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Post by acsenger on Sept 27, 2018 11:46:31 GMT -5
Thanks for the recommendations!
By the way, Steve Albini actually produced several Whitehouse albums.
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Post by davebowman on Oct 27, 2018 16:58:00 GMT -5
From an interview done in February 2018 that I'll post in the interview section: "A new work that hasn’t been released yet is a Split Double CD with Poland’s Opening Orchestra called “Merzopo” which contains pieces recorded in the autumn of 2016. Other plans for 2018 include reissuing some older works and releases of reworked archive pieces. The latter is going to be released by Slowdown Records, a Japanese record label and it will include 12 CDs with works dating from 1979 till 1985. Collaboration-wise, I have recently worked with Arcane Device and HEXA and those records will be released one of these days. There is also going to be a new Cut album, in collaboration with Balázs Pándi, Mats Gustafsson and Thurston Moore." Cover, details and track samples for the 'Merzopo' album are out - it's a double CD on Sub Rosa, release date 30th November 2018. More details here
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Post by andypandy380 on Oct 28, 2018 11:26:49 GMT -5
Ahh nice, was wondering when more info would surface around this one. I know nothing about the OPO but the samples sound pretty decent, it's got a bit of the harsh 90's about it. The wiki discography points to two more upcoming live albums, I've not been able to find any more dirt on them though. - Live at Mayhem 2018 (with vanity productions) There is footage of the show on Youtube, it was recorded in Copenhagen. - MONOAkuma ... A live CD supposedly due out in December.
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Post by acsenger on Nov 11, 2018 15:54:58 GMT -5
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Post by andypandy380 on Nov 12, 2018 4:35:48 GMT -5
I'm hoping to get the early cassettes box from a seller on discogs at some point. I've managed to get the 3RENSA Box and Early Sessions box, and have the Redrum CD and fb05 on the way. Soleilmoon have been selling the Early Cassettes box for some time and I noticed that the Merzbow indiemerch store are selling both box sets... although outside of the US the postage costs are pretty excessive.
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Post by andypandy380 on Nov 15, 2018 11:45:05 GMT -5
4iB Records just shared a picture of a test pressing of an upcoming LP by Merzbow/Dedali... "L'Age D'Or" I'm not familiar with Dedali but its the "nightmarish" ambient electronic project of Alessandro Bosello. He's done a handful of recent collaborative albums with Maurizio Bianchi.
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Post by acsenger on Nov 15, 2018 12:55:17 GMT -5
He’s apparently also one of the two people who run Menstrualrecordings.
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Post by andypandy380 on Nov 15, 2018 13:28:14 GMT -5
Ah that actually makes sense
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Post by andypandy380 on Nov 28, 2018 16:13:57 GMT -5
Just a heads up that the Merzbow discography page on Wikipedia lists a further four upcoming albums from Slowdown due in January, although I can't find any other info as yet... -Indigo Dada -Kaerutope -Agni Hotra (2nd Mix) -Antimony
Agni Hotra is disc 17 on the Merzbox, which could suggest that these are more archival and unreleased albums but we'll have to wait and see what it's all about I guess.
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Post by davebowman on Dec 11, 2018 0:49:32 GMT -5
'Collection 6' and 'Collection 8' have now been re-released on Menstrual Recordings.
I believe the entirety of 'Collection 8' was previously released on the Merzbox (the listed running times for the tracks given are only a few seconds out, so I'm guessing any differences are pretty minimal). I think this is the first time 'Collection 6' has appeared on CD?
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Post by acsenger on Dec 11, 2018 13:43:37 GMT -5
Indeed it seems that “Collection 6” hasn’t been re-released before and that “Collection 8” is also featured in the Merzbox.
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Post by pronk on Dec 16, 2018 17:59:52 GMT -5
Apologies if this has already been posted but there’s a new album on Sub Rosa called Merzopo, with 4 Merzbow tracks and 2 opening performance orchestra.
Both this and Monakuma are really fantastic imo
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Post by andypandy380 on Dec 21, 2018 19:35:20 GMT -5
That Merzbow/Dedali album has been released. LP limited to 250 copies. There is a short sample on soundcloud.
I'm looking forward to seeing what Merzopo is all about. A split across a 2CD package seems a bit of an odd concept these days (The name would suggest it's a collaborative effort) but Ive heard generally good things about it too.
