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Mick Karn
United Kingdom • 1958-07-24 – 2011-01-04
Mick Karn is credited on 1,068 releases across 161 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1978–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,068
Pressings credited
161
Albums
6
Decades active
352
In collections
Biography
Andonis Michaelides (Greek: Αντώνης Μιχαηλίδης; 24 July 1958 – 4 January 2011), better known as Mick Karn, was a Greek Cypriot musician who rose to fame as the bassist for the art rock and new wave band Japan. His distinctive fretless bass guitar sound and melodic playing style were a trademark of the band's sound.
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Credited work
1,068 releases · 161 albums · active 1978–2026
- Performance · 3,999
- Other credits · 556
- Production · 163
- Engineering · 137
Studios: Air Studios · Audio International Studios · DJM Studios · Hammersmith Odeon
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Tin Drum
1981

Quiet Life
1979

The Sensual World
1989

Gentlemen Take Polaroids
1980

Oil On Canvas
1983

Assemblage
1981

Adolescent Sex
1978

Obscure Alternatives
1978

Life In Tokyo
1979

Exorcising Ghosts
1984

Dance
1981

Everything And Nothing
2000

Rain Tree Crow
1991

The Waking Hour
1984

The Gift
1985

Director's Cut
2011

Visions Of China
1981

Blackwater
1991

Summer 08
2016

Loveblows & Lovecries - A Confession
1993

Answers To Nothing
1988

One Second
1987

Dreams Of Reason Produce Monsters
1986

Ghosts
1982
Frequent collaborators
- Japan
- Various
- Midge Ure
- No-Man
- Sugizo
- David Sylvian
- Bill Nelson
- Masami Tsuchiya
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