Tip! ** 5" Lathe Cut, Limited to 50 Hand-Numbered Copies. ** Stu the Goat is Merzbow at pocket size: two parts of about two minutes each, cut into a 5" disc and housed in a folded cover sealed with a hand-numbered sticker. Masami Akita recorded and mixed it at Munemihouse in March 2026, the same month that produced Avian Hydraulics, the liquid-filled 10" that marked the fiftieth Frei zum Abriss Kollektiv release.
The goat on the green sleeve joins the long line of animals that run through Akita's titles and artwork, a thread tied to his vegan and animal-rights convictions. Four minutes in all: no slow build, no ambient margin, just a concentrated dose of harsh noise on an object made to be held in one hand.