I would second the recommendation of "1930" (Tzadik), but I think the best
place to start with Merzbow would be the "Batztoutai With Memorial Gadgets"
double CD on RRR (or the vinyl if you can find it)- it's really diverse in
terms of how the tracks sound and how they're put together, as apparently
many of the tracks consist of Masami cutting up and resplicing fairly
classic pieces of musique concrete, and so it avoids just being a single
huge monolithic wall of noise, which is what he tends to go for these days.
Drew
np: Solutiore of Stareau 3 CDR- really nice. . .
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