Merzan / Zanmerz ‎– "Frightened And Ecrasez L'Infâme" (ZH27 ‎– 010) 1992

This works more as a collaboration than the previous two cassettes by Merzan/Zanmerz.Whereas the earlier tapes sounded like two separate sides by two different artists,this one merges far more as an album.
The side mixed by Luis Mesa is more of a conventional scraping drone,like claws down a blackboard;but,again the Zan Hoffman mix side is far more inventive.It takes you in several unexpected directions,twisting and squirming like a trapped eel out of water.Always maintaining the listeners interest,rather than being bored by another Drone.

Arranged By, Mixed By – Luis Mesa (tracks: A), Zan Hoffman (tracks: B)Featuring [Audio Sources] – Merz , Zanstones

 

Tracklist:

A	Merzan Frightened	29:01
B	Zanmerz Ecrasez L'Infâme	31:16

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Merzan / Zanmerz ‎– "First Affaire" (ZH27 ‎– 074) 1991

This, predictably, is Zan Hoffman and Luis Mesa's first mail collaboration. The usual noisy droney vortex of tarnsformed sound sources,that fit snuggly into the "Other" category. Zan's the man,mixing humour and a great sense of image with the avant garde.....and because of this remains roundly ignored,despite releasing around 1200 albums.Founder of the adage,"if you throw enough mud at the wall none of it will stick".....I made that one up,but very applicable to Zan,and probably Luis Mesa too.The difference is Zan Hoffman isn't giving up,and Mesa has disappeared.

Tracklist:

A1	A Letter To L.M.
A2	Climax
A3	Black Dream
B1	Rumor De Registro Secreto
B2	Religiones Blanco

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Merzan / Zanmerz ‎– "Hell City And GoGoCrash" (Tonspur Tapes ‎– TT 43 /ZH27 016) 1991

There aren't many artists in the cassette culture universe that Zan Hoffman hasn't collaborated with in his 27 years of sonic exploration; and Merz,or luis Mesa isn't one of them. Under the merged oneness  of Merzan/Zanmerz they combined by sending each other tapes in the post,an extension of the Mail Art umbrella. Essentially,this is basically a Merz track on side A, and Zan Hoffman remixing soundsources from Minoy,Agog,1348,Merz,and himself,to create something unique and extraordinary on side B.
The humour of Zan Hoffman is always to the fore on any of his thousands of releases,and he always has a talent for a funny title or two. Its a whirlpool of unexpected and unconnected sound bytes,swirling in an unstructured soup of effects and mixer manipulation.This has more in common with free jazz than any other experimental musics. Anything goes in the search for the 13th note when Hoffman's in town.

Tracklist:

A	Hell City
B1	She Plays A Mean Car Crash
B2	Gogominoymadreadmetal

"Hell City", composed by Merz in Madrid, 1991.
"She plays a mean car crash", recorded by Zan in Louky. Featuring "no title" (Merz), How loops, Agog viola, John Wiggins (fresh wig), Runzlestirn & Gurglestock.
"Gogominoymadreadmetal" (remixed 11/17/1991), featuring 1348, Merz, Minóy & Anika.

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Luis Mesa ‎– "El Sueño" (Self Released tape) 1985

Luis Mesa does the Forbidden Planet part two.Quite remarkably similar to those weird 1950's oscillators fed through a 1950's reverberation room. A kind of a tribute to early electronic music.
"Piel" is listed as just one track,but there seemed to be three separate tracks when I edited it ,so behold,"Piel parts 1,2,&3".

Tracks:

1.El Sueño
2.Piel (part 1)
3.Piel (part 2)
4.Piel (part 3)

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Luis Mesa ‎– "Alquimia Detras" (IEP) 1985

Wonderfully wonky sound collage of electronics and muffled speech samples; juxtaposed with some fine modern electronic composition.This is how I like my industrial music to sound from my humble standpoint. His best tape I reckon.

