by François CoutureChances are that most of Smegma's fans are already familiar with Merzbow's music. This collaboration, occasionally referred to as Smegma Plays Merzbow Plays Smegma or even Plays, features two 20-minute tracks. In "Electro Smegmacoustic Music," Masami Akita plays Smegma tapes, an audio generator, a teleband tranceiver, and a mixer. In "Smegma Plays Merzbow," Smegma use Merzbow tapes, tape loops, record players, and a few acoustic instruments. The result is surprisingly homogeneous -- enough to make the invitation in the booklet to use the random play of your CD player sound logical. The problem is, even though the booklet announces 50 tracks (Smegma's piece starting at track 27), the CD shows only two pieces, the sections in each one appearing as indexes -- a bad move from Tim Kerr Records. Merzbow's piece is relatively light. It remains a churning inferno of molten sound and screaming speakers, but it contains a lot of dyna...