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Merzbow

Real Name:Masami Akita (秋田昌美)
Profile:Merzbow (メルツバウ) is an extreme experimental music project created in Tokyo in 1979 under the direction of musician Masami Akita (秋田昌美) and is recognized as being one of the earliest projects in what has become known as the 'Japanese noise scene'. Highly prolific, Merzbow has released over 300 CDs, LPs and cassettes since 1979.
The formation name was taken from Kurt Schwitters's "The Merzbau".
URLs:http://www.merzbow.net
Aliases:Masami Akita, Pornoise
Members:Kiyoshi Mizutani, Reiko Azuma, Tetsuo Sakaibara
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Fuckexercise (Cass)   Lowest Music & Arts 1980
Remblandt Assemblage (Cass)   Lowest Music & Arts 1980
Material Action For 2 Microphones (Cass)   Lowest Music & Arts 1981
Dying Mapa 1 (Cass, C46)   Not On Label 1982
Paradoxa Paradoxa ◄ (2 versions)   Lowest Music & Arts ... 1982
Solonoise 1 (Cass)   Lowest Music & Arts 1982
Solonoise 2 (Cass)   Lowest Music & Arts 1982
Tatoo Junk (Cass)   Stratosphere Music 1982
Yantra Material Action ◄ (2 versions)   ZSF Produkt ... 1982
Aerovivanda 1 (Cass)   ZSF Produkt 1983
Babilonia (Cass, Album, C60)   ZSF Produkt 1983
Kibbutz (Cass)   ADN 1983
Le Cuisinier (Cass)   Stratosphere Music 1983
Material Action 2 N.A.M. (LP)   Chaos (2) 1983
Mechanization Takes Command (Cass)   Lowest Music & Arts, ZSF Produkt 1983
Age Of 369 ◄ (2 versions)   ZSF Produkt ... 1984
Aka Meme (Cass)   V2_Archief 1984
B-Semi Live: 24th May 1984 (Cass)   ZSF Produkt 1984
Chant (Cass, Ltd, C46)   ZSF Produkt 1984
Pornoise Xtra (Cass, C60)   ZSF Produkt 1984
Pornoise/1 Kg Vol. 1 (Cass)   ZSF Produkt 1984
Pornoise/1 Kg Vol. 2 (Cass)   ZSF Produkt 1984
Pornoise/1 Kg Vol. 3 (Cass)   ZSF Produkt 1984
Pornoise/1 Kg Vol. 4 (Cass)   ZSF Produkt 1984
Pornoise/1 Kg Vol. 5 (Cass)   ZSF Produkt 1984
Régalade (Cass)   Active Production, ZSF Produkt 1984
Untitled (Cass, C60)   ZSF Produkt 1984
Untitled (Cass)   Nux Organization 1984
Chant 2 (Cass, C46)   ZSF Produkt 1985
Live Performance Feb. 85 ◄ (2 versions)   ZSF Produkt ... 1985
Musick From Simulation World (Cass)   Lowest Music & Arts 1985
Nil Vagina Mail-Action (Cass)   ZSF Produkt 1985
Sadomasochismo (Cass, C46)   ZSF Produkt 1985
The Lampinak (Cass, C60)   ZSF Produkt 1985
Ushi-Tra (Cass)   Cause And Effect 1985
Antimonument (LP, Pic)   ZSF Produkt 1986
抜刀隊 With Memorial Gadgets (2xLP)   RRRecords 1986
A Collaboration Tape (Cass)   Afflict Records 1987
Crocidura Dsi Nezumi ◄ (2 versions)   Banned Production ... 1987
Ecobondage ◄ (2 versions)   Distemper ... 1987
Enclosure (Cass, Ltd)   ZSF Produkt 1987
Merzbowkapottemuziek (Cass, C60)   ZSF Produkt 1987
Pornoise 1 KG ◄ (3 versions)   ZSF Produkt ... 1987
Untitled (Cass)   Banned Production 1987
Untitled (Cass, C60)   ZSF Produkt 1987
Vratya Southward (Cass, Ltd)   ZSF Produkt 1987
Collaborative ◄ (2 versions)   Extreme 1988
Live In Khabarovsk, CCCP "I'm Proud By Rank Of The Workers" (LP)   ZSF Produkt 1988
Produktion (Cass, C60)   ZSF Produkt 1988
Storage (LP, Ltd)   ZSF Produkt 1988
5th Anniversary Boxset Thing (5xLP)   RRRecords 1989
Dadavida 1984 (Cass, C46)   ZSF Produkt 1989
Flesh Metal Orgasm (Cass, C60)   Nihilistic Recordings 1989
Je Rumpelsturz Desto Burzelblock (LP)   Schimpfluch, RRRecords 1989
Live Drum Ensemble - 1984 (Cass, C46)   ZSF Produkt 1989
Metal Acoustic Music ◄ (2 versions)   Loawai Tapes ... 1989
Solonoise (Cass, C46)   ZSF Produkt 1989
Steel Cum ◄ (2 versions)   ZSF Produkt ... 1989
The Time Stream (Cass, C60)   Sound Of Pig 1989
Axx / Spooning S.C.U.M. (Cass, Ltd)   SPH 1990
Cloud Cock OO Grand (CD, Ltd)   ZSF Produkt 1990
Documentation / Collaboration (LP)   Korm Plastics 1990
Fifty (LP, Ltd)   RRRecords 1990
Live At Middle East Cafe Boston 21 Sep.1990 (VHS)   Vanilla Records 1990
Lowest Music 2 (Cass, C60)   Extreme 1990
Rainbow Electronics (CD, Album)   Alchemy Records (2) 1990
Ars Elektroica (Cass)   Drahtfunk-Products 1991
Artificial Invagination (CD, Mini)   Vanilla Records 1991
Grav (CD)   Silent 1991
Great American Nude / Crash For Hi-Fi (CD, Album)   Alchemy Records (2) 1991
Live Deformation/Holland / Bordeaux (LP)   Midas Music 1991
Live In Chicago (LP)   RRRecords 1991
Music For Bondage Performance (CD, Album)   Extreme 1991
