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10 unusual facts about Merzbow


Absolutego

Excluding the Merzbow collaboration Sun Baked Snow Cave, it is the only "one-long-song" Boris album that is not broken down into multiple parts.

Altered States of America

The song titles on the remix disc were inspired by the Merzbow/Gore Beyond Necropsy collaboration Rectal Anarchy.

Cro-Monolithic Remixes for an Iron Age

The first side is a remix of a song by Earth and the second side is a remix of a track from the album Frog+ by Merzbow.

Flight of the Behemoth

Significantly, the band collaborated with Japanese noise artist Merzbow, who mixed tracks 3 and 4, and used drum machine and vocals on the track "F.W.T.B.T.".

Gore Beyond Necropsy

As well as doing numerous split releases, they have also collaborated with Japanese noise artist Merzbow.

Jack Dangers

As a remixer and producer, Dangers has collaborated with and reworked material for David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, DJ Spooky, Merzbow, Depeche Mode, Coil, and many others.

Matthew Bower

Initially a more drone/neo classical/industrial counterpart to Skullflower's harsher work, the roles slowly reversed, reaching a peak with the noisy Merzbow Mixed Total cassette being released around the same time as the mostly gentle, fluid "This Is Skullflower" CD.

Music for Man with No Name

Music for Man With No Name is a collaborative single release by Merzbow and Cock E.S.P..

Philip Best

In 1995, under the Consumer Electronics moniker, Best joined forces with Japanese noise musician Masami Akita - along with several Ramleh cohorts - to release "Horn of the Goat."

Starless and Bible Black

The track "Great Deceiver (Long Mix)" on the album Spiral Honey by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow features the ending chords of the track "Great Deceiver".


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Bananafish Magazine

Bananafish is often credited with giving many Americans their first exposure to Japanese noise musicians such as Merzbow and Solmania, as well as domestic noisemakers like Emil Beaulieau.

John Wiese

His ongoing projects include LHD and Sissy Spacek, with plenty of freelance work with many artists as diverse as GX Jupitter-Larsen, Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Evan Parker, Smegma, Kevin Drumm, Yellow Swans, Cattle Decapitation, No Age, C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and Kommissar Hjuler und Frau.

Kim Cascone

Cascone has released more than 40 albums of electronic music since 1984 and has recorded/performed with Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Tony Conrad, Scanner, John Tilbury, Domenico Sciajno and Pauline Oliveros among others.

Satanstornade

Satanstornade is a live album by Masami Akita and Russell Haswell, who had previously performed together under the name Satanstornade.

SYR8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth

SYR8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth is a live album by Sonic Youth with Mats Gustafsson and Merzbow.