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No star here laces
08:01 / 01.07.02
So last week I got a laptop from work, which (for complex technical reasons) meant I could finally get back into downloading music.

Someone had been telling me all about how I really should listen to Apoptygma Beserk, so I embarked on a mission to download as much industrial music as I could, to get a better idea of the scene. While browsing through eMusic I saw Merzbow were in the industrial section, and as I'd heard the name bandied about a bit thought I'd download some.

Cut to friday night - me and the SO had been clubbing and gone back to hers. We were in bed listening to mp3s and I clumped all the industrial into a playlist as I hadn't heard any of it yet. We proceed to start getting jiggy to a soundtrack of clanky stuff with german song titles. I'm quite enjoying it. Things are peaking towards a climax. Suddenly the air is rent by the most horrific sound I've ever heard. Both of us freeze in utter shock and surprise. The Merzbow track had come on the player. Cue a collapse into gales of laughter and frantic fumbling to turn the laptop off. Sex was now a complete impossibility. I swear we must have laughed for 20 minutes solid, it was so ridiculous.
 
 
No star here laces
08:02 / 01.07.02
Just to clarify - this was the first (and probably last) occasion I'd ever heard a Merzbow 'song'.
 
 
rizla mission
08:26 / 01.07.02
Count yourself lucky, I saw Merzbow play live a couple of months ago. If Sleater Kinney hadn't been on next I'd have collapsed in the corner and cried.. the way he just came on stage, pressed a button on his laptop and sat completely motionless for 40 minutes while the audience were subjected to unutterable sonic death.. then a woman walks on, whispers something in his ear, he presses another button, the noise stops and he buggers off. Almost completely ruined my evening, and I normally love that sort of thing.
 
 
Locust No longer
19:09 / 01.07.02
I think that makes Merzbow the coolest thing ever. Complete lack of any rock star pretentions.... but of course, noise acts are pretty boring to watch. I saw some little guy make some really nice stuff before a Joan Of Arc set but every body just thought it was the music they play between sets because he didn't say a word and nobody knew who the guy was. It was fun to watch all the indie fuckers squirm.
 
  
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