Talk:Masami Akita discography

and counting
it could be useful to have a counter of the known releases. or not? thanks User:130.159.248.222 ! ;) PedroCarvalho 23:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * There's approximately 320 releases there at the moment. I think I'll make some sort of counter after all the releases are filled in. Dadaesque (talk) 03:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The article should include (at some point) Template:Infobox Artist Discography, which has a count list in it. = ∫tc 5th Eye 20:31, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Electric Salad
hi, great article! but i have the impression that electric salad (etherworld,us version) was released in 1996 not on 1995. on musicbrainz it states that the japaneses version was in 1995-10-15. http://musicbrainz.org/release/9f6eb07d-ef81-4409-bc10-36a7ed88888f.html PedroCarvalho 11:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I have checked the cd, and you are correct. Moved to 1996. Thanks 130.159.248.222 16:47, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

thanks
Lugnuts: THANK YOU for finally making the article! Now everything's neat and tidy again! All we need now are some contributours to write all the album articles...
 * No probs. Hopefully this can become quite a comprehensive article.Lugnuts 12:33, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Given the number of people working on it and the potential for unlimited growth, it may even become the definitive discography (if it hasn't already). Wikipedia is finally living up to its potential! :D  MrBook 13:31, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Contents table
How's that looking now? The old (default) one was really bugging me as it was nearly as big as the article! I've turned it off and built one that links to each year instead. Hope that's OK with everyone, and it's just as easy to get to the collab/split sections within each year. Let me know what you think. Lugnuts 16:56, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Page clean-up
Here's some of what I did:
 * Removed OM Electrique as it was unreleased outside of the Merzbox.
 * Removed compilation appearances (including appearances on another artist's album, although I left the Sunn 0))) entry as it already had an article).
 * Moved non-Merzbow released to their own headings.
 * Added videos and missing albums.
 * Fixed various spellings and created links for future articles.
 * Fixed untitled splits (Originally they only had the Merzbow track in the title), two track splits have the track titles separated by a slash, I'm not sure what to do about multi-track splits.

There's still a lot left for us to do:
 * Create articles for the albums, artists, and labels.
 * Figure out what to do about compilation tracks, appearaces, and multi-track splits.
 * Better organize the list.

It's hard to find info about the early cassette releases online, so I'm not sure how correct some of it is.

The Merzbox reissues are -- from what I understand -- edited and remixed, so they should be kept on the Merzbox article or added under their own heading as on the Incomplete Merzbow Discography.

It's funny how I had originally intended only to fix a few misspellings, now days later I'm mentally exhausted. I think I'm done for awhile, at least I hope so. 72.24.31.10 23:42, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Great work. I got a lot of the early cassette info from the book in the Merzbox, but checked most of it with discogs and other sources. 130.159.248.222 11:02, 11 October 2006 (UTC)


 * as for compilations and splits i recommend you make a seperate section for them titled something like "Compilation and Split record appearances", in the following manner:
 * "Track_Title" on the compilation  (date)
 * "Track_Title", "Track_Title" and "Track_Title" on the split album  (date)
 * i also recommend you make a seperate section dedicated to collaborations, in order of date. i recommend you keep the Merzbow alias seperate, as you already have them. also maybe create a header "As Merzbow" like his other aliases have. everything else is pretty impressive, nice list guys!
 * AlexOvShaolin 16:01, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I Am the Walrus w/Boris
Has anyone got any more info on this? I remember reading about the upcoming release ages ago on another forum, but nothing since. Any planned release dates, etc? Cheers! Lugnuts 09:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Its supposed to be a vinyl only release 'Mellow Peak' on Troubleman unlimited (TMU-176) including a (rumoured?) cover of 'I am the Walrus' but I dont think there is a release date set as yet. I have moved the two entries in the discography to 'Forthcoming' and altered formats to match http://www.scarbox.net/dronevil/news/news.htm (27/11/06) but there may only be one record. I think Partikel II is shipping now, so have left that in 2007.Run Dna 15:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I had an update from Cold Spring saying they'd be shipping Partikel in the very near future. Lugnuts 15:46, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

album order?
i'm trying to create articles for some releases however i'm really starting to doubt how much in order the albums are, for example Live in Geneva is listed as being released in 2006 while the official site says 2005. i dont want to topple the order of releases but can somebody with knowledge please look the list over for order, when individual articles are created it seems crucial to have a release date to help the problem. -- Alex Ov  Shaolin  09:14, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I think it's safe to assume that if you can get a source from a Merzbow site on it's actual release, use that and move it to the correct part of this page. Maybe start with ones that you know are def. correct first.  Thanks for helping out! Lugnuts 12:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I'll check this through when I get time. It is probably my fault as I put some in with recording dates rather than release dates. Run Dna 11:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

