I think I remember seeing reports about a year or so ago about Merzbow
making the jump to laptop. Well, I don't know if one thing has to do with
the other, but there are two new Merzbow albums which are much more in the
glitch vein than just strictly noise.
On Amlux and Merzbeat, both on Important Records, he combines his
characteristic walls of white noise with some loopish drum patterns as well
as some actual song structures. The songs are still too long in my opinion,
averging between 10 and 15 minutes, with an occasional 20 minute song.
Good news is that the best may be still yet to come- according to the press
report, a remix/reinterpretation/reconstruction cd is in the works of the
Amlux cd with contributions by-
Jack Dangers
Atom Heart
Bola
Negativland
Dj Spooky
Chicks on Speed
KK Null
Alec Empire
Nobukazu Takemura
Luke Vibert
Mouse on Mars
Hrvatski
Kid 606
and some others
The Jack Dangers remix is the 'hidden' track on the first pressing of the
Merzbeat cd. It's not as rhythmic as you would expect, in fact it's less
rhythmic and more noisy than the original Merzbow tunes. And it isn't a
hidden track if on the liner notes it says in big letters "LOOK FOR THE
HIDDEN TRACK: A JACK DANGERS REMIX OF THE SONG AMLUX AND IT'S TRACK NUMBER
66!" It sorta defeats the purpose of the whole thing (and what the purpose
is of hidden tracks anymore I don't know either.)
importantrecords.com