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Masami Akita discography Releases ↙Studio albums 260 ↙Live albums 65 ↙Compilation albums 4 ↙EPs 30 ↙Soundtracks 13 ↙Tribute and cover albums 2 ↙Remix albums 3 ↙Box sets 10 ↙Compilation tracks 220 ↙Splits 35 ↙Appearances 104 The following is a partial discography of Japanese noise musician Masami Akita as Merzbow and many other aliases. No complete discography exists due to his extensive music catalogue.
Reissues and compilation tracks taken from albums are not included.
As Merzbow
Studio albums
Year Title Label Note 1980 Fuckexercise Lowest Music & Arts 1981 Remblandt Assemblage only a few copies distributed[1] Metal Acoustic Music Material Action for 2 Microphones E-Study Collection 001 Collection 002 Collection 003 Collection 004 Collection 005 Collection 006 Collection 007 Collection 008 Collection 009 1982 Collection 010 Normal Music Tridal Production Le Compte Expanded Music Expanded Music 2 Solonoise 1 Solonoise 2 Lowest Music Lowest Music 2 Tatoo Junk Stratosphere Music with Masaki 1983 Material Action 2 N.A.M. Chaos distributed by Eastern Works Erotrograph Lowest Music & Arts Yantra Material Action Musick for Simulation World Lowest Music & Arts, Produktion Dying Mapa Tape I Aeon Dying Mapa Tape II Dying Mapa Tape III Kibbutz ADN Mechanization Takes Command ZSF Produkt Yahatahachiman Worker Machine Escape Mask Musick for Screen Sexplan Project 3 Magisch Theatre Productions Le Cuisinier Stratosphere Music Merzbow Life Performance Series Vol. 1 ZSF Produkt Merzbow Life Performance Series Vol. 2 1984 Merzbow Life Performance Series Vol. 3 Merzbow Life Performance Series Vol. 4 Merzbow Life Performance Series Vol. 5 Sonic Command reissued as Live Drum Ensemble Dadavida Aka Meme ZSF Produkt, V2_Archief Age of 369 ZSF Produkt Chant Pornoise Extra Merzbow/The Hanatarashi ZSF Produkt, Condome Cassex with The Hanatarashi Régelade ZSF Produkt, Active Productions with L'Éponge Synthétique Aerovivanda #1 ZSF Produkt, Red Rat with Xerosx Aerovivanda #2 ZSF Produkt Le Sanc Et La Rose [2] with Lotus Club 1985 Sadomasochismo The Lampinak ZSF Produkt, Réseau Phallus 3 Ushi-Tra Cause and Effect Live Performance Feb. 85 Le Syndicat reissued as Nil Vagina Mail Action Chant 2 ZSF Produkt 1986 Batztoutai with Memorial Gadgets RRRecords Antimonument ZSF Produkt Nil Vagina Mail Action paper anti-record[1] 1987 Ecobondage Enclosure Vratya Southward Merzbow & The Haters ZSF Produkt, Banned Production with The Haters A Collaboration Tape ZSF Produkt, Afflict with S·Core Merzbowkapottemuziek ZSF Produkt, Korm Plastics with Kapotte Muziek 1988 Storage ZSF Produkt Khabarovsk Materials Crocidura Dsi Nezumi ZSF Produkt, Banned Production Collaborative Extreme with S.B.O.T.H.I. 1989 Flesh Metal Orgasm ZSF Produkt, Nihilistic Je Rumpelsturz Desto Burzelblock Schimpfluch/RRRecords with Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, Due Process The Time Stream Sound of Pig with John Hudak 1990 Cloud Cock OO Grand ZSF Produkt Rainbow Electronics Alchemy Fifty RRRecords with S.B.O.T.H.I., P16.D4 1991 Music for Bondage Performance Extreme Documentation / Collaboration Korm Plastics with Kapotte Muziek Grav Silent with PGR, Asmus Tietchens 1992 Hannover Interruption Dradomel Metal Mad Man Stinky Horse Fuck Recycled Music RRRecords 1993 Batztoutai with Material Gadgets includes Loop Panic Limited Sleeper Awakes on the Edge of the Abyss Streamline with Christoph Heemann Continuum Cheeses International with Kapotte Muziek Sniper Banned Production with The Haters, AMK 1994 Venereology Release Entertainment Noisembryo Releasing Eskimo Flare Gun Ten Bob Swerver Hole Heel Stone 1995 Dadarottenvator Praxis Dr. Bearmann Pinkream Dirter Promotions Green Wheels Self Abuse The Science of Dissecting Society Praxis Dr. Bearmann with Richard Ramirez Horn of the Goat Freek with Consumer Electronics 1996 Music for Bondage Performance 2 Extreme Pulse Demon Release Entertainment Magnesia Nova Staalplaat Spiral Honey Work in Progress Mercurated Alchemy Oersted Vinyl Communications Electric Salad Etherworld Project Frequency A.I.P.R. Rainbow Electronics 2 Dexter's Cigar Brisbane-Tokyo Interlace Cold Spring with John Watermann Merzbow Loves Emil Beaulieau Pure with Emil Beaulieau 1997 Space Metalizer Alien8 Hybrid Noisebloom Vinyl Communications Psychorazer Kubitsuri Tapes Rectal Anarchy Release Entertainment with Gore Beyond Necropsy Merzbow Mixed Total Sterilized Decay with Total 1998 1930 Tzadik Tauromachine Relapse Maschinenstil Dual Plover Aqua Necromancer Alien8 New Takamagahara OHM/Jazzassin Vibractance E(r)ostrate 1999 Blues Maggots ZSF Produkt Paradise Pachinko Tochnit Aleph Collapse 