list by date released
For some reason somebody listed OM Electrique in the 1979 section. If we start listing material by date recorded, there's going to be a lot of confusion. It wasnt released seperate from the Merzbox and it shouldnt be listed under 1979, if no one objects, i'm going to take it off this list. -- Alex Ov  Shaolin  04:47, 1 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks - I've updated it's article to reflect this. Lugnuts 08:31, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Merzbow vs 5ebuts
Merzbow vs 5ebuts - Destroy erase improve (Japan - Chile) (2006) Can someone confirm this is a release. Never heard of it and cant find it on google although 5ebuts is a (noise) band.Run Dna 14:19, 26 April 2007 (UTC). I have now removed this because I cant find anything about it anywhere Run Dna 11:40, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

splits + collabs moved to bottom
I think it was better when the split / collaboration releases where under separate headings by year, although I appreciate recent work by Dadaesque. I think its important to know the date and whether they were splits or collabs, as the collabs tend to be very different to splits and solo releases. What does everybody else think? Run Dna (talk) 14:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I agree with organising them better except I probably won't be doing much to this article in the near future.Dadaesque (talk) 20:12, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

I've put the dates on the split / collab releases and the merzbow null tapes. The splits are marked, but some are a bit tricky to categorise when its a split release but played at the same time like ladybird and struggle for pride Run Dna (talk) 14:30, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Live at I.C.O.N.E.
Does this even exist? I'm not sure since I've never seen it mentioned anywhere except for in the Merzbook discography. Does anyone know anything else about it?Dadaesque (talk) 09:56, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Massive reorganization of discography
Moved Metal Acoustic Music to the top, as it's officially considered the first Merzbow release. 

Added Batztoutai With Material Gadgets. It's a remixed version of the "Memorial Gadgets" material with different tracks, similar to Rainbow Electronics 1 & 2.

Added a few aliases.

Moved some releases to different years (per Discogs).

Moved collabs & splits back under year headings, the separate list was hard to read & way too long.

Added compilation tracks and guest appearances. Most info taken from Discogs.

Appearances are for releases where Merzbow isn't one of the main artists (i.e. not credited on the cover). Appearances credited only to "Masami Akita" without "Merzbow" go under the "As Masami Akita" heading.

Appearances and compilation lists are ugly & hard to read, maybe make each listing to two lines?

The "As Something" lists don't have separate headings for collabs, comps, etc. as they're short enough.

Added different issues to the releases. Many early cassettes were released by different labels at the same time. Those released on different formats by the same label in the same year are listed together, e.g. "(Some Label, CD/2xLP)", different format, different year; "(Some Label, CD, 19xx; 2xLP, 19xy)". Multiple formats in a single release like this: "(Some Label, CD+7")".

Compilation tracks taken from albums are not included, tracks that later appeared on albums are though. 96.18.16.17 (talk) 14:46, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Excellent - thats looking a lot better. Must have taken ages. Run Dna (talk) 10:56, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Move to "Masami Akita discography"?
I think this article should be moved to "Masami Akita discography". See Bryn Jones discography or Richard D. James discography. The Merzbow name makes up most of his discography, but his real name plus 15 additional aliases is also significant. 96.18.192.156 (talk) 05:20, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Removed unreleased Forthcoming.
I've removed some albums from Forthcoming that were announced years ago but haven't had any recent news. I've put them here for reference, plus some other unreleased works.


 * Mellow Peak with Boris (Troubleman Unlimited) Announced 2006.
 * Partikel III with Nordvargr (Cold Spring) Announced 2006 with Partikel II.
 * m[] with Kozo Inada. Announced 2005, but no new Inada release since 2007.
 * Five Times Fifteen comp. (Fourth Dimension Records) Announced 2006, now cancelled.

Other unreleased:
 * Scatologic Baroque (Hachiman Publishing) Circa 1996. Some material might have been used on Liquid City, not sure though.
 * Stone Age Science -- Circa 1996. Mentioned in Freak Animal interview. A track recorded during the Kobe earthquake appeared on Liquid City, but I don't know if anything else was used.
 * Song for Fandango (Sordinent Sentinental) Circa 1999. Mentioned on Digital Merzbow Page. Probably song on MIT#1 comp and not album.
 * Fall into Hell Chased by Ogres (Siyoku Satsu) Circa 2002. Merzbow's site at the time said it's from the Day of Seals sessions.
 * Twelveomatic project. Circa 2002. 12 artists would all contribute 1 minute, then each artist would use those 12 minutes to create a full album, only Daniel Menche's Sirocco came out.

Tracks: 96.18.192.156 (talk) 11:15, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * On split LP with Moz & Thurston Moore (Troniks) Circa 2000. Might be same as track on Merzzow.
 * On cover CD with Bad Taste nr 2 (3). Circa 2003. Mentioned on Merzbow's site, but doesn't seem to have been published.
 * Kid606 remix for Ikebana. Circa 2003. Important Records email list sent in March 2010 mentions this arrived too late to be used.
 * "Snail" on Sound Oasis comp. Circa 2005. Mentioned on Sound Oasis site.


 * Reading the Merzbook, I see that Scatologic Baroque was to be a CD+CD-ROM but was cancelled. In the Freak Animal interview Masami says Stone Age Science was to be the CD of the cancelled project, it finally came out as Liquid City on Merzbox, material for the CD-ROM was used for the book Anal Baroque. 96.18.192.156 (talk) 21:29, 6 May 2010 (UTC)