Merzbow albums... (1 Viewer)

[piratio]

Want to get a little more...

[I already have Merzbox and a few collabs.]

Ideas?

 

[jimmybreeze]

Get the merzcar
http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/eerie/rcar.html

 

[BC]

"dharma" is the only one of his own albums anyone needs. unlike most of his output, this is well-constructed musically.

the best thing with his name on it is "sleeper awakes on the edge of abyss", which is a gloriously soothing ambient masterpiece. it is however 99% christoph heemann (of mirror) and at most 1% masami akita.

 

[ddmurph]

the john wiese collaboration from a few years back ("multiplication") is amazing. total face melting stuff. turmeric is another great latter day merzbow. i've never gotten round to picking up a lot of the apparently essential early to mid-90's albums but rainbow electronics, music for bondage performance, noisembryo and pulse demon all seem to be generally highly regarded. from the earlier material, batztoutai with material gadgets is great, although i only have the "re-created" CD version ... sounds like nurse with wound (sorry brian!) meets smegma (CD1 that is; CD2 is more his extremely loud 90's onwards sound). the smegma collaboration is pretty good too actually, although i preferred the smegma plays merzbow side

i can burn some stuff up for you if you want barry. pm me your address if you want

 

[ddmurph]

oh yeah, amlux and the two tzadik albums, 1930 and sphere, are all great too. as is dharma

 

[photon]

I think the best single thing he's ever done is the track "Ab Hunter" on the FatCat Split Series 1-8 album, which is simply awesome.

The collaboration he did with Smegma is pretty good, too.

 

[rotten tropics]

the earlier the better i think for the most part.
pulse demon is also quite good.
i'm happy having 3 or 4 records and that's enough for me.