A definitive, full-color celebration of the elusive visionary Babs Santini—whose surreal, erotically charged collages shaped the visual world of Nurse With Wound and its avant-garde circle—The Formless Irregular spans five decades of radical image-making that transforms waste, dreams, and noise into haunting, darkly humorous art.
Tag: Merzbow
Merzbow :: Sedonis (Signal Is Noise)
Sedonis is a searing new release from noise icon Merzbow and Chicago’s Signal In Noise label, blending his signature chaos—overdriven electronics, handmade instruments, and relentless textures—with the label’s sharp visual identity. At nearly 70, Merzbow remains uncompromising, delivering an immersive, punishing sonic experience that continues to push the boundaries of sound.
Frans de Waard :: America’s Greatest Noise (Korm Plastics)
America’s Greatest Noise: About RRRecords, Emil Beaulieau, and the True Sound of Love by Frans Da Waard (Korm Plastics). The focus is centered on the noise scene in the United States, as might be expected for a book about America’s greatest living noise artist.
Japanese ambient music :: Minimal environment and zen-inspired sonic sculptures
Through multiple evolutions along decades, with a refined combination of harmonies, a deep sense of space, a phenomenology of time and bright sonic manipulations based on acoustic timbres, Japanese artists invite the listener to enlightened and intuitive inner promenades.
Meat Beat Manifesto & Merzbow :: Extinct (Cold Spring)
This is not a collaboration you thought could happen or would happen. Extinct reminded me a bit of the more noisy performances at the legendary Maschinenfest festivals I’ve attended over the years. Like pre-Hands ORPHX or early Synapscape. Become reacquainted with some beautiful music / rhythmic noise.
Meat Beat Manifesto & Merzbow :: Extinct (Cold Spring)
Extinct sees the duo take listeners on a transcendental journey, focusing on the dismantling of beat and structure and recycling the result through layers of beautifully crafted noise and feedback loops, giving birth to new rhythms buried deep in the dirt.
Gaudi :: 10” White Vinyl and Digital EP on RareNoise
Spacious, spacey, heavy mystical dub pulses with invincible groove, majesty and might. The highly versatile musician and producer strikes again, this time with a delicious […]
Merzbow :: Sha Mo 3000 (Essence Music)
Masami Akita has been making noise as Merzbow for long enough now that an entire generation of children don’t know of a world without his […]

