12 Floors [OHM] Tentacle Alchemy Door Open at 8 am Alien8 A Perfect Pain Cold Spring with Genesis P-Orridge 2001 Hard Lovin' Man Anoema Dharma Double H Noise Industries Frog+ Misanthropic Agenda Puroland [OHM] 2002 Amlux Important Fantail Clu Clux Clam Ikebukuro Dada Circumvent Merzbeat Important A Taste Of... Mego Merzzow Opposite 2003 Cycle Very Friendly Animal Magnetism Alien8 SCSI Duck Fourth Dimension 2004 Tamago Plan-DX17 Offering Tantric Harmonies Yoshinotsune Clu Clux Clam Rondo / 7Phases / Blowback Sub Rosa with Kim Cascone Partikel Cold Spring with Nordvargr Electro Magnetic Unit Los Apson? The Ten Foot Square Hut Hypnagogia with The New Blockaders Sha Mo 3000 Essence Music Merzbird Important 1633 En/Of 2005 Bariken Blossoming Noise Dust of Dreams Thisco Rattus Rattus Scarcelight Merzbuddha Important Sphere Tzadik Tranz Caminante with Elliott Sharp Scene Waystyx Early Computer Works Senmaida Blossoming Noise Merzbuta Important Multiplication Misanthropic Agenda with John Wiese 2006 Merzbow vs. Tamarin Artificial Music Machine with Tamarin Minazo Vol. 1 Important Bloody Sea Vivo Merzdub Caminante with Jamie Saft F.I.D. Fourth Dimension Minazo Vol. 2 Important Metamorphism Very Friendly 2007 Partikel II Cold Spring with Nordvargr Merzbear Important Coma Berenices Vivo Zophorus Blossoming Noise Peace for Animals Quasi Pop Higanbana Vivo 2008 Here L. White Arijigoku Vivo Eucalypse Soleilmoon Dolphin Sonar Important ...And the Devil Makes Three Southern/Truth Cult with Porn Anicca Cold Spring Keio Line Cuneiform, Dirter Promotions with Richard Pinhas Protean World Noiseville Dead Leaves licht-ung Tombo Fellacoustic Hodosan Vivo 2009 Camouflage Essence Music Somei... Low Impedance Suzume: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 1 Important Fukurou: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 2 Yurikamome: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 3 Karasu: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 4 Hiranya Noiseville Uzura: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 5 Important Kamo: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 6 Don't Steal My Coat No Music/Olmolungring Kujakubato: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 7 Important Kokuchou: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 8 Hiyodori: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 9 Niwatori: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 10 Microkosmos Volume 1 Blossoming Noise Shirasagi: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 11 Important Tsubame: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 12 2010 Chabo: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 13 Graft Cold Spring Ouroboros Soleilmoon Marmo Old Europa Cafe Untitled Nov 1989 Gift Tapes 9888A 905 Tapes Spiral Right / Spiral Left Cold Spring with Z'EV 2011 Jigokuhen Important April 1992 Green Kamadhenu Hypnagogia Variations for Electric Fan Rainbow Bridge/Phage Tapes Yaho-Niwa Nuun Dead Zone Quasi Pop Surabhi Hypnagogia Live albums
Year Title Label Note 1982 Paradoxa Paradoxa Lowest Music & Arts also known as Live at Kid Ailak Hall 1983 Pestis [2] 1984 Live Performance Vol. 1 ZSF Produkt with Nord Live Performance Vol. 2 Live Performance Vol. 3 Live Performance with Secrets 1987 Fonctionnarisation 3Rio Tapes 1988 Live in Khabarovsk, CCCP: "I'm Proud by Rank of the Workers" ZSF Produkt 1989 Live at I.C.O.E. 1990 Live at Middle East Cafe Boston 21 Sep 1990 Vanilla 1991 Great American Nude / Crash for Hi-Fi Alchemy Live in Chicago RRRecords with Emil Beaulieau 1992 Dutch Tour 1989 V2_Archief Eleven Live Collaborations Selektion with Achim Wollschied US Tour 1990 (1990-09-05 Kaleidoscope) Loawai Tapes, Noise Rebel US Tour 1990 (1990-09-08 Armpit, San Francisco) Loawai Tapes 1995 Noizhead Blast First 1996 Akasha Gulva Alien8 Live at 20000V 30 Sep 1995 Blackbean and Placenta Tape Club Live July 5th, 1995 Selektion 1998 Mort Aux Vaches: Locomotive Breath Mort Aux Vaches 2000 Live at Radio 100 ERS 2001 Live at Molde International Jazz Festival Smalltown Supersound with Jazzkammer Live in Germany 1996 Ars Macabre 2003 Live Magnetism Caminante V Les Disques Victo with Pan Sonic Live CBGB's NYC 1998 Digital Hardcore with Alec Empire 2005 Live in Geneva Walnut + Locust 2007 Electric Dress No Fun Productions with Carlos Giffoni, Jim O'Rourke Synth Destruction Important with Carlos Giffoni Live Destruction at No Fun 2007 No Fun Productions 2008 SYR8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth Sonic Youth Recordings with Sonic Youth, Mats Gustafsson 2010 Live at Henie Onstad Art Centre Prisma Live at Fluc Wanne, Vienna 2010/05/18 Dry Lungs with Balázs Pándi 2011 Lou Lou... In Tokyo Daymare, SIGE with Mamiffer, House of Low Culture Rhizome Cuneiform with Richard Pinhas Paris 2008 Ducks: Live in NYC Ohm Resistance with Balázs Pándi Compilation albums
