― Gemini Ford (Rahul Kamath), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 16:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
Destroy: I'm not so keen on the proggy/fusiony (these terms are relative obv) stuff that he was churning out a few years back.
Anyone wanna burn me off a copy of the Merzbox?
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 17:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Gemini Ford (Rahul Kamath), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 17:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 17:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Honda, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 17:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
he also told me its his best gig evah with masonna so that's obv something to do before you go to yr grave.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 18:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
''Anyone wanna burn me off a copy of the Merzbox?''
yeah can someone do this please...
''I've been listening to his Music for Bondage performances''
did anyone see the C4 'documentary' on jap bondage on monday night.
also hasn't akita written a book on bondage?
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― The Hegemon, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 18:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
destroy: his live set in rough trade (w/ russell haswell?) a few years ago was just dull.
― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 18:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
i've heard about 13 discs from the merzbox, mostly the early stuff which is generally REAL good. between 15-20 there's some amazingly well done, minimal junk/tape music that beats the more known releases from his early period ("antimonument," "age of 369/chant 2") cold.
also, i like-like-like "vibractance" because it's just ems and it has those dynamics things.
― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 20:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 21:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
i'd rather listen to deep purple's original, because it KICKS FUCKING ASS. and merzbow's deconstruction of it does not.
― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob snoom, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
Out of all of the Merzbox I've heard so far, I'd say Cloud Cock OO Grand is the best because...there's just so much STUFF in it. The sample-based things like Agni Hotra and the Pornoise series are also real good because they're almost identifiably rock and hence easier to grasp. What I've heard of the last couple albums in the set will probably also turn out to favorites: they're so luxuriantly textural. Non-Merzbox-wise, I'd say the recent Dharma is my favorite. The last track is so DREAMY.
I prefer his drones over his scratchy white-noise oversaturation, his loops to his idiot-avant instrumentalisms, his synthwork over his guitar-work. I also prefer it when he composes via lap-top rather than by quasi-improvisation (he shirks from the word "improvisation," preferring "automatism" which I think roughly means making noise in a state of no-mind). It's less willful and random, and easier to get a handle on.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
This shit is amazing
― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I also heartily applaud his current fascination with animal welfare and consequently animal sounds (Tamago uses recordings of his pet chickens!) only because, well, to be corny, it humanizes him somewhat.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
He's been at it for a while...
― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Saturday, 13 November 2004 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link
What I want to know is what you guys think of this year's Kim Cascone. It took me a while to really get into it but then I started to appreciate its sprawling, meandering quality with moments of beauty.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 13 November 2004 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― bob snoom, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― +, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Batztoutai/Loop Panic dbl CDMerzbow Loves Emil Beaulieau CDPornoise CD
So, ya know, for like eightteen bucks you can get some good merz. jams. I would recommend it. RRRon deserves your money as much as just about anyone.
― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Dharma. Also Animal Magnetism (love the chickens).
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't think I've made it all the way through any Merzbow album even once.
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
More opinions, please!
― stephen, Saturday, 19 July 2008 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
listening to a recent one right now, feddyyellow mix.1. pretty nice esp at the end where he got some "basic spectral sonic decantation" thing going on
― Sébastien, Sunday, 20 July 2008 02:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I've mentioned this on a couple other threads, but the FIMAV album with Pan Sonic is fantastic.
― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 20 July 2008 03:40 (fifteen years ago) link
that remix CD alluded to above (Scumtron) really is quite good. I also have soft spots for the Batz-Tou-Tai double on RRR (early clank/scrape), Pinkream (heavy analog noiz), the Music For Bondage Performance discs (quiet, very different), and the collaboration with Christoph Heeman.
― sleeve, Sunday, 20 July 2008 03:53 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha i just did the rolex sweep to paralysis (hypnopompic mix satori so whacki
― Sébastien, Sunday, 20 July 2008 06:33 (fifteen years ago) link
ooh also search the Frog LP, most excellent.
― sleeve, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I recommended Merzdub with Jamie Saft on another thread, it really is a pretty channelling of the Merzbow noise along more "musical" routes. All the electro-acoustic stuff I've heard from the Merzbox has been nice too.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
picked up tonight:
Venereology 1930
in the mail:
Synth Destruction (w/ Carlos Giffoni) Electric Dress (w/ Carlos Giffoni & Jim O'Rourke) Live Destruction at No Fun 2007
the only Merzbow stuff i'm familiar with is his work with Boris -- Megatone, Sun Baked Snow Cave, Rock Dream -- so i figured a good approach would be to check out a couple of his more 'acclaimed' albums, plus some of his work with Giffoni and O'Rourke, both of whom i'm already pretty familiar with.
