Merzbow has an understanding of stereophonics and layering, that doesn't mean he knows anything about "production". Anybody can, technically, do the stuff he does, with the most basic understanding of producing. I love Merzbow, but I wouldn't call his no-fi sound "produced" except in the most basic extreme sense of the word. I mean, let me load up Goldwave (1mb windows program), pan some sounds left and right, and make the volume 999%. There! I'm just as important as Merzbow!
...I'm just kidding and generalising and I hope my humor isn't lost on you, but I'm just saying... a good song transcends bad production, and good production can't save a bad song. (pbradley said something similiar to this in this thread, I said something similiar to that in another thread) In Merzbow, terms like "production" and "songs" don't even really mean anything. I have been producing music for 10 years. It gives me a headache.
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