This is a placeholder. Coming soon, biographical information about Masami Akita, Reiko-A, Bara, and others related to the Merzbow project. Masami Akita Born in 1956 in Tokyo, Japan. Drummed in rock bands and free jazz groups during the 1970s. Became disinterested in traditional music and began Merzbow project in 1980. More will go here, because so far that's not much of a bio, eh? Many prestigious record labels have released works by him; that Austrian laptop music label Mego, British "intelligent dance music" label Warp, American underground metal label Relapse, and John Zorn's Tzadik label have all put out full length Merzbow cds shows the broad appeal of Merzbow's brand of "harsh noise." Some artists who have been involved in Merzbow tributes, remix projects and collaborations: Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Autechre, Pan Sonic, Russell Haswell, Hrvatski, Fennesz, Pita, Sunn0))), Boris, Cornelius, Boredoms, Alec Empire, Discordance Axis, Meat Beat Manifesto, DJ Spooky, Negativland, Kim Cascone, Nobukazu Takemura, Elliot Smith, and many, many more.