Aka Meme

Aka Meme
Studio album by Merzbow
Released	1984
Genre	Noise
Length	46:08
Label	V2_Archief and ZSF Produkt
Producer	Masami Akita
Merzbow chronology

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Aka Meme is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow.^[1] In 1996, it was deleted and replaced by Red 2 Eyes .^[2]

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asian continent and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea in the south.

Merzbow is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by Masami Akita. Merzbow is best known for a style of harsh, confrontational noise as exemplified on the 1996 release Pulse Demon. Since 1980, Akita has released over 400 recordings and has collaborated with various artists.

Deletion is a music industry term referring to the removal of a record or records from a label's official catalog, so that it is out of print, but usually at a record artist's request.

Track listing

All music composed by Merzbow.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Nimmappa"
2.	"Kundalini"
3.	"Mantra-Tendai"
4.	"Donjon"
5.	"Xesuede"

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Makinna"
2.	"Eruzule"
3.	"Aka"
4.	"Meme"
5.	"Kokamomo"

Personnel

Merzbow – composition, performance
Reiko Azuma – voice on "Nimmappa"
Piermario Ciani – recording on "Nimmappa"
Xerosx – synthesizer on "Mantra-Tendai"
Kiyoshi Mizutani – synthesizer on "Kokamono"

Notes

All recorded and mixed at Merzbau, except "Nimmappa" was recorded at Aterier de Montage, Udine, Italy, in April 1983

Udine is a city and comune in north-eastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps. Its population was 100,514 in 2012, 176,000 with the urban area.

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Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Netherlands	1984	V2_Archief	Cassette	V201
Japan	1984	ZSF Produkt		none
Netherlands	1990	V2_Archief		V201

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References

↑ "Merzbow - Aka Meme (Cassette)". Discogs . Retrieved October 28, 2012.
↑ "V225". V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media. Retrieved October 28, 2012.

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[1] "Merzbow - Aka Meme (Cassette)". Discogs . Retrieved October 28, 2012.

[2] "V225". V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media. Retrieved October 28, 2012.