the domestic version will be out on Oct. 20th for $12.08 (at MB at least)
quoted 21 lines Hello,>Hello,
>A couple of weeks ago, someone here was asking about Merzbow doing more
>beat oriented work. I saw the following on ForcedExposure's release list,
>and while it isn't exactly what was questioned, it may fit the description
>(notice the collaborators). [I'm not sure what to expect from this baed on
>MillePlateaux's normally abstract descriptions, but his tracks on _EL5_
>were fairly good d'n'b type stuff.]:
>>MATSUNAGA, KOUHEI: Upside Down CD (MP 54 CD). "Matsunaga is one of the
>>first Japanese artists to make a CD for Mille Plateaux. The 22 year old
>>student of architecture in Tokyo produced also under the name of Mou for
>>Electric Ladyland compilations and performed in Japan with Audio Active,
>>Roni Size, Panacea and many more. His first album contains also
>>cooperations with Japanese noise & electronic artists Merzbow & Masonna.
>>The album is characterised by the idea of taking noise back to the music
>>and demonstrating the brutality of ordering sounds into music. Upside Down
>>is neither pure industrial nor desktop music. The sound archives include
>>virtual sounds, which are not physical, but also physical sounds like the
>>human voice and traditional instruments. The music is floating the brittle
>>beauty of gloomy virtual and physical sounds, seems to begin nowhere, seems
>>to end nowhere. Music without center. A dense forest of reflections, cleft
>>mountains of a very special musical imagination." $15.00