Artist: Merzbow: mp3 download Genre(s): Industrial Rock Alternative Experimental Indie ROck: Alternative Discography: Turmeric (Disc 4 - Yellow) Year: 2006 Tracks: 4 Turmeric (Disc 3 - Purple) Year: 2006 Tracks: 2 Turmeric (Disc 2 - Green) Year: 2006 Tracks: 4 Turmeric (Disc 1 - Orange) Year: 2006 Tracks: 4 Bloody Sea Year: 2006 Tracks: 3 Sphere Year: 2005 Tracks: 4 Mini Cycle Yoshino Tamago Yono Year: 2004 Tracks: 1 Last of Analog Sessions (CD3) Year: 2004 Tracks: 3 Last of Analog Sessions (CD2) Year: 2004 Tracks: 1 Last of Analog Sessions (CD1) Year: 2004 Tracks: 1 Kim Cascone Year: 2004 Tracks: 3 Pulse Demon Year: 2003 Tracks: 8 Merzbeat Year: 2002 Tracks: 66 Amlux Year: 2002 Tracks: 4 Hard Lovin' Man Year: 2001 Tracks: 2 Dharma Year: 2001 Tracks: 4 Yantra Material Action (Merzdisc 09) Year: 2000 Tracks: 8 Solonoise (Merzdisc 10) Year: 2000 Tracks: 3 Remblandt Assemblage (Merzdisc 03) Year: 2000 Tracks: 8 Paradoxa Paradoxa (Merzdisc 07) Year: 2000 Tracks: 2 OM Electrique Year: 2000 Tracks: 4 Nil Vagina Tape Loops (Merzdisc 12) Year: 2000 Tracks: 3 Metal Acoustic Music Year: 2000 Tracks: 1 Mechanization Takes Command (Merzdisc 14) Year: 2000 Tracks: 7 Material Action For 2 Microphones (Merzdisc 08) Year: 2000 Tracks: 3 Material Action 2 (Merzdisc 13) Year: 2000 Tracks: 2 Door Open At 8 AM Year: 1998 Tracks: 7 Aqua Necromancer Year: 1998 Tracks: 5 Tauromaschine Year: 1997 Tracks: 7 Merzbox 40: Music For True Romance Vol.1 Year: 1997 Tracks: 5 Merzbox 26: Live In Khabarovsk, CCCP - I'm Proud By Rank Of The Workers Year: 1997 Tracks: 2 1930 Year: 1997 Tracks: 5 Mercurated Year: 1996 Tracks: 4 Akasha Gulva Year: 1996 Tracks: 1 Noizhead Year: 1995 Tracks: 5 Mort Aux Vaches - Locomotive Breath Year: 1995 Tracks: 3 Locomotive Breath Year: 1995 Tracks: 3 Horn of the Goat Year: 1995 Tracks: 5 Venereology Year: 1994 Tracks: 4 Music For Bondage Performance Year: 1991 Tracks: 6 Great American Nude - Crash For Hi-Fi Year: 1991 Tracks: 8 Collection Era Vol.3 (Merzdisc 06) Year: 1981 Tracks: 8 Collection Era Vol.2 (Merzdisc 05) Year: 1981 Tracks: 7 Collection Era Vol.1 (Merzdisc 04) Year: 1981 Tracks: 3 Collection Era Vol. 3 (Merzbox, 2000) Year: 1981 Tracks: 7 Collection Era Vol. 2 (Merzbox, 2000) Year: 1981 Tracks: 8 Collection Era Vol. 1 (Merzbox, 2000) Year: 1981 Tracks: 3 Spiral Honey Year: Tracks: 7 Multiplication Year: Tracks: 6 Merzzow Year: Tracks: 11 There is no need to debate: Merzbow stands as the most significant creative mortal in noise music. The front-runner moniker of Japanese Masami Akita appears on hundreds of albums. The diagnose comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' far-famed wreak "Merzbau," which he as well called "The Cathedral of Erotic Misery." Akita's option reflects his warmheartedness for detritus artistic creation (through Schwitters' collage method acting acting) and his fascination with ritualized eroticism, viz. in the shape of fetishism and bondage. All these elements nominate the Merzbow character. Akita was innate in Tokyo in 1956. He grew up with psychedelic rock-and-roll and began to play the guitar in progressive stone cover bands, in special with drummer Kiyoshi Mizutani, world Health Organization would continue a sponsor collaborator. After high school, Akita studied literature and optic liberal arts in college. There he ascertained free jazz and studied earnestly the ideas of Dada and the surrealists (El Salvador Dali remained a big influence). Akita gradually withdrew himself from the rock-and-roll scene and began experimenting in his basement with disordered tape recorders and feedback. In 1979, Akita created his own cassette label, Lowest Arts & Music, and released the beginning of many albums, Metal Acoustic Music. Infiltrating the then-burgeoning net of subway system industrial music, Merzbow lined up one cassette subsequently another, packaged in Xeroxed collage artistic production. His coarse racket eschewed the rude anger institute on this scene (Throbbing Gristle, Man Is the Bastard) to strive a zen province, tranquilize inner the rage. Mizutani from time to time appeared on some of the raw corporeal, as would former musicians (care Reiko A), just in perfume Merzbow is Akita and would always be. The artist/group made low-budget unrecorded appearances in Tokyo, scarcely his main focus remained on his art intersection and his writing (he is learned in twentieth 100 art and the Japanese custom of bondage). In 1983, Akita's first base LP, Material Action 2 (NAM), was released on Chaos/Eastern Works in Japan. Out of the mail-art network and into the specialisation track record shops, Merzbow began to pull in some eyes and ears. Akita started a irregular label, ZSF Produkt, which put out dozens of 7"s, EPs, LPs, and more cassettes. By the late '80s, other record labels had begun to pay pursuit, that is to say the Australian Extreme. Collaborative (1988), an LP recorded with Achim Wollscheid, brought the Merzbow good to more international listeners, and slowly Akita invaded other territories. By the mid-'90s, his repute verged on the mythic. He toured Europe and the U.S., and had high(er)profile releases on Extreme, Rrr, and Alchemy. In 1997, Extreme announced it was putt in production a 50-CD box arrange, Merzbox. It was finally released trey years by and by. It includes 30 reissues dating as far back as 1979, and 20 discs worth of unreleased material, and remains the biggest melodious program line in the history of noise music. More widely usable albums for Alien8 Recordings (Greenish blue Necromancer, 1998) and Tzadik (1930, 1998), combined with incessant worldwide touring, have taken the creative person taboo of mythological status and propelled him into the fabled. In the late '90s, Akita started to collaborate with other artists extraneous the Merzbow nickname, viz. with Mike Patton (as Maldoror) and Otomo Yoshihide. Both a prolific composer and performing artist, Akita continued his drawing string of Merzbow releases into the following 100, including 2001's Frog, 2003's V, 2004's Merzbird, and 2006's two-volume correct (released months apart) Minazo. 2007 byword the acquittance of Merzbear and Synth Destruction. |