... any thoughts?
― stephen, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 04:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i have this v pretty merzbird shirt btw: http://www.importantrecords.com/images/apparelimages/merbird_shirt.jpg
― wilter, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
wow that album-by-album Merzbox review of Michael's upthread is most impressive.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 04:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone read the Merzbook?
I have it, but haven't checked it out.
― wilter, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
so... no thoughts, then.
― stephen, Thursday, 31 July 2008 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i think you should read the thread, dude.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 31 July 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i think i've already read the entire thread, dude.
i was looking for some opinions that maybe weren't 4 years old. not that those are necessarily bad ones upthread, but maybe some of the newer posters here can offer some of their comments too. just a thought.
― stephen, Thursday, 31 July 2008 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Welcome to 2009!Important is starting off the new year with the beginning of our 13 Month/13 CD Merzbow series titled 13 Japanese Birds. Available to hold your 13 CD set is a deluxe screen printed, numbered, limited edition hand built bamboo box. More info about how to order it can be found here:http://www.importantrecords.com/bird_box/bird_box_details.html
― ilxor, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I need $300 for the version with a painting by Masami.
― krakow, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 07:56 (fifteen years ago) link
How's the album with Richard Pinhas?
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I shelled out for it the other night, whilst drinking. Oh boy...
― ilxor, Thursday, 29 January 2009 04:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Ouch. I've resigned myself to not getting it.
― krakow, Thursday, 29 January 2009 09:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Out of all of the Merzbox I've heard so far, I'd say Cloud Cock OO Grand is the best because...there's just so much STUFF in it.
Daddino was so right about Cloud... I listened to this last night looking for fucking catharsis after a bad-ish evening (to the extent that I knew it ws going to be before it happened; I unconciously left the CDR on top of the speaker just before I left), and all I found was DETAILS that ate away at you. People tend to dismiss him as junior Metal Machine Music. Although I'm sure it can lapse into that it does not here, not that -- (i) it should be necessarily a bad thing, and (ii) doesn't that give everyone an excuse to not bother sampling the huge catalogue: listening to music should never feel like work and yet its a strange reaction, to excuse yourself of what should never be a duty. I suddenly remembered a Lou Reed interview w/Lester Bangs where he talks about MMM having bits of Beethoven and Xenakis -- he ws joking (or ws he?) but here its like I hear all sorts of music, processed and yet retaining enough of a character to make an impression. I forgot to cut the sound of the TV completely off and a gap of silence (one track to the next) became what I thought was a sample of Will Smith in Fresh Prince of Bel Air!!
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 November 2011 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
Another Merzbow Records "It compiles tracks from various other compilations and splits from 1991–2001, most of which are out of print". That fact puts me in a good mindset, makes me feel I'm covering a lot of Merzbow when I'm not and never will. This is another fact.
I actually went to get this because it compiled Ab Hunter, the first one of his I fell in love with (yes, there is room for love in Merzbow's world. This is a fact.) and I'm finding all sorts of joy -- pounding dance bits, metal, burstings of lava hot swooshes, wind machines turned up to 11000 (never mnd 11!) even the odd quiet moment dropped in!
This must be good to meditate to. This is another fact.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 9 September 2012 09:48 (eleven years ago) link
collabo with Mats Gustafsson out in Nov
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Sunday, 9 September 2012 10:24 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx37c2PNM3I
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 12 August 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
Search:
pic.twitter.com/ff4PSrs7rY— 🐖🐐🐓Merzbow🐄🐏🦃 (@MerzbowOfficial) June 9, 2018
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
Strange days. There's this Merzcast podcast thing wherein two US dudes talk about selected Merzbow albums with various guests. They only play tiny clips of the music. They also have a Patreon account wherein subscribers can access further podcasts, although these don't feature any of the music either. In the last few days Merzbow, or his earthly representative, has made clear his disapproval of the project and now they are plastering "Merzbow Disapproved" all over the podcasts (they haven't stopped doing them or taken them down AFAIK).
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 6 May 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
I approve. People should listen to more (unfiltered) Merzbow and less podcasts.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 6 May 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
But don't you think listening to podcasts might make people listen to more Merzbow?
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 6 May 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
he "disapproved" after 3 months prior posting a link to said podcast
― sarahell, Monday, 6 May 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
promoting it ... and ostensibly ... approving it?
also dude can't take a joke
He's been shutting down online fan talk for at least 5 years:
http://merzbow.proboards.com/thread/223/proposed-deletion-forum
He's admittedly not heard Merzcast but took offense to GX Juppiter-Larsen's anecdote of touring porn shops together in Holland.
