Record

Merzbox

Merzbow2000

At a glance

Artist
Merzbow
Released
16 June 2000
Label
Extreme
Catalogue number
XLTD 003
Format
CD
Country
Australia
Tracks
216, 49:57:20

In the issue

Japanoise: The Extreme Edge of Sound
For the obsessed · 1960-2000 · Members

Released in 2000 on Extreme, Roger Richards's label in Melbourne, Merzbox gathered fifty CDs spanning 1979 to 1997, twenty of them mainly unreleased material, packed into a black rubber box…

The rest is in Japanoise: The Extreme Edge of Sound, a members' issue.

Where to start with Japanoise: The Extreme Edge of Sound

Track list

OM Electrique

  1. 1OM Electrique, Part 131:18
  2. 2OM Electrique, Part 27:55
  3. 3Untitled Taped Drum Solo9:00
  4. 4Untitled Guitar Solo10:26

Metal Acoustic Music

  1. 1Balance of Neurosis47:00

Remblandt Assemblage

  1. 1Remblandt Assemblage9:45
  2. 2Voice of Schwitters2:09
  3. 3Theme of Dadaist9:39
  4. 4Hans Arp1:47
  5. 5Tape Dada5:52
  6. 6Music Concret2:34
  7. 7Prepared Guitar Solo 117:33
  8. 8Prepared Guitar Solo 23:59

Collection Era, Volume 1

  1. 1Electric Environment24:01
  2. 2Untitled Material Action23:57
  3. 3Telecom Manipulation18:19

Collection Era, Volume 2

  1. 1Merz Rock 11:59
  2. 2Merz Rock 28:24
  3. 3Merz Gamlan 115:54
  4. 4Merz Gamlan 25:56
  5. 5Merz Scat11:30
  6. 6Merztronics Jazz Mix11:46
  7. 7Merztronics Rhythm Mix11:17

Collection Era, Volume 3

  1. 1[untitled]5:18
  2. 2[untitled]5:59
  3. 3[untitled]10:35
  4. 4[untitled]6:14
  5. 5[untitled]4:53
  6. 6[untitled]6:51
  7. 7[untitled]3:14
  8. 8[untitled]22:52

Paradoxa Paradoxa

  1. 1Paradoxa Paradoxa, Part 146:15
  2. 2Paradoxa Paradoxa, Part 226:09

Material Action for 2 Microphones

  1. 1Hoochie Coochie Scratched Man25:32
  2. 2Yumin, Non Stop Disco21:15
  3. 3New Acoustic Music No. 723:58

Yantra Material Action

  1. 1[untitled]11:25
  2. 2[untitled]2:52
  3. 3[untitled]1:49
  4. 4[untitled]4:38
  5. 5[untitled]1:07
  6. 6[untitled]8:41
  7. 7[untitled]7:26
  8. 8[untitled]4:35

Solonoise

  1. 1Solonoise, Part 123:56
  2. 2Solonoise, Part 223:42
  3. 3Solonoise, Part 322:21

Expanded Music

  1. 1Manipulation 117:37
  2. 2Manipulation 25:29
  3. 3Manipulation 36:37
  4. 4Manipulation 43:53
  5. 5Manipulation 52:51
  6. 6Manipulation 62:15
  7. 7Manipulation 71:57
  8. 8Manipulation 85:46
  9. 9M.F.S.W 118:59

Nil Vagina Tape Loops

  1. 1Nil Vagina Tape Loop No. 014:08
  2. 2Nil Vagina Tape Loop No. 130:20
  3. 3Nil Vagina Tape Loop No. 228:28

Material Action 2 N.A.M

  1. 1Nil ad Mirari22:47
  2. 2Nimbus Alter Magneto Electricity18:12

Mechanization Takes Command

  1. 1Electric Pygmy Decollage14:13
  2. 2Mechanization Takes Command11:02
  3. 3Peaches Red Indian10:46
  4. 4Sahara5:45
  5. 5Iggy3:15
  6. 6Suicidal Machine14:17
  7. 7Ai‐Da‐Ho10:19