Year Title Label Note 1996 Age of 369/Chant 2 Extreme 1997 Merzbox Sampler 2010 Another Merzbow Records Dirter Promotions 2011 Kali-Yuga Karma Hypnagogia with The New Blockaders, Anomali Extended plays
Year Title Label Note 1991 Artificial Invagination Vanilla 1993 Neo Orgasm Vertical Rod Drug 93 The Way Out Sound also known as The Art of Merzbow Nil Vagina for Mice Banned Production 1994 White Blues Self Abuse also known as Now Electroploitation Lunhare/Hax Music for Man with No Name Fusetron/Stuart with Cock E.S.P. Merzbow / John Goff The Way Out Sound with John Goff 1995 Electroknots Cold Spring/Dirter Promotions Wakantanka / Aboriginie of Anniversary 50 Years After War Syntactic Music for the Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man Robot Rectal Grinder Mangrove with Gore Beyond Necropsy Whizzerbait Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers/Oska with Tea Culture 1997 Red 2 Eyes V2_Archief Tint Vinyl Communications 1999 Happenings 1000 Years Time Ago iDEAL 2001 Hummingbird L.S.D. Organisation 2004 Mini Cycle / Yoshino Tamago / Yonos Bigfoot OHM Oumagatoki Hypnagogia with The New Blockaders 2005 Free Piano Misanthropic Agenda with John Wiese 2006 Black Bone, Part 5 Blossoming Noise 2009 Tempi / Matatabi Dot Dot Dot Music 2011 ZaRa licht-ung Tributes
Year Title Artist Label 1996 America Salutes Merzbow various artists Vinyl Communications 1997 Dedicated to Masami Akita Emil Beaulieau Pure Remix albums
Year Title Label 1996 Scumtron Blast First 2003 Frog Remixed and Revisited Misanthropic Agenda Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled Important Box sets
Year Title Label 1984 Pornoise/1kg ZSF Produkt 1993 Metalvelodrome Alchemy 2000 Merzbox Extreme 2002 24 Hours - A Day of Seals Dirtier Promotions 2003 Timehunter Ant-Zen 2004 Last of Analog Sessions Important 2005 Houjoue Dirtier Promotions 2006 Turmeric Blossoming Noise 2010 Ecobag/13 Birds in a Bag +1 Important Merzbient Soleilmoon Splits
Year Title Label With 1990 Axx/Spooning ZSF Produkt, SPH SCUM 1991 Live Deformation/Holland / Bordeaux Midas Music THU20 Ars Elektroica Drahtfunk-Products Das Konzentrat Latex Gold / Latex Black ZSF Produkt/Coquette Masonna 1994 Merzbow / Black Leather Jesus Deadline Black Leather Jesus 1996 Voice Pie Release Entertainment Bastard Noise Plays Tim/Kerr Smegma Arctic Twilight / Anthem of the Sun Dirter Promotions Slugbait Merzbow / Lasse Marhaug Jazzassin Lasse Marhaug Destructible Foundation / Drain Self Abuse/Mother Savage Noise Productions MSBR Merzbow / Xome Gentle Giant Xome Seven Inches Inside Vagina Stinky Horse Fuck Smell & Quim 1997 Soft / Lärm, Hitze und faulige Gerüche Dreizehn Kadef Milanese Bestiality / Drunk on Decay Old Europa Cafe The Haters Balance Human Wrechords Ladybird 1999 Merzbow / Aural Torture Mechanism Fistfight/Counterattack Experimental Arts Aural Torture Mechanism Subsidia Pataphysica Manifold DJ Spooky Split Series #4 Fat Cat AMM 2000 Necro 2000 / Reality Is Much Worse Klanggallerie Statik 2001 Merzbow / Kouhei Matsunaga Tigerbeat6 Kouhei Matsunaga Crash of the Titans Merciless Core/Napalmed Napalmed Spilt Ver 0.5 / Spilt Ver 1.0 Less Than TV Struggle for Pride 2002 INTO111115&111521849 / Mode for Value & Intention Cross Fade Enter Tainment Kouhei Matsunaga Switching Rhetorics Bisect Bleep Industries Shora 2008 Insect / Reptile Dirter Promotions Band of Pain Merzbow / Sutcliffe Jügend / Satori Cold Spring Sutcliffe Jügend, Satori 2010 Oh Lucy!!! / Tipping Foul into the Dirt Chrome Peeler The Guilt Øf... 2011 Guya / Greed CX Cris X Compilation tracks
Year Track(s) Title Label Note 1981 "Envois 216" 沫 Foam YLEM 1983 "Envoise 1-83" 40 Days/40 Nights Stratosphere Music "Kimigayo" Anthems Trax "Awa Dance", "Hannya-Haramitta" Paris-Tokyo Tago Mago "Envoise 24882" Sensationnel No. 1 Illusion Production "Envois #4 (Excerpt)", "Envois #5 (Excerpt)" Insane Music for Insane People Vol. 3 Insane Music with ∝ untitled Double Trouble The 5th Column Tapes Kukuk Eksik [3] ZSF Produkt 1984 "Envoice 14/7/83" Assemblée Générale 4 Ptôse Production Présente "Der-Dom" FE Tape Condome Cassex "D.D.T." Home-Made Music for Home-Made People Vol. 2: "Bloody But Chic" Insane Music untitled, untitled Katacombe Vol. 4 Schrei, Industria Tepa "Envoise" Rising from the Red Sand (Volume Five) Third Mind "ZSF Product" Sex & Bestiality Bain Total "Amaroxes" Sexorama Vol. 1 ZSF Produkt "Rape Insects" Sexorama Vol. 2 "Xa-Bungle" Three Minute Symphony X Tract "Heat Obsession", "Sangro", "My