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Nakata Yasutaka

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Nakata Yasutaka (2008)

Nakata Yasutaka (中田ヤスタカ) is a Japanese musician, producer, and DJ. He is best known for being one-half of the duo capsule and for writing and producing the music of Perfume and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.

Nakata began the contemode label on Yamaha Japan Communications in 2003; currently, the only remaining active artist on this label is his unit capsule.

Profile

  • Name: Nakata Yasutaka (中田ヤスタカ)
  • Real Name: 中田康貴 (kanji spelling)
  • Birthdate: February 6, 1980 (1980-02-06) (age 44)
  • Birthplace: Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
  • Blood Type: A

Biography

Prior to the formation of capsule in 1997, Nakata submitted two of his MIDI works in 1996 at the age of sixteen to Yamaha's 3rd XG DATA CONTEST and was chosen as one of six winners, receiving 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 shortly after this with Emi Kinoko, who later worked with Nakata on Perfume's music by writing their lyrics until Computer City. Their works together have never seen official release in any capacity.

In March of 1997, Nakata went to the Hokuriku Teen's Music Festival where he met and formed capsule with Koshijima Toshiko. Since their major debut in 2001, Nakata has focused mostly on capsule. He frequently fuses elements of house, lounge, electronica, and bossa nova in all the music he produces, as well as overlooking the art direction of capsule's releases.

In 2003, Nakata produced a song for the Konami game pop'n music 10 under the stagename polyphonic room entitled [1], in which Koshijima Toshiko provided backing vocals and Wanta of Hazel Nuts Chocolate did the main vocals [2]. He also started producing Perfume in this year.

In 2004 he worked with Momose Yoshiyuki of Studio Kajino to create a short animated film Portable Kuukou featuring capsule's song of the same name. This was the beginning of a trilogy of "short short films" based on three capsule tracks: Portable Kuukou, space station No.9 and Soratobu Toshikeikaku (in that order).

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. He created the background music for a short commercial for FRAPBOIS which was shown in their stores during this time. In this year, he started collaborating with MEG on her music, with her writing lyrics and him composing/arranging.

In 2011, Nakata began producing fashion model Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and also started his own monthly all-ages DJ event named TAKENOKO!!!. It frequently features himself, RAM RIDER, and Kyary as regular DJs. In addition to TAKENOKO!!!, Nakata also regularly appears at DJ events FLASH!!! and RED.

Nakata received the Creator award as part of Changemakers of the Year 2012. He was additionally honored by the Japan Record Awards for his composition work on both Tsukema Tsukeru and Spice and appeared at the ceremony where Kyary Pamyu Pamyu performed.

Discography

Singles

Soundtracks

Collaborations / Other

Artists Worked With

Ongoing

Past

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