Dying Mapa Tapes 1–2

  1. 1Denegration10:08
  2. 2Indifferent, Part 16:21
  3. 3Indifferent, Part 28:01
  4. 4Ooinon for Satva Karman (Sprashutavia) Decoup21:46
  5. 5Dharma Kamarage22:18

Dying Mapa Tapes 2–3

  1. 1Sukha, Chanda, Tanno, Kless23:28
  2. 2Genetic Erotic (Sie Wiro Weib)22:58
  3. 3Rejet, Ictus, Connotation, Accompagnement, Penisersatz, Stigma Indelible Etc.23:15

Agni Hotra

  1. 1Agni Hotra18:27
  2. 2Asagaya in Rain3:51
  3. 3Swamp Metal6:30
  4. 4Loops in Flames12:30
  5. 5Arbertus Magnus7:14
  6. 6Kunyan7:52
  7. 7Untitled Waves6:45

Pornoise/1kg, Volume 1

  1. 1Industrial3:33
  2. 2Loop Fuck 16:12
  3. 3Loop Fuck 25:40
  4. 4Obituary 15:16
  5. 5Obituary 27:13
  6. 6Night Noise White31:24

Pornoise/1kg, Volume 2

  1. 1New Karhma31:25
  2. 2Dynamite Don Don, Part 116:54
  3. 3Dynamite Don Don, Part 213:17

Pornoise/1kg, Volume 3

  1. 1UFO vs. British Army30:47
  2. 2Toy 6928:55

Pornoise Extra

  1. 1Flesh Radio 14:50
  2. 2Flesh Radio 24:51
  3. 3Dance of Dharma‐Kala13:29
  4. 4Psychotic Orange0:42
  5. 5Helga’s Death Disco5:35
  6. 6Eros Pandra8:29
  7. 7Kirie6:45
  8. 8Domine5:54
  9. 9Chopin Is Dead5:56
  10. 10Risa Supersex2:55

Sadomasochismo / The Lampinak

  1. 1Antimony, Part 110:30
  2. 2Antimony, Part 213:05
  3. 3Eyes of Isonokami11:45
  4. 4The Lampinak – Sarpent Power10:30
  5. 5Carcass on the Floor4:36
  6. 6Village of 8 Graves4:31

Mortegage / Batztoutai Extra

  1. 1Anus Anvil Anxiety (long version)14:41
  2. 2Radio 151124:01
  3. 3Mortegage Inc. Batztoutai23:22

Enclosure / Libido Economy

  1. 1Enclosure17:27
  2. 2Scarabe5:34
  3. 3Interline No. 1–318:10
  4. 4Itch5:40
  5. 5Libido Economy No. 15:40
  6. 6Libido Economy No. 25:33

Vratya Southward

  1. 1Electroacoustic Voyage23:48
  2. 2Electric Red Desart18:20
  3. 3Lightning19:11

Live in Khabarovsk, CCCP (I’m Proud by Rank of the Workers)

  1. 1Live at Trade Unions Place of Culture Hall 23 March 198829:21
  2. 2Live at Soviet Army Officers House Hall 24 March 198828:14

Storage

  1. 1War Storage, Part 123:02
  2. 2War Storage, Part 223:48
  3. 3War Storage, Part 321:09

Fission Dialogue

  1. 1White Gamlan16:27
  2. 2Fission Dialogue9:08
  3. 3Inside Tangues in Tera‐Aspic32:11

Collaborative

  1. 1Joint20:51
  2. 2Code–Gerausch–Aggregate20:13
  3. 3Jointed7:07

Crocidura Dsi Nezumi

  1. 1Mustela Erminea Nippon23:00
  2. 2Mustela Sixasa Namiyei (Including: The Revenge of the Son of Monster Magnet)23:50
  3. 3Strange Strings16:17

KIR Transformation

  1. 1KIR Transformation40:40

SCUM Vol. 1

  1. 1Cockchola12:55
  2. 2Extract 14:21
  3. 3Extract 25:49
  4. 4Extract 31:18
  5. 5Extract 46:00
  6. 6Kinetic Environment11:46
  7. 7Yeah, but That Was Just Dyke Stuff / Great Nude Variation No. 217:47

