| Project Name: |
Merzbow |
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| Album: |
Live Magnetism |
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| Record Company: |
Caminate Recordings
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| Catalog Number: |
Cami 001 |
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| Year: |
2003 |
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| Categories: |
Dense, Ambient, Harsh, Heavy, Live, Loops, Laptop |
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| Line-up: |
Masami Akita |
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| Collaborators: |
none |
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| Related Albums: |
Animal Magnetism, Great American Nude / Crash For Hi-Fi, Loop Panic Limited, Amlux |
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| Comments: |
Live recording of Merzbow performance at the Black Bonds exhibition at the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art in New York City, December 6th, 2002, remixed and edited at Bedroom, Tokyo in February of 2003. I was at this show, as were at least 200 people, totally crowded. The set was really good until an irregular clicking noise entered the mix about halfway into the set; this click appears only a few times on the cd and doesn't end up being annoying in the way it did live. Perhaps it was mostly the result of speaker damage? There is intense low end on this, pulsing beneath a surface of white hot noise. Live, the bass was so intense that my ribs shook. The sounds on this album are drawn from a variety of Merzbow albums but most prominent are the ones from Animal Magnetism, thus the name of the cd. The pulsing, looping noises overlap and layer into a dense wall of drones. Heavy, and generally quite relaxing. I've listened to this a few times today and I actually fell asleep during my first listen. That's not meant as a criticism, this material is trance inducing and meditative. Heavy in an Earth or Boris kind of way, not Carcass. The production quality is pretty good but not quite as clean as the average Merzbow cd. I picked this up mainly as a memento of the concert, but discovered it to be an awesomely loud & heavy ambient record with a few harsh moments. Music From Airports, one might say. Recommended. |
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