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quoted 4 lines also a collaborative LP with SBOTHI (I think) which was pretty nifty.

> also a collaborative LP with SBOTHI (I think) which was pretty nifty. > fact, there was a period of time in which a staggering number of mail > collaborations w/ Akita were being put out, but don't fool yourself into > thinking that they vary that much according to his collaborator.

yeah i was lucky to find this one in a 2nd hand record store here in Melbourne. there is a numbered limited edition split 7" of 500 that comes with the SBOTHI collaboration as well. you get a bit of the classical record manipulation and also cars being ripped apart kinda metallic sound. as well as putting out the retrospective 50 CD box set, Extreme have got a 10 track low-priced MERZBOW SAMPLER that spans the early material action pieces through to the 90s feedback style..

quoted 5 lines There's also a bunch of odds and ends, including _Music for Bondage

> There's also a bunch of odds and ends, including _Music for Bondage > Performance_ (CD on Extreme), which is more of a chilled-out ambient > A lot of people seem to like this, but I suspect it's more because they > secretly think it "proves" that Akita is not a one-trick pony than an > indicator of relative quality.

i got into Merzbow hearing some of the tracks off this on late night public radio. at the time i thought it was some of the most beautiful music i had ever heard, and the whole package of the CD with the liner notes explaining the recording makes it a winner. for sake of description it's more "isolationist" ambient than "lie down and be reborn" ambient..

quoted 6 lines There's also a pretty amusing stab at Factory-style new wave, documented

> There's also a pretty amusing stab at Factory-style new wave, documented > the cassette-only release _Aka Meme_ (V2 Archief, NL). Akita must've > figured out that it was too confusing to put these things out under the > Merzbow franchise, because lately he's been using his own name for these > weird sojourns (as in the _Prosperity of Vice_ and the really terrible > 12" on Mego).

i haven't been following Akita's output closely, but AKA MEME sounds rather interesting. then again i thought the SCUMTRON Remix CD (Blast First UK) would be interesting too, but it just seemed as if most of the remixers (let me cite Panasonic and Autechre here) had no clue on what to do with the source material! the Bernard Gunter track on it rocks though. chase up BALANCE (Cripple Dick Hot Wax GER) for the ideal Merzbow party accompaniment. it's a split collaboration with a pop group called Ladybird and the cool thing is that you get Akita in say the left speaker and trashy bubblegum pop on the right. so you can adjust the balance control on your hi fi to suit your taste in soft and hard music accordingly.. imho Mego seems to have put out some really *boring* releases lately under the auspices of `serious' work. so what if Goem use medical sine wave generators. give a fuck? context over content = hype.. [74x'y"] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org