This is a comprehensive
discography
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of the Japanese
noise music
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ian Masami Akita, best known for his project
Merzbow
is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by , best known for a style of harsh, confrontational noise. Since 1980, Akita has released over 400 recordings and has collaborated with various artists.
The name Merzbow comes from the German dada ...
. Since 1980 he has released hundreds of recordings, collaborated with dozens of musicians, contributed over two hundred exclusive tracks to compilations, and made numerous guest appearances on recordings by other artists.
Akita has released recordings on over a hundred
independent labels all over the world. Some of the labels which have made multiple releases include: Alchemy,
Alien8, Blossoming Noise,
Cold Spring,
Cuneiform
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, Dirter Promotions,
Extreme,
Hydra Head
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,
Important
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,
Mego, Release Entertainment (a sublabel of
Relapse
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),
RRRecords
RRRecords is a record label and used and new record shop based in Lowell, Massachusetts. RRRecords was the first American record label to publish underground "noise music" in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Maso ...
, Rustblade,
Soleilmoon
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The first releases were by Smegma, Muslimgauze, Coil, and Nocturnal Emiss ...
,
Tzadik
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, and Vivo. In the 1980s, he released five
LPs and dozens of homemade
cassettes
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on his own labels Lowest Music & Arts and ZSF Produkt.
Note: Release reissues and compilation tracks taken from albums are not listed. The infobox count includes all aliases.
As Merzbow
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilation albums
Video albums
EPs and singles
Remix albums
Box sets
Splits
Compilation tracks
Appearances
As Masami Akita
Studio albums
Compilation tracks
Appearances
As 3RENSA
with Duenn and
Nyantora
;Studio albums
;Live albums
As Abe Sada
with S.M.U.T.
;EPs and singles
;Compilation tracks
As Bustmonsters
with
Zev Asher
Zev Asher (May 9, 1963 – August 7, 2013) was a Canadian experimental musician and documentary film maker.
Biography
Born in Montreal, Quebec, to a Jewish family. His father Stanley was an compulsive collector of popular cultural artefacts. A mo ...
,
Shohei Iwasaki,
Fumio Kosakai,
Masahiko Ohno, Tetsuo Sakaibara, and
Yamazaki Maso
, better known by his stage name Masonna, is a Japanese noise musician. He was born on November 16, 1966, in Miyazu, Kyoto, Japan.
was started in 1987 in Osaka as Maso Yamazaki's noise project. The name is a combination of the Japanese words ...
;EPs and singles
;Splits
;Compilation tracks
As Flying Testicle
with
Zev Asher
Zev Asher (May 9, 1963 – August 7, 2013) was a Canadian experimental musician and documentary film maker.
Biography
Born in Montreal, Quebec, to a Jewish family. His father Stanley was an compulsive collector of popular cultural artefacts. A mo ...
and
Yamazaki Maso
, better known by his stage name Masonna, is a Japanese noise musician. He was born on November 16, 1966, in Miyazu, Kyoto, Japan.
was started in 1987 in Osaka as Maso Yamazaki's noise project. The name is a combination of the Japanese words ...
;Studio albums
;EPs and singles
;Compilation tracks
As House Hunt Hussies
;Compilation tracks
As Kikuri
with
Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino ( ''Haino Keiji''; born May 3, 1952) is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise music, percussion, psychedelic music, minimalism and drone music. He has been active since the ...
;Live albums
As Maldoror
with
Mike Patton
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;Studio albums
As MAZK
with
Zbigniew Karkowski
Zbigniew Karkowski (born 14 March 1958 – 12 December 2013) was a Polish experimental musician and composer.
Karkowski was born on 14 March 1958 in Krakow, Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, ae ...
;Studio albums
;Live albums
;Video albums
;Compilation tracks
;Appearances
As Merzbow Null
with Kiyoshi Mizutani,
Kazuyuki Kishino, Yuji Okano, and others
;Live albums
As Pornoise
;Compilation tracks
As Satanstornade
with
Russell Haswell
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He has exhibited conceptual and wall-based visual works, video art, public sculpture, as well as audio presentations in both art gallery and concert hall contexts. Ex ...
. They later released the album ''
Satanstornade'' under their real names.
;Live albums
;Compilation tracks
As SCUM
;Studio albums
;Compilation tracks
As Secrets
with Tetsuya Mugishima
;Studio albums
;Live albums
As Tibeta Ubik
with
Kazuyuki Kishino
;Live albums
;Compilation tracks
As True Romance
with Tetsuo Sakaibara and Toshiyuki Seido
;Studio albums
;Video albums
;Compilation tracks
As Universal Indians
with Tetsuo Sakaibara
;Live albums
Forthcoming
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External links
List of releasesat Merzbow Official Site
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Merzbowdiscography at
Rate Your Music
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