Merzbow discography

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Recordings by the Japanese noise musician Masami Akita, AKA Merzbow. Please note this is only a partial discography.


1980 - 1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989

1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999

2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007

[edit] 1980

  • Metal Acoustic Music (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Fuckexercise (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Remblandt Assemblage (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • E-Study (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)

[edit] 1981

  • Material Action for 2 Microphones (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Live at Kid Airak Hall (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Collection 001 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Collection 002 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Collection 003 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Collection 004 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Collection 005 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Collection 006 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Collection 007 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Collection 008 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Collection 009 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Normal Music (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)

[edit] 1982

  • Collection 010 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Tridal Production (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Le Compte (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Expanded Music (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Expanded Music 2 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Paradoxa Paradoxa (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Solonoise 1 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Solonoise 2 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Lowest Music (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Lowest Music 2 (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Le Cuisinier (Stratosphere Music, Japan, Cassette)

[edit] 1983

  • Material Action 2 N.A.M. (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, LP)
  • Erotrograph (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Yantra Material Action (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Dying Mapa Tape 1 (Aeon, USA, Cassette)
  • Dying Mapa Tape 2 (Aeon, USA, Cassette)
  • Dying Mapa Tape 3 (Aeon, USA, Cassette)
  • Musick for Simulation World (Lowest Music & Arts, Japan, Cassette)
  • Kibbutz (ADN, Italy, Cassette)
  • Musick for Screen (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Yahatahachiman (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Dadavida (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Worker Machine (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Escape Mask (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Mechanisation Takes Command (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Sexplan Project 3 (Magisch Theatre Productions, Belgium, Cassette)
  • Merzbow Life Performance Series Vol. 1 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Merzbow Life Performance Series Vol. 2 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)

[edit] Merzbow Null

  • Darh Eroc Evil (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Nux Organisation)
  • Falso 800 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Mondo Bizzaro (with Tetsuo Furidate) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Babilonia (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Numen Quad Habitat Simulacro (split with Tibeta Ubik - Punka Overie (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)

[edit] Other collaborations

[edit] 1984

  • Merzbow Life Performance Series Vol. 3 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Merzbow Life Performance Series Vol. 4 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Merzbow Life Performance Series Vol. 5 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Pornoise/1kg Vol. 1 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Pornoise/1kg Vol. 2 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Pornoise/1kg Vol. 3 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Pornoise/1kg Vol. 4 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Pornoise/1kg Vol. 5 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Dadavida (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Merzbow/Secrets (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Aka Meme (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by V2_Archief)

[edit] Merzbow Null

  • Live Documental (ZSF Produkt, Japan, 3 x Cassette)
  • Zeekfeedz Acme (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Deus Irae (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Das (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Nux Organisation)
  • Sonic Command & Sculpture (with Hideharu Suzuki (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Tokyo 260384 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • B-Semi Live (with Nord) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Merzbow Null Production (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Disembody (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Nux Organisation)

[edit] Other collaborations

  • Mail Collaboration (with The Hanatarashi) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Condome Cassex)
  • Vol. 1 (with Nord) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Vol. 2 (with Nord) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Vol. 3 (with Nord) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Regelade (with L'Eponge Synthetique) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Active Productions)

[edit] 1985

  • Sadomasochismo (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • The Lampinak (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Pornoise Xtra (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Ushi-Tra (Cause and Effect, USA, Cassette)
  • Life Performances (Le Syndicat, France, Cassette)
  • Chant (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Chant 2 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)

[edit] 1986

[edit] 1987

  • Ecobondage (ZSF Produkt, Japan, LP)
  • Enclosure (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Vratya Southward (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)

[edit] Collaborations

  • Mail Collaboration and Solos (with The Haters) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Banned Prodution)
  • A Collaboration Tape (with S·Core) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Afflict Records)
  • Merzbow Kapotte Muziek (with Kapotte Muziek) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Korm Plastics)

[edit] 1988

  • Live in Khabarovsk, CCCP (ZSF Produkt, Japan, LP)
  • Storage (ZSF Produkt, Japan, LP)
  • Crocidura Dsi Nezumi (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Banned Production)
  • Flesh Metal Orgasm (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Nihilist Recordings)

[edit] Collaborations

  • Collaborative (with S.B.O.T.H.I.) (Extreme, Australia, LP & 7")

[edit] 1989

  • Dutch Tour 1989 (V2_Archief, Netherlands, 2xCassette)
  • Live at I.C.O.N.E. (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
  • Age of 369 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette, recorded 1984)

[edit] Collaborations

  • Je Rumpelsturz Desto Burzelblock (with Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock and Due Process) (RRRecords / Schimpfluch, USA, LP)
  • 5th Anniversary Boxset Thing (with Emil Beaulieau and Due Process) (RRRecords USA, 5xLP)
  • The Time Stream (with John Hudak) (Sound of Pig, USA, Cassette)

