Happenings 1000 Years Time Ago

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Happenings 1000 Years Time Ago
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Released1999 (1999)
RecordedApril 1999
Genre Noise
Length8:29
Label iDEAL
Producer Masami Akita
Merzbow chronology
Door Open at 8 am
(1999)
Happenings 1000 Years Time Ago
(1999)
Merzbox
(2000)

Happenings 1000 Years Time Ago is 7" single by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow, it samples "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" by The Yardbirds and is one of Merzbow's first computer recordings. It was released in 1999, and reissued in 2001 with different cover art available exclusively through Conspiracy Records, Antwerp. Both were pressed on translucent grey vinyl. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All music is composed by Masami Akita.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Pt. 1"4:26
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Pt. 2"4:03

Personnel

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatQuantityCatalog
Sweden1999iDEAL7"200iDEAL004
2001

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References

  1. "Merzbow - Happenings 1000 Years Time Ago (Vinyl)". Discogs . Retrieved January 20, 2013.