This is a comprehensive

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of the Japanese

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ian 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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, Mego, Release Entertainment (a sublabel of

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, Rustblade, Slowdown, Soleilmoon,

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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. 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 Balázs Pándi (born 6 August 1983) is a Hungarian drummer and journalist. He has worked and toured with various acts from all around the world including Venetian Snares, Otto von Schirach, To Live and Shave in L.A., The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz ...

Mats Gustafsson Mats Olof Gustafsson (born 29 October 1964) is a Swedish free jazz saxophone player. Career Gustafsson came to the attention of lovers of improvised music as part of a duo with Christian Munthe (started in 1986), as member of Gunter Chris ...

and

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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 , 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 words ...

;EPs and singles ;Splits ;Compilation tracks

As Flying Testicle

with Zev Asher 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 th ...

;Live albums

As Maldoror

with

Mike Patton Michael Allan Patton (born January 27, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and voice actor, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock bands Faith No More and Mr. Bungle. He has also fronted and/or played with Tomahawk, The ...

;Studio albums

As MAZK

with

Zbigniew Karkowski Zbigniew Karkowski (14 March 1958 – 12 December 2013) was a Polish experimental musician and composer. Biography Karkowski was born on 14 March 1958 in Kraków, Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden ...

;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 Russell Haswell (born 1970, Coventry) is an English multidisciplinary artist. He has exhibited conceptual and wall-based visual works, video art, public sculpture, as well as audio presentations in both art gallery and concert hall contexts. ...

. 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 releases
at Merzbow Official Site * * {{Merzbow Electronic music discographies Discographies of Japanese artists