Trivia / Merzbow

• Black Sheep Hit:
  • O)))Bow 1 and O)))Bow 2, two songs born out of the unholy matrimony of Merzbow and Sunn O)))
  • A lot of his remixes fall under this. Another example is his remix of The Inalienable Dreamless (yes, the entire album; admittedly, the original is only twenty-three minutes long, because it's a grindcore album) by Discordance Axis.
• Creator Backlash: He reportedly did not like how Aka Meme turned out, so much that he took it out of his discography and re-recorded it a decade later as Red 2 Eyes.
• Creator's Oddball: He also produces ambient music, which can be a large shift when compared to his usual musical style.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Due to his extensive music catalog, no complete discography of him exists; those that are known to be made by him, however, are exceedingly rare. Some diehard fans of underground Electronic Music have resorted to piracy to acquire his material.
• Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition:
  • A lot of his works, ever since the early 2000s, have had 'limited' or 'deluxe' versions available to purchase at quite a high price, and a production run of likely a thousand (or hundred) copies. It starts out simple; extra discs containing mixed material, vinyl stickers and maybe postcards/collages of his. But then you get to the absurd stuff including hand-cast metal medallions (Merzbient) and swiss army knives (Kibako). Most likely they are packaged in either tote bags or elaborate boxes which can be plastic, wooden or even bamboo.
  • The Merzbox has eighteen other physical items that aren't in the fifty-disc box set ^note If you were wondering; a poster, 6 stickers and round cards, a biography/essay collection hardbook, two CD-ROMs (one being an interactive multimedia disc, and the other being a catalog/press kit of sorts), a medallion, and a shirt.
• The Pete Best: How many people know that the Merzbow name started with a duo?