Label: Helicopter

なんと27年越しで新作がリリース!!1973年にカリフォルニアはパサデナで誕生したLAFMS系スーパーバンドSmegma、そして今尚変わらぬペースで音盤リリースを続ける秋田昌美氏のノイズプロジェクトMerzbow、1996年に互いの音源をマテリアルに再構築した共同アルバム[Plays]を発表していましたが、なんと本作は同コンセプトによる新録!!同じくシャッフルでの再生が推奨されており、全96トラックという凄まじいボリュームに仕上げられています。

More than 25 years after their first partnership, international collaborators Smegma and Merzbow reunite for an all-new album that pushes the conceptual springboard of random composition generation even further. Consisting of two movements spread over 93 tracks, XCIII presents a collage of abstract electronics, unconventional instruments, reel to reel tape manipulation, loops and effects, best experienced in unique combinations on shuffled play. The first movement, "Climactic Gruesome Costumes" (whose title is an anagram of Play’s “Electro Smegmacoustic Music”), was composed using source sounds provided by Smegma and Merzbow, while the second movement, Reanimated, was composed at Smegma’s Studio using Merzbow tracks, Smegma tracks, and more. Packed in a limited edition 6-panel digipak with cover art by Ju Suk Reet Meate, Oblivia, and John Wiese.