Yoshizawa Kayoko

Born in Kawaguchi, Saitama in 1990. Grew up in a foundry.
They made their major debut in 2014 after winning both the Grand Prix and Audience Award at Yamaha's Music Revolution.
He wrote the song "Monday War" as the theme song for the drama "Imaginary Office Lady Diary" written by Bakarhythm.
While their second single "Nokoru" became a long-running hit, they released their fourth album "Joyu Shimai" on November 7, 2018.

Pipe

A brother duo consisting of Gobun Tsujimura and Tomoharu Tsujimura. Using cassette MTRs, rhythm boxes, samplers, musical saws, etc., they create their own unique, fantastical music with a sense of floating. They released four full albums while in Speedstar, and after moving to Kakubarizm in 2006, they released albums, 10-inch records, and EPs exclusive to live venues, such as "magic hour," "Nagi," "SUKIMA MUSICS," "Akari Maboroshi," and "The Blue Hour." Each work has become a masterpiece that impresses many music lovers, and continues to be a long-selling item. They perform at large outdoor festivals every year, live in France, Korea, and Taiwan, tour nationwide with Jesse Harris, and hold their annual solo concerts at Liquid Room, Akasaka Blitz, Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall, etc. This year marks the 20th anniversary of their formation, and they are a wonderful duo who will hold their third solo concert at Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall on September 16th.

DAN

The trio, consisting of Sakuragi Daigo (Gt, Vo, Syn), Ichikawa Jinya (Ba) and Kawakami Teru (Dr), began their activities in 2014. They strive to absorb the musical attitudes and sophisticated sounds of various artists, and are a new generation that pursues a Japanese minimal mellow club sound that can be listened to at any time. They released their debut EP in July 2015. In April 2016, they released their long-awaited 1s album DAN, which was selected as a prize-winning work in the CD Shop Awards 2017. In July, they performed at FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL'16 for the second consecutive year. In the same year, their song Zidane was used as the background music for the official FUJI ROCK after-movie. In February 2017, they performed as an OA at James Blake's Japan tour. In April, they released the mini-album TEMPEST. In November, they performed their first overseas concert in London, and during their stay, they worked on their music at the Floating Points studio. They appeared on Gilles Peterson's radio show, Worldwide FM, and performed live in the studio. In February 2018, they hosted the Tokyo concert of UK band The xx. In May, they performed on the UK tour, appearing at "THE GREAT ESCAPE'18". In July, they released their second album, Sonatine, and appeared at FUJI ROCK FES'18. From September to December, they held a release tour, with a total of 17 concerts in Asia (4 cities in China, Taiwan, Bangkok, Hong Kong) and 9 cities in Japan. Their irregularly organized event, Timeless, has invited overseas artists such as Mndsgn from LA and Jamie Isaac from the UK.
Following his live act at NF, he has been confirmed to appear as a DJ at MNF.

sleepy.ab

The group was formed in 1998 by classmates from a vocational school upon graduation.
The sound you listen to before you go to sleep. We started making music with the concept of making music that helps you sleep comfortably. 20th anniversary since formation.

As the suffix "ab" indicates, an abstract and ambiguous world floats in the tracks and lyrics. The simple but beautiful melodies, voices, inward-looking lyrics, and soundscapes that fly through space have already established the "absolute" sound world of the three.

Kuniyuki Takahashi

Kuniyuki Takahashi is based in Sapporo. His music has always had a unique worldview regardless of borders, and is highly acclaimed by producers and DJs from all over the world. He released "Precious Hall," a tribute song to the clubs in his hometown of Sapporo, from Joe Claussell's Natural Resource label, participated in 4Hero's Dego's 2000Black compilation, released a remix of Ananda Project's masterpiece "Cascades of Colour," and released the single "Earth Beats" from Mule Musiq, which received overwhelming support from DJs. He has released numerous albums since his first album "We are Together" in 2006. His 2012 release album "Feather World" also features jazz pianist Fumio Itabashi, who has a unique worldview in the jazz scene, and his ally Henrik Schwarz, who also participated in the previous album, and advanced to new territory. He has also collaborated with overseas artists such as DJ Nature and Vakula, and an album of these collaborations will be released by sound of speed in 2017. He has remixed SAKANACTION 's song "Sample" as well as Amami Island song singer "Ikue Asazaki" and the group "Mareureu", which sings traditional Ainu songs. In recent years, he has participated in a compilation of DJ EMMA's project "ACID CITY", and "Acid Air" also features DJ Harvey, Gilles Peterson, and others. In 2017, he released a new album by Newwave Project. In 2018, he released his past works from the 80s and early 90s from Music From Memory in the Netherlands. In recent years, he has been actively performing live both domestically and abroad, including in Europe, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, and the USA, performing in a unique style that combines improvisation and dance music. In 2019, he co SAKANACTION produced and arranged the song "894.194" from SAKANACTION 's latest album "834.194."

EYE (BOREDOMS)

As a core member of the band Boredoms, which was formed in the mid-80s, he developed experimental performances that influenced the global underground scene.
Under his own name, he actively collaborates with many artists and is also active as a DJ.
As a visual artist, he has published a collection of his work and participated in exhibitions around the world, including PS1.

