MERZBOW : Metalvelodrome

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Format: 4CD Box [USHI010]
Shipping Weight: 0.4lbs
Label: Urashima

4,786円

'Merzbow stands as the most important artist in noise music. The moniker of Japanese artist Masami Akita was born in Tokyo in 1979. Inspired by dadaism and surrealism, Akita took the name for his project from German artist Kurt Schwitters 's pre-war architectural assemblage The Cathedral of Erotic Misery or Merzbau. Just as Schwitters attacked the entrenched artistic traditions of his time with his revolutionary avant-garde collages, so too would Akita challenge the contemporary concept of what is called music. Merzbow would draw further influence from the futurist movement. Not only would he embrace the futurists' love of technology and the machine civilization, he would push their fondness for noise to the very boundaries of the extreme. Working in his home, he quickly gained notoriety as a purveyor of a musical genre composed solely of pure, unadulterated noise. By 1990's, Merzbow had a significant underground reputation for creating harsh and power electronics album. Metalvelodrome was released in 1993 by the fabulous Japanese label Alchemy as a four CDs box. The tracks fall right in-between the atmosphere of Merzbow 's early 90's work and his more hyper-aggressive mid 90's power electronics work and it's a charming mix, presenting the listener with some of the best elements from each phase of his evolution. Along with Noisembryo, Venereology and Pulse Demon, it represents the top of the immense artist's production. All tracks performed using cheap electronics and junk, no use for synthesizer and midi sampler. Remastered and revised at Munemihouse in 2019 by Masami Akita, this new version omits the two live tracks originally included in the first edition, but adds four bonus tracks. This reissue comes in awesome silver wooden box with laser engraving of the original artwork cover on front (and inside) and the Urashima logo on back. Each CD inside the wooden box comes housed in a cardboard wallet with new artwork by Masami Akita plus foldable and individually numbered certificate in 500 copies.'

Tracklist
1-1 Armless 9:22
1-2 Retro 1:05
1-3 G-Pot In Odd Meter 11:32
1-4 Morbid Dick 4:00
1-5 Polycain Type 4:13
1-6 Bluedelick 14:44
1-7 Two For Miles 19:23
2-1 Neon Worms 11:17
2-2 Traveling 11:52
2-3 No.3 9:04
2-4 HGL Made A Race For The Last Brain 9:21
2-5 Electric Moon Tum-Tik 4:59
2-6 Pink Surf Nitro 1:27
2-7 Scum Rider 1:57
2-8 Hitchhike To Kill 4:16
3-1 Die Fruchtbarkeit In Der Ehe / Another Crash For High Tide 46:35
3-2 Soul To Seoul 28:37
3-3 ~ Blood Sadist Goes To Nudist 0:31
4-1 Metal Man Has Hornet's Whip 6:16
4-2 Zero In The Scream 5:17
4-3 Shanty Tramp 4:03
4-4 Necrogrinder 24:54
4-5 Smelly Brain 8:36

Credits
Art Direction ? Abtechtonics
Composed By [Decomposed], Performer, Producer ? Masami Akita
Design [Visual & Logo Interpretation For Production By] ? Masahiko Ohno
Performer ? Reiko A (tracks: 1-7, 3-2), Seido (tracks: 1-7)
Photography By ? Antoine Bernhart, Hanayo Nakajima, Harrison Marks, Masami Akita, Naomi Hosokawa, Yoshihisa Takase

Notes
Produced for Alchemy Records.
Mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio, October 1993.
All performed by cheap electronics & junk.
No synthesizer & MIDI sampler.
Track 1-7: Hustle, Tokyo 4/4/93. DC-AC, Washington 27/9/90.
Track 3-2: Live at "The International Natural Fine Art Exhibition Of Kum-River" Kongju, Korea. August 1991.
Track 2-2 appeared on Noise Forest CD (Les Disques Du Soleil CD2)
Track 2-4 appeared on Altered States Of Consciousness CD (UPD 006)
Tracks 2-5 to 2-7 appeared on Rod Drug 93 7" (Way Out Sound Way Out 007)
Limited edition of 700 copies.
Packaged in a thick jewel case with a cardboard slipcover and a double-sided colour poster (24 × 36 cm).