About Toshio Matsuura
Japanese electronic DJ and producer.
Matsuura is probably best known for his work as one of the three collective members of the [[artist:United Future Organization]] in 1990, who released five full albums over 12 years.
Since their demise in 2002, he has concentrated more on DJ-ing at clubs and festivals internationally, producing events and music supervision for notable fashion brands. While his solo production and remix work during this period, often using pseudonym [[artist:Fantasista]], has included many artists, including [[artist:James Brown]], [[artist:Astor Piazzolla]], [[artist:Gotan Project]], [[artist:Melanie De Biasio]], et al.
In 2013, he gathered talented and forward-thinking artists based in Tokyo to produce a project called [[artist:HEX (30)]] which presents Tokyo’s progressive form of Jazz to the world, with their debut self-titled album "[m=731779]" (2013) released worldwide on major jazz label [[label:Blue Note]].
Around 2018, new project [[artist:Toshio Matsuura Group]] gathered UK musicians, with album "[m=1347634]" (2018) being released on [[artist:Gilles Peterson]]'s British label [[label:Brownswood Recordings]].
Matsuura's has two regular radio programmes. The first being "WW Toyko", broadcast 11:00-13:00 (UK time) on the 1st & 3rd Monday each month, on Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM. With the second being "Tokyo Moon", which airs 17:00-18:00 each Sunday (Japan time) on "InterFM897".
