Takaya Nagase

Takaya Nagase, a New York based DJ/producer/remixer/sound designer over 10 years, was born in Yokohama, Japan. As a boy who loved sports and music, he spent most of his childhood by swimming and playing electric piano. He started buying records of Soul Music, and in college, NY House Music made a deep impact on him, which pushed his back to start a career as a professional DJ. Not only as a successful resident DJ at Loop in Tokyo and Planet Café in Shizuoka, but also as a collaborator with another famous DJs, he started another career as a sound designer at restaurants and hair salons and providing compositions for various places in Japan. He joined an artist group Earth Pipe and has done many fashion show jobs. Nagase’s long time dream of living in New York was finally came true in 2001. He then traveled to South America for 6 months and encountered many different cultures to extend his field to worldwide. Currently, as a DJ, he plays various places in New York. His own party event, “Shanti New York” is regularly held in NY’s most popular nightclub, Club Shelter, with various guest DJs and artists and attracts a great deal of attention. His music style does not seem to meet as one genre, rather, expresses aspects of House, Soul, Jazz, Reggae, Dub, Techno, Ambient, Electronica, Rock, Hip-Hop, Africa, and Latin; it’s free and flexible and original. In fact, he is a rare DJ who appears on many different types of parties without a barrier of heavily subdivided musical genres. He also appeared on the “Burning man Festival” in 2001, 2003, and 2004, and also appeared on the after party at the New York Collection of Akiko Ogawa in 2006. Recently, he worked for the event, “Entheocentric salon” held by one of the leading psychedelic artists, Alex, Gray, by expressing a whole new world and has been given great compliments. As a composer, he worked for LEVIS’ campaign, “Levis Lady Style 2006,” by providing his original musical piece. As a remixer, he has done a remixing for a latest song of a Gospel singer, Susu Bobien “Set Free” and Michael Watford “ As” Sondmen on wax in 2007. Finally, as a DJ, he appeared on the “Winter Music Conference WMC/ 2007 Miami” with top DJs from all over the world. Takaya Nagase is one of the most expected Japanese DJ/producer/ remixer/sound designer.

Gear

DAW System / Apple Macbook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2Ghz, Logic Pro,pro tools, Mark of The Unicorn 828,Digidesign digi002. Sound Module / Clavia Nord Rack2, Korg Trinity V3, Roland Juno-106, Roland ,MPC-500, Roland MC-303… Effect / Korg Sdd-3000, Roland Rsp-550. Mixer / Bozak Model CMA 10-2DL, Makie CR1604, Urei 1620… Monitor / Tannoy PCM 6.5 LM,Klipsch La Scala. Turntable / Technics SL-MK2, Thorns TD-105. CD Player / Pioneer CDJ-100s…

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