Mummy Was Dead" Illuminated 666 No. 2 [4] Illuminated 666 "Astral Left" Independent World Vol. 1 Independent World Gomi Shoni-Byoto א 覚醒工房 CM Arts Mental Screen Inter Mirgin Kinky Tape Collection October '84 覚醒工房 November '84 覚醒工房 1985 "Itomakiei" 6x10=60 Vol. 1 Korm Plastics "Vermin with Carcass" Dry Lungs Placebo "Akasa", "Tana" Einsamkeit Als Mensch Technological Feeling "White Pricks" L'Enfer Est Intime Volume 2 VP 231 "Totetsu Pattern" Musica Venenæ: Industrial Culture Music Volume 1 Inner-X-Musick "Re-Mark" Out of Context Banned Production "4th Innocent Victim", "My Night of Terror" Sexorama Vol. 3 ZSF Produkt "Egyptian Ghost" The Way of the Sacred Inner-X-Musick "exert from 'Corruption'", "exert from 'Corruption'" Homo Sexpiens Project 3Rio Tapes "Pinheads on UFO" Poltergeist I: A Compilation of Mutated Music Dill Prod. Mental Flag Organic Mind Workshop Anti-Music for Snobism Beast 666 Tapes Trude Engels [3] 1986 "Smichion", "Venoayasama", "Small Motor-Byke Accident Wounded Lay on the Road of Asagaya" Best Test of Japan Cause and Effect "Fushimi-Bongo" Caustic Showers Caustic Tapes "So Small Atropin" Intrendent International 2-1 MAM-Aufnahme, Ffm "New Wakamatzu" Necronomicon 3 Necronomicon "Gamma-Titan" Tellus #13 - Power Electronics Tellus "Kangun no Uta" Sexorama Vol. 4 ZSF Produkt "3 Types of Industrial Pollusion" Infidel Psalm Vol. 1 Mental Decay "Peeping" Phallophorie Réseau Phallus 3 "Untitled" Helter Skelter Beast 666 Tapes with Le Syndicat 1987 "Truk for Microphysic" Bad Alchemy Nr 7 Bad Alchemy "Separation" Die Schönste Musik of Japan Vol. 1 Geschmack "Susanou (Devil of the Storm)" Infera Sinfonia Bruno Cossano Corporation "Invisible Tatara (Extract 1 & 2)" Journey into Pain Beast 666 Tapes "Anna Blume '87" Korm Merz Korm Plastics "Nirvana for the Seven Sermons (Excerpt)" There Is No God and He Is Your Creator GGE "Toutetsu Pateern 2" 胎内レーベルオムニバス 胎内レーベル "Enchainement 38" Les Déportés N°8 Les Déportés 1988 "Environmental Pecrssion #4" Angelic Tecnology 1 Angakok "Message from Milton Meinung" Durchschnittsanfall 3/4 Prion "Corpus/Economie", "Dead of Michael Foucault" Heroes to Ecstacy Strength Through Awareness "Everywhere It's Machine (Grid Module 3)" Massaconfvsa O. Crow "De-Soundtracks No-1 - The Roaling Steel Monster (Japanese Early Science Movies Series)" Ne Banned Production "Fission/Dialogue" Zondig Midas Music "Little Boy '85", "Economy 2" Trans·Gressed·Body Corrosive Tapes untitled Transmission Tonspur Tapes "Trouble Coming Everyday" Gears=Sextwo eMpTy "An Man Do" The Call of Madonna Luisa Ciccone A/I/I/P with Aoniyashiagam 1989 "Swap No-1" Lapse from Virtue Sound of Pig "Untitled" Motop 1 IF "Live 19/6/88" Voices in a Dark Room Honeymoon Production "Scratchin' S.C.U.M." Your Biggest Problem Is Behind You RRRecords/Tedium House Publications "Itch" Neue Muster Volume 5+6 Tonspur Tapes "My Rubber Dutch Wife" Nice Noise Volume 3 Nihilistic untitled, untitled 5th Anniversary Boxset Thing RRRecords with Due Process 1990 "Fragment 14" Detonator Bestattungsinstitut untitled 0607131089 Sounds for Consciousness Rape "Libido/Economy" Enkele Gemotiveerde Produktiemedewerkers Midas Music "Great Masturbator" I'm Stupid Beast 666 Tapes, Vanilla "Untitled 15989" Mumbo Jumbo SSSM "Libido Economy No. 2" Network 77 Network 77 1991 "HGL Made a Race for the Last Brain" Altered States of Consciousness UPD Organization "Untitled, April 1991" Antebellum Vol. 3 Antebellum "No 3-10 Max" Ohrenschmalz Unclead Production "One Minutes from Big Heart City" 戯れ - Come Again Vanilla "Hiturbo No. 4" X-X Section Extreme "DC-AC Live" The Japanese Perspective Ear Magazine "Speedback Variation Nr.1 (KP 0BO)" Motop 2 IF with Kapotte Muziek "Heap/On the Move" Sociometric Test SSSM with Dislocation "Untitled/Razors" Trans-Action Divided with Hamas 1992 "Onorikomorico" Atomic Zen Dedali Opera "V2 Live (Excerpt)" CD Voor De Instabiele Media V2_Archief "Man-Plug" Dry Lungs V Subterranean/Dark Vinyl "No. 28" EARTV TapesOfPeaceInTimeOfWar "Suzunne Erica Is Sunohara Yuri" Melt Work In Progress "Travelling" Noise Forest Les Disques Du Soleil "Live in Kong-Tu, Korea, 1. AUG, 1991", "Live at Maya Kanko Hotel, Kobe, 14~15 SEP, 1991" Oh! Moro Volume 5 ○か× "Elysia, Valley of the Metal" World Record Alchemy "WEBO, NYC" Testament RRRecords "Speedback Variation Nr. 2 (Kapot Produkt oBZ)" Neue Muster Volume 8+9 Tonspur Tapes with Kapotte Muziek 1993 "Super Head" Come Again II Silent/Furnace "Piss for Yves Klein" Kingdom of Noise Endorphine Factory "Moon Over the Bwana A" Land of the Rising Noise Charnel Music "True Romance Soundtrack for Moma" Neo Noise Punishment Kubitsuri Tapes "NRT" Redemption Vol. 1 1986 - 1993 Zero Cabal "Death Acid When Sex Was Darty" Stinky Horse Fuckers Stinky Horse Fuck "Sub-Urban" Of Sound Mind Godsend Magazine with Arthur Potter untitled RRR 100 RRRecords 1994 "Phillo-Jazz Electronica" Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Fool's Paradise "Twisted Domiano" Cataclastic Fracture Deadline/Lazy Squid "Marfan Syndrome for Blue" Eternal Blue Extreme: An Asian Tribute to Derek Jarman Somnus "Glass", "20" Extreme Music from Japan Susan Lawly "Ram Me, Ream Me, You Lusty Cunts" Ne Shi Banned Production "Brain Ticket Saison" Noise War Mother Savage Noise Productions "Twisted Damiano 2" Violent Ambient Chocolate Monk "Ooga Booga" Wohlstand Human Wrechords untitled Mail-Music: All We Make Are Memories Psychic Rally 1995 "Tiab Guls" Entertainment Through Pain: A Tribute to Throbbing Gristle RRRecords "Live at Easy Gallery Tokyo", "Live at 2B, Eindhoven" Good Alchemy Video Alchemy "Elephants Memory" Indiscreet Stereo Test Record Discreet/Indiscreet "Phyllo-Noisegrams" No Machine Is Silent Realization "Last Splash" Organismus 3 - The Final Compilation Escape 3 Organisation "Crack Groove" Release Your Mind Release Entertainment "Snowblind" The Japanese/American Noise Treaty 1996 "Sound Check for Doushisha University Performance" A Fault in the Nothing Ash International untitled An Evening of Serious Noise Statutory Tape "Iro Moyo" Disco Sucks Ché Trading "Talipes" Mimikaki Kuwagata "Pretties for You" Music Should Hurt Self Abuse "Silent Night" The Christmas Album Sony "Iro Moyo 2 (Colour Decola 2)" Tinker Compilation Tinker "Seishoku Titi" Great Blue Thing O'Great Blue Thing "Centipede" Comp #3: Lily's S'ghetti Factory Blackbean and Placenta Tape Club 1997 "Morbid Angelfish" Alt. Noise Switch "Yahowa Stackridge" Conception AVA/ES1-Reset "Hummingbird" Four Years in 30 Seconds Dirter Promotions "Untitled" Screw Entartete Kunst "Kleine Blaue Hybriden" Tulpas Selektion "Decomposition 002.1.1" Untitled (Ten) Extreme "Trade Deficit", "Techno Grave" We Hate You: A Small Tribute to Throbbing Gristle Jazzassin "Audio Pubic" Rebirth of Fool: Volume One Dual Plover 1998 "Landing on Audio" Freak Animal #11 Freak Animal "The Amazing Maya Hiromi" Disco-Mortem Releasing Eskimo "Song for Fandango" MIT #01 Sordide Sentimental untitled Noisecapture #1 COS Edition with Monde Bruits, Dislocation untitled Audio Terrorism: The Soundtrack for Weirdness and Blind Hostility Chaotic Noise Productions/Satans Pimp/Heartplug 1999 "Redskin" Coalescence Alien8 "Fireball" Sadomachinism Misanthropic Agenda "Ab Hunter" Split Series 1-8 Fat Cat 2000 "Routemaster" Avanto-00 Avanto "2000" Immersion Starkland untitled, untitled, untitled, untitled lockERS ESR "83mb" Masters of Japanese Electronic Music Far East Experimental Sounds "Gateway to Itabashi" Tokyo EP Plastic Cowboy "Cannon Balls 2" 愛欲人民二十一世紀 Alchemy "Ikebukuroà Dadatexture" Mutaions - Sonic City Arc en rêve 2001 "Cannon Balls" State of the Union 2.001 Electronic Music Foundation "Waiting - Papier Wellen / Push Paper into Waves" One Word One Sound Intermedium "Horiwari/Pass By" Sonic City Airplane Label "Condition #1" Scanning of Modulations Uplink with L?K?O "Pulse Groon" Megalomaniacs Show Time!! オトゲノム 2002 "Bamboo Honey" Deprogramming Music Volume One Sacred Noise "Flyingsushi_x" Fals.ch 02 Falsch "Lux Automobile (Krokodil Rock Mix)" Japanese Avant-Garde Sub Rosa "Untitled" Nanoloop 1.0 Disco Bruit "Into the Void [Black Sabbath]" The Void Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu "Quiet Men & Noisy Animals" Open Mind Mori Art Museum 2003 "Untitled Peace" 60 Sound Artists Protest the War Atak "Door No.2" Ctrl Alt Del Nomad "Untitled" Frequencies [Hz] Raster-Noton "Untitled" Jpech Jpech "Routemaster - Tokyo Mix Live" Routemaster Remix Project Live Crystal Eye 2004 "Baliken (Vers. 01)" 2x5" Punk Kein Rock "Requiem" 2xH vs. HHR Vol. 1 "Where Is My Robotic Boot?" Double H Noise Industries/Hydra Head "Fear of God" The End of the Fear of God Tochnit Aleph "Birds and Warhorse" An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music/Third A-Chronology 1952-2004 Sub Rosa "Bariken (Loft Version)" 日本のロック名鑑① for-side.com 2005 "Untitled for John" Epitaph for John Korm Plastics untitled Blank Field Alien8 "Excerpt from Death of 250,000 Chickens" Improvised Music from Japan 2005 Improvised Music from Japan 2006 "風のはるか" Belly of the Whale Important "Oumagatoki Part 3" Viva Negativa! - A Tribute To The New Blockaders Vol. 2 Vinyl-On-Demand untitled Yokomono 03: 55 Lock Grooves Staalplaat "Partikel MN2" Swarm Cold Spring with Nordvargr 2007 "September, 06" Radio Interference from Unknown Orgasm Somnimage 2008 "Habeus Corpus" Paper & Plastic Suitcase "Voices of Animals" Manifesto Rumorarmonico Post Futurista Old Europa Cafe 2010 "Bloody Sea of Taiji. Stop the Mass Slaughter of Dolphine in Japan." Geluidpost Lokaal 01/Universaal Kunst Appearances
