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quoted 3 lines Can anyone tell me whether the Merzbow remix disc is worth shelling my

> Can anyone tell me whether the Merzbow remix disc is worth shelling my > hard earned out for ? Just that I may as well ask here as this kind of > stuff doesn't appear too often locally here in Adelaide Australia ..

hi. don't mean to be the slow puppy on this thread, but anyway(s) Extreme here in Melbourne are releasing a 50 disc Merzbow compilation. interesting to note that there are supposed to be collaborations with local artists in the big set. time to start hunting for that loose change.. [flaky]

On 17 Nov 97, Chuan Lim wrote: (idm) Re: Merzbow Remixes

quoted 2 lines Can anyone tell me whether the Merzbow remix disc is worth

> > Can anyone tell me whether the Merzbow remix disc is worth > > shelling my hard earned out for ?

I second this question, since I recently saw a black covered digipak titled ??? Toyko? (sorry, it was a fleeting glance and I can't remember) here that was stacked amongst the CD singles but was priced in the full-length region. What is this CD - what is its total running time and is it any good? I * "Incomplete without surface noise" - Autechre

At 05:37 PM 11/16/97 +0200, you wrote:

quoted 2 lines I second this question, since I recently saw a black covered digipak

>I second this question, since I recently saw a black covered digipak >titled ??? Toyko?

Probably "Tokyo."

quoted 1 line What is this CD - what is its total running time and is it any good?

>What is this CD - what is its total running time and is it any good?

That's a live album.. It's uhh..65 minutes or so. It's noise, played live. If you don't like noise, you won't like it.

I just picked up an art 'zine called Frieze with a 3" CD attached to the cover - There is a Merzbow cut, and 2 others on it. Nice article on the underground noise scene in Japan. They talk about the 20000V Club and some of the people involved with the 'scene'. I can not speak for the 'Tokyo' release, but if it is anything like this mini-CD, it is the next step in the evolution of noise music. Very loud - grating irritating - unnerving - punishing - painful - beauty. Intelligent - yes Dance - no - (well, YMMV) Music - ? I'm looking forward to mixing it into a set one day. Hi - Irene - hows your spring ? ;)

quoted 6 lines Can anyone tell me whether the Merzbow remix disc is worth

> > > Can anyone tell me whether the Merzbow remix disc is worth > > > shelling my hard earned out for ? > > "Incomplete without surface noise" > - Autechre >

quoted 1 line At 05:37 PM 11/16/97 +0200, you wrote:

>At 05:37 PM 11/16/97 +0200, you wrote:

quoted 2 lines I second this question, since I recently saw a black covered digipak

>>I second this question, since I recently saw a black covered digipak >>titled ??? Toyko?

quoted 1 line What is this CD - what is its total running time and is it any good?

>>What is this CD - what is its total running time and is it any good?

Andrij Kopytko <ogre@pop3.netaxs.com> replied:

quoted 1 line Probably "Tokyo."

>Probably "Tokyo."

quoted 2 lines That's a live album.. It's uhh..65 minutes or so. It's noise, played live.

>That's a live album.. It's uhh..65 minutes or so. It's noise, played live. >If you don't like noise, you won't like it.

Hmmmm ... this is obviously a joke? If you had the album, which is a collab. with John Watermann called "Brisbane - Tokyo Interlace" (Cold Spring 1995), in order to know that it's ~ 65 minutes long, I would think you would know the title. -Patrick