ICHIRO YAMAGUCHI (SAKANACTION)

Born in 1980 in Otaru, Hokkaido.
The five-member rock band SAKANACTION began their activities in 2005 and made their major debut in 2007.
He writes and composes most of the songs.
His progressive approach to "what it means to be a musician" has always attracted attention, and in recent years he has collaborated with creators from all walks of life to engage in a wide range of activities that combine music and various cultures at a highly expressive level, earning him acclaim.

Ameya Norimizu

In 1979, at the age of 17, he joined Kara Juro's "Situation Theater". In 1983, he formed "Tokyo Grand Guignol" and became independent as a director. In 1990, he moved to art venues such as the Roentgen Art Institute. From 1995, he worked on raising and selling animals at "Dobutsu-do", while also participating in the "Japan Year Zero" exhibition in 1999 and the "Vangunt" exhibition in 2005. In 2007, he returned to theater by directing Hirata Oriza's "Transfer Student". Since then, he has participated in FT, Azumabashi Dance Crossing, Po Night, and other events. In 2014, he won the 58th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for "Blue Sheet". He has collaborated with novelists Asabuki Mariko and Yamashita Sumito, and performed with many musicians across generations, including Otomo Yoshihide, Tenniscoats, Nanao Tabito, Oyamada Keigo, Yamakawa Fuyuki, ECD, MARK, Aoba Ichiko, and Kukangendai. In 2018, she starred in the music video "Ropeway" by CERO, which was shot on black and white 8mm film, and became a hot topic.

Daito Manabe (Rhizomatiks Research)

Tokyo-based artist, interaction designer, programmer and DJ.
He founded Rhizomatiks in 2006, and in 2015 co-founded Rhizomatiks Research with Motoi Ishibashi, which carries out projects with a strong R&D element within Rhizomatiks.
He creates works by looking at familiar phenomena and materials from a different perspective and combining them. Rather than aiming for rich expressions such as high resolution and high realism, he focuses on the intrinsic interest of phenomena, the body, programming, and computers that can be discovered through careful observation, as well as the relationships and boundaries between analog and digital, and real and virtual, and is active in the fields of design, art, and entertainment.

Rhizomatiks Research

CEKAI

Creator is here.
Established in 2013 Kyoto / Tokyo / LA
A group of independent creators.
We will continue to create purely products.
The creators are here.

DOMMUNE

Naohiro Ukawa is a rare artist who is currently engaged in the most free expression in modern Japan, erasing the existing frameworks of fine art and popular culture. After converting his office into a club and establishing the now-legendary Mixrooffice (2006-2008), he opened Japan's first live streaming studio DOMMUNE in 2010 as a new cultural hub for the social stream era! It suddenly appeared as the "final media" in the era that was said to be the dawn of SNS, and boasts overwhelming program quality and number of viewers among the profusion of live streaming programs. Every Monday to Thursday, two programs are streamed every day for five hours every weekday between 7:00 p.m. and midnight. Since its launch, it has continued to exist as a unique cultural platform where various guests from all over the world appear whenever they visit Japan. It has also influenced the London-based music channel BOILER ROOM, and DOMMUNE is in charge of the Japanese branch of BOILER ROOM TOKYO. It is no exaggeration to say that DOMMUNE has created the template for almost all of the sound and art streaming and culture streaming that is now overflowing around the world. Over the past nine years, DOMMUNE has streamed approximately 4,000 programs, 7,000 hours, and 1.5 billion terabytes of content, with a total audience of over 50 million. In an age where the traditional concepts and formats of "broadcasting," "publishing," and "advertising" are collapsing, DOMMUNE continues to experiment with live video streaming, innovatively uncovering new possibilities for visual communication day and night. Ukawa considers the filming, streaming, and recording of the programs produced daily at the DOMMUNE studio to be his own "current art work." He has also participated in numerous international contemporary art exhibitions, setting up satellite studios around the world in London, Dortmund, Stockholm, Paris, Mumbai, Linz, Fukushima, Yamaguchi, Osaka, Kagawa, Kanazawa, Akita, Sapporo, and more, and continues to simultaneously explore the meanings of omnipresence (here and now) and omnipresence (anytime, anywhere). In 2019, the satellite studio "DOMMUNE SETOUCHI" will be opened at the Setouchi Triennale 2019, which will be held in his birthplace! In order to spread the fascinating culture of "SETOUCHI," which was selected as the number one "destination to visit in 2019" by National Geographic Traveler magazine, to the world, the studio will be moved from Shibuya to Setouchi, and about 50 programs will be broadcast from his hometown of Takamatsu during the summer period!!!!! And on July 13th, he will collaborate with the party "NIGHT FISHING" organized by SAKANACTION, and will evolve (deepen) as "MID NIGHT FISHING" with cutting-edge technology in the moonlit forest of Iwamizawa, Hokkaido!!!!! Experience this program, a "live work of art" created by the uniqueness of "here" and "now"!!!!!!!

