＜DETAILS＞
This is the 34th birthday celebration of ATSUSHI from DRAGON ASH, featuring TABU ZOMBIE, Tatsuyuki Hiyamuta, KenKen from RIZE and other famous members. ATSUSHI himself will also be doing an exclusive live performance session-this party is definitely going to go down in history!


＜GUEST PROFILES＞
ATSUSHI (Dragon Ash)
http://www.atsushi-takahashi.com/
Born in Feb 7th 1979 in Tokyo, Atsushi began dancing in 1996. He performed at various club events before joining Dragon Ash as a support member in 2001. He featured in all their videos and live performances. He became an official member of Dragon Ash in 2003. He began his solo dancer career in 2006 and showed that he was capable of a different style of performance. He is not bound by any genre and performs in Japan and overseas.

TABU ZOMBIE (SOIL&“PIMP”SESSIONS)
http://ameblo.jp/tabuzombie/
Born in April 1977 Kagoshima Prefecture, TABU ZOMBIE started playing the trumpet at elementary school and and after leaving high school moved to Tokyo. He won the prize for best soloist at Yamano Big Band Contest while at University and began his career as a professional musician.

KenKen (RIZE)
http://kenkenweb.net/top.php
Born in Shimo-Kitazawa, Tokyo in 1985.He began learning the bass, drums and guitar while at elementary school and at the age of 8 was inspired by the Red Hot Chili Peppers to focus his efforts on the bass. He began playing in live gigs in the Shimo-Kitazawa area from the age of 15. In April 2006 he joined the band RIZE with his older brother Nobuaki Kaneko. In June that year he made his major debut on Triad, the label run by Columbia Music Entertainment. With his own band, Kenken of Invaders, he creates music that turns dance floors into mosh pits. In 2009 he joined with drummer Tatsuya Nakamura to formed high-spec battler band SPEEDER-X. With hypnotic beats and thrilling bass-lines, they create breathtaking performances. He is also part of the project Wagdug Futuristic Unity along with KYONO (Mad Capsule Markets).

TATSUYUKI HIYAMUTA (DAD MOM GOD / THE MAN)
http://tkst1221.jugem.jp/?eid=202
Hiyamuta got his musical debut as the alto saxophonist for Tokyo Ska Paradise orchestra. He had a motorbike accident in Thailand in 1996, while on tour, which he spent six months recovering from. From then on he became a producer, releasing mini-album “Hi no O Jive” in 1999 and “Full Tension Beaters” in 2001, founding label JUST A RECORD the same year. He had been a DJ since his Ska Paradise days, and runs the club event TABOO. In 1999, he broadened his activities with the Roc Brothers DJ unit he does with Yusuke Chiba and Tatsuya Nakamura. He left Ska Paradise in 2008. In 2010, despite still being in rehabilitation he started new unit DAD MAM GOD. He released his first album “Poems like the Gun” on SEXY STONES the same year. He released his second album “ISN’T IT DMG?” in April 2011.

TOKIE (unkie)
http://www.breast.co.jp/tokie/index.html
Born in Tokyo. In 1993 he moved to NY and formed a band with multicultural members he met in the East Village. After returning to Japan he moved to the hip Shimo-Kitazawa area of Tokyo and formed eclectic rock band RIZE as bass player with Jesse McFaddin and Nobuaki Kaneko. After leaving RIZE, he joined AJICO, the band led by UA and Kenichiro Asai, alongside Kyoichi Shiino, while also joining LOSALIOS, the band led by Tatsuya Nakamura. In 2006, he formed instrumental rock band unkie with Yu Aoki (Gu) and Hiroshi Kido (Dr).
Initially it was a session band formed for a one-off event, but it was such as success that it still continues playing today. He has toured alongside Yosui Inoue and Namie Amuro and continues to be in great demand.

BARCH (OLLIE / GLIND)
http://www.olliemagazine.com/
Having written many fantastic article for Ollie as an editor, he was promoted to editor-in-chief of the magazine at the tender age of 25. He also works on the magazine GRIND. He works on producing events that involve his magazines in order to enrich the street culture scene.

PELI
http://peli.jp/
Born and raised in Yokohama, PELI specializes in music and fashion born of the spirit of different eras in the past. In order to pursue her career as a DJ and stylist, she moved to Tokyo in 2006. She has played at numerous high-fashion parties, including those of LOUIS VUITTON, HERMES and Dior, and has been featured as a fashion icon in magazines such as VOGUE JAPAN and NYLON JAPAN. She is currently working on a super-cutting-edge online boutique called PAMEO POSE, which is due to launch in Feb 2013. With an attitude that transcends time and gender, her sense of fashion, music and art is very highly developed.