Artist Profile
Koyas
Koyas is a Tokyo-based artist, producer and label founder. His label is focused on electronic live performing artists. After Koyas had teamed up with DJ Yogurt, he gained a large interest in music production.They have appeared in famous festivals like Fuji Rock Festival and released several albums with styles ranging from ambient to techno, and remixed Ken Ishii, Keiichi Sokabe Band, Kimyo Reitaro and more. He has started his label, psymatics in 2013. The next year he released an improvisation-based electronic session with CD HATA from Dachambo, a widely known Japanese band. In 2015, his label released a vinyl-only remix ep of UK legendary artist, The Irresistible Force. On the other side, Koyas contributes to write or translate about music production and instruments for magazines and web with his wide knowledge about electronic music production and engineering. Since 2014, he has been an Ableton Certified Trainer as one of first Japanese trainers. On 2015, he founded Ableton Meetup Tokyo, a Tokyo based Ableton user community, and holds meet-up events repeatedly. His team participated large conferences like Tokyo Dance Music Event and they organized Live 10 preview event at Contact Tokyo when Live 10 came out.