Multiplex line-up was: Ari - vocals Akama - lead guitar Benny - bass Youichiro Natsume - drums Was one of the premier forces in japanese grind/death, until their untimely break-up after their 1996 American tour with Hellchild. No plans are given, but bassist Benny and drummer Natsume still plays in super-grindcore-band Force together with Hellchild vocalist Harakawa and guitarist Suzuki, and their first album is out now on Howling Bull. Natsume has also drummed for Melt Banana for their album Charlie.

Uncanny Complex 7" e.p. [Psycho Slaughter Records] tracks: 1. Uncanny Complex 2. Hypocritical Instinct V/A Thrashing Death Power CD (with Satanic Hell Slaughter and Gibbed) [Selfish Records] tracks:1.Civilised Society 2.Bound Mind 3.Profligate Blessedness 4.Exasperation 5. Drowned in the Bog V/A Grinding Sydicate CD (with Gibbed, Anarchus and Cacofonia) [Samurai Records] tracks: 1. Hypocritical Instinct 2.Empty Happiness 3.Uncanny Complex (note the intro of "Hypocritical Instinct" is cut off and reappears as a bonus track on the "World" CD) World CD [Selfish Records] tracks: 1. M.I.C.(Military Industrial Complex) 2.Empty Happiness 3. Like a Parhelion 4. Raise the Estatic 5.Forever Casket Lines and their amongs 6.Human Zoo 7.One in Billions of Dimensions 8.Exasperation 9. Self-Destructive Flattery (a Version of Artificial Illusion) 10. World 11. Hypocritical Instinct (note : this CD was produced by Yoshitomo 'Tottsuan' Suzuki) Multiplex/Hellchild split 7" [HG Fact] tracks: 1.Inside Out 2.Life with Belief (note: This is the first release with the new line-up. The only new member in Multiplex is the singer) V/A O' Great Blue Thing Records Volume 1 LP/CD (with Tatsuya Yoshida, Melt Banana, Yeah, Merzbow, the Sleepwalk, Discordance Axis, Spine Wrench, Def. Master, Ten Yen Ana-Kinoko) [O' Great Blue Thing Records] Multiplex/Exit 13 split 7" (HG-052) [HG Fact] tracks : Feel Free to Feel (edit) (untitled) CD [HG Fact] tracks : Inside Out/Life with Belief/Nothing/Feel Free to Feel/Repressed Mind/Feel Free to Feel (electro audio revenge mix) (this cd is basically a compilation of the older eps...the split ep with Hellchild, o great blue thing comp and split with Exit 13. The only new track here is "Repressed Mind". However the unedited version of "Feel Free to Feel" containing an extra 3 minutes of music is on here as well) Quest for the Clearness 7" EP [Visceral Records]

Nothing - (taken from the O' Great Blue Thing compilation) Real Audio 199kb You need RealPlayer to play this file.

You can still write to Multiplex at : Youichiro Natsume 1-20-6-106, Kitahara-cho Tanashi City Tokyo 188 JAPAN