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Post by andypandy380 on Mar 26, 2013 16:37:36 GMT -5
I'm actually enjoying Rattus Rattus a lot more than I initially thought I might, Quite fond of the way it sounds like someone's chucked an Atari 2600 and a dial-up modem into a food processor.
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Post by qweasd on Mar 26, 2013 19:01:06 GMT -5
I'm actually enjoying Rattus Rattus a lot more than I initially thought I might, Quite fond of the way it sounds like someone's chucked an Atari 2600 and a dial-up modem into a food processor. Glad to hear. I find it hard to believe how little attention that album received - Rattus Rattus is hands down one of the best Merzbow albums for a number of reasons that I would mention, but generally my posts of that nature seem to fall on deaf ears here. I trust you noticed the Degradation of Tapes material appearing in track 2? The link with 1930 is no small matter, considering the attention that album receives by virtue of its release on Tzadik. I trust others may have heard Rattus Rattus material popping up in 13 Japanese Birds?
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Post by andypandy380 on Mar 27, 2013 4:38:11 GMT -5
It's one of the albums i bought last week, there was a guy selling loads of them on ebay and i ended up buying 11 of them... definitely some real surprises among them, Rattus Rattus being one. Scene was the album that really threw a spanner in the works, didn't really have my hopes up for it but the sound of it is fantastic. I'm afraid I still haven't really caught on to a lot of this re-used material, I believe you when you say there are connections between the albums but I've not yet noticed it for myself. other than a part in Zophorus that sounds remarkably like a sped up Kamadhenu Pt1, (or I suppose Kamadhenu sounds like a slowed down Zophorus) whether I'm just jumping to conclusions there, I'm not sure... Zophorus is a cracking album too in my opinion
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Post by sharpedges on Mar 28, 2013 1:41:45 GMT -5
sorry, i should have been clearer: i find them pretty boring, and none of them have me wanting to return to listening to them again
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Post by acsenger on May 11, 2013 8:54:37 GMT -5
I listened to Megatone (the first collaboration with Boris) tonight and it bored me to death. It's more of a Boris album than Merzbow and while I do like some of their stuff, this is weak: there are 3 long tracks, each with so-called atmospheric electric guitar playing in the focus, which I personally find really uninspired and tedious (it's the kind of use of the electric guitar that I hate, along with 99% of guitar solos). Merzbow provides surprisingly monotonous computer noise. I think he plays the same minimalist crackling theme in the entire nearly 20 minutes of the first song. He gets better in the other two but not much. Thank god I'm selling this CD in a couple days. What are others' opinions on it?
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Post by acsenger on Aug 21, 2013 15:48:06 GMT -5
I've listened to Dead Leaves and Coma Berenices and while I don't dislike them, both are unremarkable in my opinion. I like CB's first track and the melodies at the beginning of two other tracks, but that's about it. Besides them, nothing stands out on the album for me -- and on DL I didn't hear basically any interesting parts at all. They're an OK listen but really dull by Merzbow standards, I think. Curious to hear what others think.
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Post by andypandy380 on Aug 21, 2013 17:40:01 GMT -5
I got Dead Leaves fairly recently, I feel much the same way, not a great deal stood out for me either, was just sort of OK and I felt there was very little variation among the sound of the album. I remember liking Coma Berenices, but I always thought it was remarkably similar to Merzbear, maybe not entirely in the way it sounds but they just have a certain feel about them. Merzbear is one of the albums that turned me into a Merzbow fan in the first place, so I sort of have a fondness for it.
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Post by acsenger on Aug 23, 2013 16:51:13 GMT -5
I haven't heard Merzbear but I assumed it was rhythmic like the other "Merz-" releases on Important Records. At least the ones I know are rhythmic: Merzbeat and especially Merzbuddha and Merzbuta. I assume that's not the case with Merzbear then?
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Post by andypandy380 on Aug 24, 2013 9:44:54 GMT -5
It's definitely not rhythmic in the sense of Merzbeat etc, and not as digital sounding/as loopy as Merzbuta and Merzbird. Each track is sort of based around a loop though, almost like a bassline in some parts with some quite varied clattering noise layered on top, much of which I assume is made with his 'junk guitar', and I guess it's quite synth heavy. I think Merzbear and Coma Berenices were released around much the same time, the same year at least.
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Post by acsenger on Jan 4, 2019 7:47:35 GMT -5
I just listened to the “Balance” CD by Merzbow and Ladybird. Merzbow can be heard in the left channel, while Ladybird, an amateur-sounding disco/pop act, can be heard in the right. While the concept of noise and disco/pop mixed together surely wouldn’t appeal to every Merzbow fan, I thought the concept was interesting, but I couldn’t take more than a couple songs by Ladybird, cause the singer simply can’t sing! I guess they were aiming for charming amateurism, but when the singer is so bad she shouldn’t even sing to her friends in a karaoke bar, the result can only be crap. I ended up listening to only the left channel, and Merzbow’s material is decent (although you can tell it wasn’t intended as a standalone release; it sounds like a rehearsal outtake). It’s from February 1997, so it’s very synth-heavy but also intense. It’s a shame Ladybird wasn’t fronted by a woman who could actually sing; in that case, this CD would probably be an enjoyable and unusual album instead of the half-assed effort it sadly is. What do others think?
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Post by trollh on Jan 4, 2019 16:25:03 GMT -5
I like the first two tracks... I dont remember i listened or liked any others...
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Post by fred on Mar 11, 2019 9:25:48 GMT -5
A Merzbow' CD I really get bored with is Merzbeat. I like the Merbird one but never entered into Merzbeat. Some others I do not enjoy are Aqua Necromancer, Remblandt Assemblage, Amlux, Collapsed 12 Floors, Doors Open at 8 AM, Paradise Pachinko, Senmaida, Timehunter, 1930, the duo ones with Balázs Pándi, Tranz with Elliot Sharp among few others. I do not think they are bad, but they are not my cup of tea. And so much other records from Merzbow I really love.
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Post by acsenger on Mar 11, 2019 15:29:18 GMT -5
I think “Merzbeat” is generally pretty good, but it certainly has weaker moments. A lot of the releases you mentioned I really like, but I could never get into “1930”. I just don’t get the hype about that one. It’s strange that I don’t like that album cause I love everything else he did in that era. I don’t care for the “Ducks” CD with Pándi either. I haven’t even bothered listening to their LP even though I bought it.
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Post by davebowman on Mar 16, 2019 7:16:33 GMT -5
'Hard Lovin' Man' - I only heard it recently for the first time, and it's pretty damn boring.
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