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Post by acsenger on Dec 22, 2018 3:10:12 GMT -5
That Merzbow/Dedali sound sample is a whopping 56 seconds long... Which, in my view, is way too short for music like this. I like the artwork for this record, so I’m kind of intrigued by the music.
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Post by andypandy380 on Dec 22, 2018 4:47:21 GMT -5
Yeah I agree. Thought the sample was a bit underwhelming actually, very little stood out for me... but it is hard to judge from a snippet so short.
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Post by acsenger on Dec 22, 2018 17:23:26 GMT -5
That’s how I felt, too: the sample was unremarkable, but you can’t judge a 15 minute piece based on 56 seconds. Anyway, I think I’ll pass on this album.
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Post by davebowman on Dec 23, 2018 11:55:43 GMT -5
That Merzbow/Dedali album has been released. LP limited to 250 copies. There is a short sample on soundcloud. I'm looking forward to seeing what Merzopo is all about. A split across a 2CD package seems a bit of an odd concept these days (The name would suggest it's a collaborative effort) but Ive heard generally good things about it too. My copy of Merzopo arrived today, and sounds pretty great (I'm still trying to work out though if the Opening Performance Orchestra side of the split album is completely unreleated, or some mangled live remix using source material from the Merzbow disc - the liner notes are very minimal!) Apparently the CD is described as limited to 200 units, and appears to be sold out at the record label, so people might want to get their skates on if they are considering buying this one.
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Post by andypandy380 on Feb 11, 2019 18:32:51 GMT -5
I have Merzopo now but haven't given it much of a listen, it's sort of got buried under lots of other CDs I've bought recently. The OPO side of it got off to quite a promising start, I really liked the build up and the immersive dark ambient/musique concrete style of it - it gets better and better for about ten minutes only to turn into an hour of the same harsh noise analogue feedback which honestly came as a massive disappointment.
Has anyone heard much of the other stuff from the latter part of the year? I've collected some of it. Kaeurutope and Indigo Dada are worth getting hold of if you can track them down. Both are quite an interesting change of pace, the cover art for Kaerutope is somehow a pretty good representation of what it sounds like, sort of muffled and organic. (two of the tracks from it are on Merzbow's soundcloud in their entirety) It's hard to know what else to say about them really, not harsh noise albums for the most part but quite immersive and interesting. Collections 006 and 008 courtesy of Menstrual recordings are also surprisingly listenable. 006 has a surprising amount of flute/whistle/recorder playing with manipulation of other traditional instruments to the point that it almost sounds like some sort of middle eastern field recording. 008 is quite rhythmic and reasonably musical, but in a truly bizarre kind of way, everything has an incredibly unusual timbre to it. Maybe some have heard it before in the Merzbox but its nice to have it's own standalone CD.
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Post by davebowman on Feb 12, 2019 8:26:11 GMT -5
Finally got my sticky fingers on the 'Fuckexercise #2' release, which sounds great (I'm a sucker for these early Merzbow recordings). Did anyone ever get to the bottom of whether it's the same as 'Fuckexercise', or a different recording - and if it's the same what that #2 was all about?
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Post by venereologist on Feb 25, 2019 14:08:20 GMT -5
As interested as I was/am in some of the stuff from last year, more and more of the new granular cut-up/glitch stuff is getting to seem dull to me. It's beginning to sound too familiar. Too close to my own granular synthesis doodling from the past year+. Frankly, I need a better way to control parameters and a more powerful CPU to keep GranuLab interesting at this point. My computer crashes too often because it can't handle the processing power necessary to take GranuLab to more extreme settings, and controlling everything manually by clicking and dragging sliders with the mouse sounds pretty much just like parts of what I've heard on Kaeurutope... It was fun/exciting for a long time, but I've done about everything I can with various sources, and within my computer's limitations.
I've been enjoying the "classic" harsh analog stuff most lately. Tauromachine, especially. I've been listening to Tauromachine and Hybrid Noisebloom every day in the car. Tauromachine in particular transmits wonderfully through a standard, bass-heavy car stereo system, even though the speakers in my car only play out of the right channels, as I think there is a bad connection somewhere. Due to a recent personal tragedy, it seems to be all I can listen to. It's not emotional. It's not happy or sad. It's just a kind of invigorating (or alternately calming/dissociating) electricity that scrapes through me, and that's precisely what I need now.
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