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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]

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

David Larson <dlarson@etcconnect.com> wrote:

quoted 6 lines I just picked up an art 'zine called Frieze with a

>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'.

Interesting ... I bought this 3" a while ago for about $6, but it never came with a mag. I've seen it at various stores being sold by itself ... Would be nice to see the mag, although I've got (among other things) both issues of Ongaku Otaku to overload me with info on the state of noise in Japan. ;-) BTW, the other two tracks are great as well ... a nice outtake from Masonna's "Ejaculation Generater" (sic) and yet another live track from Otomo & Eye's famous Disobay gig in '95. -Patrick