[edit] 1990

  • Cloud Cock 00 Grand (ZSF Produkt, Japan, CD)
  • Rainbow Electronics (Alchemy Records, Japan, CD)
  • Axx/Spooning (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by SPH)
  • Live at Middle East Cafe Boston 21 Sep 1990 (Vanilla Records, Japan, VHS)

[edit] Collaborations

  • Fifty (with S.B.O.T.H.I. and P16.D4) (RRRecords USA, LP)

[edit] 1991

  • Great American Nude / Crash for Hi-Fi (Alchemy Records, Japan, CD)
  • Music for Bondage Performance (Extreme, Australia, CD)
  • Antimonument (Art Directe, Sweden, CD)
  • Hanover Interruption (Dradomel, Germany, LP)

[edit] Collaborations

  • Documentation / Collaboration (with Kapotte Muziek) (Korm Plastics, Netherlands, LP)
  • Live in Chicago (with Emil Beaulieau) (RRRecords, USA, LP)
  • Grav (with PGR and Asmus Tietchens) (Silent, USA, CD)

[edit] Split releases

  • Live Deformation/Holland / Bordeaux (split with THU20) (Midas Music, Netherlands, LP)
  • Ars Elektroica (with Das Konzentrat) (Drahtfunk-Products, Germany, Cassette)

[edit] 1992

  • Artificial Invagination (Vanilla Records, Japan, CD3")
  • Metal Mad Man (Stinky Horse Fuck, UK, Cassette)
  • Recycled Music (RRRecords, USA, Cassette)

[edit] Collaborations

  • Eleven Live Collaborations (with Achim Wollschied) (Selektion, Germany, CD)
  • Latex Gold / Latex Black (with Masonna) (Coquette / ZSF Produkt, Japan, 7")

[edit] 1993

  • Batztoutai with Memorial Gadgets (RRRecords, USA, 2xCD)
  • Metalvelodrome: Exposition of Electro-Vivisection (Alchemy Records, Japan, 4xCD)
  • Nil Vagina for Mice (Banned Production, USA, 7")
  • Neo Orgasm (Vertical, USA, 7")
  • Rod Drug 93 (The Way Out Sound, USA, 7")
  • Yantra Material Action (Anomalous Records, USA, Cassette)
  • Pornoise 1kg (RRRecords / Statutory Tape, USA, 5xCassette)

[edit] Collaborations

  • Sleeper Awakes on the Edge of the Abyss (with Christoph Heemann) (Streamline, Germany, CD)
  • Continuum (Cheeses International, UK, LP)
  • Deus Irae (with KK Null) (Nux Organisation, Japan, CD)
  • Sniper (with The Haters and AMK) (Banned Production, US, Cassette)

[edit] 1994

  • Noisembryo: Psycho-Analytic Study Of Coital Noise Posture (The Releasing Eskimo, Sweden, CD)(this disc was subject of the project known as the Merz-cedes, a car designed to play the disc non-stop while the engine ran. [1]
  • Venereology (Release Entertainment USA, CD)
  • White Blues (a.k.a. Now) (Self Abuse Records, USA, 7")
  • Electroploitation (Hax / Lunhare, Italy 7")

[edit] Collaborations

  • Music for Man With No Name (with Cock E.S.P.) (Fusetron / Stuart Records, USA, 7")
  • Untitled (with John Goff) (The Way Out Sound, USA, 7")

[edit] Split releases

[edit] 1995

  • Dada Rotenvator (Praxis Dr. Bearmann, Germany, LP)
  • Flare Gun (Ten Bob Swerver, UK, LP)
  • Live at 20000V 30 Sep 1995 (Blackbean and Placenta Tape Club, USA, LP)
  • Hole (Heel Stone Records, Germany, CD)
  • Ecobondage (Distemper, US, CD)
  • Noizhead (Blast First, UK, CD)
  • Music for the Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man (Robot Records, USA, 7")
  • Electroknots (Cold Spring / Dirter Promotions, UK, 7")
  • Wakantanka / Aboriginie of Anniversary 50 Years After War (Syntactic, Austria, 7")
  • Pinkream (Dirter Promotions, UK, 2x10")
  • Mort Aux Vaches: Locomotive Breath (Mort Aux Vaches, Netherlands, CD)
  • Green Wheels (Self Abuse Records, USA, CD & 5")

[edit] Collaborations

  • The Science of Dissecting Society (with Richard Ramirez) (Praxis Dr. Bearmann, Germany, LP)
  • Horn of the Goat (with Consumer Electronics) (Freek Records, UK, CD)
  • Rectal Grinder (with Gore Beyond Necropsy) (Mangrove, Japan, 7")
  • Whizzerbait (with Tea Culture) (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers / Oska, UK, 7")