SCUM Vol. 2

  1. 1Music for Funk Arts No. 122:51
  2. 2Music for Funk Arts No. 222:10
  3. 3Great Nude Variation No. 112:06
  4. 4Extract 53:40

Severances

  1. 1UP Steel CUM16:25
  2. 2Catabolism Variation Stereo No. 114:03
  3. 3Deaf Forever / Wild Thing / Electric Shaver Forest / De‐Soundtrack Variation No. 1 / Rap the Khabarovsk31:02

Steel CUM

  1. 1Mona2:51
  2. 2Great Nude Variation No. 35:58
  3. 3Duck Exercise17:15
  4. 4Blues in C Minor24:23
  5. 5Body6:09

Cloud Cock OO Grand

  1. 1Brain Forest for Metal Acoustic Concret23:37
  2. 2Spinnozaamen24:02
  3. 3Autopussy Go No Go7:41
  4. 4Modular15:12
  5. 5Postfix8:26

Newark Hellfire, Live on WFMU, 1990

  1. 1Newark Hellfire58:45

Hannover Cloud

  1. 1Magnetic Void20:35
  2. 2Rocket Bomber15:17
  3. 3Untitled Cock6:13
  4. 4Autopussy Go No Go 213:23

Stacy Q, Hi‐Fi Sweet Leaf

  1. 1Decomposed Cockoo26:29
  2. 2Stacy Q, Hi Fi Sweet Leaf26:28

Music for True Romance, Volume 1

  1. 1True Romance Theme3:53
  2. 2Mystic Cave2:27
  3. 3She Floating – Preparation15:43
  4. 4She Mutilation – Main Ritual15:18
  5. 5Injured Emperial Soldiers Marching Song22:30

Brain Ticket Death

  1. 1Metal of Doom6:36
  2. 2Electric Peekaboo3:46
  3. 3Iron Caravan5:33
  4. 4Brain Ticket Death34:01

Sons of Slash Noise Metal

  1. 1In‐a‐Gadda‐Veddah16:53
  2. 2Cross Toad10:58
  3. 3Slash Embryo32:34

Exotic Apple

  1. 1Sunohara Youri Is Suzanna Erica10:17
  2. 2Moon Over the Bwana A5:31
  3. 3Apple Rock 114:21
  4. 4Apple Rock 216:18
  5. 5Apple Rock 37:24
  6. 6Apple Rock 47:55

Liquid City

  1. 1Liquid City 17‐1‐9519:12
  2. 2Dalitech Filters21:09
  3. 3Tiabguls9:16
  4. 4Cheese Car Commando7:35

Red Magnesia Pink

  1. 1Minus Zero5:58
  2. 2Etic4:09
  3. 3Delta X4:34
  4. 4Tremolo Man10:27
  5. 5Euclids Pickel13:49
  6. 6Chameleon Body9:18
  7. 7Little Bang!7:38
  8. 8You‐Bahn5:28

Marfan Syndrome

  1. 1Marfan Syndrome for Blue (remix)7:08
  2. 2Oldenbergs Soft Gun18:40
  3. 3Spider Nest Castle, Part 112:27
  4. 4Un Br Che11:26
  5. 5Yosef Voice2:12

Rhinogradentia

  1. 1Rhinogradentia14:53
  2. 2Silver Scintillator16:41
  3. 3Narco24:03

Space Mix Travelling Band

  1. 1Travelling 199720:05
  2. 2Floating Manhattan14:06
  3. 3Hongkong Suite24:52

Motorond

  1. 1Motorond, Part 231:25
  2. 2Motorond, Part 127:53

Annihiloscillator

  1. 1Hair Gun13:17
  2. 2Kyoko Hamara Air Clyster12:14
  3. 3Black Brain of Piranese13:26
  4. 4Soft, Parts 1 & 217:30
  5. 5Wild Pair3:51

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Notes: the original release and its track list come from MusicBrainz. Everything else on this page is from the issue above.