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Nakata Yasutaka

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Nakata Yasutaka is a Japanese musician, producer, and DJ best known for being one half of the duo capsule, which he produces. He has also gone under the stagenames "Lounge Electron" and "Tokyo Rhythm Shift" for contemode V.A.

Nakata began the contemode label in 2003; nearly all of the artists he actively produces are on this label.

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Nakata Yasutaka


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  • Name: Nakata Yasutaka (中田ヤスタカ)
  • Real name: 中田康貴 (Kanji spelling)
  • Birthdate: February 6th, 1980
  • Birthplace: Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Information

Before forming capsule, Nakata submitted two of his MIDI works in 1996 at the age of 16 to Yamaha's "3rd XG DATA CONTEST" and was chosen as one of six winners, winning the Technique award. While his first piece "Kaiseki Ryouri" consisted of traditional Japanese music, his final piece "XGroove" was a mix of pop and funk.

He also formed the unit "SYNC⇔SYNC" a few years after this with Emi Kinoko, who has collaborated with Nakata on some of Perfume's music under the name "Kinoko".

Since their first release in 2001, Nakata has focused mostly on capsule. He frequently fuses elements of house, lounge, electronica, and bossa nova in the music he produces as well as overlooking the art design for his projects and magazines. capsule's albums L.D.K. Lounge Designers Killer and Sugarless Girl reached #1 on the electronic chart for iTunes Japan. Nakata also makes compilation albums called "contemode V.A.", which includes several artists he has produced.

In 2003 Nakata produced a song for the Konami game pop'n music 10 under the stagename "polyphonic room" [1], in which capsule member Koshijima Toshiko provided backing vocals and Wanta of Hazel Nuts Chocolate did the main vocals [2].

In 2004 he worked with Momose Yoshiyuki of Studio Kajino (a subsidiary of Studio Ghibli) to create the short animated film "Portable Kuukou". It became a trilogy of "short short films" including three of capsule's songs: "Portable Kuukou", "space station NO.9" and "Soratobu Toshikeikaku" (in that order). The first one was shown in theaters before the live-action version of "Cutie Honey".

Nakata struck a collaboration deal in December 2007 with Japanese fashion brand FRAPBOIS, inspiring their fashion line for spring/summer 2008 to be "electro pop" themed. In addition, the background music heard in several FRAPBOIS stores was produced and mixed by Nakata.

Furthermore, he produced Suzuki Ami's single "ONE" in summer 2008. The single will be a commemoration single for her ten years as a singer. This will be the second time he has worked with Suzuki; the first time was for the collaboration single "FREE FREE / SUPER MUSIC MAKER" in 2007. Nakata will also be producing her upcoming album containing the singles they previously collaborated on.

Nakata produced one track on SMAP's album "super.modern.artistic.performance" album: "Kokoro Puzzle Rhythm."

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