Dutch Tour 1989 (2xCass)   V2_Archief 1992
Eleven Live Collaborations (CD)   Selektion 1992
Hannover Interruption (LP)   Dradomel 1992
Latex Black / Latex Gold (Acetate, 7", Ltd, Gol)   Coquette, ZSF Produkt 1992
Metal Mad Man (Cass, C60)   Stinky Horse Fuck 1992
Recycled Music (Cass)   RRRecords 1992
Rework / Odiom (Cass, C90)   E'ostrate 1992
Batztoutai With Material Gadgets ◄ (5 versions)   RRRecords 1993
Continuum (LP, Ltd)   Cheeses International 1993
Deus Irae (CD)   Nux Organization 1993
Metalvelodrome (Exposition Of Electro-Vivisection) (4xCD, Album, Ltd + Box)   Alchemy Records (2) 1993
Neo Orgasm (7", Blu)   Vertical (2) 1993
Nil Vagina For Mice (7")   Banned Production 1993
Rod Drug 93 (7")   The Way Out Sound 1993
Sleeper Awakes On The Edge Of The Abyss (CD)   Streamline 1993
Sniper (Cass, C60)   Banned Production 1993
Electroploitation (7")   Lunhare 1994
Flare Gun (12", Ltd)   Ten Bob Swerver 1994
Hole (CD, Ltd)   Heel Stone Records 1994
Music For The Dead Man 2: Return Of The Dead Man (7", Ora)   Robot Records 1994
Music From Man With No Name (7")   Fusetron, Stuart Records 1994
Noisembryo (CD, Album)   The Releasing Eskimo 1994
Split (7", Ltd)   Deadline Recordings 1994
The Science Of Dissecting Society (LP, Ltd)   Praxis Dr. Bearmann 1994
Untitled (7", S/Sided)   The Way Out Sound 1994
Venereology (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Release Entertainment ... 1994
White Blues (7")   Self Abuse Records 1994
Brisbane-Tokyo Interlace (CD, Ltd)   Cold Spring 1995
Coruscanto (Cass)   Nekoisis 1995
Dadarottenvator (LP, Ltd, Gre)   Praxis Dr. Bearmann 1995
Electroknots (7", Pic, Ltd)   Cold Spring, Dirter Promotions 1995
Green Wheels (CD + 5")   Self Abuse Records 1995
Horn Of The Goat (CD)   Freek Records 1995
Magnesia Nova (CD)   Staalplaat, Perverse Series 1995
Noizhead (CD, Ltd)   Blast First 1995
Pinkream (2x10")   Dirter Promotions 1995
Rectal Grinder EP (7", EP, Blu)   Mangrove 1995
Wakantanka / Aboriginie of Anniversary 50 Years After War (7", Ltd)   Syntactic 1995
Whizzerbait (7")   Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, Oska 1995
Age Of 369 / Chant 2 (2xCD)   Extreme 1996
Akasha Gulva (CD, Ltd)   Alien8 Recordings 1996
Arctic Twilight / Anthem Of The Sun (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Dirter Promotions 1996
Destructible Foundation / Drain ◄ (2 versions)   Self Abuse Records ... 1996
Electric Salad (CD)   Etherworld 1996
Live At 20000v, 30 Sep 1995 (12", S/Sided, Red)   Blackbean And Placenta Tape Club 1996
Live In Chemnitz, 04.04.1996 (CDr, Ltd)   Not On Label 1996
Live July 5th, 1995 (VHS)   Selektion 1996
Mercurated (CD, Album)   Alchemy Records (2) 1996
Merzbow Loves Emil Beaulieau (CD)   Pure (4) 1996
Merzbow Plays Smegma Plays Merzbow (LP, Pic)   Tim/Kerr Records 1996
Music For Bondage Performance 2 (CD)   Extreme 1996
Oersted (CD, Album, Dig)   Vinyl Communications 1996
Project Frequency (LP, Ltd)   AIPR 1996
Pulse Demon (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Release Entertainment 1996
Rainbow Electronics 2 (CD)   Dexter's Cigar 1996
Seven Inches Inside Vagina (7", Red)   Stinky Horse Fuck 1996
Smegma Plays Merzbow (CD, Album)   Tim/Kerr Records, PolyGram 1996
Spiral Honey (CD)   Work In Progress 1996
Split (7", EP, Ltd, Red)   Jazzassin Records 1996
Split (7", Ltd, Gre)   Gentle Giant Records 1996
Voice Pie ◄ (2 versions)   Release Entertainment 1996
Ejaculation Generater 2 / ? / Emission (CD, Mini)   Blast First 1997
Hybrid Noisebloom (CD, Album)   Vinyl Communications 1997
Merzbow Mixed Total (Cass, Ltd)   Sterilized Decay 1997
Merzbox Sampler (CD, Smplr)   Extreme 1997
Milanese Bestiality / Drunk On Decay (LP, Ltd, Yel)   Old Europa Cafe 1997
Pinkream (CD, Album, RE)   Dirter Promotions 1997
Project Frequency (2xLP, TP, MP + Box, Ltd)   AIPR 1997
Psychorazer (CD)   Kubitsuri Tapes 1997
Rectal Anarchy (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Release Entertainment 1997
Red 2 Eyes (10", Red)   V2_Archief 1997
Scumtron (Comp) ◄ (2 versions)   Blast First ... 1997
Soft / Lärm, Hitze Und Faulige Gerüche (10", Ltd, Whi)   Dreizehn 1997
Space Metalizer (CD)   Alien8 Recordings 1997
Tint (CD, Maxi)   Vinyl Communications 1997
1930 (CD, Album)   Tzadik 1998
Aqua Necromancer (CD, Album)   Alien8 Recordings 1998
Balance (CD)   Human Wrechords 1998
