T A K U M I i w a s k y
A l b u m s
Here are the albums TAKUMI ( iwasky ) has released as an artist or one of the members of the band.
KICK & TURN
TAKUMI iwasky
2014 Music Prosper Unltd.
( PRS-005R )
1 KICK & TURN ( radio mix )
2 where am i ?
3 Qui a tue grand maman ? * ( bonus track )
4 KICK & TURN ( club remix by D.T.Construction )
MEAT THE BEAT
TAKUMI
1983 Sound Design Record
( 1342-10 28SD )
A 1 Hauch von Mir B 1 Myron
2 Snapshot 2 Days Of Romance
3 Tokyoite 3 Dear Dori ...
4 In the Ordinary way 4 Mein Schatz
5 Reproduced Functionalist 5 Wave Over And ...
6 Cloudy Sky In My Yard
Debut album as an solo artist in November, 1983.
All compositions & arrangement by himself.
2 Songs are sung in Deuche, and other 9 in English.
Most of the tracks are the mixture of real drum kits & machines
like Linn drums or Roland 808, 909 etc.
Also various kinds of electric and electronic kbd were used,
played & manipulated.
BEYOND NIGHTS & DAYS
TAKUMI
1994 PROSPER MUSIC ( PRS - 001)
1 Sweat Surrender 5 Daydreamer
2 Let's Light The Fire 6 Life Behind
3 Some Fantasy 7 All The Young Dudes *
4 So Far Away
3rd album as a solo.
Co-produced by Masahide Sakuma (ex. PLASTICS )
More of the Jazzy , moody songs were introduced,
and electronic sounds bit decayed.
Trumpet player Issei Igarashi and Aco.Guitar player Hiroki Miyano
are featured in several tunes accompanied with TAKUMI's vocal.
Also Sakuma played el.guitar in 2 songs , while Bravo Komatsu
played on another songs.
Last tune is the jazz ver. from the classic D. Bowie catalogue .
MISPRINT
Films
1980 Nihon Columbia Records
( AF-7005-AX )
A 1 Welcome To Future B 1 Crash Kids
2 30th Century Boy 2 T.V. Phone Age
3 Dream Of Computer 3 Take Me On The Linear Jet
4 Glad I'm Not Left Alone 4 Radio Zone
5 Remote Controlled Romance
6 Fine ?
The Debut album of FILMS in which TAKUMI satarted his professional
career as a musician in 1980.
The sounds were typical early 80's Japanese Techno-Pop = New Wave
character - some exotic kitsch and very easy to be remembered.
Arranged all tunes ,including strings arr. , played ,manipulated
the synthesizers and keyboards.
MC-8 Sequencer manipurated by Kanji Honma.
S.E.X.
S.E.X.
1990 Toshiba EMI ( TOCT - 5880 )
1 After The War 6 Love Chat
2 Lay Your Hands On Me 7 We Go
3 This Is Heaven 8 Velvet Dance
4 Siren 9 I Can Fly
5 Valentine 10 After The War ( re-mix )
11 6 / 8 SEX
S.E.X. ( Sensational Electric Xtasy ) was the Digi-Rock duo -
Guitarist Bravo Komatsu and Vocalist Mitsuhiro Asakura
TAKUMI took part in this unit as a sampling player and
regular Live performer .
Later , in 1991 , single titled " Flower's Note " was released ,
which was written and arranged by TAKUMI
Shake! Shake! Shake!
TAKUMI iwasky
2014 Music Prosper Unltd.
( PRS-004R )
1 Shake! Shake! Shake! ( radio mix )
2 Gimme Some Reason
3 Shake! Shake! Shake! (electro funk remix by D.T.Construction )
FRAGMENTS OF TIME
TAKUMI
1984 Sound Design Record
( 1342-36 12SD )
A 1 Dawn B 1 Wayane Karnu (extended ver.)
2 Fragments Of Time
3 Wave Over And ... (re-mix)
2nd Mini-album including 4 songs ( 45 r.p.m. )
Released in September, 1984
2 of 4 songs were originally composed for the CANON camera ads.
Sleeve design by Ohtomo Katsuhiro collaborated with the CANON.
Songs came to have more some futuristic tastes than 1st album.
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1998 Swimming Bullets
( SWBU-0002 / TGCS 499)
1 Swimming Bullets (extended ver.)
2 Spain
3 -394 M altitude
4 Light Of The World
French Ambient-pop produced by TAKUMI
Lylics were written by the singer AZ and tracks composed,
arranged by TAKUMI
Sound resorces were collected through the trip to the
middle-east countries - Turkey , Jordan , Lebanon & Paris .
The Very Eectronica sound of the time .
Deep influences from the Middle-east music & culture .
" -394 M altitude " means the Dead Sea of which altitude is lowest
in the world.
Mixing also by TAKUMI himself .
TPO 1
TPO
1983 Sony Records( ( 28AH 1671 ) ()
A 1 Dawning B 1 Camacho Preguicosa
2 The Jet Set 2 Tragedy Monster
3 Breakin' Up ( interlude ) 3 Dori Twisted Her Smile
4 Sundog 4 Tingle Ringing ( interlude )
5 Safari Bar 5 Traffic Jams
6 Noon 6 Eye In The Night
FairLight C.M.I. was the Main thing in the unit T.P.O.
Many experimental technics were tried to performe and to expand the possibilities of the new digital synthesizer components here.
TAKUMI used to be among 4 musicians and a producer.
Worked on the songs A - 5 , B - 1 and B - 3 only.
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Tokyo Faces
( Compilation album )
1992 Warner Music Japan
( WPCP - 4944)
1 Straightaway 6 Forever Ride
2 Turn Me On 7 Witches Brew
3 Gray Or Blue 8 E Sambada
4 Volviste A Querer 9 Garde-Moi La Dernier Danse
5 Chansons De La Rue 10 Tokyo Faces
Tokyo Faces unit started as a solo project of TAKUMI in1987 originaly.
Producer, Shinichiro Akita took over it , and rebuilt the concept .
As a result , album " Tokyo Faces " was released as a compilatin gathered the fine-tuned CM songs broadcasted in Japan 1987 ~ 1992
TAKUMI composed & Arranged the track no. 2 , 3 , 6 , 7 , 9 & 10
Each track has the featured vocalist .