Merzbow - Merzbeat
 

I managed to 'acquire' a download of this boxset, which is 50 discs, and took like 4 days to download, but it's totally cool.
I've only just started to plow my way through it. Has anyone else got this, and what do you think?

You utter mentalist.

I saw a hard copy in a store a fair few years ago, but I didn't have the money for it then, and haven't had the money since. I reckon you should try and listen to it start to finish. And see if you don't go completely insane.

Yeah, not sure if I would ever 'come back'. Started to feel quite quesy after listening for a couple of hours!

Did you say 50 discs? Jesus Christ is all I can say!

i held a copy of the merzbox in my hands for five minutes a few months back and was tempted to shell out that ridiculuous amount of money for it. its a great slab of akita thats for sure.......

They did a complete play at the Colchester arts centre a few years ago. One of the guys in my band went. Apparently there were some people who stayed for the duration. Ladies, made goth ladies. I want their phone numbers.

There was a chap from the Guardian who listened to the Throbbing Gristle 24-hour box-set. Here is a link to his experience.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/...867116,00.html


I really hope you do it. They played it (TG24) in its entireity over Christmas on Resonance a couple of years ago. It being Christmas, I could only muster 5 hours or so spread over the days. I seem to remember there was a stream from a German website which was playing the entire Merzbox recently. Yes, Mr The Usher, you should try and listen to it all. Perhaps do it for a hearing-related charity.

http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=6810

O.K. I've added everything to my Itunes, and the whole thing, 50 discs, would take 2 days, 1 hour, 49 minutes and 27 seconds to listen to! Man, I'm tempted to listen to it, maybe no continously, but just everyday until I get through it...

I heard it's full of crap but some of the discs are really great.
Shit, does he have like some employees that he pays for creating so much material? Overproduction, I would say.

Yeah, probably some rubbish in it, can't imagine that this much stuff can be all good.

Maybe once i've finished listening to it, I'll write a review disc by disc, if anyones interested...

Someone had a blog with that on it [cue someone with better Googling skills than me providing a link]. I'd recommend that you do likewise, because his review was a bit jaded, to my mind. The more's the merrier when it comes to somethig as ridiculous as that.

fushitsusha play these night long gigs once a year in some university and one of them was recorded but hasn't been released, if you go to the archived website there's a bit more info about it.

yeah, i'd love to see them play that long, not sure if they still do them though

Listening to Merzbow for hours can indeed damage your brain cells and i am living proof of that.The fact that it might or not be a good thing is too late for me to find out.

some radio station played the 'box from start to finish on one occasion.
probably the most adventurous, ground-breaking and ingenius idea in radio since john peel played trout mask replica in its entirety to the unsuspecting listeners of radio one.

Theres one on ebay right now for 500 australian dollars, which is about $350 US dollars- waaay too much to pay for any cd box set, no matter what.

damn dude. I've never heard merzbow. I would try this though after a sampling of some less time consuming work.

I listened to the whole thing. took 2 weekends. i wrote a little review for it on the avant garde japan community on livejournal back in 2004 if anyone wants to search it out. anyway, good shit.