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Masami Akita discography

Masami Akita discography

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This is a comprehensive discography of the Japanese noise musician Masami Akita, best known for his project Merzbow. 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.

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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, Dirter Promotions, Extreme, Hydra Head, Important, Mego, Release Entertainment (a sublabel of Relapse), RRRecords, Rustblade, Slowdown, Soleilmoon, Tzadik, and Vivo. In the 1980s, he released five LPs and dozens of homemade cassettes on his own labels Lowest Music & Arts and ZSF Produkt.

From 2009, reissues and archival releases of previously unreleased material have become a significant part of Merzbow's output. In 2018, the Japanese label Slowdown Records began releasing archival recordings on a semimonthly basis, ultimately releasing 96 archival CDs by the end of 2022.

Merzbow has appeared twice on the Billboard charts charts for one week each time, both for collaborations: Gensho with Boris appeared at number 21 on the Heatseekers Albums chart and at number 24 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart for the week of April 9, 2016.[1] Cuts Up, Cuts Out with Balázs Pándi, Mats Gustafsson and Thurston Moore appeared at number 21 on the Jazz Albums chart and at number 13 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart for the week of May 5, 2018.[1]

Note: Release reissues and compilation tracks taken from albums are not listed. The infobox count includes all aliases.

As Merzbow

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As Masami Akita

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As 3RENSA

with Duenn and Nyantora

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As Abe Sada

with S.M.U.T.

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As Bustmonsters

with Zev Asher, Shohei Iwasaki, Fumio Kosakai, Masahiko Ohno, Tetsuo Sakaibara, and Yamazaki Maso

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As Flying Testicle

with Zev Asher and Yamazaki Maso

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As House Hunt Hussies

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As Kikuri

with Keiji Haino

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As Maldoror

with Mike Patton

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As MAZK

with Zbigniew Karkowski

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As Merzbow Null

with Kiyoshi Mizutani, Kazuyuki Kishino, Yuji Okano, and others

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As Pornoise

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As Satanstornade

with Russell Haswell. They later released the album Satanstornade under their real names.

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As SCUM

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As Secrets

with Tetsuya Mugishima

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As Tibeta Ubik

with Kazuyuki Kishino

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As True Romance

with Tetsuo Sakaibara and Toshiyuki Seido

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As Universal Indians

with Tetsuo Sakaibara

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References

  • "Merzbow". Primordial. Vol. 2. 1985. pp. 2–3.
  • Wehowsky, Ralf (1987). "Masami Akita aka Merzbow: Eine Cassettographie". Bad Alchemy. Vol. 7. pp. 45–46.
  • Woodward, Brett (1999). Merzbook: The Pleasuredome of Noise. Melbourne, Australia: Extreme Records. ISBN 0646383264.
  • Akita, Masami (March 2000). "Merzbow Discography". Studio Voice (in Japanese). No. 291. INFAS Publications.
  • "Merzbow". Archived from the original on 17 April 2001. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  • "Release". Merzbow Official Site. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  • "Past Releases". Merzbow Official Site. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  1. "Merzbow". Billboard. Billboard. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  2. untitled (catalog). Merzbow Lowest Music & Arts. n.d. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  3. Akita, Masami (2022). Collection 001–010 (Media notes) (in Japanese). Milan, Italy: Urashima. USHI 016.
  4. untitled (catalog). ZSF Produkt. c. 1984. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  5. "MERZBOW ~ BARRACK BAROQUE". A S T R E S D'OR. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  6. "Merzbow + Nicolas Horvath - PiaNoise". Bandcamp. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  7. "future_releases". menstrualrecordings. Retrieved 25 March 2023.

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