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