K2

K2 is the influential noise music project of Japanese musician Kimihide Kusafuka, not to be confused with the James Ferraro project of the same name. K2's work typically consists of crashing, creaking, and scraping sounds made with pieces of junk metal, usually edited in a jarring, unpredictable style, accompanied by the sounds of various electronics. Kimihide Kusafuka's noise project has been active since 1983. The first period of K2 activity consisted of mail art and music between 1983 to 1986. Cassette works were exchanged between domestic and world-wide mail art/music artists and labels, including Masami Akita (Merzbow), G.X. Jupitter-Larsen (The Haters) and Richard van Dalen (De Fabriek). He didn't actually do any live shows until mid 1995. He stopped all of his musical and mail art activities at the end of 1986, concentrating on his work as a pathologist. Kimihide Kusafuka re-started his musical activity as K2 in early 1993, releasing many old and new cassette works, which consisted of a mix between electronic drone and cut-up noise. He then began to use metal junk for his recordings incorporating MTR, tapes and modulators with cut-up techniques for making wonderful harsh noise. K2 is the king of metal junk noise!

1984 - K2 - Herzmuskelgewebe (C30) [schwabenstolz tapes]
1993 - K2 - Autopsy Soundtrakks (C60) [kinky music institute]
1994 - K2 - Boiling Cell (cass) [tantalus recording group
1994 - K2 - Hepatopolitika (lp) [praxis dr. bearmann]
1994 - K2 - Hypertrophy (C60) [banned production]
1995 - K2 - Les Extremes Se Touchent II (C46) [chocolate monk]
1996 - K2 - Iron Kulture (7'') [self abuse records]
1996 - K2 - Metal Dysplasia [kinky music institute, cheeses international]
1996 - K2 - Molekular Terrorism [pure]
1996 - K2 - Renal Ekonomix (7'') [praxis dr. bearmann]
1996 - K2 - Rusty Tongue (C46) [kinky music institute]
1996 - K2 - The Rust [kinky music institute]
1996 - K2 & De Fabriek - Noise Tournament Vol. 2 (7'') [de rabriek, kinky music institute]
1996 - K2 & Jalopaz - split (7'') [leg meat]
1996 - RLW with K2 - Noise Tournament Vol. 3 (7'') [kinky music institute, banned production]
1997 - K2 - Anybody Can't Catch Up With This (10'') [ant-zen]
1997 - K2 - Panelliniki Antartiki Organosis (cass) [bawler productions]
1997 - K2 & AMK & The Haters - Three Phenomena [vinyl communications]
1997 - K2 With Aube - Noise Tournament Vol. 5 (7'') [kinky music institute, banned production]
1997 - K2 With Smell & Quim - Noise Tournament Vol. 6 (7'') [kinky music institute]
1997 - Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck With K2 - Noise Tournament Vol. 4 (7'') [kinky music institute]
1998 - Incapacitants & K2 - We Are All Stupid [absurd]
1998 - K2 - Metal Language (C60) [loud!]
1998 - K2 & Dead Body Love - Traumantra [solipsism]
1999 - K2 - Facismusic (C46) [spite]
1999 - K2 - Pathosonic Anatomic (5 x cass) [statutory tape]
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
1999 - K2 - Weight Over Emergency [kinky music institute]
2000 - K2 - Galeomagnetism [para disc]
2000 - K2 - Oogonia [tochnit aleph]
2000 - K2 & Armenia - Insects (C60) [Bizarre audio arts]
2000 - K2 & Veprisuicida - Split (cass) [ultra]
2000 - K2 & Vetrophonia - Split (cass) [ultra]
2000 - Telepherique & K2 - Wolkenphänomen [old europa cafe]
2001 - K2 - Sexencyclopedia (4xcd) [kinky music institute]
Part 1 Part 2
2001 - K2 & Cornucopia - Crack The Sun [solipsism]
2002 - K2 - Flake Nitro [harsenoise]
2002 - K2 - In The Monotonous Flowers [ground fault recordings]
2003 - K2 - Pink Drugs: Mono No Aware
2009 - K2 - Target To Nowhere [cipher productions]