Year Role Track(s) Title Artist Label 1984 Flute "Les Honteuses Alliances" Distruct P16.D4 Selektion 1987 Audio sources Slicktrickflick Thicknicksick ZH27 Raw sound material The Impossible Humane Mixed Band Philanthropist Selektion Featuring RRRadio 1-5 Due Process RRRecords 1988 Material "Montage 4: 7 April 1988" Montage #03/#04 Montage Art & Noise Editions 1989 Featuring "Zur Genese Der Halbbildung" Acrid Ace (Of) P16.D4 P16.D4 Selektion Featuring Psychic Rally No.3 18/5/1989 Psychic Rally Psychic Rally Material "Montage #15: 2 May 1989", "Montage #16: 6 June 1989" Montage #15/16 Montage Art & Noise Editions 1990 Mixed The Same Thing Makes Always Her Laugh Kiyoshi Mizutani ZSF Produkt Featuring 3-90 Psychic Rally Psychic Rally Source materials "MMMMMM" History Is What Was Kapotte Muziek IF Featuring "MMMMM 2" Utilities (An Album of Collaborations) Kapotte Muziek Petri Supply Featuring Interaction Kapotte Muziek Industrial Therapy Unit, Sounds for Consciousness Rape Featuring Friends De Fabriek, Andrew Szava-Kovats, Mark Lane, Gen Ken Montgomery De Fabriek 1991 Contribution Stuhlgangblockade N! Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck Schimpfluch 1992 Raw material, transformation "Hrum", "Murcle/Kpeth", "Merzbow Transformed Hands To" Rework / Odiom Hands To E'ostrate 1993 Featuring All or Nothing Peter Duimelinks RRRecords Tapes "Scene 2" Macbeth Tetsuo Furudate SSE Communications Source material "Alles" Peter Duimelinks / Frans de Waard Peter Duimelinks, Frans de Waard V2_Archief, Korm Plastics 1994 With "All Set to Go" Verder Kapotte Muziek Harsh Dept. Productions 1995 Featuring "Live in Tokyo", "Live in Osaka" Yen for Noise Roughage Scratch Musik, texte Der gefaßte Raum Achim Wollscheid Featuring "Outro", "裂け目 Une Breche" Coruscanto - きらめく Reiko.A Nekoisis Re-used "Merz Bow-Wow-Wow" Kill the All-Noise Japanese Artists Emil Beaulieau Pure 1996 Sound material Luisteren naar Kapotte Muziek Kapotte Muziek Meeuw Muzak 1998 Remix "National Enhancer" Root Thurston Moore Lo Featuring "Rate" Upside Down Kouhei Matsunaga Mille Plateaux 2000 Remix (Gloop) Bit Sand Riders Pluramon Mille Plateaux Featuring "Omisoshilu (Miso Soup)" Gift Hanayo Geist Composition "Black Mass" Amsterdam x Tokyo Tomoko Mukaiyama BVHaast Remix "Hürens Jung" Musik Wird Überflüssig - The Freemixes Trickbeat Human Wrechords 2001 Remix "Book of Sunday" Rewriting the Book Aube Elsie & Jack Remix "Decomposed" Conquest : Writhe Burst Prank, Putrid Filth Conspiracy Featuring "Seekh Kebab and Nan" The Meat and Bread Variations Jowonio Productions leohtan 2002 Remix "CHK Error Remix" Rolex Jazzkammer Smalltown Supersound Remix "0.000 Remix" Inflation (*0 "0.000" Remix) *0 Mu Label Remix "Persepolis Remix" Persepolis + Remixes Edition 1 Iannis Xenakis Asphodel Electronics, composition "Crack Groove", "Yahowa Stackridge" Noise \ ... [Lärm] Zeitkratzer Tourette Sound-bank CyclOcean Artificial Memory Trace Planktone Unlimited Editions 2003 Remix "Vow Me Ibrzu" 1993–2003: 1st Decade in the Machines Ulver Jester Remix "God O.D. - Parts 2" Storm the Studio RMXS Meat Beat Manifesto Tino Corp. Music "Rockets Against Stones" No Games No Fun Hanin Elias Fatal Featuring Soun (An Anonymous and Random Compilation/Composition) Gameboy Remix "../." Winter Was Hard Too h/ybrid s/ound s/ystem Tourette 2004 Remix "Janik Top II / Angel Choirs" Dogma V: Decomposing Dogma Asterisk* Lady Godiva Operations 2005 Sound source Sirocco Daniel Menche Important Remix "The Inalienable Dreamless (Complete)" Our Last Day Discordance Axis Hydra Head Original sounds Kommerz - Merzbow in the Hands of Origami Replika Origami Replika Segerhuva Featuring "Threnody" Epitaph for John Freiband Korm Plastics Various fragments Japanese Noise Pt. 1 & 2 & 3 DJ Alec Empire 2006 Remix "Agorzbow Merzbleed Mix" PCP Torpedo/ANbRX Agoraphobic Nosebleed Hydra Head/Double H Noise Industries Performance "November 1952" Folio and Four Systems Earle Brown Tzadik Remix "House of Low Culture Remix" Housing Tracts House of Low Culture 2008 Featuring "<羽毛に纏わる水滴無限循環> Dedicated to アヒル (Duck)" Zoundtrack Ukawanimation! Avex Trax Remix "Cold World vs Merzbow" Hands Off Our Music Cold World Short Fuse 2009 Featuring "Killing Friends" Our Earth's Blood IV Bastard Noise Cathartic Process BMG "山のコドモ" 朗読CD Etsuko Yakushimaru Studio Voice Noises "Inferno Nel Ghetto (Xu(e) remix)" Variante Alla Morte/No Matter If People Die Cripple Bastards Power It Up Remix "SNOW REM REM IBVZ" Chicken Switch Melvins Ipecac Featuring "Census Taker" Attack of the Killer Black Eye Ball XXX Residents yamaha A&R 2010 Source material Mixed Metaphor / Into a Bad Way John Wiese Phage Tapes Electronics, composition "Depression (Loukoum)", "Hysteria (Palladium)", "Schizophrenia (Silver)" Metal/Crystal Richard Pinhas Cuneiform 2011 Arranged, mixed "Land" Alchemic Heart Vampillia Important Remix "Maguro (Merzbow remix)" Bo Ningen Bo Ningen Knew Noise Remix "Dynamite Music (Merzbow RMX)" EDGE OF CHAOS reCONSTRUCTION / LIVE&REMIXXX Wrench Blues Interactions Remix "Versprochen (Merzbow-Remix)" .Käfer.Maden.Würmer.Spinnen. Samsas Traum vs. Weena Morloch Trisol On Mercy’s Shore Heinali and Matt Finney Handmade Birds As Masami Akita
