Hair Stylistics - Custom Cock Confused Death (Daisyworld) - discofied psychedelic noise / plunderphonics on haruomi hosono's label.
Yesterday's Heroes - 1979 : terre thaemlitz and haco do minimal new wave electro-pop. this is really good!!
obviously everyone's probably heard the new boredoms 'seadrum' cd - that's pretty special, although less jaw-dropping than their previous 2. omoide hatoba (yamamoto's band) also have a new album (their first in about 5 years) which i've heard is the business, but can't confirm.
it's probably more than 6 months old, but i recently picked up 'absoluteego' by boris, which is supremely heavy distented slow-core metal, in the vein of earth, sunn o))), etc. their collaboration with merzbow is great too, but lacks the sponteneity of this one.
also, the 19-t label in tokyo is releasing some of the most frazzled and magical electronica i've heard in a long time: check out miss hawaii, cow'p, utabi. everything i've heard on this label has been really amazing!!