Masami Akita discography

Turmeric (Blossoming Noise, USA, 4xCD)
Black Bone Part 5 (Blossoming Noise, USA, CD3" embedded in 5" disc)
Minazo Vol. 1 (Important Records, USA, CD)
Minazo Vol. 2 (Important Records, USA, LP)
Bloody Sea (Vivo Records, Poland, CD)
F.I.D. (Fourth Dimension Records, UK, 2xCD)
Metamorphism (Very Friendly, UK, CD, ltd. release of 1000, first batch of 500 in marble case, and second 500 in plain jewel case)

2007

Merzbear (Important Records, USA, CD)
Coma Berenices (Vivo Records, Poland, CD)
Zophorus (Blossoming Noise, USA, CD)
Peace for Animals (Quasipop, Ukraine, CD)
Live Destruction at No Fun 2007 (No Fun Productions, USA, CD)
Higanbana (Vivo Records, Poland, CD)

2008

Here (L.White Records, Germany, CD)

Collaborations and Split Releases

Aerovivianda 1 (with Xerosx)
Mail Collaboration (with The Hanatarashi) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Condome Cassex)
Vol. 1 (with Nord) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
Vol. 2 (with Nord) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
Vol. 3 (with Nord) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
Regelade (with L'Eponge Synthetique) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Active Productions)
Mail Collaboration and Solos (with The Haters) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Banned Prodution)
A Collaboration Tape (with S·Core) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Afflict Records)
Merzbow Kapotte Muziek (with Kapotte Muziek) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Korm Plastics)
Collaborative (with S.B.O.T.H.I.) (Extreme, Australia, LP & 7")
Je Rumpelsturz Desto Burzelblock (with Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock and Due Process) (RRRecords / Schimpfluch, USA, LP)
5th Anniversary Boxset Thing (with Emil Beaulieau and Due Process) (RRRecords USA, 5xLP)
The Time Stream (with John Hudak) (Sound of Pig, USA, Cassette)
Fifty (with S.B.O.T.H.I. and P16.D4) (RRRecords USA, LP)
Axx/Spooning (Merzbow/S.C.U.M.)(ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by SPH)
Documentation / Collaboration (with Kapotte Muziek) (Korm Plastics, Netherlands, LP)
Live in Chicago (with Emil Beaulieau) (RRRecords, USA, LP)
Grav (with PGR and Asmus Tietchens) (Silent, USA, CD)
Live Deformation/Holland / Bordeaux (split with THU20) (Midas Music, Netherlands, LP)
Ars Elektroica (with Das Konzentrat) (Drahtfunk-Products, Germany, Cassette)
Eleven Live Collaborations (with Achim Wollschied) (Selektion, Germany, CD)
Latex Gold / Latex Black (with Masonna) (Coquette / ZSF Produkt, Japan, 7")
Sleeper Awakes on the Edge of the Abyss (with Christoph Heemann) (Streamline, Germany, CD)
Continuum (Cheeses International, UK, LP)
Deus Irae (with KK Null) (Nux Organisation, Japan, CD)
Sniper (with The Haters and AMK) (Banned Production, US, Cassette)
Music for Man With No Name (with Cock E.S.P.) (Fusetron / Stuart Records, USA, 7")
Untitled (with John Goff) (The Way Out Sound, USA, 7")
Untitled (with Black Leather Jesus) (Deadline Recordings, USA, 7")
The Science of Dissecting Society (with Richard Ramirez) (Praxis Dr. Bearmann, Germany, LP)
Horn of the Goat (with Consumer Electronics) (Freek Records, UK, CD)
Rectal Grinder (with Gore Beyond Necropsy) (Mangrove, Japan, 7")
Whizzerbait (with Tea Culture) (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers / Oska, UK, 7")
Brisbane-Tokyo Interlace (with John Watermann) (Cold Spring, UK, CD)
Merzbow Loves Emil Beaulieau (with Emil Beaulieau) (Pure, USA, CD)
Scumtron (various artist remix compilation) (Blast First, UK, CD)
Voice Pie (with Bastard Noise) (Release Entertainment, USA, CD+LP)
Plays (with Smegma) (Tim/Kerr Records, USA, CD)
