Description
PRE-ORDER ITEM — EXPECTED TO ARRIVE BY THE END OF APRIL, 2024, BUT DELAYS ARE POSSIBLE. Any regular in-stock items ordered at the same time (in the same shopping cart) will be held aside and sent with your pre-ordered goods as one shipment. Orders with multiple pre-orders will be sent as one order, when all of the items in the order are available. If you want the order to ship immediately, or want your pre-ordered items to be sent out as soon as they arrive here, rather than in a group, you must order them separately. PAYMENT WILL BE TAKEN WHEN YOU COMPLETE CHECKOUT.
“Mechanization Takes Command” was first released on cassette by Masami Akita on his own ZSF label back in 1983 and this, after 40 years, is the very first reissue on CD. The large part of sounds on this album have an analogue origin. Masami plays drums and guitar, but also many other instruments and sound-surces such as TV ands vocal samples. And of course electronics, loops, effects, drum-machines. The overall feeling is very strange. The first part of the album has a very freak, late 70es, psychedelc & prog touch mixed to a sort of improvised free jazz sound. Things gradually turn towards the strong Godzilla-Japanoise we’re used to hearing MERZBOW, but there’s also a sort of pulsating & tribal future-modern-dance muzak always maintaining a certain freaky 70’s feeling. In one word: MERZBOW!
Double CD in digipak, limited edition of 300 copies.
Tracklist:
CD-1
1. MTC-101
2. MTC-102
3. MTC-103
4. MTC-104
CD-2
1.MTC-201
2.MTC-202
3.MTC-203
4.MTC-204
5.MTC-205
