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Ego Death / Astro

Crossing The Line Between Life And Death

(Love Earth Music

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Ego Death / Astro: Crossing The Line Between Life And Death (Love Earth Music)

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A split release between two noise artists from opposite sides of the planet: first Greek sound artist Manos Michaelides, aka Ego Death, in a brutal assault of abrasive sound recorded over a decade; then an amalgamation of a live recording from Hiroshi Hasegawa (C.C.C.C.) performing at IAF shop in Fukuoka, Japan and in the studio at Koenji-Minami Studio, in Tokyo, Japan.

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Personnel:

Manos Michaelides-performer, composer

Hiroshi Hasegawa-composer, performer

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Label: Love Earth Music
Catalog ID: LEM-227
Squidco Product Code: 34120

Format: CDR
Condition: New
Released: 2020
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Track 1 recorded 2008-2018.

Track 2 recorded live at IAF shop in Fukuoka, Japan, on October 20th, 2018, and at Koenji-Minami Studio, in Tokyo, Japan, in April, 2019."

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A split release between two noise artists from opposite sides of the planet: first Greek sound artist Manos Michaelides, aka Ego Death, in a brutal assault of abrasive sound based on recordings, mixes and edits that happened on the decade 2008-2018; then an amalgamation of a live recording from Hiroshi Hasegawa (C.C.C.C.) performing at IAF shop in Fukuoka, Japan and in the studio at Koenji-Minami Studio, in Tokyo, Japan.

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Manos Michaelides is a Greek musician/songwriter and experimental artist. He ran Sewer Records and co-ran Taphos Productions. He issued Sewer Zine. He occasionally uses the alias "Ego Death" from his experimental side-project, along with Anemic Royalty, Internal Decadence, Necrophania. He is known for the groups All-Stars Noise Collective, Atavism, DTV2, DTV3, Novadeath, Fallos, I Am Immense Decay, Internal Decadence, Megophobia, Morbidity, Necromancy, Necrovorous, Putrefied Genitalia, Selefice, Stench Of Virginity, This Is Now / Death TV.

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/936959-Manos-Michaelides)
1/17/2025

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Hiroshi Hasegawa (長谷川洋 (Hasegawa Hiroshi) aka Mortal Vision) is a Japanese noisician. Born in 1963 in Kamaruka, Kanagawa. Ex-husband of Mayuko Hino. He is known for the groups A.M.M.T., As/SS/gZ, Fossa Magna, Astral Travelling Unity, Astro, Astromason, Astromero, Blastro, C.C.C.C., Club Skull, Galactic Abyss, Galax, Ginkakuji, Gokurakuji, Grasstro, Messier31, Neurasthenia, Nise Hijokaidan, Nord, Pulse Detonations.

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1/17/2025

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Track Listing:

1. Ego Death - Compatible With Mortality 20:49

2. Astro - Equinoctial Line 18:40

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