 |
|
You are not logged in! F.A.Q Log in Register |
 |
|
 |
 Now online (2)nanotech EpicMegatrax ...and 215 guests Last 5 registered Oplandisks nothingstar N_loop yipe foxtrotromeo Browse members... |
 |
Members 8025Messages 2614297 Today 18 Topics 127557 |
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
After having seen the new warp-artist satanstornade.. i downloaded some of this guy masami akita's stuff.. all merzbow.. i couldn't believe my ears when i heard it, i thought GantzGraf was noise (though i like GG).. man! i should've been warned, cause it said: 'Category: Noise' i really couldn't listen to this, it drove me nuts! is there anyone who actually likes Merzbow??? ..maybe i get into it after a while, it happened with GantzGraf and some other stuff but i doubt if it will happen with this akita-dude (although i didn't like the 'music' i'm interested in Akita, i saw some pictures of him performing and also read about him, he's an interesting guy) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i have 'a taste of...' in streaming (you can find it at ), and some tracks in mp3: ultra marine blues mirage aura the purity of chaos with cosmos (don't know if it's a fake, at least it sounds very like the other merzbow i have) worms plastic earthbound and the ae remix of ecobondage ending (which sounds 99% ae and 1% merzbow) and dharma should come tomorrow if the mailman doesn't steal it °_° and music for performance v1 for christmas! so yes, i like merzbow. :) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i think that if a thing like 'anti-music' exists, it must sound like merzbow. (: |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
A friend of mine loves merzbow, because is the farthest you can go from human music... I kinda like it, but I have to be in the mood for it =/ Has any of you heard the Autechre remix of Merzbow? Very, very good... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yes. but strangely, it's not as mood-exigeant as some other music (lp5, ep7...). |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I got SatansTornade but I have nothing else by Masami apart from one 'Bastard Noise' track. It done some fucked up things with my thinking and well worth it for me. It's totally chill when you compare it to Nic Endo's new album tho. I'm glad I got SatansTornade but I don't think i'm going to run around buying loads of Merzbow. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Im not sure about Merzbow...its not the sorta stuff u put on every day...it fits a mood. It reminds me of the type of feedback and distorted radio sounds I used play around with years ago - they were more accessible, instantly sounded complex and were easier to create than the intense effort that is required to produce a harmonic, structured piece of music....he's been a bit naughty getting away with releasing relatively random stuff that we could all do if we were feeling lazy....but fair play to him. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I turned this guy's stuff off after about 10 seconds of each track on a Merzbox sampler. Godawful stuff but I'm aware that's point. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Merzbow is pure ecstasy. His music is beautifully complex for all its randomness. And the volume is just divine. I have about 12 Merzbow/ Akita releases with another 15 coming my way this week. Pure bliss. The most comprehensive webspot for m'bow: www.oppositerecords.com/artists/merzbow.html |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
12 and another... 15?!! °_° whoa what are they? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Not all of his music is like that. Satans tornade is really simular to his album Pulse deomon. Try his other albums like tauromachine, or maldoror. He has over a hundred albums, so dont get turned off by the first "song" you hear. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
What are they? CD's with music, what do you think they are? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Hmmm, Satanstornade is like a pop version of "Pulse Demon", it sunds to me as though Russell and Akita really had some fun making it. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
which releases i meant... ' _ - |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
im really not familiar with russel hasswell's stuff, only his tribute album to merzbow. do you think he looks like henry rollins? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
uzim, where does your avatar come from? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i like MERZBOW my admiration comes from a combination of respect of the artform of Merz, Fluxist, and avant garde, and the simple fact that he is one twisted man who does soundtracks for bondage and writes books on the art of noise and sex! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
ah, thnx. i read some good comics on there, quality. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
you're welcome jupitah! about merzbow... the cover of tauromachine, it's an , i'm sure. i'd be curious to see the original pic he used... if anyone wants to try with a reflective cylinder on the cover or something (or maybe you can do it with photoshop?)... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah i have it on mp3 its great! but it's cutoff at around 10 minutes, or it least is sounds that way. is it supposed to end so suddenly? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
uzim > shit, seems like he tricked it more than a single anamorphosis... i guess it's a sexual (or at least naked) pic! ' _ - Netlon Sentinel > mine is 11:22 long. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
thanks. looks like i have the same version you have, then |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
if you like Merzbow, you'll probably love Masonna. If you DON'T like Merzbow, then try Masonna instead. Very, very good. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
so... Dharma! the first three tracks are very nice, but a little short (5, 4 and 7 minutes long)... i couldn't say which i like most between the three, they're all quite different, the first ('I'm coming to the garden... no sound, no memory') with his (relative ;)) quietness, the third ('piano space for marimo kitty') with little weird piano melody, repeated on the whole track but sometimes drowned in the arabesques of noise... track 2 (akashiman) doesn't have such a particular particularity but is as good as 1 and 3. track 4 seems splitted into two parts (frozen guitars and sunloop / 7E 802) and is much longer (over 30 minutes!!)... i'd say part one (first 12 or 15 minutes) is 'frozen guitars and sunloop'. it is the best part of the album, it is merzbow, yes, but it has some kind of beauty in it, and even if it's noise, it sounds... subtle. second part though, maybe '7E 802', isn't as good, it is a bit tedious and doesn't do much for me. it is not really bad, but seems pale in comparison of the other tracks. the packaging is a digipak with a simple but somewhat classy front cover (all white with a "reflective" ginkgo leaf), inside it is coloured, not bad except that the typography used inside (for track listing and the title again) really suck. it would have been much nicer if they used another font. all in all, i'm pretty satisfied, it's a good album. :) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
(1, 2, 3 : good ; 4a : very good ; 4b : ok) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
ill try out masonna but I do like some of the merzbow ive heard. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Messageboard index
|
|||||||||