Plays (with Smegma) (Tim/Kerr Records, USA, LP)
Arctic Twilight / Anthem of the Sun (with Slugbait) (Dirter Promotions, UK, CD)
Untitled (with Lasse Marhaug) (Jazzassin Records, Norway, 7")
Destructible Foundation / Drain (with MSBR) (Self Abuse Records, Mother Savage Noise Productions, USA, 7")
Untitled (with Xome) (Gentle Giant Records, USA, 7")
Seven Inches Inside Vagina (with Smell & Quim) (Stinky Horse Fuck, UK, 7")
Rectal Anarchy (with Gore Beyond Necropsy) (Release Entertainment, USA, CD)
Merzbow Mixed Total (with Total) (Sterilized Decay, UK, Cassette)
Untitled (with Kadef) (Dreizehn, Germany, 10")
Milanese Bestiality / Drunk On Decay (with The Haters) (Old Europa Cafe, Italy, LP)
Balance (with Ladybird (Human Wreckords, Germany, CD)
Untitled (with Masonna, and MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse (Blast First, UK, CD3")
A Perfect Pain (with Genesis P-Orridge) (Cold Spring, UK, CD)
Untitled (with Aural Torture Mechanism) (Fistfight Records / Counterattack Experimental Arts, USA, CD)
Music for Man With No Name (with Cock E.S.P.) (Blackbean and Placenta Tape Club, USA, CD)
Subsidia Pataphysica (with DJ Spooky) (Manifold Records, USA, 10")
Split Series #4 (with AMM) (Fat Cat Records, UK, 12")
Necro 2000 / Reality Is Much Worse (with Statik) (Klanggallerie, Austria 7")
Decomposition (with Eugene Thacker and Shane Fahey) (Extreme, Australia, 2xCD)
Live at Molde International Jazz Festival (with Jazzkammer) (Smalltown Supersound, Norway, CD)
Untitled (with Kouhei Matsunaga) (Tigerbeat6, USA,CD)
Crash of the Titans (with Napalmed) (Merciless Core, Czech Republic, CD)
Spilt Ver 0.5 (with Struggle For Pride) (Less Than TV, Japan, CD)
Spilt Ver 1.0 (with Struggle For Pride) (Less Than TV, Japan, CD)
Megatone (with Boris) (Inoxia Records, Japan, CD)
Flight of the Behemoth (with Sunn O)))) (Southern Lord Records, USA, CD)
Untitled (with Kouhei Matsunaga) (Cross Fade Enter Tainment, Germany, 12")
Switching Rhetorics (with Shora) (Bisect Bleep Industries, France, CD)
V (with Pan Sonic) (Les Disques Victo, Canada, CD)
Live CBGB's NYC 1998 (with Alec Empire) (Digital Hardcore Recordings, UK, CD)
Merzbow "Frog" Remixed and Revisited (various artist remix compilation) (Misanthropic Agenda, USA, 2xCD)
Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (various artist remix compilation) (Important Records, USA, CD)
04092001 (with Boris) (Inoxia Records, Japan, LP)
Rondo 7Phases Blowback (with Kim Cascone) (Sub Rosa, Belgium, CD)
Partikel (with Nordvargr) (Cold Spring, UK, CD)
Oumagatoki (with The New Blockaders) (Hypnogogia, UK, 10")
The Ten Foot Square Hut (with The New Blockaders) (Hypnogogia, UK, CD)
Sun Baked Snow Cave (with Boris) (Double H Noise Industries / Hydra Head Records, CD)
Free Piano (with John Wiese) (Misanthropic Agenda, USA, 7")
Tranz (with Elliott Sharp) (Caminante Recordings, USA, CD)
Merzbow vs. Tamarin (with Tamarin) (Artificial Music Machine, USA, CD)
Multiplication (with John Wiese) (Misanthropic Agenda, USA, CD)
Merzdub (with Jamie Saft) (Caminante Recordings, USA, CD)
Merzbow & The Haters (with The Haters) (Banned Production, USA, CD, reissue of earlier cassette remastered by John Wiese)
Partikel II (with Nordvargr) (Cold Spring, UK, CD)
Walrus/Groon (with Boris) (Hydra Head Records, USA, 12")
Electric Dress (with Carlos Giffoni and Jim O'Rourke) (No Fun Productions, USA, CD)
Synth Destruction (with Carlos Giffoni) (Important Records, USA, CD)
Rock Dream (with Boris) (Diwphalanx, Japan, live 2 x CD)
Rock Dream (with Boris) (Southern Lord, USA, live 2 x CD American issue with different artwork, ltd 5000)
Insect / Reptile (with Band Of Pain) (Dirter Promotions, UK, pic LP)

