Katsuhiko |
Born 1982 in Sapporo city, Japan. With a cameraman father, he grew up from a young age in an environment with photography and creativity.
At the age of 8 he begun schooling in a neighbourhood samisen class and, though only for a short time, came in contact with the music. At the age of 9, he began playing baseball, which continued until the age of 18. Once the goal was to become a professional baseball player, but later made the decision to go towards the world of creativity.
After graduating from the high school, he began to express himself photography and drawings of people and nature. By the age of 18 he started listening to Daftpunk and from there on got into the world of electronic and dance music. The vision which the music portrayed moved him and he began thinking about what music is.
At the same time he went for a trip around Asia and discovered the pleasure of music through percussion and Didgeridoo.
After these meetings, he became involved with 'NORDFORM', the Sapporo-based group which propagates music, art and design, and participated in the party organising and art activities.
He spent some time performing as a DJ based in Sapporo, but soon he began to consider using his own sounds to 'express' and 'make people dance' and begun producing music on the laptop. In 2007, he participated in DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) the Irish electronic art event, as SketchPad, which was formed with Waterprotetion (sud electronic).
Through the success at DEAF he worked as a re-mixer for the Ireland label Nice and Nasty in 2008. Special thanks to Stephanie Power for being the link between Katsuhiko, Yuki_o and Desy Balmer.
Katsuhiko works with Jeff Milligan's Revolver and Synapse labels in Canada and produced with Jeff's inputs. The style of live sound is the Techno-Minimal House style, based on the heavy, solid bottom line with the clicky rhythm and lyrical melodies as preference.
Katsuhiko is a true artist, an original and unique person who is releasaing his debut album 'PENTACLE' on nice & nasty in May 2010 the same month and year he plans to marry his sweet heart. Busy times ahead.

