- Yasuharu Konishi
is a Japanese musician, composer and DJ. He was a founding member of
Pizzicato Five and the only founding member to stay with the group until its breakup in 2002. Konishi's current activities are through his companyreadymade entertainment and his record label524 records (a play on words from Konishi's name, as the numbers 524 can be read "ko-ni-shi" in Japanese using "goroawase ").Collaboration
Konishi is a prolific producer,
composer , arranger andremix er. He has written, produced and arranged in collaboration with many artists, such as Unicorn,Towa Tei ,Mari Natsuki , Cornelius,Yumi Yoshimura ofPuffy AmiYumi ,Akiko Wada , andSMAP .Konishi's remixes are featured in a far greater range of recordings. In addition to remixing individual tracks for a wide variety of artists for inclusion in their own releases, Konishi has been a prominent figure in several remix-only projects. Some of these have centered on music from cartoons, such as
Lupin III and Astro Boy. Others have focused on specific artists, such asJames Brown and Tom Jones.Other projects
Konishi produced a video game called "Beatmania - The Sound of Tokyo" for
Konami 's long runningBemani series.External links
* [http://www.chipple.net/p5/konishi/intro.php The Unofficial Yasuharu Konishi Discography]
* [http://www.readymade.co.jp/ readymade entertainment, tokyo] Ja icon
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