Synopsis
A noise adventure exploring Merzbow's 50-disc Merzbox set, one disc at a time. Hosted by @metaltxt and @EZSnappin. Email us at immerzbox@gmail.com!
Episodes
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Disc 11: Expanded Music
05/04/2019 Duration: 45minDisc 11: Expanded Music (1982-83) - 11 discs in to the noise adventure. Txt talks about robots becoming really kind of okay with being tortured to death. Erik hears a runaway player piano and we both become overtaken by the harsh noise wall.
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Disc 10: Solonoise
22/03/2019 Duration: 34minDisc 10: Solonoise (1982) - 10 discs in to the noise adventure. We talk about how this might be the first real noise album on the Merzbox. Txt forgets what he's supposed to be working on and Erik describes Chewbacca in a way nobody ever needed to think about.
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Disc 9: Yantra Material Action
15/03/2019 Duration: 42minDisc 9: Yantra Material Action (1982) - 9 discs in to the noise adventure. Txt talks about being stuck in a windstorm surrounded by clanging pots and pans. Erik actually wants a Merzbow track to be longer. And we both talk about spaceships and Godzilla.
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Disc 8: Material Action for 2 Microphones
08/03/2019 Duration: 33minDisc 8: Material Action for 2 Microphones (1981) - 8 discs in to the noise adventure. Txt talks about a stapler, Erik talks about a weird Austrian guy, and we all hang out with DJ Merzbow for a while. The results are.... mixed, at best.
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Disc 7: Paradoxa Paradoxa
01/03/2019 Duration: 41minDisc 7: Paradoxa Paradoxa (1981) - 7 discs in to the noise adventure. The first recorded live Merzbow performance! Erik and txt talk about loops and tapes and violin and radio and organ, so much organ. Also a brief detour into assaulting bagpipes.
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Disc 6: Collection Era Vol. 3
22/02/2019 Duration: 42minDisc 6: Collection Era Vol. 3 (1981-2) - 6 discs in to the noise adventure. The best disc yet! Erik and txt (mostly) like this album - and also discuss the Boss Dr. Rhythm drum machine for... probably too long.
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Disc 5: Collection Era Vol. 2
14/02/2019 Duration: 42minDisc 5: Collection Era Vol. 2 (1981) - 5 discs in to the noise adventure. Erik and txt talk about bad Van Halen songs, jazz bass, and the most enjoyable 20 minutes of the Merzbox so far: Merztronics.
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Disc 4: Collection Era Vol. 1
08/02/2019 Duration: 31minDisc 4: Collection Era Vol. 1 (1981) - 4 discs in to the noise adventure. Erik and txt talk about the start of a new era for Merzbow.... a dual adventure! Also another of Erik's anecdotes about a previous episode and lots and lots of ring modulation.
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Disc 3: Remblandt Assemblage
30/01/2019 Duration: 36minDisc 3: Remblandt Assemblage (1980) - 3 discs in to the noise adventure. We talk dada, what the hell an egg cutter is, and genuinely enjoy most (okay... some) of a Merzbox disc.
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Disc 2: Metal Acoustic Music
23/01/2019 Duration: 27minDisc 2: Metal Acoustic Music (1980) - 2 discs in to the noise adventure. Erik talks about John Cage's Indeterminacy and txt thinks that Merzbow lost a spoon somewhere?
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Disc 1: OM Electrique
16/01/2019 Duration: 43minDisc 1 of 50! OM Electrique - Merzbow's earliest recordings from 1979. Erik and txt introduce this podcast and discuss this very different set of recordings from Masami Akita, electric razors, and bird sounds?