Talk:Merzbow discography

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[edit] and counting

it could be useful to have a counter of the known releases. or not? thanks User:130.159.248.222 ! ;) PedroCarvalho 23:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

There's approximately 320 releases there at the moment. I think I'll make some sort of counter after all the releases are filled in. Dadaesque (talk) 03:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
The article should include (at some point) Template:Infobox Artist Discography, which has a count list in it. = ∫tc 5th Eye 20:31, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Electric Salad

hi, great article! but i have the impression that electric salad (etherworld,us version) was released in 1996 not on 1995. on musicbrainz it states that the japaneses version was in 1995-10-15. http://musicbrainz.org/release/9f6eb07d-ef81-4409-bc10-36a7ed88888f.html PedroCarvalho 11:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I have checked the cd, and you are correct. Moved to 1996. Thanks 130.159.248.222 16:47, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks

Lugnuts: THANK YOU for finally making the article! Now everything's neat and tidy again! All we need now are some contributours to write all the album articles...

No probs. Hopefully this can become quite a comprehensive article.Lugnuts 12:33, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Given the number of people working on it and the potential for unlimited growth, it may even become the definitive discography (if it hasn't already). Wikipedia is finally living up to its potential! :D MrBook 13:31, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contents table

How's that looking now? The old (default) one was really bugging me as it was nearly as big as the article! I've turned it off and built one that links to each year instead. Hope that's OK with everyone, and it's just as easy to get to the collab/split sections within each year. Let me know what you think. Lugnuts 16:56, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page clean-up

Here's some of what I did:

  • Removed OM Electrique as it was unreleased outside of the Merzbox.
  • Removed compilation appearances (including appearances on another artist's album, although I left the Sunn 0))) entry as it already had an article).
  • Moved non-Merzbow released to their own headings.
  • Added videos and missing albums.
  • Fixed various spellings and created links for future articles.
  • Fixed untitled splits (Originally they only had the Merzbow track in the title), two track splits have the track titles separated by a slash, I'm not sure what to do about multi-track splits.

There's still a lot left for us to do:

  • Create articles for the albums, artists, and labels.
  • Figure out what to do about compilation tracks, appearaces, and multi-track splits.
  • Better organize the list.

It's hard to find info about the early cassette releases online, so I'm not sure how correct some of it is.

The Merzbox reissues are -- from what I understand -- edited and remixed, so they should be kept on the Merzbox article or added under their own heading as on the Incomplete Merzbow Discography.

It's funny how I had originally intended only to fix a few misspellings, now days later I'm mentally exhausted. I think I'm done for awhile, at least I hope so. 72.24.31.10 23:42, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Great work. I got a lot of the early cassette info from the book in the Merzbox, but checked most of it with discogs and other sources. 130.159.248.222 11:02, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

as for compilations and splits i recommend you make a seperate section for them titled something like "Compilation and Split record appearances", in the following manner:
  • "Track_Title" on the compilation Compilation Name (date)
  • "Track_Title", "Track_Title" and "Track_Title" on the split album Split Album Name (date)
i also recommend you make a seperate section dedicated to collaborations, in order of date. i recommend you keep the Merzbow alias seperate, as you already have them. also maybe create a header "As Merzbow" like his other aliases have. everything else is pretty impressive, nice list guys!
AlexOvShaolin 16:01, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I Am the Walrus w/Boris

Has anyone got any more info on this? I remember reading about the upcoming release ages ago on another forum, but nothing since. Any planned release dates, etc? Cheers! Lugnuts 09:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Its supposed to be a vinyl only release 'Mellow Peak' on Troubleman unlimited (TMU-176) including a (rumoured?) cover of 'I am the Walrus' but I dont think there is a release date set as yet. I have moved the two entries in the discography to 'Forthcoming' and altered formats to match http://www.scarbox.net/dronevil/news/news.htm (27/11/06) but there may only be one record. I think Partikel II is shipping now, so have left that in 2007.Run Dna 15:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I had an update from Cold Spring saying they'd be shipping Partikel in the very near future. Lugnuts 15:46, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] album order?

i'm trying to create articles for some releases however i'm really starting to doubt how much in order the albums are, for example Live in Geneva is listed as being released in 2006 while the official site says 2005[1]. i dont want to topple the order of releases but can somebody with knowledge please look the list over for order, when individual articles are created it seems crucial to have a release date to help the problem. --AlexOvShaolin 09:14, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I think it's safe to assume that if you can get a source from a Merzbow site on it's actual release, use that and move it to the correct part of this page. Maybe start with ones that you know are def. correct first. Thanks for helping out! Lugnuts 12:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I'll check this through when I get time. It is probably my fault as I put some in with recording dates rather than release dates. Run Dna 11:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] list by date released

For some reason somebody listed OM Electrique in the 1979 section. If we start listing material by date recorded, there's going to be a lot of confusion. It wasnt released seperate from the Merzbox and it shouldnt be listed under 1979, if no one objects, i'm going to take it off this list. --AlexOvShaolin 04:47, 1 April 2007 (UTC)


  • Thanks - I've updated it's article to reflect this. Lugnuts 08:31, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merzbow vs 5ebuts

Merzbow vs 5ebuts - Destroy erase improve (Japan - Chile) (2006) Can someone confirm this is a release. Never heard of it and cant find it on google although 5ebuts is a (noise) band.Run Dna 14:19, 26 April 2007 (UTC). I have now removed this because I cant find anything about it anywhere Run Dna 11:40, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] splits + collabs moved to bottom

I think it was better when the split / collaboration releases where under separate headings by year, although I appreciate recent work by Dadaesque. I think its important to know the date and whether they were splits or collabs, as the collabs tend to be very different to splits and solo releases. What does everybody else think? Run Dna (talk) 14:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree with organising them better except I probably won't be doing much to this article in the near future.Dadaesque (talk) 20:12, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

I've put the dates on the split / collab releases and the merzbow null tapes. The splits are marked, but some are a bit tricky to categorise when its a split release but played at the same time like ladybird and struggle for pride Run Dna (talk) 14:30, 11 June 2008 (UTC)