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Kai Takemoto

Creation made in the darkness

About Me

Film composer born in Nagano, Japan. Moved to LA in 2003. Specialized in dark/horror/thriller soundtracks. Grew up watching tons of B and B-Horror movies.Started playing piano and composing around 1991. At the beginning, composing piano music and techno type music tooling around with Korg keyboard sequencer. At the age 17, got first electric guitar, Strat. Since then, got into hard rock/heavy metal including Led Zeppelin, Yngwie Malmsteen, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Ritchie Blackmore-Deep Purple/Rainbow, Ronnie James Dio, Ten, Geroge Lynch-Lynch Mob, Steve Stevens, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, later Lenny Kravitz, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton-Cream...In the year 2003, moved to LA to pursue film composing career. Studied at UCLA, learned variety of techniques like 21st century style composing, avant garde to emulating baroque, conducting live musicians and video game music.
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Member Since: 8/19/2007
Band Website: Kai-FilmComposer.Info, DarkFilmMusic.com
Band Members: Kai Takemoto
Influences: Bernard Hermann, Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna, Patric Gowers, Charlie Clouser, Hans Zimmer, Thomas Newman, Basil Pouledouris, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Bela Bartok, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Johan Sebastian Bach, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Led Leppelin, Eric Clapton, etc
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None