Daisuke Asakura

Daisuke Asakura
Birth name	浅倉大介 Asakura Daisuke
Also known as	DA, Dai-chan (大ちゃん), Scorpion
Born	November 4, 1967 (1967-11-04) (age 44)
Origin	Japan
Genres	J-pop, Synth-pop
Occupations	Keyboardist, Producer, Songwriter, Musician
Instruments	Synthesizer, Piano
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Various
Associated acts	Access, Iceman, T.M. Revolution, TM Network, Kenichi Ito, Mad Soldiers, Kinya Kotani
Website	http://www.danet.ne.jp/
Notable instruments
Keyboard, Synthesizer, Keytar, Piano

Daisuke Asakura (浅倉 大介, Asakura Daisuke^?, born November 4, 1967, Asakusa, Japan) is a male Japanese pop artist.

His childhood consisted of electronic organ lessons and the expectations to follow the family trade of plumbing.

Asakura began his career with landing a job at Yamaha right after high school. While under Yamaha, Asakura worked on the EOS synthesizer; he was also featured in the home-instructional video for the machine. His talent was discovered by Tetsuya Komuro of TM Network and Daisuke was pulled from Yamaha to work under Komuro as his protégé. Daisuke played the bass synthesizer during TM Network's 1990-91 Rhythm Red tour. Asakura then met Hiroyuki Takami in 1990 following Rhythm Red and formed Access (or AXS) with Takami on vocals and lyrics after breaking away from TM Network in 1992.^[1]

The break-up of Access in 1995 left Asakura to pursue new ideas that included producing and composing songs for new artists; one of the most successful acts he created was with J-pop idol Takanori Nishikawa under the title of T.M.Revolution. In mid-1996 Asakura started a three-man unit titled Iceman which brought Kenichi Ito (guitar) and Michihiro Kuroda (vocals) to the spotlight. After several years Iceman ended activity due to conflict between Michihiro Kuroda and Asakura. During and after his years with Iceman Asakura built his wealth and reputation as a composer taking after his idol and teacher, Tetsuya Komuro. He produced singles and albums for J-Pop vocalists. Examples of Asakura's past projects includes vocalists such as Sakanoue Yosuke, Kinya Kotani, Daichi Kuroda, Akiko Hinagata, Yuki Kimura, FayRay, Takashi Fujii and groups such as, Onapetz, Pool Bit Boys, Lazy Knack, Run&Gun and The Seeker. He also composed a few songs for visual kei J-rock band, Shazna. Most of the above listed, as well as a group of school boys under the name D.A.N.K., were included in a project called Cherry Garden.

In 2001, he produced his first solo album in seven years as well as working with Iceman guitarist Kenichi Ito in Mad Soldiers; a sort of comedic spin-off from Iceman in which both men's 'sinister' alter egos 'Scorpion' [Asakura] and 'Snake' [Ito] produced music for Kotani Kinya and performed officially unrecorded cover versions of famous songs such as 'Lemon Tea' by Sheena & The Rokkets and 'Hungry Like the Wolf' by Duran Duran. In 2002 he reunited with Hiroyuki Takami and reformed Access. With the reuniting of Daisuke's favored vocalist, Takami, T.M.Revolution was dropped from the top of Asakura's priority list, though he still writes and arranges music for the singer.

Asakura also went off on a solo project in 2004 titled "Quantum Mechanics Rainbow", in which he released multiple CDs for a year, and each CD title name had to do with a color and math property.

In 2006–2007, Asakura produced two singles for new J-pop idol Kimeru, hit the road with TM Network for 2007's TMN Tribute tour and created new songs for the popular dance-step game, Dance Dance Revolution's newest version.

In November 2007, Access released a memory/discography book, alongside Access plushies, to commemorate their 15 years together.

In 2008, he revealed a new musical project, entitled "DA Metaverse ~100 Songs for 1000 Days," in which he will release 100 new songs over the course of 1000 days exclusively through iTunes. The project was launched on June 25, 2008.

