Ground Zero (band)

Ground-Zero
Origin	Tokyo, Japan
Genres	Noise music Free improvisation Japanese noise rock
Years active	1990–1998
Past members	Otomo Yoshihide Hideki Kato Masahiro Uemura

Ground-Zero was a Japanese noise/improvisation band during the 1990s led by the guitarist and "turntablist" Otomo Yoshihide that had a large and rotating group of performers with two other regular performers.

The band performed on such instruments as turntables, sampler, shamisen, saxophone, koto, omnichord, electric guitar and two drum kits. They were the first free improvising musicians to use turntables

Their music was virtuoso and mixed free jazz, improvisation, pop, rock and experimental noise. They are most highly regarded for their album Consume Red, on which the performers improvise around a short sample of hojok music played by the Korean holy musician Kim Seok Chul.

Ground-Zero was initially formed to play the John Zorn game piece Cobra. They first played in August 1990 and last played in March 1998. The band's last project was in 1998 when they re-worked material from a 1992 Cassiber concert in Tokyo; it was released on the second CD of Cassiber's double CD, Live in Tokyo (1998).

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