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Merzbow & Ladybird - Balance - 16-Dec-08 10:06 PM
I liked this album a lot and havent listened to it for quite a while. While i now listen after a few years on the shelf i recall that it was probably my second Merzbow purchase, and probably the most listened to one.

There are rare moments when i can listen to Merzbow alone these days. I do like his collaborations mostly like with Smegma and Jazzkammer.

i have only ever listened to this album with the balance in the middle, each side loses something if i try to listen to either alone.

Black Lung - The Depopulation Bomb - 14-Mar-05 08:42 AM
The following quote appears inside the booklet for this album and is good to think about whilst listening:

"Within the next 5 to 10 years, it would probably be possible to make a new infective micro-organism which could differ in certain important aspects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease.

A research program to explore the feasability of this could be completed in approximately five years at a total cost of ten million dollars.

It is a highly controversial issue, and there are many who believe such research should not be undertaken least it lead to yet another method of mass killing of large populations. On the other hand, without the sure scientific knowledge that such a weapon is possible, and an understanding of the ways it could be done, there is little that can be done to devise defensive measures.

Should an enemy develop it there is little doubt that this is an important area of potential military technological inferiority in which there is no adequate research program."

Dr. Donald M. MacArthur
Deputy Director, Department Of Defence; Research and Technology Division.
9/6/1969.

Merzbow - Maschinenstil - 25-Jan-05 01:40 AM
Dual Plover proudly claim to be the only record label in the world to ever spell Masami Akitas name wrong in the credits (Thats not bad considering well over 200 releases on as many labels).

Merzbow - Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused And Recycled - 22-Oct-03 02:41 AM
i am still trying to get past how good the first four tracks are.... DJ Spooky is brilliant with his fucked up piece of tunage, Dj Rupture is good to but then Plug just blows me away with his Dnb bass mix, the best DnB track and the best Plug track i have heard in a long long time... then Alec Empire blasts some very nice noisy hardcore, much noisier then anything else i have heard from him of late... great album...

Maladroit - Death To False Metal - 22-Jun-03 04:33 PM
Some very nicely constructed hardcore, using an eclectic mix of pop tunes and some great voice samples Maladroit has created an album that is very easy to listen to, dance to and do all sorts of things to. My favoirite track on the album is number 8 DMT, i think its probably because of its dance-ability i seem to be jumping around everytime i hear it. I showed the track to a friend and they told me they couldnt listen to it because it used a B52s track that brought back bad memories for them, i love it. Track number 4 places some breakbeats over a really popular rock track that has been used in war movies and ads for various products, i am pretty sure that it is a Rolling Stones track but dont quote me on that one. Track 5 takes parts of we didnt start the fire by Billy Joel and distorts them until they are barely recognisable and creates a track that you can definately tell is Billy Joel if you know the song, however its very hardcore, breaky and as catchy as the original (or more catchy perhaps as the original didnt catch me). Track 6 comes in rather dark sounding then leads into a vocal sample about meeting an angel which sets the mood for the rest of the track which becomes quite intense with beats and breaks and erratic sounds all over. Track 9 cleverly uses some hip hop vocal samples, particularly one of what sounds like a guy saying we got deathstar, and the star wars imperial march to make a fairly easy listening hardcore track. While i have talked mainly of samples and distorting pop tracks there is much originality in the construction which is what makes it an outstanding album. Definately my favorite of the first 3 Power Violence releases.

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