★Menstrualrecordings
Fouth Injection
** Remastered from original tape. Limited edition of 160 copies. ** Fourth Injection was recorded by Marco Corbelli at Sweet Slaughter. The master tape was given to Moreno Daldosso / Murder Corporation to be published on his label Murder Release. The release was planned but, for now forgotten reasons, it never eventually materialized. The master tape of Fourth Injection was then closed in a drawer and was left there for 17 years. It was rediscovered only in 2013.First ever release. It comes in a…
Scissors for Cutting Merzbow
Limited edition of 200 copies. First ever official vinyl re-issue of this classic 1988 Masami Akita side project. Originally published on LP in 1989 by Masami Akita own label ZSF Produkt. Re-issued in an expanded version on CD as part of the Merzbow in the year 2000. This re-issue includes the expanded version on 3 LP and also on 2 CD. Remastered from original tape. In an interview with Arthur Potter, Akita explained that the album "is an attempt to cut up and mix all of the Merzbow sounds I've …
Hurt
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies with razor blade attached (!) First ever official re-issue of this rare Murder Corporation (the musical project of Moreno Daldosso) tape from 1996. Originally published on tape in 1997 by Self Abuse Records, US, as SAC-23. Recorded at The Murderhouse in January 1996 - Murder Corporation uses tapes, noises, short waves and distorted voices, along a sampler Akai S01 and tone generator. Remastered from original tape.
Fuckexercise #2
In the continuing onslaught of Merzbow releases, the Japanophile Italian label Menstrual releases a new CD from everyone's favorite Japanese noisemonger, the mighty Merzbow. This is very early period Merzbow. Originally released as a private tape and distributed in a very few copies.Remastered from original cassette tape in 2017 at Munemihause, Tokyo.Masami Akita : Prepared Guitar, Tabla, Synare-3, Junk Percussion, Drums, Radio and TapesOrgan and Piano source material by Kiyoshi Mizutani.Recorde…
Rhapsody in Stockholm
Limited edition of 100 copies. Tetsuo Furudate aided by Lars Akerlund, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Leif Elggren and Dror Feiler. Recorded at EMS in Stockholm in Feb. 2016. Many thanks to EMS and Minoru Sato. Tetsuo Furudate is born and lives in Tokyo. He started his career in experimental film and video art in 1981, and then he gradually turned toward music through performing art, contributing to the development of the Japanese noise music in its early period. He has spread his activities throu…
Mauthausen Orchestra 1982
Originally published on tape by Broken Flag, U.K., as BF16. Remastered from original tape. Limited edition of 100 copies in digipack.. This re-issue was fully authorized by Pierpaolo Zoppo. Mauthausen Orchestra wass a musical group founded by Pierpaolo Zoppo, Italian noise musician of the early industrial and power electronics school from the 1980s. Along with Maurizio Bianchi he was one of the pioneers of Italian noise. Zoppo's work explored morbid subjects, usually extreme sex, perversio…
Lyoto Music
First official CD repress of one of the most extreme cassettes coming out of Italy in the 80s. Rmastered edition. Lyoto Music was a terrific collaboration between Pietro Mazzocchin (The New Sadism, Observation Clinique and Swastika Kommando) and Pierpaolo Zoppo (Mauthausen Orchestra) which flows into a unique cassette published in 1984 by Aquilifer Sodality. Mastered from original master tape kindly provided by Andrea Cernotto with the full permission of Pietro Mazzocchin. “As far as I remember,…
Untitled
First ever re-issue of a obscure private release recorded in 1983, Limited edition of 100 copies. In the early 80s Pietro Mazzocchin was very active in the industrial/noise scene. He put out several cassettes under different moniker: Swastika Kommando, The New Sadism, Observation Clinique and also as Lyoto Music togheter with Pierpaolo Zoppo of the legendary Mauthausen Orchestra. Some of his tapes were published by Broken Flag (UK), Recloose Organisation (UK) and Aquilifer Sodality (Italy). Many…
1983
Metal box edition limited to 100 numbered copies, with remastered audio. The box set also includes 2 fanzines. Swastika Kommando was Pietro Mazzocchin from Bassano del Grappa, Italy. In the early 80s Pietro Mazzocchin was very active in the industrial/noise scene. He put out several cassettes under different moniker: Swastika Kommando, The New Sadism, Observation Clinique and also as Lyoto Music togheter with Pierpaolo Zoppo of the legendary Mauthausen Orchestra. Some of his tapes were published…
Pornoise
An epic 1984 masterpiece from Masami at the peak of his creativity. & CD set plenty of hectic and lumbering rhythms, weird vocal warble, frantic noise, fucked up grooves, spooky synth ambience, droning chant ranging from silly to sublime, musique concrete, and echoing psych weirdness. Despite the seeming chaos, Merzbow has structured into 24remarkably cohesive individual tracks identities. Recorded and Mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio in 1984 and published in tape format in 1987 by ZSF Produkt. I…
Musick From Simulation World
Another Merzbow re-issue for salivating Japanese noise junkies, recorded and Mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio in 1983. Merzbow blasts out of the gates with volcanic noise eruptions with all of the violence we can hear in these analog recordings from the early 80s. Mechanical grindings, claustrophobic scapings, train-wreck rhythms...Harsh energy indeed!! Limited edition of 200 copies.
