Ruins was the zeuhl-punk project of drummer Yoshida Tatsuya, heavily influenced by French group Magma but avoiding the tedium of that band’s recordings by reducing everything, in true Japanese bonsai fashion, to mainly 1- or 2-minute bursts of sonic catastrophe. With just drums, distorted bass and screamed gibberish vocals, the music created by Ruins on their EPs Ruins (1986) and Ruins II (1987) is a brutal explosion of intricately-staged tyrannical noise. These recordings, along with two other tracks from the same period, are included on Entropy, an 18-track compilation which thereby collects all the music created and released by the first Ruins incarnation, in which Yoshida was accompanied by bass-player Kawamoto Hideki.