Hyper Music 1 Vol. 1

by Merzbow

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$9 USD or more

	1.	Part 1 23:50
	2.	Part 2 11:59
	3.	Part 3 07:41

about

This is an archival project to compile unreleased and unedited sounds treasured by Merzbow=Masami Akita. The first series is a selection of cassette tape recordings from 1979 to 1981. It will be released over six CDs. "Hyper Music 1 Vol. 1" is the first release in this series.

Noise music gained its meaning largely due to Japanoise, and Industrial in the late 70s. This is the first recording of Merzbow, the "god" of Japanese noise, then it is truly the sound of the origin of "noise/music". In fact, this recording, while undifferentiated, or rather, because it is undifferentiated, the very beginning of noise and Merzbow, the "root," as it were, resounds in a pure state. The performance, which seems to stop time somehow, already makes us feel the desire for noise. This is truly a sounds that seems to reveal the origins of the history of noise music. It's "atom = Merzbow".

Denshi note

credits

released May 29, 2021

Recorded Live at Studio on 24th Nov 1979.
Re-Mastered from Original Cassette Tape at Munemihouse, Tokyo on Nov 2017.
Masami Akita : Drums, Synthesizer
Kiyoshi Mizutani : Organ
Yasuyuki Nakamura (slowdown records) : A&R

license

about

Merzbow Tokyo, Japan

contact / help

Contact Merzbow

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Merzbow, you may also like:

‘Saga’
by Rinsaga

The pulsing industrial sounds on the wonderfully brutal new LP from Tokyo group Rinsaga will be catnip for the black-glove-and-mesh set. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 15, 2022
go to album
Drive My Car Original Soundtrack (with bonus tracks)
by Eiko Ishibashi

Composer Eiko Ishibashi's soundtrack from "Drive My Car" is full of sweeping yet gentle melodies that rise and fall in romantic waves. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 3, 2022
go to album
Vertigo KO
by Phew

Culled from unreleased recordings from her recent "Light Sleep" and "Voice Hardcore" releases, Hiromi Moritani's latest showcases the softer, less harrowing side of Phew’s sound Bandcamp Album of the Day Sep 2, 2020
go to album
Human Wave Music
by Iku Sakan

Oscillating steel drums fed through custom synthesizers and space loops create a hypnotic effect. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 2, 2017
go to album
MENACE vol 1
by MENACE

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 21, 2015
go to album
brutalovechamp
by Brandon Seabrook's Epic Proportions (Pyroclastic Records)

The experimental guitarist's most laser-focused, melodic, and compact effort yet. Bandcamp Album of the Day May 31, 2023
go to album
i've seen a way
by Mandy, Indiana

A bracing collision of post-punk & electronics that plays like Theoretical Girls recording for L.I.E.S. Bandcamp Album of the Day May 22, 2023
go to album