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• Tetsuya Matsushita CHASE

  CHASE are... Ayumi(Vo.), Shinnosuke(Key.), Ikecho(Bass), Mattsun=Tetsuya Matsushita(Drums and Etc.).

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• Tetsuya Matsushita

  When I was very small, I played drums in the garden at home using buckets or whatever I could find. The neighborhood ladies praised me for it. At the age of 13, I picked up parts from an old electronic organ and remade them into a DIY synthesizer. Next, I made my own electric drums and electric guitar. Using two open reel tape recorders from Sony, I began experimenting with multitrack recording. In 1985, I produced my first cassette album by myself. It included a drum machine, hand-played synthesizers, and even seventh chords. In many ways, what I was doing back then is not so different from now. After that, I made three more cassette albums and went into a long period of rest. Around 2000, I formed a band with friends and stayed active for about two years, then paused again. In 2013, I became active again, then paused. In 2017, I resumed activity once more, then paused again. In 2023, I started remastering my past works. In 2024, I began using AI. In 2025, I completed an album to mark my 40th anniversary. I may go quiet again after this. Looking back, maybe my songwriting was always like creating demo tapes. I felt that someday, someone else would take these songs, perform them properly, translate them, sing them, and finish them for real. It is as if my songs were preserved in a kind of frozen sleep. Thanks to AI and streaming technology, they have now been awakened and released into the world. I feel deeply moved. Even though I am just an amateur and there were many long gaps, I am truly glad I kept creating for forty years and was finally able to complete it.

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