― Yelploaf, Monday, 6 May 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
lol he was like, "my work isn't about that now." it's pretty much, control freak, stop you are embarrassing meeee tantrum ... someone posted a mock-up of a "merzbow-disapproved" t-shirt and he blocked them
― sarahell, Monday, 6 May 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
enjoying this new semi-ambient joint with Vanity Productions this morning.
― calzino, Sunday, 11 August 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link
thinking about that guy brushing his teeth at the merzbow show again pic.twitter.com/CNprrkSGVQ— ▀▀▀▀▀▀ (@immolations) October 4, 2020
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 October 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
le sigh
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 October 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
Cavity-free canines to maintain that neo-dada noise dude edge.
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 October 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
sad LOL at all the female concertgoers you can see eyeing him warily
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 5 October 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
don't want to be in splatter range when he drives that thing through his soft palate, probably
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 5 October 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
lol for a second I thought you were talking about the sheer sonic impact of a live Merzbow gig
― sleeve, Monday, 5 October 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
also, Cloud Cock OO Grand totally fucking rules, as does most of the early 90's material imo
― sleeve, Monday, 5 October 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
never really got into him but "annihiloscillator" is sounding good atm.
checking inzane johnny memes leading to that guy who wrote reviews of all the merzbox discs leading to this one on youtube. i think i like him when he's a little more structured.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 6 June 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
the Urashima label has been doing really great remastered vinyl reissues of some "classic" joints, also available digitally on their Bandcamp (searching Bandcamp for Merzbow is a mess, predictably)
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Monday, 6 June 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
somebody made a "Merzdős number" list on discogs:
https://www.discogs.com/lists/Merzd%C5%91s-number/986381
― budo jeru, Monday, 13 June 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
I treated myself to the Urashima remastered 2LP of Hybrid Noisebloom and it sounds superb, dense and squiggly
https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/hybrid-noisebloom
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 14 July 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
I just got the Hybrid Noisebloom CD used! I wonder if someone sold!
I also wonder what the right way to listen to 'Bow is!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
Merzbow in everyday life!from:Bright Remarks and Throwing Shade: What Are You Reading, Summer 2022?
I used to work in a bookshop where P.D. James was a regular customer. She was perfectly pleasant, quite chatty even, but ALWAYS used to complain about the music we played (which to be fair often strayed into the aggressively unlistenable). If I saw her coming I would always try and put a bit of Merzbow on.― Ward Fowler, Friday, June 24, 2022 9:02 AM (two weeks ago)
― Ward Fowler, Friday, June 24, 2022 9:02 AM (two weeks ago)
― dow, Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
xpost at medium volume on large speakers with a sub, IMO
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
also yeah I used to have that CD! but sold it prob 20 years ago. I still have a promo poster for it though, which is actually on my wall, so I was sorta obligated to buy the reissue
Urashima has some other fantastic Merzbow reissues as of late, some with bonus tracks
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
also lol @ that Ward story, get in here buddy
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
If/when I start making $X in my new career, I'm going to celebrate by buying a Merzbox
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
xpost Oh yes---also in the spirit ov Merzbow:
http://magicmonkeyboy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/drink-my-red-blood-by-richard-matheson.html^my fave matheson short story, which deeply affected horror-obsessed-young-me when i read it as a boy. the whole treatment of vampirism seems very similar to the vibe that george a romero was going for w/ his movie martin, and i know romero admitted that matheson was the primary inspiration behind NOTLD. you can see why stephen king is such a big matheson fan, too - that 'naturalistic'/everyday treatment of the supernatural. again, this story reminds me v much of parts of the tobe hooper tv movie of salem's lot - vampirism as teenage yearning/disaffection― Ward Fowler, Sunday, September 9, 2012 4:17 PM
^my fave matheson short story, which deeply affected horror-obsessed-young-me when i read it as a boy. the whole treatment of vampirism seems very similar to the vibe that george a romero was going for w/ his movie martin, and i know romero admitted that matheson was the primary inspiration behind NOTLD. you can see why stephen king is such a big matheson fan, too - that 'naturalistic'/everyday treatment of the supernatural. again, this story reminds me v much of parts of the tobe hooper tv movie of salem's lot - vampirism as teenage yearning/disaffection
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, September 9, 2012 4:17 PM
― dow, Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
guy brushing his teeth during Merzbow pic.twitter.com/PaOIl3ua1i https://t.co/q7kC1u0BFx— kate bush's husband (@airbagged) June 19, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 19 June 2023 10:37 (ten months ago) link
apparent resemblance of a younger Ivan Dorin coming to mind
― meisenfek, Monday, 19 June 2023 16:59 (ten months ago) link
how difficult would it be to modify the motors of a sonicare to be a MERZBRUSH?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 18:14 (ten months ago) link