2015.11.13 FRI.
DUBFORCE
GOTA(Dr) / AKIHITO MASUI(Tb) /
DUB MASTER X(Mix) / WATUSI(Ba) /
EMERSON KITAMURA(Key) /
AKIRA TATSUMI(Sax) / SHIGEKAZU AIDA(Gt) /
GYO TADA(Tp)
Feat.Guest: Kazufumi Miyazawa, Seiko Ito
DUBFORCE
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GOTA -
AKIHITO MASUI -
Kazufumi Miyazawa -
Seiko Ito
Speaking of DUB, there may be many people who think of King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, U.K. Mad Professor, Adrian Sherwood, and MUTE BEAT in Japan. On March 19, 2015, a live DUB band was born with musicians gathered at Hirofumi Asamoto's charity "Asamoto Lovers Aid" at the core. Its name is DUBFORCE. It's a clean naming like The Band. The members were engineers DUB MASTER X, Akira Masui, and Gota Yashiki, and members with strong personalities of WATUSI, Emerson Kitamura, Shigeichi Aida, Akira Tatsumi, and Akira Tada will participate in the event. Pay attention to this sharpened new sound.
Advance sale ¥4,000
¥5,000 on the day
■Official Website: http://www.overheat.com/dubforce/
Artist profile
ー DUBFORCE ー
・Gota Yashiki (Dr)
In 1982, he formed MUTE BEAT with Kazufumi Kodama and others. In 1986, he joined MELON and performed in Western Europe. In 1987, he established "Major Force" with Toshio Nakanishi and Hiroshi Fujiwara. In 1988, he moved to U.K. and was in charge of programming with Soul II Soul's single "Keep on Movin'" and ranked fifth in the UK. In 1991, he joined Just Red as an official drummer, and the album "Stars" released in the same year recorded the first place in the British chart for 12 weeks. He worked on a remix of Depeche Mode and BJORK in parallel with Just Red, and was in charge of programming and arrangement for works such as SINÉAD O'CONNOR, Neneh Cherry, Massive Attack. Currently, he has moved his activity base to Japan.
・Masato Masui (Tb)
Joined MUTE BEAT in 1983. Since then, he has participated in almost all recordings and Live. After the US Tour (SF, LA, NY) in 1989, she was free with the dissolution of the band. For 10 years as a member of LNE-PPISCH support from 1987 to 1997. During that time, he was a member of THE THRILL from 1991 to 1997, and a member of KEMURI from 1998 to 2000. After two years of recuperation, he returned and energetically participated in recording and Live, but was invited to the former Tokyo Scaparadise Orchestra's cold Muta to participate in The MAN. Other activities such as production, arrangement, and Horne direction are also conducted in parallel.
・DUB MASTER X(Mix)
He participated in MUTE BEAT as a LIVE DUB engineer from 1982 to 1990. He started DJing in parallel with the band activity around 1984. Play at various places with Harajuku Monk Belize as the home ground. PA is a teacher from Fuyuo Sakurai, who worked on the US tour of YMO, and music is based on Jan Tomita. After the dissolution of MUTE BEAT, he started working as a PA engineer, DJ, and remixer. Beside him, composition, arrangement, production, programming, PA operation & planning, stage sound, recording engineer. In 2009, he formed a new unit "THE DUB FLOWER" with Seiko Ito and Kakesaida <LANG_TOK_EN> Together.
ー Feat.Guest ー
・Kazufumi Miyazawa
In 1986, he formed the rock band THE BOOM, worked as a vocalist of the group, and since then has been in charge of lyrics for almost all songs. "Shima-uta" and "I want to be the Wind" are famous songs that everyone knows with a big hit. In 2014, THE BOOM was disbanded while regretted. Currently, he is actively engaged in tours as a singer / songwriter.
・Seiko Ito
An artist with various titles such as actors, novelists, talents, lyricists, rappers. He spread the hip-hop culture to Japan, expanded the possibilities of Japanese-language rap, and had a major impact on later hip-hop artists. Formed THE DUB FLOWER with DUB MASTER X, Kakesaida Error, etc. Pop unit □□□ I'm also active in (Kuchiro).