va - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

 

Four artists (Big City Orchestra, Merzbow, Mohr, Maeror Tri) take a quarter of a CD each on this neat compilation released by Fool's Paradise in 1994. 

u mad, cow?

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va - Sonic City

 

CD compiled by the artist Hans-Ulrich Obrist, given away in a French magazine in 2000 and again with the catalog to an architecture exhibition. Tracks by Merzbow, CM von Hauswolff, Justin Bennett, Pommasl, Serge Comte, Mika Vainio and others.

mutants

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Nicola Frangione - Mail Music Project

 

Rare LP from 1983 by performance artist, sound poet and writer Nicola Frangione. The record is made up of 47 very short collaborative tracks that all run together. The collaborators are folks from the fine art world as well as the industrial mail-art underground. Some are names you'll recognize: Masami Akita, P16.D4, Gerald Jupitter-Larsen, Naif Orchestra, Lief Brush, SWSW Thrght, Rod Summers, Maurizio Bianchi, Vittore Baroni. The rest are more obscure (at least to me). 

Nicola Frangione - Mail Music Project

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va - Inflation (*0 0.000 Remix)

 

Two CDs of remixes from the album "0.000" by *0 (aka Nosei Sakata), which was largely inaudible high tones and silence. This 2002 release came out at the end of the "lowercase" fashion, a sort of post-Bernhard Gunter love of extreme sparseness and low volume. Includes tracks by Merzbow, Taylor Deupree, Bernhard Gunter, Immedia, Richard Chartier, Steve Roden, Duul_Drv, Koji Asano, Dale Lloyd, Immedia (whose album for Line is an overlooked gem), John Hudak, Stephan Matthieu, Marc Behrens, Kim Cascone, Akira Rabelais, Zbigniew Karkowski, Aube, Hsi-Chuang-Cheng, Kozo Inada and two tracks by *0 himself. 

va - Inflation (*0 0.000 Remix)

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va - Eternal Blue Extreme (An Asian Tribute to Derek Jarman)

 

1994 compilation CD of artists from Japan, China and Taiwan with tributes to filmmaker Derek Jarman. Includes tracks by Merzbow, PFN, CCCC, Aube, Otomo Yoshihide, Juno, Illuminated 666 and ZSLO. As far as I can tell, it was the only release on a Canadian label called Somnus. 

va - Eternal Blue Extreme

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va - Great Blue Thing

 

Compilation of mostly Japanese noise, grindcore, rock whatever with tracks by Merzbow, Discordance Axis, Yeah, The Love Apaches, Tatsuya Yoshida, Multiplex, more.

va - Great Blue Thing

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va - TRAX 0983 Anthems

 

Classic LP of new national anthems compiled by media artist and music critic Vittore Baroni in 1983. Features patriotic songs by bands from around the world (but mostly Italy): Naif Orchestra, Merzbow, Van Kaye & Ignit, 001... Cancer, P16.D4, No Night Sweats, Renaldo & the Loaf, DDAA, Olho Seco, Prhemm and Spirocheta Pergoli. It's a fun record in its own right, but it's also one of those perfect snapshots of the intersections between Utopian mail art, post-punk and underground noise that flourished in the early 1980's.  

 

va - TRAX 0983 Anthems

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