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TATSUYA OE is Japanese electronic musician /DJ, well-known for his mastery of production from experimental to pop. After he majored economics at Tokyo University,working for ad company,he began making music in ‘96. He released his debut 12 inches from ACV (Italy). Since "Encounter with..." album ('98),he burst onto the club scene as the maverick solo project “CAPTAIN FUNK”,playing at many big events in Japan like Fuji Rock Festival, and overseas likeGlobal-Tekno(france) ,West Night Club(Germany),Turnmills(UK) etc.
He released successful singles,Mix CD,and albums including "Bustin' Loose EP" , "Dancing in the Street","Style" etc,especially "Songs of the Siren" was selected as one of The Year in Music 2001" of the Billboard Magazine.

Since 2002's "Here and You", he started another solo project simply under the name “OE”,which is more cutting-edge and introspective. After the collaboration with Yoshihide Otomo ”ONJQ + OE“ , his most experimental album “Physical Fiction” ,he dropped his second album under the “Oe” banner, Director's Cut" ('04).

In 2004,he did an opening act for Kraftwerk , Holger Czukay as OE , and for David Bowie as Groove Syndicate ( his another project) in Japan. After 2005 he toured with Space Cowboy in Japan as Captain Funk, residented in playMODEL@Fabrique,and participated in Rock in Japan Festival 2006.etc.

He has remixed and collaborated with almost 200 musicians,creative directors, fashion brands including James Brown, Ron Sexsmith, Serge Gainsbourg, HOTEI, CHIC, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Freddy Fresh, Puffy, Tsuchiya Anna, Ken Ishii, Co-fusion, Denki Groove, Tommy February 6, Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden, Nick Wood & Simon Lebon, Noriyuki Tanaka, SABU ("Monday") etc.

And now, promoting a new project on his own company Model Electronic Inc. which manages from music/visual labels to software development.

He has just released Captain Funk's new albums called "HEAVY METAL"&"HEAVY MELLOW" in Japan from Model Electronic.

TATSUYA OE Music Production for Sony Ericsson TVCM 2007.
As for CM,also he did for UNIQLO, Canon Pixus, Mitsubishi Motors, Panasonic,etc.

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