Pornoise/1kg

Pornoise/1kg
Box set by Merzbow
Released 1984
Recorded 1982–1984 at Merzbau, Tokyo
Genre Noise
Length 302:19
Label ZSF Produkt
Producer Masami Akita
Merzbow chronology

Le Cuisinier
(1983)		 Pornoise/1kg
(1984)		 Pornoise/Extra
(1984)
Cover of 1993 reissue

Pornoise/1kg is a box set album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow.[1] Additional material from the sessions was released as Pornoise/Extra.

It was partially included in the Merzbox in 2000.

Background

In the 80s Masami Akita had a mail art project called Pornoise, in which he made collages using discarded magazines – in particular pornographic magazines – taken from the trash. These were then sent along with his cassettes, the idea being that his art was like cheap mail order pornography. Pornoise/1kg was released as part of these activities, the 1kg refers to the total weight of the original package.[2][3]

At the same time that Pornoise/1kg was released, Akita started the Sexorama compilation series featuring artists involved in the international industrial/noise mail music scene. The series had the same concept as Pornoise/1kg, and likewise was reissued in 1993 by Statutory Tape.

Pornoise was credit as the artist for the track "New Cunts" on Sexorama 2 and co-credited for artwork on Scissors for Cutting Merzbow.

Track listing

Original release

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Dyprodox" (1984)  
2. "Tyranozaurs" (1984)  
3. "Stegozaurs" (1984)  
4. "Orienisorestes" (1984)  
5. "Iganodon" (1984)  
Side two
No. Title Length
1. "Arosaurs" (1984)  
2. "Dyprodox 2" (1984)  
Side three
No. Title Length
1. "Trikeratopus" (1984)  
Side four
No. Title Length
1. "Zymedoradon & UFO" (1984)  
Side five
No. Title Length
1. "Anchirozaurus"    
2. "Teranodon" (1982)  
3. "Megarozaurus" (1982)  
4. "Ikchiozaurus" (1982)  
5. "Arkeron"    
Side six
No. Title Length
1. "Brachiozaurus" (1982)  
2. "Extra Track" (1982)  
Side seven
No. Title Length
1. "Pareiazaurus" (1984)  
2. "Shisocho" (1984)  
Side eight
No. Title Length
1. "Sasori" (1984)  
2. "Orsoseras" (1984)  
3. "Tombo" (1984)  
Side nine
No. Title Length
1. "Radon"    
Side ten
No. Title Length
1. "Barunga"    

1993 Statutory Tape release

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Penis Art Is Microphone"   25:49
Side two
No. Title Length
1. "Loop Fuck/Obituary"   28:20
Side three
No. Title Length
1. "Night Noise White"   31:25
Side four
No. Title Length
1. "New Karhma"   31:31
Side five
No. Title Length
1. "Neon Sworm"   31:13
Side six
No. Title Length
1. "International Velvet"   31:37
Side seven
No. Title Length
1. "Dynamite Don Don"   30:21
Side eight
No. Title Length
1. "De-Filement of His Nubile Young Wife"   29:59
Side nine
No. Title Length
1. "Toy 69"   29:52
Side ten
No. Title Length
1. "UFO vs British Army"   31:59

Notes

Original release

1993 reissue

Personnel

Original release

(note: some info was illegible due to being printed over dark areas)

1993 reissue

Release history

Region Date Label Format Packaging
Japan 1984 ZSF Produkt 5×C60 envelope with inserts
unknown VHS box with inserts
1987 envelope with inserts
United States 1993 Statutory Tape plastic box

References

  1. ↑ "Merzbow - Pornoise 1 KG". Discogs. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
  2. ↑ Woodward, Brett (1999). Merzbook: The Pleasuredome of Noise. Extreme. ISBN 0-646-38326-4.
  3. ↑ Chad Hensley (1999). "The Beauty of Noise: An interview with Masami Akita of Merzbow". EsoTerra. Retrieved March 20, 2013.