Merzbow - The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue (Remastered) (2025) (Hi-Res)
Merzbow - The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue (2025) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-48kHz - 850 MB
1:08:11 | Electronic, Noise | Label: Room 40
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-48kHz - 850 MB
1:08:11 | Electronic, Noise | Label: Room 40
Recorded in 1996, Merzbow’s The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue is one of a series of unique editions from his vast catalogue that reveals a side of his practice often under represented. During the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Masami Akita was sometimes working on film and theatre music. In this space he created a series of recordings that capture the full scope of his sound worlds. Given the nature of these settings, his compositional approaches were varied, seeking to create both intensely crushing walls of sound and more spatial, and at times rhythmic, pieces that plot out an approach to sound making which atomises his universe of sound, and uncovered the singular detail that is often consumed in the whole.
The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue is the soundtrack to the theatre piece 'Akutoku no Sakae/Bitoku no Fuko' by Romantica. Based on Marquis de Sades's 'Historie de Juliette ou les Prosperités du vice' & 'Les Infortunes de la vertu’, this recording was originally released with limited distribution and remains one of the lesser available Merzbow recordings.
This edition is completely remastered and contains an additional cut from those original sessions.
credits
released May 9, 2025
Composed By, Performer – Masami Akita
Synthesizer [Ems Synthi 'a'], Theremin [Ishibashi], Tape [Tapes], Electronics [Noise Electronix] – MA*
Recorded & mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio, March 1996.
Remastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
All music originally made for the theatre play 'Akutoku no Sakae/Bitoku no Fuko' by Romantica. (Original story by Marquis de Sades's 'Historie de Juliette ou les Prosperités du vice' & 'Les Infortunes de la vertu').
Design by T.Pakioufakis
Tracklist
1. Untitled I (03:06)
2. Untitled II (01:37)
3. Untitled III (03:55)
4. Untitled IV (03:00)
5. Untitled V (01:40)
6. Untitled VI (02:28)
7. Untitled VII (03:23)
8. Untitled VIII (02:28)
9. Untitled IX (02:13)
10. Untitled X (04:46)
11. Untitled XI (02:35)
12. Untitled XII (03:19)
13. Untitled XIII (04:49)
14. Untitled XIV (03:02)
15. Untitled XV (03:41)
16. Untitled XVI (06:54)
17. Untitled XVII (01:52)
18. Untitled XVIII (05:44)
19. B (07:39)
foobar2000 2.0 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2025-05-10 05:41:39
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Analyzed: Merzbow / The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR8 -0.52 dB -12.54 dB 3:07 01-Untitled I
DR9 -0.52 dB -12.35 dB 1:37 02-Untitled II
DR8 -0.50 dB -9.41 dB 3:55 03-Untitled III
DR9 -0.52 dB -10.55 dB 3:01 04-Untitled IV
DR8 -1.75 dB -11.15 dB 1:41 05-Untitled V
DR15 -5.85 dB -23.41 dB 2:29 06-Untitled VI
DR9 -0.51 dB -10.83 dB 3:23 07-Untitled VII
DR9 -0.52 dB -11.55 dB 2:28 08-Untitled VIII
DR8 -2.20 dB -12.02 dB 2:14 09-Untitled IX
DR9 -0.54 dB -11.19 dB 4:46 10-Untitled X
DR10 -1.27 dB -14.03 dB 2:35 11-Untitled XI
DR12 -0.51 dB -16.17 dB 3:19 12-Untitled XII
DR8 -0.50 dB -9.72 dB 4:49 13-Untitled XIII
DR9 -0.51 dB -11.73 dB 3:02 14-Untitled XIV
DR8 -0.51 dB -11.11 dB 3:41 15-Untitled XV
DR9 -0.50 dB -10.38 dB 6:55 16-Untitled XVI
DR9 -1.00 dB -11.58 dB 1:52 17-Untitled XVII
DR9 -3.62 dB -14.68 dB 5:44 18-Untitled XVIII
DR8 -0.51 dB -12.33 dB 7:39 19-B
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Number of tracks: 19
Official DR value: DR9
Samplerate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1561 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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log date: 2025-05-10 05:41:39
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Analyzed: Merzbow / The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR8 -0.52 dB -12.54 dB 3:07 01-Untitled I
DR9 -0.52 dB -12.35 dB 1:37 02-Untitled II
DR8 -0.50 dB -9.41 dB 3:55 03-Untitled III
DR9 -0.52 dB -10.55 dB 3:01 04-Untitled IV
DR8 -1.75 dB -11.15 dB 1:41 05-Untitled V
DR15 -5.85 dB -23.41 dB 2:29 06-Untitled VI
DR9 -0.51 dB -10.83 dB 3:23 07-Untitled VII
DR9 -0.52 dB -11.55 dB 2:28 08-Untitled VIII
DR8 -2.20 dB -12.02 dB 2:14 09-Untitled IX
DR9 -0.54 dB -11.19 dB 4:46 10-Untitled X
DR10 -1.27 dB -14.03 dB 2:35 11-Untitled XI
DR12 -0.51 dB -16.17 dB 3:19 12-Untitled XII
DR8 -0.50 dB -9.72 dB 4:49 13-Untitled XIII
DR9 -0.51 dB -11.73 dB 3:02 14-Untitled XIV
DR8 -0.51 dB -11.11 dB 3:41 15-Untitled XV
DR9 -0.50 dB -10.38 dB 6:55 16-Untitled XVI
DR9 -1.00 dB -11.58 dB 1:52 17-Untitled XVII
DR9 -3.62 dB -14.68 dB 5:44 18-Untitled XVIII
DR8 -0.51 dB -12.33 dB 7:39 19-B
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Number of tracks: 19
Official DR value: DR9
Samplerate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1561 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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