Live CBGB's NYC 1998

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Live CBGB's NYC 1998
Live album by Alec Empire and Merzbow
Released	July 15, 2003
Recorded	November 4, 1998
Genre	Digital hardcore Noise
Label	Digital Hardcore Recordings
Producer	Alec Empire Masami Akita
Alec Empire chronology
Death Favours the Enemy (2002) Live CBGB's NYC 1998 (2003) The CD2 Sessions (2003)
Merzbow chronology
Ikebana (2003) Live CBGB's NYC 1998 (2003) Live Magnetism (2003)

Live CBGB's NYC 1998 (also known as Alec Empire vs. Merzbow) is a live album by German digital hardcore pioneer Alec Empire and Japanese noise artist Masami "Merzbow" Akita. It was recorded on November 4, 1998 at the Digital Hardcore Festival at CBGB's in New York and was released on DHR in 2003.

Other recordings to emanate from the Digital Hardcore Festival include a CDr released by DHR in 2004 named Live At CBGB's New York City 4-11-98. The disc contains a DJ set by Empire, with live vocals by Hanin Elias with MC Beans and Priest from Antipop Consortium. At the conclusion of the set, Elias can be heard announcing the imminent appearance of Merzbow.

Empire and Merzbow went on to collaborate on other projects. Merzbow played drums in Empire's live band set at the 2001 Fuji Rock Festival in Japan. Empire was one of the many remix artists involved in Merzbow's Ikebana: Amlux Rebuilt, Reused And Recycled.

[edit] Track listing

1. "The Alliance" – 3:17
2. "The Destroyer and Merzbow" – 2:24
3. "A Fire Will Burn" – 0:48
4. "Nightmare Vision" – 2:08
5. "The Full Destroyer / Merzbow Meltdown" – 4:26
6. "The White Man Destroys His Own Race" – 2:28
7. "Curse of the Golden Angel" – 3:26
8. "The Predator" – 1:49
9. "Brooklyn Connection" – 2:10
10. "Dawn" – 1:48
11. "The Slayer Calls at Night" – 5:08
12. "Blow this Thing" – 2:13
13. "606: The Number of the Beast" – 1:00
14. "202 Lightyears from Home" – 1:18
15. "Shock Treatment for Corporate Control" – 1:18
16. "Enter the Forbidden Space" – 2:18
17. "A Degenerated Nation Reacting to Fear" – 5:31
18. "A Degenerated Nation Reacting to Fear Pt. II" – 8:25
19. "Some Might Even Die..." – 4:08

[edit] External links

• Official Digital Hardcore Recordings site
• Alec Empire's official fansite
• Live CBGB's NYC 1998 at Discogs.com