.
–Yuichi Jibiki, Eater
This is HARD noise! Some of the hardest shit I've listened to since Noise Ramones. An arresting goddamn experience that is obviously not for everyone. Here's a video of them playing in the woods of Tajima, Fukushima just to give you an idea of what they're all about. Classic 80's Japanese noise! never gets old for me.