Maschinenstil (CD)   dualpLOVER 1998
Mort Aux Vaches: Locomotive Breath (CD, Album, Ltd)   Mort Aux Vaches 1998
New Takamagahara (CD)   [OHM] Records, Jazzassin Records 1998
Tauromachine (CD, Album)   Release Entertainment 1998
Vibractance (CD)   E(r)ostrate 1998
A Perfect Pain (CD)   Cold Spring 1999
Blues Maggots (CDr)   ZSF Produkt 1999
Collapse 12 Floors (CD)   [OHM] Records 1999
Door Open At 8 AM (CD)   Alien8 Recordings 1999
Happenings 1000 Years Time Ago ◄ (2 versions)   iDEAL Recordings 1999
Music For Man With No Name (CD)   Blackbean And Placenta Tape Club 1999
Paradise Pachinko (CDr, Ltd)   Tochnit Aleph 1999
Split Series #4 ◄ (2 versions)   FatCat Records 1999
Subsidia Pataphysica (10", Ltd)   Manifold Records 1999
Tentacle (CD, Album)   Alchemy Records (2) 1999
Untitled (CD)   Fistfight Records, Counterattack Experimental Arts 1999
Decomposition (2xCD)   Extreme 2000
Live At Radio 100 (CD)   ERS 2000
Merzbox (50xCD + 2xCD-ROM + Box, Ltd)   Extreme 2000
Necro 2000 / Reality Is Much Worse (7", Ltd)   Klanggalerie 2000
Crash Of The Titans (CD, Ltd)   Merciless Core Records, Napalmed 2001
Dharma (CD, Album, Dig)   Double H Noise Industries, Hydra Head Records 2001
Frog (LP, Ltd, Gat)   Misanthropic Agenda 2001
Hard Lovin' Man (CD)   Anoema Recordings 2001
Hummingbird (7", Ltd, Tra)   L.S.D. Organisation 2001
Jazzkammer vs. Merzbow (CDr, Ltd)   Brumm 2001
Live At Molde International Jazz Festival (CD, Album)   Smalltown Supersound 2001
Puroland (CD)   [OHM] Records 2001
Split (CD)   Tigerbeat6 2001
24 Hours - A Day Of Seals (4xCD + Box)   Dirter Promotions 2002
A Taste Of (CD)   Mego 2002
Amlux (CD, Album)   Important Records (2) 2002
Fantail (CD)   Clu Clux Clam 2002
Frog+ (2xCD, RE, Enh)   Misanthropic Agenda 2002
INTO111115&111521849 / Mode For Value & Intention (12")   Cross Fade Enter Tainment (CFET) 2002
Ikebukuro Dada (CD)   Circumvent Recordings 2002
Megatone (CD)   Inoxia Records 2002
Merzbeat (CD, Album)   Important Records (2) 2002
Merzzow (CD)   Opposite Records 2002
Switching Rethorics (CD)   Bisect Bleep Industries 2002
Animal Magnetism (CD, Album)   Alien8 Recordings 2003
Cycle (CD, Album, Dig)   Very Friendly 2003
Frog: Remixed & Revisited (2xCD)   Misanthropic Agenda 2003
Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused And Recycled (Comp) ◄ (2 versions)   Important Records (2) 2003
Live CBGB's NYC 1998 (CD, Ltd)   Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) 2003
Live Magnetism (CD)   Caminante Recordings 2003
Routemaster Remix Project Live DVD (2xDVD)   Crystal Eye 2003
SCSI Duck (CD)   Fourth Dimension Records 2003
Timehunter ◄ (2 versions)   Ant-Zen 2003
V (CD, Album)   Les Disques Victo 2003
1633 (12")   En/Of 2004
Electro Magnetic Unit (CD)   ¿Los Apson? 2004
Last Of Analog Sessions (3xCD)   Important Records (2) 2004
Merzbird (CD, Dig)   Important Records (2) 2004
Mini Cycle / Yoshino Tamago / Yonos Bigfoot (CD, Mini)   [OHM] Records 2004
Offering (CD, Ltd)   Tantric Harmonies 2004
Oumagatoki (10")   Hypnagogia 2004
Partikel (CD, Album)   Cold Spring 2004
Rondo / 7Phases / Blowback (CD)   Sub Rosa 2004
Sha Mo 3000 (CD, Album, Ltd, Dig)   Essence Music 2004
Sha Mo 3000 (CD, Album, Dig + CDr, Mini + Box, Ltd)   Essence Music 2004
Tamago (CD, Ltd)   Plan-DX17 2004
The Ten Feet Square Hut (CD)   Hypnagogia 2004
Yoshinotsune (CD, Album, Ltd)   Clu Clux Clam 2004
04092001 (LP, Ltd)   Inoxia Records 2005
Bariken (CD, Ltd)   Blossoming Noise 2005
Dust Of Dreams (CD)   Thisco 2005
Early Computer Works / Scene (2xCD + Box, Ltd)   Waystyx 2005
Free Piano (7", Pic, Ltd)   Misanthropic Agenda, Helicopter 2005
Houjoue (6xCD + Box, Ltd)   Dirter Promotions 2005
Live In Geneva (CD)   [walnut + locust] 2005
Merzbuddha (CD, Album)   Important Records (2) 2005
Merzbuta (CD, Album)   Important Records (2) 2005
Multiplication (CD, Dig)   Misanthropic Agenda 2005
Rattus Rattus (CD)   Scarcelight Recordings 2005
Scene (CD, Ltd)   Waystyx 2005
Senmaida (CD, Ltd)   Blossoming Noise 2005
Sphere (CD)   Tzadik 2005
Sun Baked Snow Cave (CD, Album)   Hydra Head Records, Double H Noise Industries 2005
Tranz (CD)   Caminante Recordings 2005
Black Bone Part 5 (CD, Mini)   Blossoming Noise 2006
Bloody Sea (CD)   Vivo 2006
F.I.D. (2xCD)   Fourth Dimension Records 2006
Merzbow & The Haters (CD, RE)   Banned Production 2006
