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VARIOUS ARTISTS  Merzbow - Frog - Remixed And Revisited  2 x CD   (Misanthropic Agenda)   14.98
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This mammoth remix release pulls out all of the stops: it's presented in a two-disc edition with an incredible lineup, with Boris, When, Ulver, Fennesz, Sunn O))), Hrvatski, Pita, House Of Low Culture, Tim Hecker, Russell Haswell, John Wiese, Terror Organ, Gerrit, Never Presence Forever, and even Merzbow himself all reconfiguring elements of the excellent Frog album (which we also just now got in stock and is reviewed elsewhere in this weeks update). All of the remixes on here are pretty rad, and my favorite tracks include the epic 20-minute long "Froggie Bee-Baa" from Boris with it's oceanic waves of rumbling guitar drones surging over layers of shortwave noise, the pastoral noise-bliss of both Tim Hecker's "Cloned Frog Language" and Fennesz's "Frog Remix", the beautiful dronescape of distant groaning guitars of Sunn O)))'s "Catch 22(Surrender Or Die)", and Ulver's minimalist horror movie score conjured from cut up slices of Merzbow noise and disorientating minor key melody. This is an excellent companion piece to Merzbow's Frog, which in my opinion is one of the best post-analogue releases from Masami Akita, but Frog - Remixed And Revisited just as easily stands on it's own as a high-quality collection of big names in the avant-heavy underground scrawling their own manifestos with the spewings of the master of Japanese noise. Comes in a beautiful glossy foldout package covered in awesome psychedelic artwork by Aaron Turner from Hydra Head/Isis.