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         |  USACID
             from Death Valley (Zambia) on 2003-07-14 21:34 [#00779093] Points: 788 Status: Lurker
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 | who is this or what is this?  I've hear the name constantly now...i thought it was a member here on the board...
 
 
 
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         |  disasemble
             from United States on 2003-07-14 21:36 [#00779094] Points: 1448 Status: Regular
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 | japanese noise artist 
 good if you like lots of noise.
 bad if not.
 
 
 
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         |  handoverthecart
             on 2003-07-14 21:36 [#00779096] Points: 2017 Status: Lurker
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 | i am no expert on merzbow and i own no albums from him, but he is a noise artist.
 
 
 
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         |  USACID
             from Death Valley (Zambia) on 2003-07-14 21:37 [#00779097] Points: 788 Status: Lurker
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 | same line as venetian snares and afx? 
 
 
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         |  disasemble
             from United States on 2003-07-14 21:37 [#00779098] Points: 1448 Status: Regular
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 | not really 
 i dont consider venetian snares or afx noise
 
 
 
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         |  flim nanou
             from out of the frying pan (United States) on 2003-07-14 21:39 [#00779102] Points: 545 Status: Lurker
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 | merzbow is an epic noise genius but it's real genuine noise not edgelevel popscience music
 like autechre. just noise
 and I like it
 but most people think it's ugly I suppose
 
 
 
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         |  USACID
             from Death Valley (Zambia) on 2003-07-14 21:47 [#00779109] Points: 788 Status: Lurker
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 | really? christ, there are certain track i have to turn down cuz they hurt me ears..
 
 
 
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         |  disasemble
             from United States on 2003-07-14 21:49 [#00779111] Points: 1448 Status: Regular
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 | well, loudness doesnt equal noise unless you clip and muddle everything to fuck. i mean, most idm has literal "noise" in
 it. but afx and venetian snares have melodies and rhythmic
 structures (though, to be fair, some of them are masked more
 than others)
 
 
 
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         |  occfactor
             from Helsinki (Finland) on 2003-07-15 01:22 [#00779154] Points: 257 Status: Regular
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 | Get Maldoror. It features Merzbow and Mike Patton. It's just insane. I listen to it maybe twice per year, but somehow I
 always seem to enjoy it..
 
 Hmm.. maybe that means I'm insane too :O
 
 
 
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2003-07-15 02:09 [#00779199] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator
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 | i'd recommend time hunter or aqua necromancer to start with 
 
 
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         |  morge
             from United Kingdom on 2003-07-15 02:26 [#00779205] Points: 859 Status: Lurker
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 | when u say noise: u mean like white noise an artistic sophisticated version of v/vm
 
 
 
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         |  uzim
             on 2003-07-15 06:53 [#00779408] Points: 17716 Status: Lurker
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 | here and here you have sound samples/mp3 streams...
 
 it gives you an idea! =)
 
 
 
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         |  surrounded
             from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-07-15 07:09 [#00779431] Points: 3787 Status: Regular | Followup to uzim: #00779408
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 | aaargh, that really sounds exactly like what i always imagined merzbow would sound like!
 
 I can hardly tolerate listening to it (had the speakers
 turned down to almost silence, and it still hurts my
 ears). I wish i could enjoy it, because hearing people talk
 about him always makes me curious. And it's just a
 fascinating guy i guess, his views on music and with the
 ridiculous size of his discography :-p
 But this is really not for me i'm afraid.
 
 
 
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         |  Co-existence
             from Bergen (Norway) on 2003-07-15 07:31 [#00779458] Points: 3388 Status: Regular
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 | Go see him live! You'll have a whole new perspetive on noise after a live Merzbow-experience. I guess most people simply
 don't have a soundsystem suitable for listening to Merzbow
 on record. Be sure to bring along your earplugs tho..
 
 
 
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