encounter
rock band
HYPERDISC RECORDS Los Angeles, California GLOBAL DISC RECORDS
TALENT MANAGEMENT Los Angeles, California
PRODUCER Daisuke Hinata
Grammy Award New Age Nominated
Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes Store
ポップスとR&Bのフュージョンで知られるハイパーディスクのメインアーティスト、『CAGNET』は、日本・東南アジアでミリオンセールスを記録。CAGNETによる、日本の人気テレビドラマシリーズ、『Long Vacation』と『Love Generation』のサウンドトラックは日本のドラマサウンドトラック史上最高の販売記録を樹立し、ソウルフルなリズムとメロディアスなバラードであふれたそれらのアルバムで、CAGNET(キャグネット)の名を広く世に知れわたらせた。
ハイパーディスクレコード(hyperdisc records)は、１９９５年、世界的に高く評価されている、音楽プロデューサーであり、作曲家の日向大介の考案から生まれる。レコードレーベルをスタートさせた後、１９９５年１１月、サンタモニカのMain Streetに、レコード店とコーヒーショップがミックスされたお店をオープンさせ、ここを基点に、『The Sounds of Santa Monica』を制作するなど、新たなプロモーションのツールとして、ローカル＆インターナショナルミュージックの発信源となる。
現在、ハイパーディスク(hyperdisc)は音楽制作にすべての力をそそぎ、アメリカの最も革新的な独立レーベルとして、ハイクオリティーミュージックをプロデュースし続けています。
rock band
ANALOG 12' Vinyl Format
Japanese TV Drama「Long Vacation, Love Generation」Soundtrack
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SOMETHING
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NUMBER
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UNKNOWN
日向大介 DAISUKE HINATA
学習院大学在学中、バークレー音楽院に留学。帰国後テクノポップバンド「INTERIOR」の活動でグラミー賞にノミネートされる。
その後小室哲哉等のトップアーティストたちのプロデュースを手掛ける。1990年にロスに移り、1996年には自身のユニット「CAGNET」で作曲プロデュースを担当したTVドラマ「ロングバケーション」のサウンドトラックが大ヒットする。
1999年にはアジアで話題をよんだ「King Of Comedy」のサントラを手掛け、1998年から2年間で6作のキューバンミュージックを発表、1999年にはワールドミュージックで最も権威のある「New Age Voice」誌において、ベストワールドアルバム賞を受賞。
Daisuke Hinata is a Japanese music producer, composer, keyboardist, synthesizer programmer, recording engineer, studio designer, and recording artist. He started Variable Speed Audio, Inc., a music production company now in its 25th year in the music business, and built two recording studios: one in Santa Monica and another in Van Nuys. In 1995, he established the record company Hyper Group, Inc., with three music labels along with a music publishing company and a management division. Shortly after, Daisuke opened Hyperdisc, a locally treasured record shop and café in Santa Monica that featured live music nightly and helped launch the careers of many successful artists.
Daisuke’s musical career and works span oceans and continents, cultures and genres. From traditional academia to electronica, his compositions have sold millions and have garnered a Grammy nomination.
Raised through adolescence in Japan, Daisuke always intended to make music his life’s work. Frustrated at the lack of his country’s musical opportunities, he left Japan at 17 to begin a world-wide search for his musical fortune. He moved to London, working in a motorcycle warehouse by day and soaking up the spectrum of folk, blues, glam and rock music of the pubs and clubs by night. From there, he made his way to the States where he enrolled at the prestigious Berklee school of Music in Boston and studied jazz with classmates like Branford Marsalis, Don Garrison and Kenny Kirkland, exploring the cutting edge with a major in electronic music. Later he relocated to Los Angeles and submerged himself in the New Wave pop movement, working as a session musician and writing songs.
Rated amongst the top artist/producers to come out of Japan, in 1987, Daisuke was nominated for a Grammy as an artist/composer with the band Interiors on the Windham Hill label. His biggest commercial successes came as the producer of three albums with three chart-topping topping singles for the Japanese superstar, Tetsuya Komuro. His resume also includes the scores to numerous commercials for Honda, Toyota, Hitachi, Kirin and General Foods.
In 1996, at the helm of the chart-topping group CAGNET, Daisuke’s talents came into public consciousness on the soundtracks of the Japanese soap operas, “Long Vacation” and “Love Generation” which both reached Gold and Platinum sales in Japan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
Daisuke took his love for music one step further in 1998 by turning his attention to world music label, Global Disc Records which is distributed across the United States and Canada. He released five Cuban albums, including Rhythm & Smoke, and received the Crossroad Music Industry Resource Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album.
In 1999, he hosted MTV’s Road Rules for the episodes taped in Cuba and Japan.
Since 2013, Daisuke’s band Encounter has played at various live venues around Tokyo, and received tremendous praise and reviews at Alfa Music Live at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall in 2015. In 2016 he worked once again with Tetsuya Komuro and played with the Chemical Brothers at the Yokohama Arena.
Daisuke’s music freely cross-pollinates jazz, rock, folk, rap, dance, rhythm & blues and more.
