Quote from: SILVUM on August 24, 2017, 05:14:46 PM
The endless support of his tedious space filling modern shit is a waste. Im shocked labels can sell these dumb split Lps with shitty bands with more fucking chicken art. Be big boys, you can say no. Sometimes old men dont have the cool aesthetics they had as youths. Give me collaged junk and naked tied up girls Merzbow reissues vs like some shitty loop noise made by a guy that loves his family and its like a bird on the cover. Sacred Feather... how bout Necro Hyper Balls.
M.B. can rule. The problem is nobody is calling out his shit of issuing backing tapes and source tapes as releases. If anyone makes some alternate claim, get real. Oh, another album played backwards. oh cool, 30 minutes of literally a guy blooping a synth. But then theres great weird stuff like Gene-P. Its rough being a completist industrial nerd with no life.
You would think that nowadays with such a saturation of merzbow releases that there is dwindling demand, but it seems not, I can only assume, judging from more recent gigs, his exposure to a different audience is what drives the demand. Certainly nothing he is releasing today approaches anything remotely near the word essential.
But, I still hold that reissuing uncut pieces that were already previously reissued (particularly in the merzbox) does seem redundant
As for MB, what can I say, the official releases of his glory era are essential but the source tapes being reissued by one label on LP, another label on CD and probably someone else on cassette is taking the piss
