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Oh, here we go.
Not to sound condescending, but I've probably heard just as much if not more noise than 90% of the people who post on this board. I've heard the entire Merzbox, so I know what I'm talking about here. I'm not trying to sound like a dick, but there really isn't much to what he does besides make feedback skronk and beat on metals and etc etc etc. Inventive, yes, interesting, yes, talented? Hell no. Anyone can do that shit, and he could do it while he was asleep. His releases lack any real progress (the last few years, he's been using a laptop and sloppily throwing drum beats behind his feedback -- OH MAN!!!!!!!!!) and he's done 50,000 of them.
Noise is usually more than just noise, but of all the noise artists I've heard Merzbow actually is probably one of the least interesting.
I'd say my favorite noise artist is Mammal, followed closely by Yellow Swans, followed closely by Roxanne Jean Polise. Also worth noting are the old stand-bys Hair Police and The Rita and LOTS of shit from Japan (Ryoji Ikeda, for example, uses the sounds of computers crashing and tons of glitching noises; he's not a noise artist persé but there's really not a lot "musical" about what he does and it's some of the best shit I've EVER heard). So yeah.
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