Merzbow discography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Recordings by the Japanese noise musician Masami Akita, AKA Merzbow.


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 - 2008 - Collaborations


[edit] 1980

[edit] 1981

  • Metal Acoustic Music (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)
  • Material Action for 2 Microphones (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] 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] 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] 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)

[edit] 1989

  • Age of 369 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, cassette, recorded 1984)
  • Live at I.C.O.N.E. (ZSF Produkt, Japan, cassette)
  • Flesh Metal Orgasm (ZSF Produkt, Japan, cassette) (also released by Nihilist Recordings)

[edit] 1990

[edit] 1991

[edit] 1992

[edit] 1993

  • Neo Orgasm (Vertical, USA, 7")
  • Rod Drug 93 (The Way Out Sound, USA, 7")
  • Metalvelodrome: Exposition of Electro-Vivisection (Alchemy Records, Japan, 4xCD)
  • Nil Vagina for Mice (Banned Production, USA, 7")

[edit] 1994

  • Electroploitation (Hax / Lunhare, Italy 7")
  • Venereology (Release Entertainment USA, CD)
  • Noisembryo: Psycho-Analytic Study Of Coital Noise Posture (Releasing Eskimo, Sweden, CD)
  • Flare Gun (Ten Bob Swerver, UK, LP)
  • White Blues (a.k.a. Now) (Self Abuse Records, USA, 7")
  • Hole (Heel Stone Records, Germany, CD)

[edit] 1995

  • Dadarottenvator (Praxis Dr. Bearmann, Germany, LP)
  • Live at 20000V 30 Sep 1995 (Blackbean and Placenta Tape Club, USA, LP)
  • 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")
  • Magnesia Nova (Staalplaat / Perverse Series, Netherlands, CD)

[edit] 1996

[edit] 1997

[edit] 1998

[edit] 1999

[edit] 2000

[edit] 2001

[edit] 2002

[edit] 2003

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2005

[edit] 2006

[edit] 2007

[edit] 2008

  • Here (L.White Records, Germany, CD)

[edit] Collaborations and Split Releases

  • Aerovivianda 1 (with Xerosx)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Collaborative (with S.B.O.T.H.I.) (Extreme, Australia, LP & 7")
  • 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)
  • Fifty (with S.B.O.T.H.I. and P16.D4) (RRRecords USA, LP)
  • Axx/Spooning (Merzbow/S.C.U.M.)(ZSF Produkt, Japan, cassette) (also released by SPH)
  • 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)
  • Live Deformation/Holland / Bordeaux (split with THU20) (Midas Music, Netherlands, LP)
  • Ars Elektroica (with Das Konzentrat) (Drahtfunk-Products, Germany, cassette)
  • Eleven Live Collaborations (with Achim Wollschied) (Selektion, Germany, CD)
  • Latex Gold / Latex Black (with Masonna) (Coquette / ZSF Produkt, Japan, 7")
  • 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)
  • 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")
  • Untitled (with Black Leather Jesus) (Deadline Recordings, USA, 7")
  • 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")
  • 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)
  • 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")
  • Rectal Anarchy (with Gore Beyond Necropsy) (Release Entertainment, USA, CD)
  • Merzbow Mixed Total (with Total) (Sterilized Decay, UK, cassette)
  • 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")
  • A Perfect Pain (with Genesis P-Orridge) (Cold Spring, UK, CD)
  • 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 Spooky) (Manifold Records, USA, 10")
  • Split Series #4 (with AMM) (Fat Cat Records, UK, 12")
  • Necro 2000 / Reality Is Much Worse (with Statik) (Klanggallerie, Austria 7")
  • Decomposition (with Eugene Thacker and Shane Fahey) (Extreme, Australia, 2xCD)
  • Live at Molde International Jazz Festival (with Jazzkammer) (Smalltown Supersound, Norway, CD)
  • 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)
  • Megatone (with Boris) (Inoxia Records, Japan, CD)
  • Flight of the Behemoth (with Sunn O)))) (Southern Lord Records, USA, CD)
  • Untitled (with Kouhei Matsunaga) (Cross Fade Enter Tainment, Germany, 12")
  • Switching Rhetorics (with Shora) (Bisect Bleep Industries, France, CD)
  • V (with Pan Sonic) (Les Disques Victo, Canada, CD)
  • Live CBGB's NYC 1998 (with Alec Empire) (Digital Hardcore Recordings, UK, CD)
  • Merzbow "Frog" Remixed and Revisited (various artist remix compilation) (Misanthropic Agenda, USA, 2xCD)
  • Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (various artist remix compilation) (Important Records, USA, CD)
  • 04092001 (with Boris) (Inoxia Records, Japan, LP)
  • Rondo 7Phases Blowback (with Kim Cascone) (Sub Rosa, Belgium, CD)
  • Partikel (with Nordvargr) (Cold Spring, UK, CD)
  • Oumagatoki (with The New Blockaders) (Hypnogogia, UK, 10")
  • The Ten Foot Square Hut (with The New Blockaders) (Hypnogogia, UK, CD)
  • Sun Baked Snow Cave (with Boris) (Double H Noise Industries / Hydra Head Records, CD)
  • Free Piano (with John Wiese) (Misanthropic Agenda, USA, 7")
  • 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)
  • Partikel II (with Nordvargr) (Cold Spring, UK, CD)
  • Walrus/Groon (with Boris) (Hydra Head Records, USA, 12")
  • Electric Dress (with Carlos Giffoni and Jim O'Rourke) (No Fun Productions, USA, CD)
  • Synth Destruction (with Carlos Giffoni) (Important Records, USA, CD)
  • Rock Dream (with Boris) (Diwphalanx, Japan, live 2 x CD)
  • Rock Dream (with Boris) (Southern Lord, USA, live 2 x CD American issue with different artwork, ltd 5000)
  • Insect / Reptile (with Band Of Pain) (Dirter Promotions, UK, pic LP)

[edit] Forthcoming

[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 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)
  • 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] 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 Sponge

with Jojo Hiroshige, Junko Hiroshige, and Yamazaki Takushi.

  • Relation Between a Production of Images and the Flesh in a State of Consciousness (1993) (A very small amount (approximately 10) of these records were packaged with an extra postcard and picture of a person having an IV inserted. These copies also have a knife inset and blood spattered on the cover.)

[edit] As Tibeta Ubik

with KK Null.

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

[edit] As True Romance

[edit] External links