Studio albums
Year Title Label Note 1987 Collaboration Through the Mail 1983-84 DMA2 with Jean-Louis Houchard 1990 Mirror Pulse Extreme with John Duncan 1997 The Prosperity of Vice, The Misfortune of Virtue: Electro-Music for Romantica i Ich Schnitt Mich In Den Finger Mego with Reiko Azuma, Russell Haswell, Tetsuo Sakaibara 2002 Satanstornade Warp with Russell Haswell 2011 One Bird Two Bird Editions Mego with Mats Gustafsson, Jim O'Rourke Compilation tracks
Year Track(s) Title Label Note 1983 "T.V.Ring" Lucky Bag Tape The 5th Column Tapes untitled Mail Music Project Armadio Officina Audio Editions "Fun in Thibet Pt 1" OSLWMMGIB? Sex on Sunday 198? "Music for Wall 627" International Experimental Audio Communication Compilation N° 2 3Rio Tapes 1990 untitled 0607131089 Sounds for Consciousness Rape with GX Jupitter-Larsen 1993 untitled Gomi-Akta Coquette 1999 "The Full Tide in Crimson" Modulation & Transformation 4 Mille Plateaux with Kouhei Matsunaga Soundtracks
Year Title Director 19?? セーラー服・縄無残 (Sailor fuku: Nawa muzan) Kinbiken 女囚拷問縄 (Joshū gōmon nawa) 1989 女犬 (Onna inu) Right Brain 1990 女腹切り・散華 (Onna harakiri: Sange) 女学生・腹切り (Jogakusei: harakiri) 女腹切り・聖餐 (Onna harakiri: Seisan) 失楽園／乗馬服女腹切り (Shitsurakuen: Jōbafuku onna harakiri) / Lost Paradise 包帯解剖女 (Hōtai kaibō onna) 1992 Le séquence des barres parallèles Ian Kerkhof 1994 The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man 1998 Beyond Ultra Violence: Uneasy Listening 1998 Asphalto Ilppo Pohjola 2000 Routemaster Appearances
Year Role Track(s) Title Artist Label 1982 Guest The Cop Killers The Cop Killers Trax 1983 With The Plague - ペスト Reiko.A ZSF Produkt Additional vocals, tapes Will Hunting Lodge S/M Operations 1991 Drums "Live 910608" Windom Hijokaidan Alchemy 1992 Drums "Noisedelicatessen", "Kept Waiting So Long - Live at Antiknock 920613" The Neverending Story of the King of Noise Hijokaidan Alchemy 1993 Drums "Live at La Mama 22 Apr 1993" Kingdom of Noise Hijokaidan Endorphine Factory Drums "Cancer of Music" Dedication -Zweite Auslese- Hijokaidan Artware Production Music, commentary 緊縛美 不二秋夫 緊縛写真集 [5] Cine Magic 1994 Music, commentary 緊縛美 2 Cine Magic Electronics Junkie Meat Shop Rapists Deadline Concept advisor Selected Noise Works 93-94 Monde Bruits Endorphine Factory 1995 Featuring "Dang Dong" Dang Dong Hanayo Media Remoras 1996 Featuring Nation of Rhythm Slaves Violent Onsen Geisha Rail 1997 Drums Ferocity of Practical Life Hijokaidan Fourth Dimension Drums Sound of the Sea Hijokaidan Xn Drums "What a Nuisance!" Noise from Trading Cards Hijokaidan Alchemy Electronics "Nikola Tesla" Jouhou Discordance Axis Devour Featuring "A Leaden Stride to Nowhere" Necropolitan Discordance Axis HG Fact 1998 Remix "Surfing with Carl Palmer" INONOUT Surfers of Romantica ZK 1999 Special guest Ins Gefangnis Geworfene Blind Sklaven Enema Syringe Selfish-Mondo Recorded "Hallelujah" Monde Bruits Monde Bruits Alchemy 2000 Performer Mort Aux Vaches: Meltdown of Control Senssurround Orchestra Mort Aux Vaches Electronics "子宮と人" Big Boobs Miki Sawaguchi Alchemy Macintosh "Uterus and Human (remix)" Uterus and Human Miki Sawaguchi, Jojo Hiroshige, Masahiko Ohno Alchemy 2001 EMS Synthesizer "Serene" Flutter Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet Tzadik 2002 Powerbook "Death Valley" Heavy Rocks Boris Quattro/UK Discs Mixed "O))) Bow 1", "O))) Bow 2" Flight of the Behemoth Sunn O))) Southern Lord, Bisect Bleep Industries 2006 Noise "Part IV" Hidden Doors The Missing Ensemble Mondes Elliptiques Performer "Live @ Sonar 2000, Barcelona, 06.16.00" Absolute Noise Ensemble Francisco López Blossoming Noise 2007 Electronics, mixed, recorded "O))) Bow 3", "O))) Bow 4" Flight of the Behemoth Sunn O))) Daymare 2008 Drums Legendary Live Collection of Hijokaidan Vol. 4 Hijokaidan Alchemy Drums "Live at Mount Fuji Rock Festival 2001" Sixteen Years of Video Material Atari Teenage Riot, Alec Empire Monitorpop Entertainment 2009 Drums The Noise Hijokaidan Alchemy As Abe Sada
with S.M.U.T.
