(Japanese version is here)

Music Producer/Composer
Founder & CEO of Model Electornic Inc.

-Summery-

Award winning composer and music producer Tatsuya Oe (Captain Funk) is known for his mastery and diversity of music production in Electronic, Dance, Rock, Pop, and Dramatic scores. His music has been often featured globally in TV, Film, Video Games, Animation projects, and branding campaigns in the US/EU/Asia markets. Clients include Pepsi, Burger King, Skechers, Forever21, Chrysler, Unilever, Microsoft XBox, FOX, NBC, Oprah Winfrey Network, Sony, Canon, Panasonic, Cartier, De Beers, Vivienne Westwood, Uniqlo, Shiseido, Pola, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, etc. Also he has collaborated with or remixed more than 200 artists/bands such as James Brown, Diana Ross, Chic, Simon LeBon, Ron Sexsmith, Serge Gainsbourg, and many other icons. He is also called “Remix Wizard”.

Tatsuya participated in Panasonic’s exciting global branding movie “Experience Color,” which won “The Finalist Award” in New York Festivals, as well as “Silver Prize” for the Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards. Fatboy Slim, famous for their music and music videos featuring actor Christopher Walken, described his music as “F***ing insane!” Captain Funk’s album, “Songs of the Siren,” was selected by Billboard for their feature story “Year in Music 2000, Asia,” and his song “Twist & Shout” was chosen to be featured in the Venezia Film Award-winning movie “Monday.”

-Artist Bio-

Tatsuya Oe was born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1969. At the age of 12, he showed great interest in rock, pops, and electronic music, and finally, at the age of 14, decided to buy his first electric guitar, synthesizer, and sequencer. In school days he formed several bands performing rock, synth pop/new wave, heavy metal, and even prog rock. While he couldn’t find bandmates for playing his favorite funk or black music since those kinds of music was nearly unknown at that time, a few years later he found excitement in playing DJ to the audience and got attracted by dance/club music such as rare groove, disco, house, hip hop, etc.

After he graduated from Tokyo University and while working for an advertising company, he started composition/music production with his computer. His demo tapes were acclaimed by several European dance/techno labels and he released his debut 12 inches from Italian label ACV under the name of TATSUYA OE in ’97. Since “Encounter with…” album (’98), he burst onto the club scene as the maverick solo project “CAPTAIN FUNK”.

“Captain Funk will make you believe!” was The Ministry of Sound magazine’s opinion, while Time Out Mag described his music as a “Vibrant delight!” Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) described his record as “F***ing insane!” and demanded extra copies. The Fatboy was not alone obviously, as Tatsuya has earned the praise and respect of international DJs from across the board such as Cold Cut, Si Begg, Freddy Fresh, Ken Ishii and Carl Cox for his unashamedly infectious party groove.

Captain Funk released successful singles, Mix CDs and albums including “Bustin’ Loose EP“, “Dancing in the Street“, “Style“, etc. Especially his 2nd album “Songs of the Siren” was selected as one of “The Year in Music 2001″ of the Billboard Magazine.

He also has played DJ at many gigs and big events not only in Japan such as “Fuji Rock Festival ” but also overseas including UK, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea.

From ’02 release “Here and You“, he started another solo project simply under the name OE, which is more cutting-edge and introspective. After collaboration with Yoshihide Otomo “ONJQ+OE“, he released 2 albums “Physical Fiction” and “Director’s Cut“. During OE’s era, he did an opening act for Kraftwerk, Holgar Czukay, and David Bowie (as Groove Syndicate, his another project) in their Japan tours.

After shifting into high gears through several DJ tours including ones with Space Cowboy, he launched his own company/label Model Electronic Inc. in May ’06. As the first project of this company, he released Captain Funk’s long awaited albums, “Heavy Metal” and ”Heavy Mellow” (’07). These albums prove that he found a way of fusing together the early Captain Funk’s uplifting vibes and his songwriting skills acquired through OE’s works. Some tracks as represented by “Hey Boy, Hey Girl” feat. Meri Neeser became very popular, not only in Japan but also overseas parties and shops for celebrities such as Club Sandwich and Dior Homme shop in Paris.

While continuing collaboration and remix work for other artists such as Dune, Radiopilot and Ami Suzuki, in Aug ’09 he released Captain Funk’s next album “Sunshine” in Japan (worldwide in Oct 2010), which includes smash hits like “Weekend (kissing, touching, tasting, loving)” feat. Adnan Kurtov and “Piece of you ” feat. Meri Neeser. “Weekend” was ranked top 5 in some radio charts, and “Piece of You” was featured by Forever 21 (US) for their sales promotion and aired in aired in 9 movie theaters in the western United States, as well as in Forever 21′s 400+ stores. In July ’11, his latest album “Versions 2011″ got ranked No.1 in “Dance/Electronica” & No.2 in “Pops” at MP3 Album chart on Amazon.co.jp.

He has worked for and with numerous musicians, art directors, fashion brands and corporate advertising films, such as James Brown, Serge Gainsbourg, Ron Sexsmith, CHIC, Hotei, Simon Lebon with Nick Wood, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Puffy, Tsuchiya Anna, Ken Ishii, Noriyuki Tanaka, SABU (film director), Cartier, Vivienne Westwood, Forever21, Uniqlo, Sony Ericsson, Shiseido, Canon, Mitsubishi Motors, Konami, Sega, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, etc.

Also, Panasonic Viera’s global branding website “Experience Color”, in which Tatsuya participated in the music production, won “The Finalist Award 2007” in New York Festivals as well as the “Silver Prize” in “Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards 2007″.

Reference
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Funk
Discog: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Captain+Funk

Tatsuya Oe / Captain Funk official websites
CF Official: http://www.captainfunkofficial.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/CaptainFunkOfficial
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/captainfunkofficial
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/CaptainFunkOfficial
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Captain_Funk

Company website
http://www.model-electronic.com/

LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tatsuyaoe