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Originally Posted by truehappiness
I think he mainly talks about how avex started and what Yasuhiko has done since then, haha.
OCN translation:
http://ameblo.jp/maxmatsuura/entry-10523747415.html
I wonder if Yasuhiko went on a temporary hiatus because he felt like he wasn't making good songs? A real translation is welcome, as I am not fluent in Japanese, haha. |
Here you are!
2010-05-03 01:05:03
Until「moon」was made...
In the past, when I was still about 24, I was working at my own Record Rental shop,
And someone who was the same age as me, a part-timer, said "My friend's studio has closed, so I got all the equipment, so I will make any song the manager wants!!"
I handed over quite a few of the dance songs that I loved, without expecting much of anything, or should I say, roughly that I forgot all about it with the crushing business of the everyday life.
One day, he gave me a casette tape with the songs that he made.
I closed the shop, and on the way home, I listened to the tape,
Well, the thing I was looking for was still far, but I could feel something.
After that, I went to his house many times, "Not that, not this"
And set on it, I lived out the days where I was finishing the music that I was wishing for.
And after that, from the part-time job, he went to become an employee of Avex, a company that had just been created.
At the time, until the time it was made perfect, eurobeat was a crazy fad, and in order to revive the scene in Japan, even though Avex wasn't a record company at that time, they made a small studio in Machida.
They asked an interior designer friend to help with that aspect, and we, who didn't know a thing about sound proofing, with our own power, made a studio.
And, immediately, avex trax was started.
The studio that was like a hand made thing, named HI BPM Studio, and after all, it looked like something close to a toy I had.
The time I was in the studio the most was probably that time.
So that we could have a flawless EUROBEAT master, just making a kick sound took so many months that I can't even recall.
And then, finally went to the real place of Milano, Italy,
And that guy worked at the studio of a EUROBEAT maestro, Divo Rogers, for about one month, and they came home to Japan.
His eurobeat compositions, they've been compilated in Super Eurobeat countless times.
That time, we made music that people couldn't tell was Japanese.
And then, the world moved towards the era of Techno, and the world was a bubble.
Juliana Tokyo was an overwhelming and unequaled monster.
And he, without hesitation, entered into the work of Techno.
And the representative song was, a song that everyone knows, "Can't undo this!!"
Yes, at a new point in my memory, it was the original song that DJ OZMA covered in I RAVE U.
After that, he used the names of Stargaze and Maximizer, and created hits for Juliana.
At the time, the same way, Komuro started to have an interest in Techno House, and he debuted TRF.
The one who remixed the debut song "GOING TO DANCE" was him,
Afterwards, it would be the remixing side of work that would change and become the main arrangement of GOING TO DANCE.
Even now in lives, it's his arrangement that they use.
And after that, it was countless years. I gave him one mission.
That mission was to give the yet-debuted Hamasaki Ayumi recording lessons, and to create her debut single.
It took about a year, and after that, Hamasaki Ayumi debuted.
Porker Face (LOL) is his creation.
And after that, he would create the title song "A Song for ××"
After that, he would create numerous songs for Hamasaki Ayui, MAX's representative song "Give me a shake," and others. They were his songs.
But, after that, he spent nearly 10 years fallen in a slump.
How painful that must have been...
Even I was so busy, and I couldn't give him a hand.
And now, Daisuke Suzuki, a person like Komuro's right arm, and Garnet Crow's Keyboard, told me that there was a great song made by him, and gave me a demo of it, and I knew immediately.
It was a complete rebirth.
Or, it might be that the era has turned.
If it was he who changed, or if it was the era that just made a full circle, I don't know.
His name is Hoshino Yasuhiko.
And he is the composer of Hamasaki Ayumi's new work, "MOON."
Please, I want you to hear this song.