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 1991β2001, 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— πππMerzbowπππ¦ (@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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
he "disapproved" after 3 months prior posting a link to said podcast
― sarahell, Monday, 6 May 2019 16:00 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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— ββββββ (@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 inglΓ©s (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 "MerzdΕs 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.β Ward Fowler, Friday, June 24, 2022 9:02 AM (two weeks ago)
β 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/disaffectionβ 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
β 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