Aktion has been played on NTS in shows including Channeling w/ Ivan Smagghe & Nathan Gregory Wilkins, featured first on 23 January 2018. Songs played include I'm Waiting For Your Phone Call.

There is more than one artist using the name Aktion.

1) Claude Maki (真木蔵人, Maki Kurōdo?) (born October 3, 1972) is a Japanese surfing champion, actor and j-urban artist, under the stage name AKTION, from Akasaka Tokyo . He is the eldest son of actor and singer Mike Maki.

His size is 173cm and his hobby is surfing. He made his television acting debut in 1987, at age 15, in NHK's year-long Japanese period drama series Takeda Shingen. Also that year, he made his motion picture debut in Soul Music Lovers Only. In 1989, he was named Best Newcomer at the Japanese Academy Awards for his role in the film Buddies. In 1991 he portrayed the deaf-mute surfer Shigeru in Takeshi Kitano's third film A Scene at the Sea. He starred in Junji Sakamoto's Falling Angels in 1997, followed by four films in 1998 including Golden Wolf, Resurrection, and Beat.

As a rapper he is on the same label as ZEEBRA, Solomon i&i Production.

2) Aktion is a band formed in 2011 in Rome, Italy, consisting of Gustav Gabor Berlenbach (guitar, vocals) and Mary-Jane Berlenbach (keyboards, tape echo, drum machine and occasional vocals). Their music features a melting of no/new-wave influences and old fashioned chanson with morbid or sexual twist in them.