Tracklist:

A1	Religiones
A2	De La Nada
A3	Profecia
A4	Cuando Nos Conviene
A5	En Trance
B1	Viaje Imaginario (Partes I-VII)

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Luis Mesa ‎– "Arqueotomia" (Grand Mal Edicions) 1986

A C1....yes you read it right....a C1,not a C90,which lasts 90 minutes,but a C1 that lasts one minute!
Two 30 second bursts of noise,to be played on an auto-reverse cassette deck making a continuous loop with a theoretical time length of Infinity.
I have made a short 6 minute loop edit for those of you without an auto-reverse iPod,so you can get a taster without listening to it for eternity. Either a statement on the finite constraints of time,or on the freedom we deny ourselves to choose when to end something that can never be eternal,be it life or a chrom-dioxide tape that will eventually wear out before you press the stop button.

Tracklist:

1	Arqueotomia 1
2	Arqueotomia 2

3 Arqueotomia 3 (Die or Diy? bonus loop edit)

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Bercomize ‎– "Black Love" (Extrema Pasion ‎– EP 113) 1988

The UK may have gone insane in 1988 with that drug feulled mass hysteria called Rave culture,but Spain were spared this atrocity until the Brits destroyed Ibiza a short while later. So Luis Mesa was free of the prevalence of that creativity destroying mind control drug MDMA. He was therefore able to carry on making pure noise with no funky drummer beats,or four to the floor dancefloor stompers.
Hear this dentists drill penetrate your molars,and get "Black Love"(d) Up,without a dancing chav in sight.

Tracklist:

A1	Untitled
A2	Untitled
B1	Untitled
B2	Untitled
B3	Untitled

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Recursos Ajenos / Tecnica Material ‎– "84 - 86 / Espectros" (IEP ‎– IEP 105) 1986

Luis Mesa does his best Residents(without the singing) impression as Recursos Ajenos on side A.Nine minimal bontempi organ ditties,that wouldn't have been out of place in  Eraserhead.
On side B he hooks up with his compadre from Madrid, Miguel A. Ruiz, for some more conventional Industrialised electronica.

Tracklist:

	Recursos Ajenos: 84-86
A1	Cántico I
A2	Mi Muñeca
A3	Baile En Las Cavernas
A4	Gatos
A5	El Velatorio
A6	Un Mar Verde
A7	Le Soleil
A8	Nana
A9	Cántico II
	Tecnica Material: Espectros
B1	Not Apartheid
B2	Solo De Mañana
B3	Insuficiencia
B4	Los Que Sufren
B5	Union Carbide
B6	A Mil Kilómetros
B7	Espectros

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Recursos Ajenos / Merz ‎– "Una Exposición" (IEP ‎– IEP 07) 1985

Luis Mesa appearing as two bands.On side A he is Recursos Ajenos, and on side B,he is his usual self as Merz.
Recursos Ajenos is the melodic side of Mesa,with synth melodies,drum beats and choir samples.There's even a chorus laden guitar, plucking a melancholic melody on 'Juegos Blancos'. This side of the cassette finishes with a discordant keyboard marching stomp.All very accessible,so i'm sure the other side will be the 'normal' Merz/Luis Mesa dysfunctional experimentation.......just listened to it and yes it is.

Tracklist:

	Recursos Ajenos:
A1	El Himno De Los Muertos
A2	Juegos Blancos
A3	Cánticos
	Merz:
B1	San Remo '84
B2	La Cólera

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Merz ‎– "Aibre" (IEP ‎– IEP 101) 1985

Luis Mesa made, for some unknown reason, two different albums called "Aibre", one under his own name, and another by his Merz alias.Whatever the obsession with the word 'Aibre' was I don't really want to know, and all the info I could find on it is that is a place in France near the Swiss border!!/....uh?
This version sounds like a cross between the soundtrack to "Forbidden Planet", by Bebe and Louis Barron ,and a whole series of 'the Clangers'*. An electronic music without synthesisers that hark back to the early days of Stockhausen.

*An English kids tv series from the 1970's,which featured an Iron Chicken made from junk,a Soup dragon who made soup for The Clangers;who also ate blue string pudding,and went fishing in space powered by music notes from a music tree.......and now you know why the English are weird!......so what excuse have the Spanish got?.....I got it.....bull fighting.

Tracklist:

A1	Pájaros Electrónicos
A2	La Gran Señora
A3	Exclusión I
A4	Bajo La Lluvia
B1	Aibre
B2	Exclusión 2
B3	Kaleidoskopio
B4	Collage Mixto

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