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Post by Bucketfel on Oct 14, 2013 20:36:31 GMT -5
Hey everyone, sorry i havent been posting much lately. Im extremly swamped. As i tried to catch up with Merzbow News i saw a bunch of new tracks posted on his soundcloud out of which it stands out that "Gman//HJYUGTF2" and "Samidara" are both posted in their entirety. Yeah, full albums to be heard through his soundcloud page and he even allowed the tracks to be downloaded for free! That is all too surprising to me and i did my best to let everyone know about this. However, one small tweet caught my attention. Fellow twitter user by the name of Merzbow_bot posted: don't buy a cassette from midnightsearecords don't support fucking rip-off label download from soundcloud instead! Midnight Sea Records was the label who released "Gman//HJYUGTF2" early last year. But this was far too surprising and i did a more thorough investigation to see that the wikipedia page for the album credits the user as the real Merzbow. Additionally the label is also defunct. Apparently broke. So, yeah, i just wanted to let you know what was going on. Do any of you have any idea as to what the hell is happening with this? That tweet is the only thing saying that the label is a rip-off. Also, "Samidara" is also available for free and downloadable, so what does it mean for that other album? So many unanswered questions
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Post by trollh on Oct 18, 2013 6:28:19 GMT -5
About download: Its unfortunately in weird ogg vorbis... A better 320kbps MP3 RIP can be found here: q.gs/4veEc
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Post by andypandy380 on Oct 19, 2013 18:16:48 GMT -5
have you guys seen the front page of the website also? apparently there is a sham Merzbow Bandcamp page alongside all this. I find it confusing that there are now links to facebook and twitter pages. The twitter page is "merzbow_bot" which upon first seeing it I assumed was just a crazed fan... the 'Save me Merzbow' meme with the pic of Minazo? if you scroll down, they've been posting the same handful of messages repeatedly. Can't be the man himself surely? The facebook page is 'sanctioned by merzbow' I recall reading somewhere that it was run by the guy from Hydrahead records? but I could have got that completely wrong.
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Post by neokorosu on Oct 19, 2013 19:13:09 GMT -5
The whole story is weird indeed. I also wasn't sure if that merzbow_bot is official. But when even the offical website is now showing a link to this twitter-account, then it must be the real merzbow. Maybe that account is mostly run by an automation software, i can't imagine that Akita himself was repeating the same messages all the time. The Minazo meme is doubtful, but maybe we are just underrating Akita's humour. ;D
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Post by Bucketfel on Oct 21, 2013 21:39:57 GMT -5
I talked to Merzbow_bot about the issue and he explained it all. He is not Masami himself though, Masami isnt very fond of social media apparently but tries to rely news to the fans as best as he can.
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Post by neokorosu on Oct 22, 2013 16:50:04 GMT -5
That's interesting. Thank you for the clarification. I think, that i can understand Akita's way of thinking about social media in some way. It seems to be, that it is in these days kind of a "standard" to be in a social network. Sure, they are good to inform fans, but in my opinion it would be better to have only one reliable source ( e.g. a blog), instead of four different sources, while you are even not able to say if it is official or not.
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Post by Bucketfel on Oct 23, 2013 13:15:24 GMT -5
That's interesting. Thank you for the clarification. I think, that i can understand Akita's way of thinking about social media in some way. It seems to be, that it is in these days kind of a "standard" to be in a social network. Sure, they are good to inform fans, but in my opinion it would be better to have only one reliable source ( e.g. a blog), instead of four different sources, while you are even not able to say if it is official or not. Fans helping fans seems to be the most reliable and accurate way to getting information across, which is what we set out to do here, right? With this forum and the twitter feed, i've tried to rely his message to as many people as best as i can and people have more or less agreed to believe what i write to be accurate information (on most cases) but at the end we are just all fans. It's a shame to see Merzbow have problems with dealings with labels. He should have a main bandcamp-style page run by Masami's team where all albums are published digitally (for those albums that are way too expensive) and with links to each individual label in charge of each release so that the interested fans can buy the physical album if they like. Which by the way reminds me that Masami posten on the main page of the site that there's an actual Merzbow bandcamp page but its not run by him. ITS A FALSE PAGE, DO NOT BUY FROM THAT ONE!!
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Post by neokorosu on Oct 23, 2013 14:40:19 GMT -5
Perhaps my previous post was not precisely enough. I didn't want to criticize the forum or your twitter service. Beside that, I think that these two sources are the best to gather information. I mean, your twitter service has got more followers than merzbow_bot. Excuse me please, but it was not meant to be quarrelsome.
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Post by Bucketfel on Oct 24, 2013 12:05:07 GMT -5
Perhaps my previous post was not precisely enough. I didn't want to criticize the forum or your twitter service. Beside that, I think that these two sources are the best to gather information. I mean, your twitter service has got more followers than merzbow_bot. Excuse me please, but it was not meant to be quarrelsome. Oh no its ok, dont worry about it. I do have more followers but thats because i started earlier too and was the only one providing the service. I told merzbow_bot if Masami wanted the account i have no problem giving it to him
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Post by neokorosu on Oct 30, 2013 14:17:05 GMT -5
Why is "Gman//HJYUGTF2" and "Samidara" not available to download from soundcloud anymore? For "Samidara" there is now a link to Placenta's blog instead the download link. Is the problem with the labels already solved?
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Post by yantramusk on Oct 30, 2013 20:39:44 GMT -5
Looks like LPs are still being sent out from Placenta. Soleilmoon Recordings had posted on Facebook as of Oct 28th stating "Samidara" is a new-ish (released in July) Merzbow LP coming soon to Soleilmoon. 250 copies on yellow vinyl. Reserve a copy today"
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Post by neokorosu on Oct 31, 2013 13:28:51 GMT -5
Ah, thanks! I thought that this blog doesn't exist anymore. Just of curiosity, but why is the FLAC version so huge? It is bigger than an regular audio CD.
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Post by trollh on Nov 1, 2013 5:36:58 GMT -5
Cause its 24/96 rip, and that was re-ripped into WAV (16/24 rip, thats the regular CD rate), standard FLAC, and 320kbps.
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Post by Bucketfel on Nov 1, 2013 21:07:01 GMT -5
Trollh, we discussed this. No posting links to download the albums unless posted by Masami himself. I erased the comment, i hope you dont take offense in that
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Post by trollh on Nov 2, 2013 6:46:43 GMT -5
Pfff.....
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Post by andypandy380 on Nov 11, 2013 13:05:48 GMT -5
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Post by neokorosu on Nov 11, 2013 17:29:46 GMT -5
5$?! Well, this is tempting. Was it in the past also so cheap? I have to find out, how much shipping to Europe would cost. From 100 copies, I wonder how many are left.
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Post by andypandy380 on Nov 11, 2013 17:37:51 GMT -5
There was only like 30 left I think and they said half of them had already gone. So act fast! I think it was pretty cheap originally too, I dont remember for sure
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Post by acsenger on Nov 11, 2013 19:44:16 GMT -5
Thanks, andypandy380, I've already ordered a copy. I can't believe shipping to Australia was only $5! They either made a mistake or they're losing money on postage. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the tape!
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Post by neokorosu on Nov 13, 2013 12:41:37 GMT -5
Nooo! It is out of stock! I had thought too long about it and now it's gone.
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