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Kohei Matsunaga is a musician and illustrator, born in Osaka in 1978. He started drawing at an early age, and went on to study architecture at university. He has been actively making music since 1992, with notable releases on labels such as Raster Noton, Wordsound, Mille Plateaux, Skam Records and PAN. He has collaborated with many artists, including Mika Vainio, Sensational from the Jungle Brothers, Sean Booth from Autechre, Conrad Schnitzler, Merzbow and Asmus Tietchens. He lives in Osaka and Berlin.

ALBA


Ralf Wehowsky & Kouhei Matsunaga
Spuren & Gegenworte
2023, CD, Album, Sonoris
Kouhei Matsunaga
Panorama Walking With The Birds And The Water Decolative Sound Landscape
2019
NHK yx Koyxen / Kohei Matsunaga* & Masayuki Imanishi
Self Split EP
2018, 12", EP, Diagonal
Kouhei Matsunaga
Drawings
2013, 7", Boo, Fang Bomb
Asmus Tietchens / Kouhei Matsunaga
Asmus Tietchens / Kouhei Matsunaga
2011, ,
Experimental
Mika Vainio, Kouhei Matsunaga, Sean Booth
3. Telepathics Meh In-Sect Connection
2010, CD, Album, Important Records (2)
Kouhei Matsunaga
Self VA.
2010, CD, Album, Important Records (2), ,
Abstract/Experimental
Mika Vainio . Kouhei Matsunaga
Mika Vainio / Kouhei Matsunaga
2010
Astro _ Kouhei Matsunaga
China - Europe 2009
2009, CDr, Not On Label
Kouhei Matsunaga
China And Europe
2009, CDr, MiniAlbum, Not On Label
KOYXEИ*
e?
2009
Y-Ton-G / Asmus Tietchens / Kouhei Matsunaga
YAK
2007
Sensational Meets Kouhei*
Sensational Meets Kouhei
2006, CD, ,
Gangsta/Noise/Hip Hop/Industrial
Kouhei* / Ultimate Combat Noise
Noisejihad Live 29/10/2005
2005, File, MP3, Noisejihad Live
Kouhei Matsunaga
For Gemini And Back To Heian
2005, CD, Mini, Feld, Feld
Courtis*, Matsunaga*
Courtis_Matsunaga
2005, CD, Album, Prele
John Watermann / Kouhei Matsunaga
John Watermann / Kouhei Matsunaga
2004, CD, Hvexas Records
Kouhei Matsunaga
Complicated High Still Now...
2004, CDr, Ltd, Autarkeia
Kouhei Matsunaga / Niko Skorpio
Kouhei Matsunaga / Niko Skorpio
2004, CD, Album, Deserted Factory, ,
Noise/Experimental
Kouhei*
Time To Move With Glass
2003, Vinyl, ,
Abstract/Experimental/Noise
Kouhei* / Merzbow
INTO111115&111521849 (Forseeing Reaction Part 4 Tendo Yoshda) / Mode For Value And Intention
2002, 12", Cross Fade Enter Tainment, ,
Noise/Experimental
Rudolf Eb.er & Kouhei*
Die Gesänge Des Trotzkopf / Fall Out Of Glass With My Owl
2002, CD, PARA disc, ,
Abstract/Noise/Experimental
Natiho Toyota / Kouhei*
Natiho Toyota / Kouhei
2002, CDr, Album, Ltd, Num, Deserted Factory
Merzbow / Kouhei*
Merzbow / Kouhei
2001, CD, Album, Tigerbeat6, ,
Abstract/Noise
Kouhei Matsunaga
Doll Of Wood Speaks For Florist
2000, CDr, EP, Ltd, Strange Circus
Kouhei Matsunaga
Upside Down
1998, CD, Album, Mille Plateaux, ,
Abstract/Experimental
Kouhei Matsunaga
#1 Fish Or Woman Or
1997, CDr, EP, Ltd, Strange Circus
Kouhei Matsunaga
This Is Ship's Story
1997, CDr, EP, Ltd, Strange Circus, ,
Drone/Minimal/Experimental/Ambient
Kouhei Matsunaga
Snow
1997, CDr, EP, Ltd, Strange Circus, ,
Drone/Experimental/Minimal/Ambient
Watermann* / Kouhei*
Move Machine With Glass
CD, Gender-Less Kibbutz
NHKyx
Kasm 04
2025, 10", Ltd, Kasm
NHK yx Koyxen
Climb Downhill 2
2023, 2xLP, Album, Bruk Records
NHK
Special
2010, 12", Ltd, Num, Important Records (2)
NHK bs
For Summer 2010
2010
Sensational Meets Koyxeи
Sensational Meets Koyxeи
2010
NHK
Unununium
2008
Sensational
Natural Shine
2002, Vinyl, ,
Abstract/Experimental
NHKyx
yx aka 1ch aka Solo
2011
NHK
Program
2015, CD, Album, Ltd, LINE
De Fabriek
Sechs Jazzer Im Dreivierteltakt
2002, CDr, Album, Ltd, De Fabriek, ,
Experimental
De Fabriek
Waterring
2001
De Fabriek
Labische Intermediaries III - Sauerkraut Und Krötenschwanz
2001