Merzbow vs. Tamarin (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Artificial Music Machine 2006
Merzdub (CD)   Caminante Recordings 2006
Metamorphism (CD, Ltd)   Very Friendly 2006
Minazo Volume 1 (CD)   Important Records (2) 2006
Minazo Volume 2 (LP, Ltd, Gre)   Important Records (2) 2006
Turmeric (4xCD)   Blossoming Noise 2006
Turmeric (Artist Edition) (4xCD + CD, Mini + Box)   Blossoming Noise 2006
Coma Berenices (CD, Album, Dig)   Vivo 2007
Electric Dress (CD)   No Fun Productions 2007
Higanbana (CD, Album)   Vivo 2007
Live Destruction At No Fun 2007 (CD)   No Fun Productions 2007
Merzbear (CD, Album)   Important Records (2) 2007
Partikel II (CD, Album, Dig)   Cold Spring 2007
Peace For Animals (CD, Album, Ltd, Dig)   Quasi Pop Records 2007
Rock Dream (Album) ◄ (6 versions)   Diwphalanx Records ... 2007
Synth Destruction (CD)   Important Records (2) 2007
Walrus / Groon (12", EP, Ltd, Gat)   Double H Noise Industries, Hydra Head Records 2007
Zophorus (CD)   Blossoming Noise 2007
...And The Devil Makes Three. (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Truth Cult 2008
Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth (CD, Album)   Sonic Youth Records 2008
Anicca (CD, Album)   Cold Spring 2008
Arijigoku (CD, Album)   Vivo 2008
Dead Leaves (Box, Ltd + CD, Ltd, Dig)   Licht-ung 2008
Dead Leaves (CD, Album, Dig)   Punk Kein Rock 2008
Dolphin Sonar (CD)   Important Records (2) 2008
Eucalypse (CD, Album + Box, Ltd)   Soleilmoon Recordings 2008
Here (CD, Album, Ltd, Dig)   L. White Records 2008
Hodosan (CD, Album, Car)   Vivo 2008
Keio Line ◄ (2 versions)   Cuneiform Records ... 2008
Protean World ◄ (2 versions)   Noiseville 2008
Split (CD, Ltd)   Cold Spring 2008
The Celebration Of The Lizard / March Of The Myriapoda (LP, Pic, Ltd)   Dirter Promotions 2008
Tombo (CD, Album, Dig)   Fellacoustic Records 2008
Camouflage (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Essence Music 2009
Don't Steal My Goat (CD, Album)   No Music Records, Olmolungring 2009
Fukuro: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 2 (CD, Album, Ltd)   Important Records (2) 2009
Hiranya (LP, Ltd)   Noiseville 2009
Kamo: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 6 (CD, Album, Ltd)   Important Records (2) 2009
Karasu: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 4 (CD, Album, Ltd)   Important Records (2) 2009
Somei... (CD)   Low Impedance Recordings 2009
Suzume: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 1 (CD, Album, Ltd)   Important Records (2) 2009
Tempi / Matatabi (2x7", Ltd)   Dot Dot Dot Music 2009
Uzura: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 5 (CD, Album, Ltd)   Important Records (2) 2009
Yurikamome: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 3 (CD, Album, Ltd)   Important Records (2) 2009
Live Performance (Cass)   ZSF Produkt  
Remixes:
Root (5x12", Ltd + Box) National Enhancer Lo Recordings 1998
Root ◄ (2 versions) Untitled Lo Recordings 1998
Bit Sand Riders ◄ (2 versions) Gloop (Merzbow Remix) Mille Plateaux 2000
Conquest : Writhe (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Decomposed Prank ... 2001
Rolex (CD, Album) CHK Error Remix Smalltown Supersound 2002
1993-2003: 1st Decade In The Machines (CD, Album, Promo, Car) Wow Me Ibrzu Jester Records 2003
Dogma V: Decomposing Dogma (12") Janik Top II / Angel C... Lady Godiva Operations 2004
PCP Torpedo / ANbRX (Minimax + CD, Album) Untitled (Agorzbow Mer... Hydra Head Records, Double H Noise Industries 2006
Hands Off Our Music (2x7") Cold World Vs Merzbow Short Fuse Records 2008
Merzbannon (Vinyl) Satan's Kickin' Yr Dic... Tizona 2009
Musik Wird Überflüssig - The Freemixes (CD) Hürens Jung (Remix) Human Wrechords  
Mix:
The Same Thing Makes Always Her Laugh (LP)   ZSF Produkt 1990
Appears On:
Distruct (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Les Honteuses Alliances Selektion ... 1984
Slicktrickflick (Cass, S/Sided, C60)   ZH27 1987
The Impossible Humane (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Selektion ... 1987
PsychicRally No.3 18/5/1989 (Cass, Mixed, C60)   Psychic Rally 1989
3-90 (Cass, Mixed, C60)   Psychic Rally 1990
History Is What Was (LP) MMMMMM IF Records (3) 1990
Interaction ◄ (2 versions)   Industrial Therapy Unit ... 1990
