Masa Oka (Masaki Okamoto) is an electronic musician currently residing in Sub-urban Shin-Yurigaoka near Tokyo.
He was born in 1974 in Wakayama prefecture, south of Osaka, and finished high school there. Then he moved to Boston, U.S.A. to attend Berklee College of Music and study Jazz Improvisation, Composition and Harmony among other subjects. He majored in guitar performance and was a member of one of the top-notch classes, Avant-garde Ensemble, when he quit in 1995.
Craving for fresh ideas, he then moved to London and stayed there for a year, learning electronic-music production from friends.
Upon returning to Japan, he started DJing and hosting a weekly party under the alias of Maapee. In 1998, he was invited to participate on a compilation CD series "Magnetic Storm" for which two of his tracks were used.
In 1999, he was awarded in Sony Music's "Future Music Audition," which led to his contribution to the "Blister" movie soundtrack. He also worked as a translator for music industry around this time. The projects he was involved in include Whitney Houston's best album and Billy Joel's millennium concert album.
In 2000, "Masa Oka" was adopted as his performance name. He relocated to Wakayama in 2001, and produced music for an NHK Wakayama's news program in 2003. He started teaching music around this period.
Moving back to Tokyo in 2005, he continued teaching. He still does today, and the subjects now include guitar, composition, computer music and vocal.
He spent much of 2007 street-performing in with a guitar, and on one such occasion, was spotted by Makoto Sekiguchi from CCB, who later hired Masa as a guitarist for his shows . He also made musical contribution to Digibook, a photo-album website.
2008 saw him play live aggressively with his electronic sets. Bullet's has hosted him as a live act almost every month. In those shows he rapped and played guitar over the electronic tracks, while projecting self-created animation movies.
We released a label compilation "ALT A NATIVE SYNDICATE" on 25th September! This compilation includes White Scooper, Nu clear classmate, AAPS and The New House. Here are the most modern Japanese music; Like overseas indie / electro pops, new wave and alternative rocks.
GOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR DISK compilation "ALT A NATIVE SYNDICATE" GOOD-1001 / including 10 songs / 1,800yen (tax out)
And we made two new music video. Please check this!!!!!!!
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Hello :))) Next our party on 26th June and 11th July!!!!!!!!!!!! W special indie parties :D Please asobi ni kite kudasai !
2009/6/26(FRI.) GOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR presents "ALT A NATIVE SYNDICATE" ＠Shinjuku MARZ OPEN/START 24:30 ADV/wtih flyer 1500yen DOOR 2000yen +1DRINK (and special present!!!) 【Bands】 White Scooper / Nu clear classmate×KABI / AAPS / The New House 【DJs】 NITES(PERFECT SKIN) / YONE(The Brixton Academy) / TSKKA(AAPS) / ry01 【VJ】 OMOCHI 【Photo】 saki
2009/07/11(SAT.) "DISCO!DISCO!DISCO!×GOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR vol.2" ＠Shimokitazawa ERA OPEN/START 17:30 ADV 1800yen DOOR 2000yen +1DRINK 【Bands】 The Brixton Academy / White Scooper / LOVE AND HATES / The New House 【DJs】 TWEE GRRRLS CLUB DJs / YONE(The Brixton Academy) / ry01(GOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR) 【VJ】 #9 【Photo】 saki
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