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Tokyo Alumni Podcast Episode 44: DJ Taku Takahashi from M-Flo (St. Marys 1993) - The start of M-Flo, Music industry in Japan, offline-online, "innovation" in music
DJ Taku Takahashi (member of M-Flo) (St. Marys 1993)
Musician and Producer
Taku Takahashi is a Japanese hip hop recording artist, DJ, and record producer who debuted in 1997 as a record producer of the hip hop group M-Flo. The group rose to prominence in the early 2000s, with hit singles such as "How You Like Me Now?" and "Come Again." Takahashi was also a member of Avex's 20th-anniversary dance music project Ravex, and has produced songs for musicians such as Crystal Kay, Ami Suzuki and Rie Fu, and remixes for Hikaru Utada and Ayumi Hamasaki. He formed the record labels Tachytelic Records and TCY Recording. M-Flo M-Flo is a Japanese hip hop group consisting of record producer DJ Taku Takahashi, MC Verbal, and Lisa. Their mainstream success and critical acclaim established them as the most iconic and influential hip-hop production team in Japan with success throughout Asia. Taku Takahashi and Verbal also started successful side-projects outside M-Flo, such as the Teriyaki Boyz and Global Astro Alliance collaborating with international producers and artists such as Kanye West and the Beastie Boys.
Time Stamps
0:32 - Introduction
1:52 - Meeting Verbal (Young-Kee Yu) and starting N.M.D.
4:06 - Winning Battle of the Bands @ ASIJ / First Record Label deal offers
6:34 - Occidental College / Musical influences from the 1990s
10:08 - "Inter" kouhai and M-Flo - Nicks experience being introduced to M-Flo
11:50 - International school graduates and the music industry
16:13 - Advice to international school kouhai who want to be part of the music industry
20:13 - Survival of the fittest in the music industry and the importance of being able to adapt, monetization in music today, and Japans failure to adapt
25:42 - "Innovation" in the world of music today - the hunt for "originality"
27:52 - Utilizing online platforms in the music industry - block.fm
30:48 - What will the music scene in 2021-2022 look like
33:53 - What is coming up in the next few years and decades
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By Nickolas Harris
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DJ Taku Takahashi (member of M-Flo) (St. Marys 1993)
Musician and Producer
Taku Takahashi is a Japanese hip hop recording artist, DJ, and record producer who debuted in 1997 as a record producer of the hip hop group M-Flo. The group rose to prominence in the early 2000s, with hit singles such as "How You Like Me Now?" and "Come Again." Takahashi was also a member of Avex's 20th-anniversary dance music project Ravex, and has produced songs for musicians such as Crystal Kay, Ami Suzuki and Rie Fu, and remixes for Hikaru Utada and Ayumi Hamasaki. He formed the record labels Tachytelic Records and TCY Recording. M-Flo M-Flo is a Japanese hip hop group consisting of record producer DJ Taku Takahashi, MC Verbal, and Lisa. Their mainstream success and critical acclaim established them as the most iconic and influential hip-hop production team in Japan with success throughout Asia. Taku Takahashi and Verbal also started successful side-projects outside M-Flo, such as the Teriyaki Boyz and Global Astro Alliance collaborating with international producers and artists such as Kanye West and the Beastie Boys.
Time Stamps
0:32 - Introduction
1:52 - Meeting Verbal (Young-Kee Yu) and starting N.M.D.
4:06 - Winning Battle of the Bands @ ASIJ / First Record Label deal offers
6:34 - Occidental College / Musical influences from the 1990s
10:08 - "Inter" kouhai and M-Flo - Nicks experience being introduced to M-Flo
11:50 - International school graduates and the music industry
16:13 - Advice to international school kouhai who want to be part of the music industry
20:13 - Survival of the fittest in the music industry and the importance of being able to adapt, monetization in music today, and Japans failure to adapt
25:42 - "Innovation" in the world of music today - the hunt for "originality"
27:52 - Utilizing online platforms in the music industry - block.fm
30:48 - What will the music scene in 2021-2022 look like
33:53 - What is coming up in the next few years and decades