Year Title Label 1994 Original Body Kingdom / Gala Abe Sada 1936 Stomach Ache Year Track(s) Title Label 1998 untitled RRR 500 RRRecords Year Role Track(s) Title Artist Label 1997 Sound source "Abby Soda" Dedicated to Charlie Ward Emil Beaulieau Pure As Boris with Merzbow
with Boris
Year Title Label 2002 Megatone Inoxia 2004 04092001 2005 Sun Baked Snow Cave Hydra Head/Double H Noise Industries 2007 Walrus / Groon Hydra Head Rock Dream Diwphalanx, Southern Lord 2011 Klatter Daymare As Bustmonster
with Tetsuo Sakaibara, Fumio Kosakai, Masahiko Ohno, Shohei Iwasaki, Maso Yamazaki, Zev Asher
Year Title Label Note 1987 Whitehouse / You Don't Have to Say Please RRRecords with Xper Xr 1992 Weedhead EP Wild West/Alchemy Year Track(s) Title Label 1992 "Live at Donzokohouse, Kyoto, 14.DEC, 1991" Oh! Moro Volume 5 ○か× As Flying Testicle
with Maso Yamazaki, Zev Asher
Year Title Label 1992 Lamerican Sextom ZSF Produkt 1993 Space Desia Charnel Music Year Track(s) Title Label 1993 "Testicle Rider" Come Again II Silent As Kikuri
with Keiji Haino
Year Title Label 2008 Pulverized Purple Les Disques Victo As Maldoror
with Mike Patton
Year Title Label 1999 She Ipecac As MAZK
with Zbigniew Karkowski
Year Title Label Note 1998 Sound Pressure Level OR 2001 untitled Tigerbeat6 untitled Noise Asia 2005 Equilibratura Elettronica AV with Ogino Knauss In Real Time Ytterbium Year Track(s) Title Label 2003 "Not Knowing What Is and Is Not" OR MD comp OR Year Role Track(s) Title Artist Label 2005 Music "Mental" 3plicity Ogino Knauss AV As Merzbannon
with Racebannon
Year Title Label 2009 Merzbannon Tizona As Merzbow Null
with Kazuyuki Kishino
Year Title Label Note 1983 Darh Eroc Evil ZSF Produkt, Nux Organisation Yapnord Rasa [2] ZSF Produkt Falso 800 Mondo Bizzarro with Tetsuo Furidate Babilonia Numen Quad Habitat Simulacro with Tibeta Ubik, Punka Overie 1984 Tokyo 260384 Live Documental Zeekfeedz Acme Das ZSF Produkt, Nux Organisation Tentatool Komestool ZSF Produkt Deus Irae Sonic Command & Sculpture with Hideharu Suzuki B-Semi Live with Nord Merzbow Null & Produktion with Produktion Disembody ZSF Produkt, Nux Organisation with The Hanatarashi Nanashokuinko [5] ZSF Produkt with Tibeta Ubik As Pornoise
Believed to be Masami Akita [6]
Year Track(s) Title Label 1984 "New Cunts" Sexorama Vol. 2 ZSF Produkt As Satanstornade
with Russell Haswell
Year Title Label 2000 Live at the Neils Yard Rough Trade Shop London Falsch Year Track(s) Title Label 1999 "01.DAT.128.mp3", "03.DAT.128.mp3" Falsch Falsch 2002 "Enhanced Amalgamated Computer Experience" All Tomorrow's Parties 1.1 ATP As SCUM
Year Title Label Note 1989 Scissors for Cutting Merzbow ZSF Produkt Severances ZSF Produkt, Discordia/Concordia Scan Has Undergone Several Minor Revisions ZSF Produkt, Seiten Sprung Aufnahmen 1990 Steel Cum ZSF Produkt Axx/Spooning ZSF Produkt, SPH with Merzbow Year Track(s) Title Label 1989 "Rute No.-1" Rectangle Overtures Ache Year Role Title Artist Label 1989 Featuring Psychic Rally 10/August/1989 Psychic Rally Psychic Rally As Sponge
Credited personnel are named after prominent Japanese businessmen/doctors, the actual performers are believed to be Jojo Hiroshige, Junko Hiroshige, Masami Akita, Maso Yamazaki.
Year Title Label 1993 Relation Between a Production of Images and the Flesh in a State of Consciousness 1996 Feathers and Eyeballs or a Dance of Mixed Blood T.E.C. Tones Year Track(s) Title Label 1989 "Fragment E.L." Tourney into Pain Beast 666 Tapes As Tibeta Ubik
with Kazuyuki Kishino
Year Title Label Note 1983 Numen Quad Habitat Simulacro ZSF Produkt with Merzbow Null, Punka Overie 1984 Twilight Oaum [3] 2 3 Nanashokuinko with Merzbow Null Year Track(s) Title Label 1985 "N.A.M 24" Overload Extasya Nux Organization As True Romance
with Tetsuo Sakaibara, Toshiyuki Seido
Year Title Label 1992 Blood Orgy of the She Doll [5] ZSF Produkt Live at Mandala 2 Live at Moma Live at Nice, France Pleasure Room of Anti Education 1997 Hyper Meat Performance Membrum Debile Propaganda Year Track(s) Title Label 1995 "Live at P3 Art & Environment" Macrocephalous Compost II° Old Europa Cafe "Electronic Love Medical" Pathological Resonance Anomalous As Universal Indians
with Tetsuo Sakaibara
Year Role Title Artist Label 1999 Featuring Live at Liquid Room 2.22.1997 Crystal Fist Zero Gravity Forthcoming
Title Label Notes Goloka Hypnagogia as-yet-untitled new LP with The New Blockaders, Anomali Lop Lop Rustblade scheduled for December 2011 Flax Quasi Pop scheduled for 2012 Merzbient Soleilmoon reissue on 15+ LPs Microkosmos volumes 2 – 5 Blossoming Noise Partikel III Cold Spring with Nordvargr - A track will appear on an as-yet-untitled anti-slaughterhouse compilation on Hypnagogia.
References
- ^ a b Woodward, Brett (1999). Merzbook "The Pleasuredome of Noise". Extreme. ISBN 0-646-38326-4.
- ^ a b c Wehowsky, Ralf (1987). "Masami Akita aka Merzbow: Eine Cassettographie". Bad Alchemy 7: 45–46.
- ^ a b c Akita, Masami (1985). Primordial 2: 2–3.
- ^ "Tracks for Illuminated 666 No. 2". Vinyl-On-Demand. http://www.vinyl-on-demand.com/gallery_pop.php?inid=495&ln=1&bildid=93&gdb=inhalt. Retrieved 2009-08-25.
- ^ a b c "Merzbow". Archived from the original on 2002-12-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20021202111236/http://homepage1.nifty.com/desco/merzbow.html. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ^ "Pornoise". Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Pornoise. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
External links
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- Electronic music discographies
- Discographies of Japanese artists
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