Stuhlgangblockade N! (LP)   Schimpfluch 1990
All Or Nothing (7")   RRRecords 1993
Macbeth (CD, Album)   SSE Communications 1993
Split (CD, Mini) Alles V2_Archief, Korm Plastics 1993
Three Projects (Bruitiste - Captured Music - Fifty) (CDr)   RRRecords 1993
Mail-Music (Cass, Mixed, C90) Untitled Psychic Rally 1994
Verder (CD) All Set To Go Harsh Dept. Productions 1994
Der Gefaßte Raum (Cass)   Not On Label 1995
Upside Down (CD) Rate Mille Plateaux 1998
Gift (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Omisoshilu (Miso Soup) Geist Records ... 2000
The Meat And Bread Variations (CD, Mini) Seekh Kebab And Nan leohtan 2001
No Games No Fun (CD, Album, Dig) Rockets Against Stones Fatal Recordings 2003
Soun - An Anonymous And Random Compilation / Composition (7", S/Sided, Ltd) Soun Gameboy Records 2003
Epitaph For John (CD) Threnody Korm Plastics 2005
Kommerz - Merzbow In The Hands Of Origami Replika (CD)   Segerhuva 2005
Sirocco (CD)   Important Records (2) 2005
Rough Music: The Hands To Library (DVDr, DVD-D + CDr, CD-ROM)   AARC 2006
Sixteen Years Of Video Material - Special Limited Deluxe DVD Edition (2xDVD-V, Ltd + CD, Ltd, Dig) Live At Fuji Rock Fest... Eat Your Heart Out, Monitorpop Entertainment, Monitorpop Entertainment 2008
Tracks Appear On:
Foam (Awa) (2xLP, Comp, Ltd) Envois 216 Ylem Records 1981
40 Days / 40 Nights (LP, Pic) Envoise 1-83 Stratosphere Music 1983
Anthems (LP, Comp) Kimigayo Trax 1983
Anthems 2 (Cass, Album) Kimigayo Trax 1983
Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 3 (Cass) Envois # 4 (Excerpt), ... Insane Music 1983
Paris Tokyo (Cass) Awa Dance, Hannya - Ha... Tago Mago 1983
Sensationnel No. 1 (Cass, Comp, Ltd) Envoise 24882 Illusion Production 1983
Assemblée Générale 4 (Cass) Envoice 14/7/83 Ptôse Production Présente 1984
FE Tape (2xCass, C90) Der-Dom FE Tape 1984
Home-Made Music For Home-Made People Vol. 2: "Bloody But Chic" (Cass) D.D.T. Insane Music 1984
Katacombe Vol. 4 ◄ (2 versions) Untitled, Untitled Schrei Records ... 1984
Rising From The Red Sand (Volume Five) (Cass, C60) Envoise Third Mind Records 1984
Sex & Bestiality (4xCass, Comp, Ltd) ZSF Product Bain Total 1984
Sex & Bestiality (Cass, Comp) ZSF Product Bain Total 1984
Sexorama 1 (Cass, Comp, C90) Amaroxes ZSF Produkt 1984
Sexorama 2 (Cass, C90) Rape Insects ZSF Produkt 1984
Three Minute Symphony (2xLP) Xa-Bungle X Tract 1984
6x10=60 Vol. 1 (Comp, Album) ◄ (4 versions) Itomakiei Korm Plastics ... 1985
Dry Lungs (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Vermin With Carcass Placebo Records 1985
Einsamkeit Als Mensch (Cass) Akasa, Tana Technological Feeling 1985
L'Enfer Est Intime Volume 2 (2xLP, Comp, Ltd) White Pricks VP 231 1985
Musica Venenæ: Industrial Culture Music Volume 1 (Cass, Comp, C60) Totetsu Pattern Inner-X-Musick 1985
Out Of Context (Cass) Re-Mark Banned Production 1985
Sexorama Vol.3 (2xCass, Ltd) 4th Innocent Victim, M... ZSF Produkt 1985
The Way Of The Sacred (Cass, Ltd) Egyptian Ghost Inner-X-Musick 1985
Best Text Of Japan (Cass, C90) Smichion, Venoayasama,... Cause And Effect 1986
Caustic Showers (Cass) Fushimi-Bongo Caustic Tapes 1986
Helter Skelter (Cass, C30) Untitled Beast 666 Tapes 1986
Intrendent International 2 - 1 (Cass, C90) So Small Atropin MAM-Aufnahme, Ffm 1986
Necronomicon 3 (Cass, Comp, C90) New Wakamatzu Necronomicon 1986
Power Electronics (Cass) Gamma-Titan Tellus 1986
Sexorama Vol.4 (Cass, C60) Kangun No Uta ZSF Produkt 1986
Bad Alchemy Nr 7 (Cass) Truk for Microphysic Bad Alchemy 1987
Die Schönste Musik Of Japan Vol. 1 (Cass, Comp, C60) Separation Geschmack Records 1987
Infera Sinfonia (Cass, C60) Susanou (Devil Of The ... Bruno Cossano Corporation 1987
Journey Into Pain (Comp) ◄ (3 versions) Invisible Tatara (Extr... Beast 666 Tapes ... 1987
Korm Merz (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Anna Blume '87 Korm Plastics 1987
There Is No God And He Is Your Creator (Cass) Nirvana For The Seven ... GGE Records 1987
Angelic Tecnology 1 (2xCass) Environmental Pecrssio... Angakok 1988
Durchschnittsanfall 3/4 (2xCass) Message From Milton Me... Prion 1988
Heroes To Ecstacy (Cass, Comp, C90) Corpus/Economie, Dead ... Strength Through Awareness 1988
Massaconfvsa (Cass, Comp, S/Sided) Everywhere It's Machin... O. Crow 1988
Ne (Cass) De-Soundtrack No. 1 Banned Production 1988