Discography

Singles

• Cosmic Runaway (1 February 1995)
• Siren's Melody (10 May 1995)
• Black or White? (25 May 1995)
• Rainy Heart - Doshaburi no Omoide no Naka (10 June 1995)

DA Metaverse

• Dream Ape Metaverse (25 June 2008)
• Repli Eye-Program"d (25 June 2008)
• Nothung Syndrome (25 June 2008)
• Ya･Ti･Ma (30 July 2008)
• Sonic Cruise (24 September 2008)
• SO・U・SHU・TSU - mould (12 November 2008)
• Fall Fear (12 November 2008)
• Leaf Fall (12 November 2008)
• The Transmuters (19 November 2008)
• 創出 (Soushutsu) (19 November 2008)
• Kiss For Salome (19 November 2008)
• Chimera Draft (26 November 2008)
• Star Cascade (26 November 2008)
• Gate I (26 November 2008)
• X-Night (17 December 2008)
• Der Rattenfänger Von Hameln (7 January 2009)
• Fractal Vibe (25 February 2009)
• St.Electric (4 March 2009)
• 'Blanca' (29 April 2009)
• Rip (10 June 2009)
• Prime Diffusion (17 June 2009)
• Sphere Valley (24 June 2009)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1 July 2009)
• YaTa-Raven Chronicle (2 December 2009)
• Space Closer (16 December 2009)

Albums

• Landing Timemachine (25 October 1991)
• D-Trick (2 September 1992)
• Electromancer (12 July 1995)
• 21st Fortune CD (20 November 2002)
• Quantum Mechanics Rainbow I : Violet Meme (30 March 2004)
• Quantum Mechanics Rainbow II : Indigo Algorithm (31 May 2004)
• Quantum Mechanics Rainbow III: Blue Resolution (30 July 2004)
• Quantum Mechanics Rainbow IV : Green Method (15 September 2004)
• Quantum Mechanics Rainbow V : Yellow Vector (30 November 2004)
• Quantum Mechanics Rainbow VI : Orange Compile (31 December 2004)
• Quantum Mechanics Rainbow VII: Red Trigger (30 March 2005)
• d・file -for TV programs- (19 July 2006)

Compilations

• DA's Best Works '91-'95 (24 June 1998)
• Decade -The Best of Daisuke Asakura- (21 November 2001) (1 July 2002)
• D・Collection -The Best Works of Daisuke Asakura- (19 July 2007)

Soundtrack albums

• Daiva (4 November 1992)
• グラビテーション (Gravitation) (Anime OST)
• Koukaku no Regios : Sound Restoration
• Koukaku no Regios : Sound Restoration 2

Remix albums

• Sequence Virus 2003 (20 December 2003)
• Sequence Virus 2004 (14 August 2004)
• Sequence Virus 2005 (17 October 2005)
• Sequence Virus 2006 (23 December 2006)
• Sequence Virus 2007-2008 (25 July 2008)
• Sequence Virus 2009

DVD

• 21st Fortune Complete Box (19 September 2002)
• 21st Fortune DVD (20 November 2002)
• Daisuke Asakura Live Tour'04 Cultivate Meme～About Quantum Mechanics Rainbow～ (4 March 2005)
• Daisuke Asukara Quantum Mechanics Rainbow (17 October 2005)
• Drive Meme-over Quantum Mechanics Rainbow- (20 March 2006)
• D-Clips

Tour

• Electric Romance (14 December 1995) to (9 January 1996)

References

1. ^ Eremenko, Alexey. "Biography: Daisuke Asakura". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p229619. Retrieved 3 May 2010. 

External links

• DAnet Official Website (Japanese)
• Da Metaverse birth -1000 Days for 100 Songs- Started selling at iTunes Music Store since 2008.06.25 (Japanese)
• access access Official Website (Japanese)
• accessのtalk about access Podcast (Ended; Japanese)
• HitHit.com - Topics DA's hand-drawn "NEO AGE CIRCUIT 通信" (Japanese)
• K-Ito.net

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Name	Asakura, Daisuke
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Date of birth	4 November 1967
Place of birth	Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
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