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Bleeding Edge Ripping Crew
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Presents:
Artist : Merzbow
Album : Minazo Volume 2
Year : 2006
Genre : Noise
Label : Important Records
Cat.nr : IMPREC107
Source : Vinyl
R.date : 15-04-2008
Size : 63,1 MB
Grabber : Adobe Audition
Encoder : LAME 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : VBR/44.1/Joint-Stereo
Tracklist:
01. minazo at the heart of crab nebula part 1 16:42
02. minazo at the heart of crab nebula part 2 19:19
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Release Notes:
this release goes out to all the vegetarian animal
& japnoise lovers in the scene and around the
globe, espacially to my fellow warriors in noise
from DPS BCC FWYH DEF and all the other grps that
proove how powerfull this genre can be!
LOVE ANIMALS DON'T EAT THEM!
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Not to be confused with Merzbow's recent cd
release on Important titled Minazow Vol 1, this is
Minazow Volume 2 featuring new tracks dedicated to
the memory of the mighty Minazow. This release is
on vinyl only, housed in a deluxe heavy duty
textured tip-on gatefold sleeve and pressed on
green vinyl. Limited edition of 1000.
Minazow Vol 2 is Merzbow's tribute to the beloved
male elephant seal who lived life in captivity at
a Tokyo aquarium. Masami Akita often visited the
seal at the aquarium and was allowed to access
Minazo behind the scenes.
Minazo, an Elephant seal, died at 5:15 pm on
October 4, 2005. He was 11 years old, still young
for an elephant seal whose life expectancy is 20
years on average. Whatever the cause of death, I
feel sad and angry each time I hear about animals
dying in captivity far away from their natural
habitat. Minazo was raised at the Enoshima
Aquarium in Kanagawa Prefecture. With a strong
build, 5 meters in height and 2 tons in weight, he
was the only male elephant seal in Japan. Director
Yukiko Hori said in her book "The Story of An
Aquarium" (published by Iwanami Shoten) that
Minazo was brought to Japan from Uruguay in 1995.
His name, which consists of three kanji characters
meaning "beautiful", "male", and "elephant", was
chosen from 1,500 public suggestions. The aquarium
had raised male and female elephant seals called
Daikichi and Omiya, who had been brought from the
Antarctic island of South Georgia in 1964. After
they died in 1977 and 1979, specimens were made
using their skins, which are currently displayed
at the aqarium. Hori said that the previous
experience with the two seals was of help in
raising Minazo. Minazo became popular through TV
appearances. He was once introduced on a variety
show as a look-alike for wrestler Bob Sapp, an
insult to Minazo. Elephant seals have far greater
strength than humans, and can even crush a car
when they get really mad. Bob would have been
beaten in a second. Minazo was forced to perform
various stunts before audience at each mealtime,
such as holding a bucket with one flipper, bending
back like a prawn, and standing still while a
keeper jumped and clung on him. The hard work made
him exhausted and might have caused his early
death. Many of the aquariums in Japan have become
mere amusement establishments. If their mission
includes breeding and protecting endangered
animals, they must continue feeding the animals in
captivity responsibly. I, however, believe that
they should eventually end the exhibition of
animals in the name of academic research, and
instead start functioning as animal shelters only.
- Masami Akita, Tokyo 2006
http://www.importantrecords.com/
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