Forthcoming

Mellow Peak (with Boris) (Troubleman Unlimited, USA, LP)
Partikel III (with Nordvargr) (Cold Spring, UK, CD)
Porn/Merzbow (Southern Records, CD/LP)

As Masami Akita

Collaboration Through the Mail 1983-84 (with Jean-Louis Houchard) (DMA2, France, Cassette, 1987)
Mirror Pulse (with John Duncan) (Extreme, Australia, Cassette, 1990)
The Prosperity of Vice, The Misfortune of Virtue (i, UK, CD, 1996)
Ich Schnitt Mich In Den Finger (with Reiko Azuma, Russell Haswell, and Tetsuo Sakaibara) (Mego, Austria, LP, 1997)
Satanstornade (with Russell Haswell) (Warp Records, UK, CD, 2002)

As Merzbow Null

Darh Eroc Evil (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Nux Organisation)
Falso 800 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
Mondo Bizzaro (with Tetsuo Furidate) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
Babilonia (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
Numen Quad Habitat Simulacro (split with Tibeta Ubik - Punka Overie (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
Live Documental (ZSF Produkt, Japan, 3 x Cassette)
Zeekfeedz Acme (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
Deus Irae (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
Das (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Nux Organisation)
Sonic Command & Sculpture (with Hideharu Suzuki (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
Tokyo 260384 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
B-Semi Live (with Nord) (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
Merzbow Null Production (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette)
Disembody (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette) (also released by Nux Organisation)

As Abe Sada

with S.M.U.T.

Original Body Kingdom/Gala Abe Sada 1936 (Stomach Ache Records, USA, 7", 1994)
An untitled song appears on the compilation RRR 500.[1]

As Bustmonster

with Bara, Fumio Kosakai, Masahiko Ohno, Shohei Iwasaki, Yamazaki Maso, Zev Asher.

Whitehouse / You Don't Have To Say Please (split with Xper Xr) (RRRecords, USA, 7", 1987)
Weedhead EP (Wild West Records / Alchemy Records, Japan, 7", 1992)

As Flying Testicle

with Yamazaki Maso and Zev Asher.

Lamerican Sextom (ZSF Produkt, Japan, 7", 1992)
Space Desia (Charnel Music, USA, CD, 1993)

As Maldoror

with Mike Patton.

She (Ipecac Recordings, USA, CD, 1999)

As MAZK

with Zbigniew Karkowski.

Sound Pressure Level (OR, UK, CD, 1998)
(untitled) (Tigerbeat6, USA, CD, 2001)
(untitled) (Noise Asia, Hong Kong, CD, 2001)
Equilibratura Elettronica (with Ogino Knauss) (AV Recordings, Italy, DVD, 2005)
In Real Time (Ytterbium, France, CD, 2005)

As SCUM

Scissors for Cutting Merzbow (ZSF Produkt, Japan, 2xLP, 1989)
Severances (Discordia/Concordia / ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette, 1989)
Steel Cum (Vertical, USA, 7", 1990)

As Sponge

with Jojo Hiroshige, Junko Hiroshige, and Yamazaki Takushi.

Relation Between A Production Of Images And The Flesh In A State Of Consciousness (1993) (A very small amount (approximately 10) of these records were packaged with an extra postcard and picture of a person having an IV inserted. These copies also have a knife inset and blood spattered on the cover.)

As Tibeta Ubik

with KK Null.

2 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette, 1984)
3 (ZSF Produkt, Japan, Cassette, 1984)

As True Romance

Hyper Meat Performance (Membrum Debile Propaganda, Germany, picture disc LP, 1997)

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