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1990: Incapacitants - Feedback of N.M.S. by Marcos Hassan on 05-23-2012 Everybody loves Merzbow. Or what the name of the noise genre would be if it was a sitcom, right? I, for one, do love the ‘bow – most of what he does anyway – but noise in Japan, and certainly noise in general, doesn’t end with Masami Akita’s oeuvre. For me, nothing beats the soundscapes of pure aural meltdown that Incapacitants conjure.
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1990s: Neutral Milk Hotel - "My Dreamgirl Don’t Exist" by Marcos Hassan on 04-17-2013 When you Google this song, you find an entry at the Neutral Milk Hotel archive that explicitly states that it has the same chord progression as Gr... Read Post

2005: Merzbow - Dust of Dreams by Miles Bowe on 02-06-2012 Merzbow’s Masami Akita and his fans had a great year in 2005. Well in the midst of his “digital era,” Akita’s best work that year amounted to a trifecta of stylistically con... Read Post

1998: Merzbow - "Intro" by Miles Bowe on 10-17-2011 More than any song in Merzbow’s big-beyond-comprehension discography, “Intro” is special. It is the opener on the John Zorn produced 1930, the closest thing Masami Akita’s project ... Read Post