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Born
19 September 1970 (age 53)
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Born In
Yasu, Shiga, Japan
Male Japanese popular musician (real name: Takanori Nishikawa, DOB: 1970-09-19) originally from Shiga Prefecture. Previously signed under Antinos records, but once the company's collapse was foretold from inside information, was signed under Epic Records Japan; was also first artist signed to Tofu Records, a Sony-owned label promoting Japanese pop music in North America. T.M.Revolution stands for Takanori Makes Revolution.
Officially debuted as T.M.Revolution with his single Dokusai -monopolize- (Dictatorship -monopolize-) in May 1996. Nishikawa-san's first band was originally Luis-Mary, a musical indie coordination with him as the lead vocalist (with the pseudonym "Haine"). Asakura Daisuke signed on with Nishikawa-san in 1995 under the record label FunHouse to release the first compiled single "Black or White?" (Daisuke Asakura expd. Takanori Nishikawa: Black or White). The selection process and decision from Asakura was a hard, long choice for him to make, as he was looking at producing either Katsurayama Shingo or Nishikawa. As it turns out, Nishikawa failed miserably with his first chance to sing for Asakura, and on a second chance, he took the yearning musician under his wings.
Dokusai - monopolize- was welcomed by thousands of fans, and his performance on PopJam with Asakura as the synthesist in June 1996 propelled an additional amount of unexpected sales, making the album sell out of its original printing. Months later, Nishikawa-san followed with another hit, Hesoshukujo -Venus-, and by August of that year, his first album Makes Revolution was released to the Japanese fans with a warm reception. By the release of his third single for the anime Rorouni Kenshin, Heart of Sword- Yoake Mae (Heart of Sword- Before the Dawn), Nishikawa-san had assured his success among Japanese fans.
T.M.Revolution incorporates many styles of genre of music. Each album differs greatly from each other, but the feeling of dance, techno and excellent vocals mixed with lyrics from Akio Inoue are present in all of his songs.
In March 1999, T.M.Revolution cut The Force, his most successful album to this day. In it, he released characteristic songs and fan favorites, among these being Hot Limit, Burnin' X'mas, Thunderbird, and Wild Rush. A special performance in 1999 with producer Asakura was released, making T.M.Revolution come to realization as the musical dream it started out as. Later that year, he teamed up with Asakura closely to reinvent the idea of T.M.Revolution, renaming the project The end of genesis- T.M.Revolution- evolution Turbo Type D (T.M.R.-e, for short). Working closely with each other, they slated the album Suite Season, mostly comprised of beautiful ballads incorporating heavy classical piano and really bringing Nishikawa's voice out as the center of the music.
However, the two have grown apart since T.M.R-e, and the album Progress restored the band to its original namesake. This doesn't mean, however, that the sound or style of the music changed one bit. Songs like Love Saver and Madan- Der Freischutz were part of this post T.M.R.-e era.
Since then, Nishikawa has self produced his music (Starting with the single Out of Orbit~Triple Zero~ in February of 2002. Asakura still composes and arranges much of T.M.Revolution, the only exception being the most recent albums (Vertical Infinity, UNDER:COVER). His albums Coordinate (March 2003), Seventh Heaven (March 2004), and Vertical Infinity (January 2005) have been released by Tofu Records and are available for purchase in the US, along with the DVD's Summer Crush 02' and Sonic Warp: The visual fields
Nishikawa-san has made 2 appearances in the US: Otakon 2003 in Baltimore, Maryland and Pacific Media Expo 2004 in Anaheim, California. Thousands of fans of anime piled into the convention arena, waiting to hear T.M.Revolution live, singing his songs from familiar shows as Rorouni Kenshin and Gundam Seed. The reception by an American audience left him speechless, making him an international success.
Some fans today argue over the direction of T.M.Revolution. He has been involved with hosting the musical show PopJam, producing the band Abingdon Boys School, and doing the cover Silver and Gold Dance for the 90s hit dance band TRF (Tetsuya Rave Factory). As Sunao, guitarist for J-Rock band L'arc-en-Ciel, signed with Nishikawa, the music has definately taken a more heavy feeling, incorporating more guitar, bass, and drums than the usual synthesized feeling fans can recall from hits like High Pressure. Even his voice has taken a different direction, fine tuning the raw talented vocal spread from his early career againt the ballad sound of T.M.R.-e. UNDER:COVER took liberty in rearranging 15 of the fans' most favorite songs, all done by election. The result was controversial: bringing songs like WHITE BREATH under a hard rock feeling, and orchestrating ballads like Twinkle Million Rendezvouz into concertos. Asakura worked only on the instrumental version of the Gundam Seed song Meteor (which had no vocals, just piano). His recent work includes the release of 10000000000- billion, the compilation CD and DVD of all his singles from Dokusai -monopolize- to his newest, Vestige.
T.M.Revolution, however, is still a project for everyone in Nishikawa-san's following. He wants to reach fans of every age, all over the world, bringing the revolution into the hearts of all. The line between vocalist and fan can only be separated by a sheet of music.
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