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 within a musical context. This type of music tends to challenge the distinction that is made in conventional musical practices between musical and non-musical ...

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 Alien8 Recordings is an independent record label founded in 1996 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The label was founded by Sean O'Hara and Gary Worsley. The label released material from prominent noise artists such as Merzbow, Think About Life, A ...

, Blossoming Noise, Cold Spring, Cuneiform, Dirter Promotions,

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, Hydra Head,

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, Mego, Release Entertainment (a sublabel of Relapse),

RRRecords RRRecords is a record label and used and new record shop based in Lowell, Massachusetts. RRRecords was the first American record label to publish underground "noise music" in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Maso ...

, Rustblade,

Soleilmoon Soleilmoon Recordings is an American record label that began in 1987 as a cassette label, operating from the back of a record shop called the Ooze in Portland, Oregon, US. The first releases were by Smegma, Muslimgauze, Coil, and Nocturnal Emiss ...

, Tzadik, and Vivo. In the 1980s, he released five

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and dozens of homemade

cassettes Cassette may refer to: Technology * Cassette tape (or ''musicassette'', ''audio cassette'', ''cassette tape'', or ''tape''), a worldwide standard for analog audio recording and playback ** Cassette single (or "Cassingle"), a music single in the ...

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

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 ;Live albums

As Maldoror

with Mike Patton ;Studio albums

As MAZK

with

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

;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. Ex ...

. 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

References

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External links

List of releases
at Merzbow Official Site * *
Merzbow
discography at Rate Your Music {{Merzbow Electronic music discographies Discographies of Japanese artists