Lowest Music & Arts (1979–1984)Dead Rats wrote:Managed to get a hold of the Merzbox. Gotta say, I'm not really into his old analogue-instrumental stuff.
When did Merzbow first start producing, though? Alot of shit sounds old as hell on this thing.
Merzbow began as the duo of Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani who met Akita in high school. He started releasing noise recordings on cassettes through his own record label, Lowest Music & Arts, which was founded in 1979 in order to trade cassette tapes with other underground artists. The first tape made for the label was Metal Acoustic Music and was sold exclusively by mail order. Various other releases were made before the first real release which included Collection Era Vol. 1 and a very limited release of Remblandt Assemblage.[8] The Collection Era series was originally ten cassettes that were going to be distributed through an independent label called YLEM but when it became defunct and cancelled the series, Akita decided to release them through Lowest Music & Arts.[9]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merzbow#P ... .931979.29