The Call Of Madonna Luisa Ciccone (Cass, C90) An Man Do A/I/I/P 1988
Transmission (Cass) Untitled Tonspur Tapes 1988
Trans•Gressed•Body (Cass, Comp) Little Boy '85, Economy 2 Corrosive Tapes 1988
Zondig (LP, Ltd, Comp) Fission/Dialogue Midas Music 1988
Acrid Acme (Of) P16.D4 (CD, Album) Zur Genese Der Halbbil... Selektion 1989
Lapse From Virtue (Cass, Comp, C60) Swap No-1 Sound Of Pig 1989
Motop 1 (LP, Ltd, Comp) Untitled IF Records (3) 1989
Neue Muster Volume 5+6 (2xCass, Ltd, Comp, 2xC) Itch Tonspur Tapes 1989
The Best Of Tonspur Tapes (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Untitled Echtzeit ... 1989
Voices In A Dark Room (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Live 19/6/88 Honeymoon Production ... 1989
Your Biggest Problem Is Behind You (7") Scratchin' S.C.U.M. / ... RRRecords, Tedium House Publications 1989
0607131089 (Cass, Ltd, C60 + Cass, Ltd, C90) Untitled Sounds For Consciousness Rape 1990
Enkele Gemotiveerde Produktiemedewerkers (Cass, Ltd, C10) Libido/Economy Midas Music 1990
I'm Stupid (Cass, S/Sided, C30) Great Masturbator Beast 666 Tapes 1990
Mumbo Jumbo (Cass, Comp, C40) Untitled 15989 SSSM 1990
Utilities (An Album Of Collaborations) ◄ (2 versions) MMMMM 2 Petri Supply ... 1990
Altered States Of Consciousness (CD, Comp) HGL Made A Race For Th... UPD Organization 1991
Antebellum Vol. 3 (Cass, Ltd, C90) Untitled, April 1991 Antebellum 1991
I'm Stupid (Cass, Ltd, S/Sided, C60) Untitled Vanilla Records 1991
Motop 2 (CD) Speedback Variation Nr... IF Records (3) 1991
Ohrenschmalz (LP, Ltd) No 3-10 Max Unclean Production 1991
Sociometric Test (Cass, Comp, C60) Heap-On The Move SSSM 1991
Tawamure - Come Again (3xAcetate, 7", Comp, Ltd) One Minutes From Big H... Vanilla Records 1991
X-X Section (CD) Hiturbo No. 4 Extreme 1991
Atomic Zen (2xCass) Onorikomorico Dedali Opera 1992
CD Voor De Instabiele Media (CD) V2 Live (Excerpt) V2_Archief 1992
Dry Lungs V ◄ (2 versions) Man-Plug Subterranean Records ... 1992
Eartv (Cass, Comp, C60) No. 28 TapesOfPeaceInTimeOfWar 1992
Melt (CD) Suzunne Erica Is Sunoh... Work In Progress 1992
Neue Muster Volume 8+9 (2xCass, Ltd + Box) Speedback Variation Nr... Tonspur Tapes 1992
Noise Forest (CD, Comp) Travelling Les Disques Du Soleil 1992
Oh! Moro 5 (VHS, PAL, Comp) Live In Kong-Tu, Korea... Kansai New Art Video Magazine 1992
Sexorama (5xCass) Amaroxes, Rape Insects... Statutory Tape 1992
World Record (CD) Elysia, Valley Of The ... Alchemy Records (2) 1992
Come Again II (CD) Super Head Furnace 1993
Extreme Music 1993 (Cass, Smplr) Music For Bondage Perf... Extreme 1993
Kingdom Of Noise (VHS) Piss For Yves Klein Endorphine Factory 1993
Land Of The Rising Noise (CD) Moon Over The Bwana A Charnel Music 1993
Neo Noise Punishment (Cass, Comp) True Romance Soundtrac... Kubitsuri Tapes 1993
Of Sound Mind (Cass, C90) Sub-Urban Godsend Magazine 1993
RRR-100 (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Untitled RRRecords 1993
Redemption Vol. 1 1986 - 1993 (Cass, C60) NRT Zero Cabal 1993
Stinky Horse Fuckers (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Death Acid When Sex Wa... Stinky Horse Fuck 1993
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (CD) Phillo-Jazz Electronica Fool's Paradise 1994
Cataclastic Fracture (A Noise Collection) (CD, Comp) Twisted Damiano Deadline Recordings, Lazy Squid 1994
Eternal Blue Extreme: An Asian Tribute To Derek Jarman (CD) Marfan Syndrome For Blue Somnus 1994
Extreme Music From Japan (CD) Glass, 20 Susan Lawly 1994
Mi Caballito Chulo....!Como Lo Quie Ro..... (CD, Comp) Rider In Malaysian Pale ¿Los Apson? 1994
Ne Shi (2xCass + Box) Ram Me, Ream Me, You L... Banned Production 1994
Noise War (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Brain Ticket Saison Mother Savage Noise Productions ... 1994
Sweet Music (Cass) Slave New Dessert Self Abuse Records 1994
Violent Ambient (Cass, C90) Twisted Damiano 2 Chocolate Monk 1994
Wohlstand (CD) Ooga Booga Human Wrechords 1994
Che Trading Limited Presents... (2x7") Iro Moyo Ché Trading 1995
Entertainment Through Pain: A Tribute To Throbbing Gristle (CD) Tiab Guls RRRecords 1995
Good Alchemy Video ◄ (2 versions) Live At East Gallery T... Alchemy Records (2) ... 1995
Indiscreet Stereo Test Record (CD, Comp) Elephants Memory Discreet/Indiscreet, Discreet/Indiscreet 1995
