Merzbow
Antimonument Tapes
FormatCDLabelSlowdown RecordsSeriesMerzbow Archive Series / the mid '80sGenreExperimental
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The "Antimonument" concept looms large in Merzbow lore - the original 1985-86 album is considered a landmark in noise history, a foundational text for the genre. *Antimonument Tapes* offers invaluable context, documenting the creative process that yielded one of the genre's defining statements. These session recordings reveal how Akita assembled the finished work from raw materials.
The "anti-monument" concept rejects permanence, solidity, commemorative function - Akita's sonic constructions exist only to collapse, their form defined by undoing. Where monuments celebrate stability and endurance, these recordings embrace entropy and dissolution. The tapes capture sound in perpetual decay, structures eroding even as they're built. For scholars of noise music, this release provides essential insight into the construction of a masterpiece.
Format
Recorded & Mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio, Tokyo 1985-86.
Remastered from Original Cassette Tape at Munemihouse, Tokyo, August 2018.
(c) Merzbow 2018
Packaged in a folded paper cover.
Track Durations from Windows Media Player
Release notes
Recorded & Mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio, Tokyo 1985-86. Remastered from Original Cassette Tape at Munemihouse, Tokyo, August 2018. (c) Merzbow 2018 Packaged in a folded paper cover. Track Durations from Windows Media Player
| 1 | Tatara (Another Mix) | 10:02 | |
| 2 | 3 Types Of Industrial Pollution Mix 1 | 5:35 | |
| 3 | Voice Of Cheese (Another Mix) | 2:56 | |
| 4 | Untitled | 3:00 | |
| 5 | Nigled 1 | 14:02 | |
| 6 | 3 Types Of Industrial Pollution Mix 2 | 7:44 | |
| 7 | 3 Types Of Industrial Pollution Mix 3 | 5:29 |
- Yasuyuki Nakamura
- A&R
- Masami Akita
- Music By
