Merzbox
~ Release by Merzbow (see all versions of this release, 1 available)
Annotation
Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies. Packaged in a black leatherette case with a numbered metal tag.
The case contains 50 CDs, 2 CD-ROMs, 6 circular cards, 6 circular stickers, a poster, a long-sleeved t-shirt, a medallion, and a hardcover book. The CDs, cards, and stickers are packed in a CD binder. One CD-ROM is the Merzrom, with an interactive multimedia program by Troy Innocent, the other contains an Extreme catalog and press materials. The book is Merzbook: The Pleasuredome of Noise by Brett Woodward and contains notes for all of the discs.
Preorders also received the release Decomposition and two additional posters. These were then made available with orders from Extreme for an additional fee.
Tracklist
| 1CD: OM Electrique |
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| 2CD: Metal Acoustic Music |
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| 3CD: Remblandt Assemblage |
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| 4CD: Collection Era, Volume 1 |
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| 5CD: Collection Era, Volume 2 |
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| 6CD: Collection Era, Volume 3 |
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| 7CD: Paradoxa Paradoxa |
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| 8CD: Material Action for 2 Microphones |
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| 9CD: Yantra Material Action |
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| 10CD: Solonoise |
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| 11CD: Expanded Music |
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| 12CD: Nil Vagina Tape Loops |
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| 13CD: Material Action 2 N.A.M |
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| 14CD: Mechanization Takes Command |
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| 15CD: Dying Mapa Tapes 1–2 |
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| 16CD: Dying Mapa Tapes 2–3 |
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| 17CD: Agni Hotra |
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| 18CD: Pornoise/1kg, Volume 1 |
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| 19CD: Pornoise/1kg, Volume 2 |
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| 20CD: Pornoise/1kg, Volume 3 |
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| 21CD: Pornoise Extra |
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| 22CD: Sadomasochismo / The Lampinak |
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| 23CD: Mortegage / Batztoutai Extra |
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| 24CD: Enclosure / Libido Economy |
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| 25CD: Vratya Southward |
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| 26CD: Live in Khabarovsk, CCCP (I’m Proud by Rank of the Workers) |
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| 27CD: Storage |
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| 28CD: Fission Dialogue |
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| 29CD: Collaborative |
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| 30CD: Crocidura Dsi Nezumi |
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| 31CD: KIR Transformation |
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| 32CD: SCUM Vol. 1 |
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| 33CD: SCUM Vol. 2 |
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| 34CD: Severances |
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| 35CD: Steel CUM |
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| 36CD: Cloud Cock OO Grand |
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| 37CD: Newark Hellfire, Live on WFMU, 1990 | |||
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| # | Title | Rating | Length |
| 1 | Newark Hellfire
| 58:45 | |
| 38CD: Hannover Cloud |
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| 39CD: Stacy Q, Hi‐Fi Sweet Leaf |
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| 40CD: Music for True Romance, Volume 1 |
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| 41CD: Brain Ticket Death |
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| 42CD: Sons of Slash Noise Metal |
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| 43CD: Exotic Apple |
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| 44CD: Liquid City |
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| 45CD: Red Magnesia Pink |
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| 46CD: Marfan Syndrome |
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| 47CD: Rhinogradentia |
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| 48CD: Space Mix Travelling Band |
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| 49CD: Motorond |
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| 50CD: Annihiloscillator |
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Credits
Release
| art direction and design: | Doriana Corda |
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| liner notes: | Masami Akita (Japanese noise musician; Merzbow) Jim O’Rourke (US musician & producer, b. 1969) Damion Romero (American noise musician) Eugene Thacker Achim Wollscheid |
| executive producer: | Roger Richards (owner of Extreme) |
| mastering: | François Tétaz (Australian film composer) |
| mastered at: | Moose Mastering in Richmond, Queensland, Australia |
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| Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/release/100630 [info] |
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| other databases: | https://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/merzbow/merzbox/ [info] |
Release group
| includes: | Cloud Cock OO Grand Collaborative by Merzbow (Japanese noise project) / S.B.O.T.H.I. (Swimming Behaviour of the Human Infant) Collection:001 Collection:008 Crocidura Dsi Nezumi Dying Mapa I Dying Mapa II Dying Mapa III Enclosure Live in Khabarovsk, CCCP: “I’m Proud by Rank of the Workers” Lowest Music.2 Material Action 2 N·A·M Material Action for 2 Microphone Mechanization Takes Command Metal Acoustic Music Paradoxa Paradoxa Pornoise 1kg Pornoise/Extra Red Magnesia Pink Remblandt Assemblage Sadomasochismo Scissors for Cutting Merzbow by SCUM (Merzbow side project) Severances by SCUM (Merzbow side project) Solonoise 1 Solonoise 2 Steel CUM by Steel CUM (Merzbow side project) Storage The Lampinak Vratya Southward Yantra Material Action |
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| other databases: | https://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/merzbow/merzbox/ [info] |
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| Allmusic: | https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000104907 [info] |
| Wikidata: | Q360817 [info] |
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