Le Cuisinier
This album consists of improvisations between Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani, who began his career working in Merzbow (when Merzbow wasn't just Masami Akita alone, but he began as the duo of Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani, who met Akita in high school It was recorded on July 3, 1983 at Music Studio Kichijoji, Tokyo and mixed at Merz-Bau. It was released by Stratosphere Music in 1983 on a cassette, and at some point was reissued on cassette re-released in few copies by Lowest Music & Arts /…
1980 - 2016
M.B. - 31.04.1980 was recorded at Mectpyo Studio, Milano, in April 1980. Unreleased track. A musique concrete track made mostly using lp records played at the wrong speed and made into frantic loops. There are also the occasional and unexpected bits of dialogue! A very interesting M.B. early experiment.
Dedali - 31.04.2016 was recorded at The Shadow Factory, Lugano, in April 2016. A dense and hypnotic track. Dedali here uses treated field recordings and voice samples creating a very warm organi…
Muu/Nh 31.4.1982 / Menses 30.2.1982
First ever official CD re-issue of Maurizio Bianchi two albums recorded in 1982. "When in the summer of 1982 I bought a device for the echoes, my twisted idea was to transform pre-recorded sounds into something inaudible and shocking, while keeping intact the original intensity. And so I proceeded to transform Menses and Moerder Unter Uns in two bloody clumps of foggy echoes and dark reverberations. Thus they were birthed the two works in question, which came to light in very few copies, only fo…
Under the Victory Banner
Under the Victory Banner was first published as part of the Lp "Weltanschauung" in February 1982 by Come Organisation, UK.This limited edition box set contains the track Under The Victory Banner on 3 different formats: a 7" pressed on a violet vinyl, a violet cassette and a professionally printed CD-R. Also included is an insert with an unpublished M.B. artwork from 1980. All insert are signed by Maurizio Bianchi / M.B. Limited edition of 30 numbered copies. Ins…
Breathers Penis Age
First ever re-issue of this obscure private tape recorded in 1984. More uncompromising sounds by Pietro Mazzocchin. Screeching old school electronic abuse with an overly obsessive approach. A very intense album with an unsettling and claustrophobic atmosphere. For fans of extreme sounds ! Lp + one sided LP in pink vinyl and blue vinyl with paste on cover. Includes a numbered pink insert. Cover images are original artworks from 1984 by Pietro Mazzocchin. Edition …
Mörder Tape
First ever re-issue of this mythical Maurizio Bianchi tape from 1980. Mörder Tape was recorded in Milano at Mectpyo Studio using concrete sounds and radio waves. Another very fascinating M.B. early experiment. Limited edition of 150 copies in digipack. Cover images are original M.B. artworks from 1980.
Storage
First ever vinyl re-issue of this classic Merzbow album. The first two track were originally published on LP on the ZSF label in 1988. Masami Akita creates in Storage a very experimental and atmospheric album with a masterful use of scraping sounds and metal percussions but also with a very effective use of silence. A strongly hypnotic and creepy sounding early analog Merzbow album. The third track was published as an extra track for the CD reissue issued in the Merzbox is re-issued here for the…
The Triumph of the Will
First ever official vinyl re-issue of the infamous "Triumph of the Will" LP. Also the track contained on the one sided 7" is officially re-issued here for the first time on vinyl! The material contained here was previously issued under the moniker Leibstandarte SS MB.The moniker Leibstandarte SS MB and the nazi speeches that were added to the music were used without Maurizio Bianchi knowledge and without his consent. William Bennett, head of the band Whitehouse and the British Come Org. label, …
Material Action 2 N·A·M
First ever re-issue Lp re-issue of this classic Merzbow recording originally released on Chaos. Originally issued in 1983 in Lp format by Chaos in Japan. Masami Akita is aided here by Kiyoshi Mizutani. Classic old school junk noise for an intense and quite psychedelic album! A must have.Cover and labels are a near exact replica of the originals. Includes a 30 cm x 30 cm cardboard insert with cover artwork. Clear / white / yellow splatter vinyl! Edition of 302 numbered copies.