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Akira Kosemura (he/him) is a composer and pianist hailing from Tokyo, Japan. He is a prolific artist, constantly releasing solo albums and composing music for films, TV drama, games, stage, and commercial music.

Akira founded his own label Schole Records early on after his solo album It’s on Everything released in 2007 while he was still in school. In 2017 and 2018 Akira’s music was ranked in Spotify’s “Most Played Japanese Artists/Songs Top 10”, and his works have been highly acclaimed on media around the world, including US music media Pitchfork, Australian newspaper THE AGE, French public broadcast FIP, and Canadian public broadcast Ici Musique.

Akira’s major score works include Fragments of The Last Will by Takahisa Zeze, the Cannes 2020 featured film True Mothers (Asa Ga Kuru) directed by Naomi Kawase, Hollywood produced drama series Love Is__, the Nintendo Switch game Jack Jeanne produced by Sui Ishida, the TBS drama series Chugakusei Nikki, the contemporary ballet piece MANON, and the Japan Pavilion in Milano EXPO. His music pieces were also featured in the Amazon original movie Jonas Brothers’ CHASING HAPPINESS, the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion awarded director Audrey Diwan’s debut film Mais vous etes fous (Losing It), and the Toho movie Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare.

In recent years, he has worked on projects in different media such as SK-II STUDIO’s documentary The Center Lane (featuring Rikako Ikee), directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, the runway music for a collection from apparel brand TAKAHIROMIYASHITA The Soloist., as well as music for LA MER BLUE HEART, LAND ROVER, and L’OCCITANE. Akira has also co-produced a song with American musician Devendra Banhart.

In addition to his versatility and diverse portfolio, Akira has been working on a world scale. In 2022 he signed a contract with prestigious Decca Records, and the EP Pause (almost equal to) Play was released worldwide. Akira’s music was also sampled in John Legend’s song “The Other Ones feat. Rhapsody” included in his new album Legend Act I & II. And Akira’s first major album SEASONS was released on Decca Records (UMG) on June 30, 2023.

林哲儀 a.k.a. DJ Mykal has been in the musical area for more than 10 years now and well-known with his multi-identities. In one hand, he goes by his real name Lin Che-Yi and has been posting articles about music in the Newspapers like “China Times” and magazines such as MCB, SMART MAX and etc. He was sincerely invited three times to be one of the judges for the Golden Melody Awards, Taiwanese Annual Music Awards.He is also hosting a record store with a mix style of music and street styles called M@M Boutique. 

On the other hand, he is also known by many people as DJ Mykal. He was a former resident DJ at the club “Spin” and he is a resident DJ and Music Director at the club “Partroom” right now. He has been invited as a guest DJ in many famous clubs in Taiwan such as @LIVE, 2F, LUXY, MOS TAIPEI…and many others. His style is combining all kind of time periods and mix with many different styles such as Classic Rock, Alternative Rock, Hip-Hop, Breakbeat, House, Drum’n’Bass…etc and remix them into a DJ set full of surprise and fun, very stylish and fresh. After all these years, he had been in the same stage with many world famous super DJs, such as Paul Okenfold, DJ Shadow, DJ Krush, Bad Company, Adam F, Adam Freeland, James Lavelle(UNKLE), Andy C, DJ Hype, BT, Aphrodite, DJ Cam, DJ Marky & XRS…etc. More importantly, in the year 2004 fall, DJ Mykal and one of the most singer-songwriter, Chang chen-yue were both invited by the famous live house “House Of Blues” for a US tour in over 10 cities in US. The following years 2005 and 2006, he was invited not only to be one of the judges for the world famous DJ competition DMC in Taiwan, but also the one and only warm-up act for The Prodigy Taipei Live Concert. Besides, DJ Mykal has been Djing for fashion shows of famous brands like Christion Dior, Marc Jacobs, Adidas Originals, Puma…etc.

In 2007, DJ Mykal released his first official DJ-Mix Album "Original Brainchild" featuring tracks from Pulp, U2, The Killers, Limp Bizkit, DJ Shadow, UNKLE, Stereo MCs, Weezer...etc. It definitly shows DJ Mykal's eclectic choice and terrific DJ-Mixing skills. In the end of 2007, DJ Mykal not only went aboard to DJ at Zouk(Malaysia) and CIXI(Hong Kong), but also was invited to be guest DJ for Fantastic Plastic Machine's Grand Tourisme 7th Anniversary Party @ Yellow in Tokyo. In first half of 2009, DJ Mykal not only was invited to DJs in Okinawa twice but also had a great party with VERBAL(m-flo/Teriyaki Boyz) at Trump Room in Shibuya. 


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