[edit] 1996

  • Project Frequency (A.I.P.R., Germany, LP)
  • Music for Bondage Performance 2 (Extreme, Australia, CD)
  • Electric Salad (Etherworld, USA, CD)
  • Age of 369 / Chant 2 (Extreme, Australia, 2xCD)
  • Rainbow Electronics 2 (Dexter's Cigar, USA, CD)
  • Tint (Vinyl Communications, USA, CD5")
  • Oersted (Vinyl Communications, USA, CD)
  • Pulse Demon (Release Entertainment, USA, CD)
  • Akasha Gulva (Alien8 Recordings, Canada, CD)
  • Magnesia Nova (Staalplaat / Perverse Series, Netherlands, CD)
  • Spiral Honey (Work In Progress, UK, CD)
  • Mercurated (Alchemy Records, Japan, CD)
  • Red 2 Eyes (V2_Archief, Netherlands, 10")
  • Live July 5th, 1995 (Selektion, Germany, VHS)

[edit] Collaborations

  • Brisbane-Tokyo Interlace (with John Watermann) (Cold Spring, UK, CD)
  • Merzbow Loves Emil Beaulieau (with Emil Beaulieau) (Pure, USA, CD)
  • Scumtron (various artist remix compilation) (Blast First, UK, CD)

[edit] Split releases

  • Voice Pie (with Bastard Noise) (Release Entertainment, USA, CD+LP)
  • Plays (with Smegma) (Tim/Kerr Records, USA, CD)
  • Plays (with Smegma) (Tim/Kerr Records, USA, LP)
  • Arctic Twilight / Anthem of the Sun (with Slugbait) (Dirter Promotions, UK, CD)
  • Untitled (with Lasse Marhaug) (Jazzassin Records, Norway, 7")
  • Destructible Foundation / Drain (with MSBR) (Self Abuse Records, Mother Savage Noise Productions, USA, 7")
  • Untitled (with Xome) (Gentle Giant Records, USA, 7")
  • Seven Inches Inside Vagina (with Smell & Quim) (Stinky Horse Fuck, UK, 7")

[edit] 1997

  • Space Metalizer (Alien8 Recordings, CD)
  • Hybrid Noisebloom (Vinyl Communications, USA, CD)
  • Merzbox Sampler (Extreme, Australia, CD)
  • Pinkream (Dirter Promotions, CD)
  • Psychorazer (Kubitsuri Tapes, Japan, CD)

[edit] Collaborations

[edit] Split releases

  • Untitled (with Kadef) (Dreizehn, Germany, 10")
  • Milanese Bestiality / Drunk On Decay (with The Haters) (Old Europa Cafe, Italy, LP)
  • Balance (with Ladybird (Human Wreckords, Germany, CD)
  • Untitled (with Masonna, and MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse (Blast First, UK, CD3")

[edit] 1998

  • Aqua Necromancer (Alien8 Recordings, USA, CD)
  • New Takamagahara ([OHM] Records / Jazzassin Records, Norway, CD)
  • Tauromachine (Release Entertainment, USA, CD)
  • 1930 (Tzadik, USA, CD)
  • Vibractrance (E(r)ostrate, France, CD)
  • Maschinenstil (Dual Plover, Australia, CD)

[edit] 1999

  • Tentacle (Alchemy Records, Japan, CD)
  • Door Open at 8 am (Alien8 Recordings, Canada, CD)
  • Paradise Pachinko (Tochnit Aleph, Germany, CDR)
  • Collapse 12 Floors ([OHM] Records, Norway, CD)
  • Blues Maggots (ZSF Produkt, Japan, CDR)

[edit] Collaborations

[edit] Split releases

  • Untitled (with Aural Torture Mechanism) (Fistfight Records / Counterattack Experimental Arts, USA, CD)
  • Music for Man With No Name (with Cock E.S.P.) (Blackbean and Placenta Tape Club, USA, CD)
  • Subsidia Pataphysica (with DJ Shadow) (Manifold Records, USA, 10")
  • Split Series #4 (with AMM) (Fat Cat Records, UK, 12")

[edit] 2000

  • Merzbox (Extreme, Australia, 50xCD)
  • Live at Radio 100 (ERS, Netherlands, CD)

[edit] Split releases

  • Necro 2000 / Reality Is Much Worse (with Statik) (Klanggallerie, Austria 7")
  • Decomposition (with Eugene Thacker and Shane Fahey) (Extreme, Australia, 2xCD)

