Hikashu

Members & Collaborators

Current members

• Koichi Makigami – voice, bass, cornet, theremin
• Mita Freeman, f.k.a. Masamichi Mitama – guitar, sampler
• Masami Sakaide – bass, laptop computer
• Kazuto Shimizu – piano, bass clarinet
• Masaharu Sato – percussion, drums, effect voice

  Past members

• Yasushi Yamashita – keyboards, drum machine
• Makoto Inoue – mellotron, synthesizers
• Satoshi Tobe – alto sax
• Toshiro Sensui – percussion
• Kazuhiro Nomoto – sax, bass clarinet; died 15 December 2003
• Masaru Taniguchi - drums; died 24 October 1989
• Tsuno-Ken, a.k.a. Ken Tsunoda – drums
• Otomo Yoshihide – turntables
• Torsten Rasch – samplers
• Kouzou Nida – drums
• Makoto Yoshimori – keyboards

  Discography

Official releases

• Haru released under the pseudonym "Pre Hikashu"
• Hikashu
• 20seiki no owarini 7 inch single
• Hikashu
• Shiroi Highway 7 inch single
• Natsu
• Uwasa No Jinrui
• Watashi No Tanoshimi
• Mizu Ni Nagashite
• Soba De Yokereba
• Nani Mo Kamo Odore cassette
• Ningen No Kao
• Teichou Na Omotenashi
• Humming Soon
• Atchi No Me Kotchi No Me
• Ten Ten
• Nyuunen maxi single
• Ikirukoto
• Carps and Gaspacho maxi single
• Ten Ten Ten
• Uragoe
• Bankan
• Ikite Koi Chinmoku
• Anguri

  Compilations

• Hikashu Super
• Changing Like Myxomycetes self-covers
• Twin Best
• Hikashu History
• Hikashu Super 2

  Other albums

• Untitled an early mini-album
• Hikashu Live live
• Super Dimension Century Orguss 02 soundtrack, reissued in 2012 as Fushigi Wo Mitsumete
• Retro Active Remix Hikashu songs remixed by various artists
• Live In Osaka 1-4 bootleg, four low quality live performances
• Musique Non Stop a tribute to Kraftwerk featuring Hikashu, Buffalo Daughter, Denki Groove and others
• Radioactive Tribute To Kraftwerk another tribute, featuring a similar track listing
• End Of The 20th Century a tribute to Hikashu, featuring Koichi Makigami and others

  Inoyama Land

• Danjindan Posidon
• Pithecanthropus live
• Inoyama Land
• Music For Myxomycetes accompanying music for the World Of Myxomycetes exposition

  Makigami Koichi

• Minzoku No Saiten
• Koroshi No Blues
• Kuchinoha
• Electric Eel a collaboration with Anton Bruhin
• Koedarake
• Jisatsu Na Disco Makigami and Mita Freeman

  Makoto Inoue

• Godzilla Legend
• Godzilla Legend II
• Godzilla Legend III
• Pygmalio image album for the Shinji Wada manga of the same name; collaboration with then-current Hikashu lineup, billed as "Makoto Inoue & Hikasu Family"