and the next disc (Severances) is almost straight rock music! there's a sliced-and-diced super noisy instrumental cover of "Wild Thing"!
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 16 June 2024 17:27 (one week ago) link
took me a while to give Cloud Cock OO Grand a good listen, the (now sadly excised, see above) howling maelstrom of "Modular" definitely points the way forward. The previous long tracks are a joy, very varied and crunchy sounds.
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 18:18 (one week ago) link
more notes:
Merzbox disc 39, "Stacy Q, Hi Fi Sweet Leaf" continues the longform trend over teh last few, this one has lotsa loops and more of a slow grind at times,still not anything like a harsh noise wallooh Rolling Stones samples popping up out of the murk and churn!only 6 minutes in to this 26:28 track and a ton of shit has happened alreadyyeah this is a fun one, a Merzbox exclusive!
disc 40 is totally different, military drums!sounds way more like mid-80s stuff e.g. Batz-Tou-Tai, lots of loops of classical Japanese music"Injured Emperial Soldiers Marching Song" is quite a titleah consulting the MERZBOOK reveals that these are the first recordings with Bara (their butoh dancer in the 90s) and are video soundtracks, that explains why they are so different.
I don't think I have the stamina for the next one just now, it's called Brain Ticket Death and is from my fave overall period, 93-95
01 Metal Of Doom02 Electric Peekaboo03 Iron Caravan04 Brain Ticket Death
OK lol "Brain Ticket Death", the track, is in fact a brutal noise remix of Brainticket, applause
Merzbox disc 43 Exotic Apple"I used samples from Arthur Lyman lots on this album. Apple Rock was recorded after period of Dadarotenvator LP and which tend to make material for Flying Testicle. But finally didn't used."much quieter, sounds like distorted Berlin school electronica or maybe TG sometimes, really cool stuff.has more mass appeal than I think any of the other box discs so far
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 21 June 2024 20:18 (six days ago) link
Merzbox discs 44 & 45: #44, Liquid City, starts off full bore noise wall but settles into more varied stuff. #45 is unreleased stuff from 1995 or so including personal fave Pinkream, first use of EMS synth, lots of wild squiggly oscillations.
so far none of these later discs are as noisy as other contemporary releases of his.
well "noisy", I mean it is Merzbow
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 22:36 (two days ago) link
disc 47 "Rhinogradentia" - continues the same surprisingly varied noise textures that he explored in the 90s
previous disc 46 had a sweet Reiko A solo piece on it with some dense low end snarl
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 22:37 (two days ago) link
OK Disc 48, "Space Mix Traveling Band" is genuinely harsh, moving into the nu-Merzbow era of the 00's and beyond
ian weighs in:
"FINALLY the genuinely harsh years (laugh emoji)"
I was surprised too!
there are plenty of super harsh 90s releases for sure, but the box doesn't really focus on that
earliest full on HNW is Akasha Gulva from 1996, but basically any of the "live performance, single 1 hour track" releases from that decade are full on blast furnace action
even the last track here on Disc 48 is doing some weird cosmic record skipping shit right now
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 22:51 (two days ago) link
holy shit disc 49 "Motorond" is a total blast furnace HNW with added deep hoarse screaming thru some light effects, just brutal
two 30+ minute tracks
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 23:59 (two days ago) link
also some high volume indecipherable muttering
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 26 June 2024 00:04 (yesterday) link
Merzbox 50 Annihiloscillator
do I even want to listen to this?
*dies*
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 26 June 2024 03:41 (yesterday) link
so that was fun. here are my ten favorites:
Merzbox 02 Metal Acoustic MusicMerzbox 15 Dying Mapa Tapes 1-2Merzbox 16 Dying Mapa Tapes 2-3Merzbox 21 Pornoise ExtraMerzbox 23 Mortegage/Batztoutai ExtraMerzbox 33 Scissors For Cutting Merzbow Vol. 2Merzbox 36 Cloud Cock OO GrandMerzbox 40 Music For True Romance Vol. 1Merzbox 43 Exotic AppleMerzbox 45 Red Magnesia Pink
and the ones I liked the least:Merzbox 12 Nil Vagina Tape LoopsMerzbox 20 Pornoise / 1kg Vol. 3Merzbox 31 KIR Transformation (w/Achim Wollschied)Merzbox 50 Annihiloscillator
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 26 June 2024 16:33 (yesterday) link
Well done! btw he's released 13 albums this year already.
― prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Wednesday, 26 June 2024 16:42 (yesterday) link
i sometimes wonder if there’s a collector maniac out there that has all of it. just seems impossible, even for merz himself.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 27 June 2024 03:10 (seventeen hours ago) link
that said, i do want to believe that someone does and that they even have the mythical merzbow car
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 27 June 2024 03:15 (seventeen hours ago) link