[edit] 2001

  • Frog (Misanthropic Agenda, USA, LP)
  • Dharma (Double H Noise Industries, US, CD)
  • A Taste Of... (Mego, Austria, CD)
  • Hard Lovin' Man (Anoema Recordings, Finland, CD)
  • Puroland ([OHM] Records, Norway, CD)
  • Hummingbird (L.S.D. Organisation, US, 7")
  • Happenings 100 Years Time Ago (iDEAL Recordings, Sweden, 7")

[edit] Collaborations

[edit] Split releases

  • Untitled (with Kouhei Matsunaga) (Tigerbeat6, USA,CD)
  • Crash of the Titans (with Napalmed) (Merciless Core, Czech Republic, CD)
  • Spilt Ver 0.5 (with Struggle For Pride) (Less Than TV, Japan, CD)
  • Spilt Ver 1.0 (with Struggle For Pride) (Less Than TV, Japan, CD)

[edit] 2002

  • Amlux (Important Records, USA, CD)
  • Merzzow (Opposite Records, USA, CD)
  • Merzbeat (Important Records, USA, CD)
  • Ikebukuro Dada (Circumvent Recordings, USA, CD)
  • 24 Hours - A Day of Seals (Dirter Promotions, UK, 4xCD)
  • Timehunter (Ant-Zen, Germany, 4xCD3")
  • Fantail (Clu Clux Clam, Canada, CD)

[edit] Collaborations

[edit] Split releases

  • Untitled (with Kouhei Matsunaga) (Cross Fade Enter Tainment, Germany, 12")
  • Switching Rethorics (with Shora) (Bisect Bleep Industries, France, CD)

[edit] 2003

  • Frog+ (Misanthropic Agenda, USA, 2xCD)
  • Animal Magnetism (Alien8 Recordings Canada, CD)
  • Live Magnetism (Caminate Recordings, USA, CD)
  • Cycle (Very Friendly, UK, CD)
  • Offering (Tantric Harmonies, Russia, CD)
  • SCSI Duck (Fourth Dimension Records, UK, CD)

[edit] Collaborations

[edit] 2004

  • Last of Analog Sessions (Important Records, USA, 3xCD)
  • Yoshinotsune (Clu Clux Clam, Canada, CD)
  • Merzbird (Important Records, USA. CD)
  • Mini Cycle / Yoshino Tamago / Yonos Bigfoot ([OHM] Records, Norway, CD3")
  • Sha Mo 3000 (Essence Music, Brazil, CD)
  • Tamago (Plan DX-17, USA, CD)
  • Electro Magnetic Unit (Los Apson?, Japan, CD)
  • 1633 (En/Of, Germany, 12")

[edit] Collaborations

[edit] 2005

[edit] Collaborations

[edit] 2006

[edit] Collaborations

  • Tranz (with Elliott Sharp) (Caminante Recordings, USA, CD)
  • Merzbow vs. Tamarin (with Tamarin) (Artificial Music Machine, USA, CD)
  • Multiplication (with John Wiese) (Misanthropic Agenda, USA, CD)
  • Merzdub (with Jamie Saft) (Caminante Recordings, USA, CD)
  • Merzbow & The Haters (with The Haters) (Banned Production, USA, CD, reissue of earlier cassette remastered by John Wiese)

[edit] 2007

[edit] Collaborations

[edit] Forthcoming

  • Mellow Peak (with Boris) (Troubleman Unlimited, USA, LP)
  • Synth Destruction (with Carlos Giffoni) (Important Records, USA, CD)

[edit] As Masami Akita

  • Collaboration Through the Mail 1983-84 (with Jean-Louis Houchard) (DMA2, France, Cassette, 1987)
  • Mirror Pulse (with John Duncan) (Extreme, Australia, Cassette, 1990)
  • The Prosperity of Vice, The Misfortune of Virtue (i, UK, CD, 1996)
  • Ich Schnitt Mich In Den Finger (with Reiko Azuma, Russell Haswell, and Tetsuo Sakaibara) (Mego, Austria, LP, 1997)
  • Satanstornade (with Russell Haswell) (Warp Records, UK, CD, 2002)

[edit] As Abe Sada

with S.M.U.T.

[edit] As Bustmonster

with Bara, Fumio Kosakai, Masahiko Ohno, Shohei Iwasaki, Yamazaki Maso, Zev Asher.

  • Whitehouse / You Don't Have To Say Please (split with Xper Xr) (RRRecords, USA, 7", 1987)
  • Weedhead EP (Wild West Records / Alchemy Records, Japan, 7", 1992)

[edit] As Flying Testicle

with Yamazaki Maso and Zev Asher.

[edit] As Maldoror

with Mike Patton.

[edit] As MAZK

with Zbigniew Karkowski.

[edit] As SCUM

[edit] As Tibeta Ubik

with KK Null.

  • 2 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette, 1984)
  • 3 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette, 1984)

[edit] As True Romance

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