Mechanization Takes Command

by Merzbow

Mechanization Takes Command cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: ZSF Produkt
  • Country: Japan
  • Community rating: 3.33/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Masami Akita's early cassette culture release explores pure sonic hostility through heavily manipulated tape loops, screeching metal, and harsh feedback. 'Mechanization Takes Command' acts as a crucial, unyielding foundational document for the extreme Japanese noise movement that would soon gain global notoriety.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, noisy, instrumental, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. Untitled
  2. Untitled

Credits

  • Merzbow - primary artist
  • Masami Akita - composed by, tape [tapes], guitar, drums, electronics [t.v.], loops [tape loop], electronic drums [syn-are-3], voice, effects

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