{"id":6545,"date":"2020-06-24T12:55:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gradualhate.info\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:29:36","slug":"merzbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/?p=6545","title":{"rendered":"Merzbow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC05607-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC05607-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC05607-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC05607-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC05607-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC05607-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC05607-1140x855.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Merzbow (\u30e1\u30eb\u30c4\u30d0\u30a6 Merutsubau) is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by Masami Akita (\u79cb\u7530 \u660c\u7f8e Akita Masami).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name Merzbow comes from the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters&#8217; artwork Merzbau, in which Schwitters transformed the interior of his house using found objects. The name was chosen to reflect Akita&#8217;s dada influence and junk art aesthetic. In addition to this, Akita has cited a wide range of musical influences from progressive rock, heavy metal, free jazz, and early electronic music to non-musical influences like dadaism, surrealism, and fetish culture. Since the early 2000s, he has been inspired by animal rights and environmentalism, and began to follow a vegan, straight edge lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as being a prolific musician, he has been a writer and editor for several books and magazines in Japan, and has written several books of his own. He has written about a variety of subjects, mostly about music, modern art, and underground culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> GH Records \/  GH 141 CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View:  <a href=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/?p=9398\">MERZBOW \u2013 (\u200b(\u200bVIBRA\u200b)\u200b) MMVII \/ 2nd Edition \u2013 GH Records<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Merzbow - ((VIBRA)) MMVII \/ Sample by GH Records\" width=\"960\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F609624003&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=960\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merzbow (\u30e1\u30eb\u30c4\u30d0\u30a6 Merutsubau) is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by Masami Akita (\u79cb\u7530 \u660c\u7f8e Akita Masami). The name Merzbow comes from the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters&#8217; artwork Merzbau, in which Schwitters transformed the interior of his house using found objects. The name was chosen to reflect Akita&#8217;s dada influence and junk art aesthetic. In addition to this, Akita has cited a wide range of musical influences from progressive rock, heavy metal, free jazz, and early electronic music to non-musical influences like dadaism, surrealism, and fetish culture. Since the early 2000s, he has been inspired by animal rights and environmentalism, and began to follow a vegan, straight edge lifestyle. As well as being a prolific musician, he has been a writer and editor for several books and magazines in Japan, and has written several books of his own. He has written about a variety of subjects, mostly about music, modern art, and underground culture. GH Records \/ GH 141 CD View: MERZBOW \u2013 (\u200b(\u200bVIBRA\u200b)\u200b) MMVII \/ 2nd Edition \u2013 GH Records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,2],"tags":[94,224,83,770,1064],"class_list":["post-6545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-gh-records","tag-industrial-music","tag-japan-noise","tag-merzbow","tag-nosie","tag-ruben-garcia-villaplana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13481,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions\/13481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}