These recordings represent the very beginning of Merzbow's laptop style - the birth of a new methodology that would reshape the project's sound and process. The album references "Wa 30.25" from Collapse 12 Floors (Ohm, 2000), including the extended mix alongside previously unreleased re-edited material.

"Wa" carries multiple Japanese associations: harmony, circle, Japan itself - suggesting meditation on identity and continuity at a moment of technological rupture. As Akita traded physical equipment for software, he seems to have contemplated what remained constant amid change.

Credits: Composed, Mixed, Performed By: Masami Akita
Recorded & mixed at Bedroom, Tokyo 1999
Remix & remaster at Munemihouse, Tokyo 2019