Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Collection:002 album review
Long lost to posterity, Collection:002’s recent re-emergence as part of the Collection:001 – Collection:010 from Urashima finally gives completists a chance to hear one of Merzbow’s earliest recordings in all … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Collection:001 album review
One of the earliest Merzbow recordings is also one of the most intriguing. Merzbow – Collection 001 album cover credit/@rateyourmusic Early ’80s Merzbow is an interesting beast. It seems more … Continue reading
Horrorscores: Harry Manfredini – Friday the 13th Part 2 soundtrack review
Harry Manfredini’s synth + string orchestral score is probably too classy for its subject matter, but it elevates Paramount Picture’s bloody campy summer camp slashers beyond mere schlock to something … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Remblandt Assemblage (Merzbox Disc 3, 1981) album review
One of Merzbow’s earliest recordings nods to the theoretical underpinnings of the project as well as his earliest improv techniques. Speaking on the influence of pioneering German Dada artist Kurt … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Collection Era Vol. 3 (Merzbox Disc 6, 1981)
This collection of the Collection era, compiled as disc 6 of the Merzbox, is more of a historical curiosity than essential listening. Before the harsh noise, the sheets of damaging … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Paradoxa Paradoxa album review
On Live at Kid Araik Hall I, Merzbow reveals noise – alongside hip-hop and electronic music – reveals itself to be the spiritual successor to jazz. There’s not enough appreciation … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Material Action For 2 Microphones (1981) album review
Collected as part of the Merzbox, Material Action For 2 Microphones stands out in a nearly bottomless discography. Considering the project name’s debt to Kurt Schwitters, it’s easy to forget … Continue reading
Ambient Classics: Tangerine Dream – Aachen January 21, 1981 album review
On this classic ambient album, Tangerine Dream motor confidently into a new year with a new lineup, eschewing space ambient for a tighter, more song-focused prog ambient. Ah, the early … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – E-Study album review
Like walking through a forest of rebar, getting caught in the crossfire of some BB battle, 1981’s E-Study is about as far from Harsh Noise as you can get in … Continue reading
The House By The Cemetery soundtrack – Walter Rizzati (Death Waltz)
Step into Dr. Freudstein’s cobwebbed basement of horrors, with this essential soundtrack from Walter Rizzati. The House By The Cemetery was a horror film from 1981, by infamous Italian giallo … Continue reading
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