Dub Master X
Remixer: Dub Master X
Real name: Izumi Miyazaki
Born: 1963
Nationality: Japanese
Izumi Miyazaki aka Dub Master X is probably Japan's no.1 remixer. After getting a degree as a sound engineer in Tokyo, he got a job as a mixing engineer at the hot spot club "Pithecanthropus". He then joined the dub band MUTE BEAT (other members included Kazufumi "Echo" Kodama, Akihito Masui, Tabayoshi Matsunaga, Hirobumi Asamoto and Gota Yashiki) and they released 5 albums and 5 singles between 1982 and their breakup in 1990, as well as doing live gigs in places like Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. A personal highlight for Miyazaki came in 1988 when he got to work with the creator of Dub, the late King Tubby.
After MUTE BEAT disbanded, he joined MELON, a project headed by former PLASTICS member Toshio Nakanishi, as an engineer, and toured Italy and England.
Miyazaki also started DJ'ing in 1983, with his base in the club MONK BERRYS in Harajuku, but he was also being hired as a scratcher and engineer for both studio recordings and live events. He was a central figure in the DJ boom in Japan together with Hiroshi Fujiwara, and actually got the reputation of being one of the top artists in the field.
He and Fujiwara then got involved in the remix business, remixing songs for Kyoko Koizumi, a famous singer in Japan. He continued remixing as well as being an engineer and club DJ, and emerged as the leader in his field. In fact, he blazed new trails when he was signed to record label avex trax as a remixer in 1999. He's now viewed as the premier remixer in Japan, having worked with big names like Pizzicato Five, ELT, Namie Amuro, MAX, DA PUMP, DAI, HAL and of course Ayumi Hamasaki. His name-recognition is so wide and his remixes so popular that avex trax released a compilation of his remixes called "Dub's Music Box" (AVCD-11856).
At present, Miyazaki continues to display all his talents as remixer, DJ, musical arranger, producer, recording engineer, P.A. operator & planner, composer, programmer, radio program producer and more. Additionally, Miyazaki's released a few solo albums on Colombia Records under his Dub Master X moniker.
--->taken from
http://hamasaki-republic.org/
ayumaria.