MERZBOW 'Green Wheels' CASSETTE (Italy, Urashima, Catalogue #UMA 149) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2022 Urashima label special CASSETTE release edition of Harsh Noise/Electronics album entitled Green Wheels by Japanese noise kingpin Merzbow (originally first issued as a special combined CD plus 5" record release in the USA in 1995 on the Self Abuse Records label.) (NOTE: ALL CASSETTES ARE PACKED AND SHIPPED IN PROFESSIONAL, SUPERIOR QUALITY RECTANGULAR SHAPED, CORNER PROTECTING 5 1/2"x1"x3" CORRUGATED CARDBOARD CASSETTE MAILERS. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!) (NOTE: BRAND NEW/FACTORY SEALED ITEM!) (NOTE: LIMITED EDITION OF 199 COPIES ONLY!) |
Green Wheels is Merzbow in its most
straightforward, most genuine, most uncontrolled and refined
form. Originally released by the legendary US label Self Abuse
Records in 1995 on CD and 5-inch vinyl record, both housed in
a foil-lined cardboard box with the abstract and impressive art work
created by the artist himself, which has become another of the
fetishist objects of Merzbow and now incredibly hard to find. Like all of
his work since the early nineties, Green Wheels is an uncompromising
cascade of brutal noise. In this album you find nothing of the
minimalism of his early 80s, completely overwhelmed by synthesizers and
handmade objects that become his unconventional weapons to create
bursts of noise.
The three tracks of the original CD, radiate the listener from the rackets
of a rain of nails on metal plates, the synthetic crashing
bombing, industrial percussion and the metal (green) wheels that roll and
scrape. The two very short 5-inch tracks hurt you with thousands of
jabs in just a matter of minutes. Then closes with two unreleased
tracks from the same fantastic mid-1990s period which can undoubtedly be
considered two wonderful discoveries for their intensity and beauty;
musical pieces that blend perfectly and complete the reissue on this
cassette. When you get to the end of the tape, you will feel purified,
once the granite landslide subsides. It is like mental liposuction,
eradicating all anguishes and hesitations. Everything
was perfectly recorded and mixed in March-May 1995 at ZSF Produkt
Studio, Masami Akita’s home studio from the late 80s to late 90s; the
outcome it's warm and bright as the bare steel of Shinjuko skyscrapers
under the (rising) sun of hot Japanese summers.
Tape reproduces the original art work and comes in just 199 with
O-card 300g wrapping clear box with j-card and laser print green
shell plus download code. Yet another crucial reissue that towers with
historical importance, this one is impossible to recommend enough.
Tracks on this Cassette are as follows:
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| B1 | H. Penisorpenoscrotalis, Penile Orpenoscrotalhypospadia Stapphylococcusseminoma Blastomeren | |
| B2 | Meattrapezoid / Spermatogenicenveloper / Untitled 0595 (Bonus) / Drain (Bonus) |