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MERZBOW + GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE - A Perfect Pain

Format: LP
Label & Cat.Number: Cold Spring RecordsCSR23LP
Release Year: 2018
Note: this so far only encounter between the father of industrial music and the Japanese godfather of harsh noise was recorded in 1998 and appeared on Cold Spring as CD in 1999, now re-mastered and re-designed; "a long overdue collaboration from these two living legends of experimental music... This disc will scare the shit out of most people... it's almost a modern day take on the simultaneous beauty/brutality aesthetic" [Brainwashed] 180g vinyl with printed inner sleeve and download card
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The incredible power created by GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE (Psychic TV / Throbbing Gristle) - the founding father of the Industrial world, and MERZBOW - the undisputed king of Japanese Noise. Recorded exclusively for Cold Spring, with five brand new tracks, "A Perfect Pain" has been hailed as an important album and an extremely successful collaboration.

Remastered for both CD and vinyl by The Cage Studios.

First edition on vinyl (180g), third edition of CD (first time in digipak) - OUT 25th OCTOBER

Standard Black Vinyl
Limited Flaxen Gold Coloured Vinyl x 300 copies (via Cold Spring only).

"a long overdue collaboration from these two living legends of experimental music... This disc will scare the shit out of most people... it's almost a modern day take on the simultaneous beauty/brutality aesthetic
of Throbbing Gristle" (Brainwashed)

"…easily the finest material Merzbow has made in
some time... pure data trash of the highest quality…" (The Wire).


Electronics, Drum Machine, Effects - Masami Akita
Producer - Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Engineer - Bryin Dall
Editing - Dave Kirby
Original Artwork - Charles Acethorpe, Richard Crónín
Original Design, Layout - Associated Distortion
Photography of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge - Francis Polk

2018 reinterpretation and layout - Abby Helasdottir
2018 remastering - Martin Bowes, Cage Studios