Takahiro Izutani | nl

Takahiro Izutani (イズタニタカヒロ) was born in Yokohama Japan . His father is a computer engineer and more than 50,000 vinyl collector of Latin music. So He heard many kind of music in home since his early years. His first musical impression was "Yellow Magic Orchestra" . But When he started his career as a guitarist, his favorites was only hard rock at teenage. After that time he was devoted in avant rock like "Can" "Frank Zappa" he played as guitarist in many of rock bands in '90s. In 1997 his avant rock band "Happy Family" released a full album from Cuneiform Records in U.S. (http://cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/happyfamily.html) "Happy Family" corroborated with many of underground artist of Japan , NY , Europe on live or recordings. But in 2000 his interest got onto electronic music or club music. and he started to create music by computer programing. and tried to start some projects that fuse electronic sound with live performance in Japanese club scene. But all of them was failed in vain at that time. On the other he became to work on Japanese major pop music scene. he remixed (Occasionally as Brent Mini)and produced songs of many pop artist. (Ayumi Hamasaki is the most famous one) In 2006 he started his personal band DUGO, and track "Dublin" had a sync deal for CSI: Miami ,Season 3. Furthermore he is composing many Videogame music since 2006. Many of his compositions include: Ninja Blade (2009) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008) Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 (2007) Yakuza 2 (2006) Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (2006).
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