"'Merzbox' is a box set compilation by the Japanese noisician Merzbow (Masami Akita). It consists of 50 CDs spanning Merzbow's career from 1979 to 1997. The label's original plan was to reissue Merzbow's collaborative LP for them as a tenth anniversary repressing. There was then talks of repressing even older recordings, with that idea ballooning from a 10 disc set to the final number of 50. It was made available for preorder in late 1997, but kept getting delayed until an official launch on June 16th 2000 in Barcelona (where Merzbow also performed). In April 2002 it was exhibited in its entirety in Vienna, with Merzbow performing opening and closing concerts and webcast live for the duration of its run. In December 2002, Georgia Tech's student radio station 'WREK' also broadcast the complete set without interruption. A local magazine article described the marathon as 'what may be the most obscure and counterintuitive move in the history of radio'. Masami Akita has stated in a 2009 interview that he has enough unreleased material for another 50 CD set."
