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Methylmercure
One of the most important sound sources in history, a relic of a bygone era. Minamata is an industrial noise avant-garde band formed in France in 1984, with the methyl mercury pollution  incident that occurred in 1953 on the coast of Minamata City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan, as its theme. In 1985, the band became a trio, and their compositional skills and overall quality improved, resulting in the creation of Methylmercure. During this period, the noise scenes in developed countr…