KOMPILACE +


Strange Audio Dreams
Error Design
2015, Vinyl 180 gr., ,
Breaks/Ambient/Techno
Různí
Reconstruction Of Ruins - Government Alpha Remixed -
2007, CDr, Alienation
NHK yx Koyxen
Parallel Tempo EP
2018
Terepa
Terepa
2015, LP, Album, Ltd, Pic, Other People
NHK yx Koyxen
Jp Ep
2015, 12", EP, Episode (4)
Daniel Madlung
Infinity
2013, 12", EVAMORE MUSIC
NHK'Koyxeи
Dance Classics Vol.III
2013, LP, Pan (3)
NHK'Koyxeи
Dance Classics Vol.I
2012, LP, Pan (3), Pan (3)
NHK'Koyxeи
Dance Classics Vol. II
2012, LP, Pan (3)
SND / NHK
SND / NHK
2012, Vinyl White, ,
Glitch/Abstract/Techno/Minimal Techno
Bruital Orgasme
Bruital Orgasme
2011, 7", S/Sided, Ltd, W/Lbl, Cle, Hirntrust Grind Media, Dry Lungs Records
Jan van Hasselt
Skills / Faces
2010, DVD-V, Blossoming Noise, ,
Noise/Abstract/Drone/Ambient/Education/Experimental
NHK / Grischa Lichtenberger / AOKI Takamasa / Mika Vainio
Raster-Noton: Unun
2008, CDr, CD-ROM, Comp, Promo, S/Edition, Raster-Noton
RLW
The Pleasure Of Burning Down Churches
2007, CD, Album, Black Rose Recordings
Různí
6!!
2006, CDr, Comp, Tochnit Aleph
Kaaos In Eccentris / Liddikoatight & Leif Elggren
No-one Takes One Too Free / Trapezoid
2004, 7", Some Place Else, ,
Illbient/Noise/Experimental
Různí
Modulation & Transformation 4
1999, 3x CD, ,
Abstract/Experimental
Různí
Electric Ladyland 5 (Electric Soul For Rebels)
1998, 2x CD, ,
Illbient/Downtempo/Drum n Bass
Různí
Electric Ladyland VI
1998, 2x CD, ,
Illbient/Downtempo
Juozas Milasius*, Milasius Power Trio
Fragments Of Concerts And Performances 1992–2003
DVDr, DVD-V, S-V, Not On Label
TCF
486669f0e9b8990384108f3d54c6a8f036adeb8bc7108f3d54c6a8f036adeb
2014, File, MP3, Mixed, 320, Not On Label (TCF Self-released), ,
Experimental/Ambient/Glitch/Abstract
Různí
MV X: Monochrome Visions 2004 - 2014
2014, 3xCD, Comp, Ltd, Monochrome Vision, ,
Abstract/Ambient/Drone/Experimental/Industrial/Minimal/Musique Concrète/Noise
DSCRD
Secret Thirteen Mix 128
2014, File, MP3, Mixed, 320, Secret Thirteen Journal, ,
Abstract/Experimental/Musique Concrète/Drone/Free Improvisation
Různí
Below The Radar 12
2013, 15xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Wire Magazine
Různí
Viva Negativa! - A Tribute To The New Blockaders
2011, 7xCD, Comp + Box, Ltd, At War With False Noise, Auf Abwegen, Important Records (2), Alchemy Records (2), Uplink Records, ,
Industrial/Abstract/Drone/Glitch/Noise/Musique Concrète/Power Electronics/Field Recording/Experimental
Darkman
Disintegration
2011, File, MP3, Mixed, Titan's Halo Records, Transmissions From Titan
Různí
Rough Trade Shops Electronic 11
2011
Různí
Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders Volume IV: Japan
2010, 2xCD, Comp, Alchemy Records (2), Uplink Records
Různí
14 Tracks Of Rendered Silence
2010, 14xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Boomkat, ,
Abstract/Noise/Drone
Různí
Rural Psychogeography
2004, CD, Comp, Nexsound, ,
Abstract/Experimental/Ambient/Field Recording
Různí
Cultural Mimicry Volume 1
2004, CDr, Comp, Spirals Of Involution
Různí
LDS Relationchips
2004, CDr, Comp, Entr'acte, ,
Noise/Experimental
Různí
Kokekomp 1
2004, CD, Comp, Kokeko, ,
Glitch/Noise/Experimental/Free Improvisation/Ambient
Různí
The End Of The Fear Of God
2004, CD, Comp, Tochnit Aleph, ,
Hardcore/Noise/Avantgarde/Experimental/Grindcore/Musique Concrète
Různí
Das Dreidimensionale Möbiusband
2003, 2xCD, Comp + CD-ROM, Mini, Flying Swimming
Různí
Knieschussclub Ausschnitte
2001, VHS, Knieschusstapes