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of the Japanese noise musician Masami Akita, best known for his project

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. 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,

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, Dirter Promotions, Extreme,

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, Important, Mego, Release Entertainment (a sublabel of

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), RRRecords, Rustblade,

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, and Vivo. In the 1980s, he released five LPs and dozens of homemade cassettes on his own labels Lowest Music & Arts and ZSF Produkt. 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

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EPs and singles

Remix albums

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Splits

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As Masami Akita

Studio albums

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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

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, Shohei Iwasaki, Fumio Kosakai, Masahiko Ohno, Tetsuo Sakaibara, and

Yamazaki Maso , better known by his stage name Masonna, is a Japanese noise musician. He was born on November 16, 1966, in Miyazu, Kyoto, Japan. was started in 1987 in Osaka as Maso Yamazaki's noise project. The name is a combination of the Japanese wor ...

;EPs and singles ;Splits ;Compilation tracks

As Flying Testicle

with

and

;Studio albums ;EPs and singles ;Compilation tracks

As House Hunt Hussies

;Compilation tracks

As Kikuri

with

Keiji Haino Keiji Haino ( ''Haino Keiji''; born May 3, 1952) is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise music, percussion, psychedelic music, minimalism and drone music. He has been active since the ...

;Live albums

As Maldoror

with

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;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

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. 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

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External links

List of releases
at Merzbow Official Site * *
Merzbow
discography at

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