No Machine Is Silent (2xCass) Phyllo-Noisegrams Realization Recordings 1995
Organismus 3 - The Final Compilation (Cass, Ltd) Last Splash Escape 3 Organisation 1995
Release Your Mind (CD, Comp) Crack Groove Release Entertainment 1995
The Japanese / American Noise Treaty (2xCD) Snowblind Release Entertainment 1995
Traces Of Death III Dead And Buried (CD, Album, Comp) I Lead You Towards Glo... Relapse Records 1995
Yen For Noise (CD) Live In Tokyo, Live In... Scratch Records 1995
A Fault In The Nothing (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Sound Check For Doushi... Ash International 1996
An Evening Of Serious Noise (2xCass) Untitled Statutory Tape 1996
Disco Sucks ◄ (2 versions) Iro Moyo Ché Trading 1996
Dissolve A Work In Progress Compilation (CD, Comp) Suzunne Erica Is Sunoh... Fused Coil 1996
Lily's S'ghetti Factory (LP, TP) Centipede Blackbean And Placenta Tape Club 1996
Mimikaki (CD) Talipes Kuwagata Records 1996
Music Should Hurt (CD) Pretties For You Self Abuse Records 1996
The Christmas Album (CD, Comp, Promo) Silent Night Sony Records 1996
Tinker Compilation (CD, Comp) Iro Moyo 2 Tinker Recordings 1996
Alt. Noise (CD) Morbid Angelfish Switch Records Canada 1997
Burn TV (Cass, Mixed) Moon Over Bwana A, Ele... Robotnics Crossing Productions 1997
Conception (CD) Yahowa Stackridge AVA/ES1 1997
Four Years In 30 Seconds (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Hummingbird Dirter Promotions 1997
Ocean Of Sound 4: Guitars On Mars (2xCD) Eat Beat Eat #2 Virgin 1997
Screw (2xCD) Untitled Entartete Kunst Records 1997
Tulpas (5xCD, Album) Kleine Blaue Hybriden Selektion 1997
Untitled (Ten) (CD, Comp + CD, Mixed) Decomposition 002.1.1 Extreme 1997
We Hate You: A Small Tribute to Throbbing Gristle (CD + 7") Trade Deficit, Techno ... Jazzassin Records 1997
Disco-Mortem ◄ (2 versions) The Amazing Maya Hiromi The Releasing Eskimo 1998
Eat Shit And Die (Cass) Sixteen O Sixty Three Not On Label 1998
Freak Animal #11 (CD) Landing On Audio Freak Animal Records 1998
MIT#01 (CD, Comp + Box) Song for Fandango Sordide Sentimental 1998
Root (5x12", Ltd + Box) National Enhancer Lo Recordings 1998
Unequalibrium (CD) The Mouse Of Superconc... Vinyl Communications 1998
Coalescence (CD, Comp) Redskin Alien8 Recordings 1999
Fabulous Shit (CD) National Enhancer Lo Recordings 1999
Luther Blissett - The Open Pop Star (CD) Floating Eloy + You Li... Wot 4 Records 1999
Revolution Action Japan Tour 1999 EP (CD, Maxi, Enh) Live At CBGB's New Yor... Beat Records 1999
Sadomachinism (CD, Comp, Ltd) Fireball Misanthropic Agenda 1999
Split Series 1 - 8 (CD) Ab Hunter FatCat Records 1999
Turntable Solos (CD, Comp) Batztoutai - The Night... Amoebic 1999
Avanto-00 (CD) Routemaster Avanto Recordings 2000
Immersion (DVD) 2000 Starkland Recordings 2000
Lockers (12") Untitled, Untitled, Un... ERS 2000
Masters Of Japanese Electronic Music (CD) 83mb Far East Experimental Sounds 2000
Non Stop Noise Party (The Death Of Rock’n’Roll) (CDr) Motorond Hond In De Goot 2000
Sneak Preview Volume Four (CDr) Excerpt from "Live At ... Staalplaat 2000
Sonar 2000 (4xCD) Autopussy Go Nogo So Dens 2000
Tokyo EP (2x7", EP) Gateway To Itabashi Plastic Cowboy 2000
愛欲人民二十一世紀 (CD) Cannon Balls 2 Alchemy Records (2) 2000
Geist Sampler 1 (CD, Comp, Promo) Omisoshiru Geist Records 2001
One Word One Sound (CD, Album, Comp) Waiting - Papier Welle... Intermedium Records 2001
Rewriting The Book ◄ (2 versions) Book Of Sunday Elsie & Jack Recordings 2001
Scanning Of Modulations (VHS, NTSC) Condition #1 Uplink Records 2001
State Of The Union 2.001 (3xCD, Album, Comp) Cannon Balls Electronic Music Foundation 2001
The Way Out Sound - Catalog Of Singles (CD) Self Titled, Electroni... The Way Out Sound 2001
10時間 / Ju-Jikan: 10 Hours Of Sound From Japan (2xCD, Album, Comp) Electric For ICC, Turn 23five, San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art 2002
Deprogramming Music Volume One (CD) Bamboo Honey Sacred Noise 2002
Fals.ch 02 (CD, Mini) Flyingsushi_x Falsch 2002
Inflation (*0 "0.000" Remix) (2xCD, Album) 0.000 Remix Mu Label 2002
Japanese Avant-Garde (CD) Lux Automobile (Krokod... Sub Rosa 2002
Misanthropic Agenda Sampler Fall '02 (CDr) Hikigaeru Ga Kuru Misanthropic Agenda 2002
Nanoloop 1.0 (CD) Untitled Disco Bruit 2002
Persepolis + Remixes. Edition 1 (2xCD) Untitled Asphodel 2002
