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01. Merzbow - Voicematrix Pt.1
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02. Merzbow - Noisematrix Pt.1
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03. Merzbow - Noisematrix Pt.2
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04. Merzbow - Kraft-Ebings Dick
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05. Merzbow - Voicematrix Pt.2
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ARTIST
MERZBOW
TITLE
Noise Mass
FORMAT
CD/BOOK
LABEL
ROOM40
CATALOG #
RM 4108CD
RM 4108CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
8/30/2019
Noise Mass
matches previously unavailable
Merzbow
works from 1994 with pieces from the limited-edition
Hole
album of the same year. This new edition charts the through line between records such as
Venereology
(1994) and
Pulse Demon
(1996), and includes a 28-page book, with exclusive photographs, and a long-form interview with
Masami Akita
charting the continuum of Merzbow from 1979 to the present day. On
Noise Mass
in the late 1980s, Masami Akita's Merzbow began to shift from being a studio project into a fully-fledged performative undertaking. It was a decisive period that began opening up new possibilities for his very particular approach to sound. Across the first half of the 1990s, Merzbow began touring extensively across Europe, the United States, and also in his homeland. It was during this period that the dynamism of Merzbow exploded and the physicality of volume became a primary driver for the experiential capacity of the work. Simultaneously, Merzbow began developing a range of self-made instruments and techniques for exploiting found objects as sound sources, which he used in combination with amplifiers to create a unique spectrum of noise and feedback both in the studio and live.
Noise Mass
catalogs a critical period within the continuum of Merzbow. It typifies the radical approaches he developed not just through his music, but also through mastering, pushing the very medium of digital audio to its limit through extreme post-production approaches. Of
Noise
, Masami Akita remarks, "This was around the time
Venereology
was released from Relapse and the work of Merzbow became more well known to the world. Far greater quantities of that Relapse release were pressed, and much more promotion along with it. In other words, the image of Merzbow's music as it is best known in the world today came from this time. The music of Merzbow has always been a continuum, the piece added this time to
Noise Mass
, the revised version of Hole, is a work utilizing a voice similar in style to Venereology. Listening to both
Hole
and
Venereology
, one can appreciate how these works constitute a thread of continuity through this period."
Noise Mass
is just that, a ritual of intensity and ferocity that denotes the force that is Merzbow's approach to noise in the absolute.
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