Track Listing

1. Intro
2. 1930
3. Munchen
4. Degradation of Tapes
5. Iron, Glass, Blocks and White Lights

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60197 in Music
• Released on: 1998-05-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

too digital?
I just got this cd from my grandmother for christmas. I must say no amount of merzbow is ever going to make me tolerant of his music but I thought this was some how more digital and computered than the all out hate-static-insanity that Merzbow put into older tracks like black cat and pulsedemon. But in the case of Iron, Glass, Bricks and White Lights the digital effects seem to give a comical edge. In any case Merzbow is not something that is to be taken lightly. Also songs like 1930 make me wonder what on earth happend on that fateful year to cause such insanity.
Enjoy...

Attack on the mind.
An old friend once told me that this album was, "Unbearable noise." Truth is, she was right. And yet I find the experience of listening to _1930_ uniquely physical and intense. It's abrasive, jarring, and leaves me wide-eyed and frightened for the entire time. This is not music: blasts of irregular frequencies that will make your ears bleed, slabs of deafening static, grotesque shrieks of lacerating distortion. Eegah...what is it? Merzbow is an experiment in noise creation, targeting physical reactions to different sonic assaults. There is nothing intellectual about this album -- you can't exactly think about it, there is no emotional response...you just react. Listening to this is a pain so acute and unusual that it is like a strange pleasure. At the very least, it's good for a prank. This would definitely work as a cruel way to jar someone out of a pleasant sleep. They'll think aliens are coming to abduct them. Seriously though, I can't recommend this to anyone. Unless you're really weird.

Great
Yeah, I love this stuff. It's just great, well at least it has got some great moments I mean.... Merzbow rules!