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Masa Oka

About Me


Masa Oka - Bring On The Changes
Masa Oka - Show U How
I live in sub-urban Shinyurigaoka, near Tokyo.
The style of music I'm focusing on is Electronica. Somewhat jazzy. I also give lessons for computer music, guitar, ukulele, etc.
Having Grown up in Wakayama (south of Osaka), Japan, I then moved to Boston, U.S.A. and studied composition, jazz guitar and such.
After Boston, I relocated myself to London ('96) and stayed there for a year before moving back to Japan, to Tokyo. I've been around Tokyo since then, though I also lived in Kansai area for a while at some point.
Politically, I'm a little bit left-leaning.
Non-fadeout MP3s can be purchased from Masa Oka official site .
It only costs you $0.99 per tune .
東京近郊の新百合ヶ丘に住んでいます。
ジャンルはエレクトロニカ。ジャジーだとよ く言われます。DTM・ギター・ウクレレな どのレッスンもします。
高校までは和歌山で育って、そのあとアメリ カのボストンに行って音大で作曲やジャズギ ターを勉強しました。
ボストンのあと1年ほどロンドンにいて--ï¼™ï ¼–å¹´--ã€ãã®å¾Œã¯åŸºæœ¬çš„ã«ãšã£ã¨æ±äº¬ã§ã™ã€‚é€ ”中でしばらく関西にいたこともありますが〠‚
政治的にはちょっと左寄り。
フェイドアウトなしのMP3 は、 Masa Oka オフィシャル・サイト にて 1曲112円 でお求めになれます。

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/20/2007
Band Website: masaoka.info
Band Members: Masa Oka: Composition, Programming, Production
Influences: Various forms and individuals of Dance Music/Electronica.

Influences include:
Underworld, Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers, Aphex Twin

Also influenced by jazz/fusion artists such as:
Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Pat Metheny

Big respect to Jeff Mills, Ritchie Hawtin, Kraftwerk, 808 State
Sounds Like: Electronica, Jazzy
Record Label: Masa Oka (www.masaoka.info)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Website

I re-built this website. The style I was using has become so out of trend now, and I finally decided to do that.http://www.masaoka.info/ I create designs and buttons in Adobe Illustrator, make ani...
Posted by Masa Oka on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:17:00 PST

DVD Burning

(October 10)As I try to burn the video I'm going to use for tonight's live show onto DVD, I realize that the Adobe Premiere no longer detects my DVD drive.It was working fine till last month. But sinc...
Posted by Masa Oka on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:58:00 PST

Olivier Messiaen

This week, I've been troubled by the oral herpes I talked about before. Oral herpes is a viral disease which causes blisters around your mouth when your immune system is down due ...
Posted by Masa Oka on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:58:00 PST

Waves Plug-in

I'm still studying how to use the plug-in software, Waves. Training using an audio-attached tutorial book. I'm learning about dance-music production and mastering procedure. ...
Posted by Masa Oka on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:27:00 PST

Rage Against the Machine (in a way..)

I use plug-in software called Waves, and right now I'm studying how to use it. It's the things such as reverb, delay, compressor, EQ, etc. Those techniques have little to do...
Posted by Masa Oka on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:44:00 PST

Apartment names in Japan

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Posted by Masa Oka on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:36:00 PST

New Tune: Its So Dark

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Posted by Masa Oka on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:43:00 PST

The Da Vinci Code

  I didn't have any lessons today, so I watched a movie in the morning and played guitar for the whole rest of the day. The movie is, I know it's kind of late, "The Da Vinci C...
Posted by Masa Oka on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:02:00 PST

About Having Changed My Name

With a very few exceptions of people I know from my childhood, most people don't know that my name has "officially" changed this year. Masaki Okamoto is my "real name" which now is...
Posted by Masa Oka on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:38:00 PST

September 05 - 07 (Oral Herpes)

(September 5, 2008) 11:00 The MIDI controller I sent from my home in Wakayama arrives. I'm playing piano for the gospel lessons and I need to improve a little more, so from ...
Posted by Masa Oka on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:36:00 PST