This is a comprehensive
discography of the Japanese
noise music
Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise. This type of music tends to challenge the distinction that is made in conventional musical practices between musical and non-musical sound. Noise music include ...
ian 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.
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
Cuneiform is a Logogram, logo-Syllabary, syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. Cuneiform script ...
, 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.
''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.
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,
Shohei Iwasaki,
Fumio Kosakai,
Masahiko Ohno, Tetsuo Sakaibara, and
Yamazaki Maso
;EPs and singles
;Splits
;Compilation tracks
As Flying Testicle
with
Zev Asher and
Yamazaki Maso
;Studio albums
;EPs and singles
;Compilation tracks
As House Hunt Hussies
;Compilation tracks
As Kikuri
with
Keiji Haino
;Live albums
As Maldoror
with
Mike Patton
;Studio albums
As MAZK
with
Zbigniew Karkowski
;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. 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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Electronic music discographies
Discographies of Japanese artists