Kazuya Takase

Japanese composer, arranger and founder of I've Sound group. The main composer who is the representative of I've and handles everything from game songs to the production of diva including KOTOKO. From the family environment where his father was a music teacher, he grew up touching music by learning the piano from an early age, and when he was a student, he performed band activities. After graduating from school, he became absorbed in the world of digital music in the process of touching songs of various genres regardless of Western music or Japanese music, and established the music production company "Fuctory Records". While providing music for arcade music games, karaoke songs, euro beat songs for club music, etc., I got acquainted with a game maker and formed I've in 1998 with Ichiboshi, Tomoyuki Nakazawa and others, Debuted as a composer with the original song "FUCK ME". As a charisma that breaks the conventional wisdom of the BGM and theme song of PC games, which has never been seen before, it has gained a large number of core fans. In addition to playing an active role as a producer, such as recordings by artists belonging to KOTOKO and others, he also participates as a player in milestone events such as the I've Budokan performance "I'VE in BUDOKAN 2009 ~ Departed to the future ~". Formed with the idea of ​​music that is world-class from Hokkaido to Japan. As the flag bearer of I've sound, the tunes produced by Kazuya Takase will continue to evolve.