The Void (CD, Comp, Ltd) Into The Void [Black S... Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu 2002
Zeitkratzer - Noise \ ... [Lärm] (CD) Crack Groove, Yahowa S... Tourette 2002
1993-2003: 1st Decade In The Machines (CD) Wow Me Ibrzu Jester Records 2003
60 Sound Artists Protest The War (CD, Comp) Untitled Peace Atak 2003
Ctrl Alt Del (CD) Door No.2 Nomad 2003
Das Dreidimensionale Möbiusband (2xCD + CD-ROM, Mini) Earth Nazareth Flying Swimming 2003
Elegy Sampler 30 (CD, Smplr) The Destroyer And Merzbow Elegy 2003
Frequencies [Hz] (CD, Comp, Ltd) Untitled Raster-Noton 2003
Jpech (DVD) Untitled Jpech 2003
Ponder This (CD, Comp) Pier 39 Submergence Music 2003
The Laptop And Electronic Music (CD, Comp) Rondo Contemporary Music Review 2003
2x5" (5" + CDr) Baliken (Vers. 01) Punk Kein Rock 2004
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Third A-Chronology 1952-2004 (2xCD) Birds And Warhorse Sub Rosa 2004
Cro-Monolithic Remixes For An Iron Age (12", EP, Ltd) Catch 22 (Surrender Or... Southern Lord 2004
HHR Vs 2XH Vol 1 "Where Is My Robotic Boot?" (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Requiem Double H Noise Industries ... 2004
Rhythm Science: Excerpts And Allegories From The Sub Rosa Archives ◄ (2 versions) Lux Automobile (Krokod... Sub Rosa ... 2004
The End Of The Fear Of God (CD, Comp) Fear Of God Tochnit Aleph 2004
Alchemism - Alchemy Records 20th Anniversary Twin Best Collection (2xCD, Comp) Electric For ICC, Turn Imperial Records (Japan) 2005
Blank Field (CD, Comp) Untitled Alien8 Recordings 2005
En/Of 001-030 (3xCD) 1633a (Edit) En/Of 2005
Epitaph For John (CD) Untitled For John Korm Plastics 2005
Improvised Music From Japan 2005 (2xCD) Excerpt From Death Of ... Improvised Music From Japan 2005
Our Last Day (CD, Comp, DVD) The Inalienable Dreaml... Hydra Head Records 2005
Belly Of The Whale (CD) ? のはるか Important Records (2) 2006
Ne - The Anthology (2xCDr) De-Soundtrack No. 1, R... Banned Production 2006
Rough Music: The Hands To Library (DVDr, DVD-D + CDr, CD-ROM) Merzbow Transformed Ha... AARC 2006
Swarm (2xCD, Car) Partikel MN2 Cold Spring 2006
Viva Negativa! - A Tribute To The New Blockaders Volume II (4xLP, Comp + Box) Oumagatoki Part 3 Vinyl-on-demand 2006
Viva Negativa! - A Tribute To The New Blockaders Volume II (LP, Comp) Oumagatoki Part 3 Vinyl-on-demand 2006
Yokomono 03: 55 Lock Grooves (LP) Untitled Staalplaat 2006
3:Flight Of The Behemoth (2xCD, Album) O))) Bow 3, O))) Bow 4 Daymare Recordings 2007
Radio Interference From Unknown Orgasm (CD) September, 06 Somnimage 2007
Within The Church Of Thee Overlords II (CD) Flower, Sun, Rain Southern Lord 2007
Manifesto Rumorarmonico Post Futurista - Tributo A Luigi Russolo (2xLP, Ltd, Whi) Voices Of Animals Old Europa Cafe 2008
Paper & Plastic (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Habeus Corpus Suitcase 2008
Our Earth's Blood IV (5xCD, Album + Box) Killing Friends Cathartic Process 2009
Chooselife. (CDr, P/Mixed) Untitled System Corrupt  
Poltergeist IV (Cass) The Lampinak Dill Prod.  
Testament (VHS, Comp) WEBO, NYC RRRecords  
Trans-Action (Cass) Untitled / Razors Divided  
Unofficial Releases:
Antimonument (CD)   Art Directe 1991
Twenty Five (CDr, Mixed) Continuum Bruits De Fond 2001
Merzbow (1) (CD-ROM, MP3) RRR Loft, Lowell, MA, ... Домашняя Коллекция 2002
Live 2004 (CDr)   Not On Label 2004
Live Bootleg 20/04/2004 In ŠMC, Vilnius, Lithuania (File, MP3)   DATURA PORNO 2004
Pandemonium / Deep Sky (CDr, Ltd) Age Of 369 - Part 2 Noise Up North 2007
Updated Edition With A New Preface (File, MP3, 192) Green Rice Smell The Stench 2007
Rising From The Red Sand (5xCass) Envoise Statutory Tape  
Rising From The Red Sand 5 (Cass, Comp, C60) Envoise Statutory Tape  
User Reviews:
, Apr 01, 2005

The godfather of noise deserves his title. Powerfully emotional, violently painful, and strangly ambient, Merzbow seems to be the master of the noise genre. Sure his stuff might sound pretty annoying at times, but if you imagine his music to be a form of vibrational, hypnotic, sonic energy then his music/noise seems to take a new meaning. When you are in the dominion of Merzbow he will rip out your skull and replace it with a porcupine, so take caution and open your minds.

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