Akiko Nakayama

A painter, he creates paintings using a variety of materials, from liquids to solids, in a performance called "Alive Painting." He vividly depicts all kinds of phenomena based on scientific and physical laws, as well as the colors that appear, in his works as metaphors for living things and relationships. In his solo works, he treats sound as "transparent paint," and touches space and emotions by painting. In recent years, he has also appeared at TEDxHaneda, DLECTRICITY ART FESTIVAL 2017 (Detroit, US), New Ars Electronica opening performance 2019 (Linz, Austria), and Biennale Nemo 2018 (Paris, France).

Keijiro Takahashi

While working as a Unity evangelist, he also creates many works as a visual artist every day.
Since most of the project files are publicly available, they have gained support from engineers and artists around the world and are receiving a constant stream of offers.
He has collaborated with numerous artists, including Merzbow, XXX RESIDENTS, FEMM, Teenage Engineering, and DUB-Russell, and has attracted attention.
Recently, he has been actively performing overseas, including on the BRDG ASIA TOUR. At NIGHT FISHING →MNF in JOINALIVE, he will be joined by Yasuyuki Yoshida as a supporting VJ.

Koichi Makigami (Hikashu)

As the leader of the band Hikashu, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary since its debut, he is a world-famous artist who travels from New York to Moscow and Oceania. He is also well-versed in folk music, sings Jewish klezmer music in Yiddish, and skillfully plays the mouth harp. He won the 2017 Tuva Republic International Khoomei Contest. He has served as the president of the Japan Tuva Khoomei Association for 20 years.
As a producer, he has worked on many projects, including Jazz Art Sengawa, John Zors Cobra, the Yugawara Contemporary Music Festival, and the Atami Mirai Music Festival.
In addition to writing lyrics and composing music, he plays many instruments including the theremin, cornet, shakuhachi, and electronics, and is also actively involved in collaborations. He is well-known for his singing ability, which ranges from songs that sound like songs to songs that are not even songs, and he is also active as a creator of theatrical performances that make full use of these musical elements.
He has strong ties with the New York music scene, including John Zorn and Ikue Mori, but recently he has also had many interactions with Nordic jazz musicians, such as Thomas Stronen.

Shotaro Aoyama (NF)

He began studying fashion under a designer at the Paris headquarters of MAISON KITSUNÉ in 2008. He started his own brand in 2012, and three years later in 2014, he launched the Paris store of the Japanese select shop 1LDK.
After returning to Japan, he released the 12-inch "Forest EP" under the name "Nature Rhythm" from his own label "Deep Frontier Records" in 2016, and it spread mainly in Europe, such as Phonica Records and Kristina Records in London, Bass Cadet Records in Berlin, Syncrophone in Paris, and TECHNIQUE in Tokyo, and sold out in one week at all shops. In January 2017, he released his second album "Lost In The Jungle EP", and in addition to his own label, he has signed with Parisian house label "D.KO Records" and plans to release it from Parisian techno label "CLEK CLEK BOOM". He joined NF in 2016 and is working on projects in fashion and music as ICHIRO YAMAGUCHI 's right-hand man.

AMI KUSAKARI (sakanaction)

He debuted as the bassist for SAKANACTION in 2007.
During live performances, he skillfully plays electric bass and synth bass, and is responsible for the band's groove.

He has also frequently participated as a DJ on NF, leaving a strong impression on listeners as a multi-instrumentalist.

Dasha aka Yoshiharu Sato (TECHNIQUE)

Born in 1978 in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture. DJ. Owner of the record shop "TECHNIQUE".
In 2013, he founded EFD, a distributor based in Japan and Germany that promotes numerous independent dance labels worldwide.
In the past, he has participated in Japan's leading anarchy techno label WC and the unspecified number of jack projects FKTB and released works.
He currently hosts the dance music section on NHK-FM's "SAKANACTION ICHIRO YAMAGUCHI Night Fishing Radio."

EJIMAA & MOTOHARU IWADERA (sakanaction & NF)

EJIMAA is a duo DJ unit consisting of SAKANACTION 's drummer KEIICHI EJIMA and MAA, who not only DJs at underground techno parties in Tokyo but also works as a graphic designer.

At MNF, there will be a session featuring DJ EJIMAA and guitar by MOTOHARU IWADERA.

Setsuya Kurotaki (NF)

He has worked on a wide range of projects, including sound production for fashion shows both in Japan and overseas, various events, sound branding for commercial facilities, sound design/music production for websites, video works, and public spaces.
As a musician, he has participated in and guest performed at numerous live shows and recordings, and has also performed as a music selector in various cities.

NF Uniform T-shirt "001"

SIZE: S/M/L/XL ¥5,000

This NF uniform T-shirt features a single embroidered accent on the chest, and was created in response to a request from ICHIRO YAMAGUCHI to create an NF uniform that could be worn on an everyday basis.

NF CAP

SIZE: Free ¥4,000

A six-panel cap made from lightweight and durable nylon material with a single NF embroidered accent.

NF Sacoche

SIZE: S/M/L/XL ¥5,000

This sacoche is made from ultra-lightweight nylon material and features graphics printed on it designed by director YUSUKE TANAKA.
The shoulder strap is adjustable, making it the perfect item for summer festivals.