Kaztake Takeuchi: Composer, arranger, producer & keyboard player Born in Osaka, 1975, brought up in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture. His career in making tracks of HOUSE and HIPHOP began in 1995. In 1998, he undertook new face produce in record companies.

From 1998, he belongs to A Hundred Birds, a HOUSE Orchestra including more than 30 members. He is one of the core member doing everything of lyrics, music, arragement, and produce. He also plays the keyboards in this band.
In 1999, A Hundred Birds (AHB) made a remix work of Chikuzen Sato's "Let me in"(Toshiba EMI). After AHB performed with Jocelyn Brown in 2000, they made a contract with WAVE music(NYC) and released some analog singles "BATONGA (2001)", "GEORGIA (2003)", "Jaguar/So eye on (2003)" and "BLACK WATER/Come Together (2005)." These records made a hit worldwide in a HOUSE scene.

In Japan, AHB released the 1st album "Fly From The Tree (2005)" through the Japanese major rabel FLME/GUT. In the same year, they made a mini album "in the sky" and appeared in ASAGIRI-Jam. In the next year 2006, they were offered to make REMIXIES from YUKI, DA
PUMP, SUNEO-HAIR and so on. They appeared in FUJI ROCK FES.(White stage), RISING SUN ROCK FES. in EZO(Moon circus) by orchestra formation in summer, 2006 and became a big topic. Furthermore, they dealt with REMIXIES of "REJ", "discopolis" from British top dance label DEFECTED and released them successively in autumn, 2006. AHB is a band you should pay attention to most now.

http://www.ahundredbirds.com/

Kaztake produces a HIPHOP-band called "SUIKA", with playing the Wurlitzer and making tracks as a leader of the band. SUIKA has a rapper with playing the woodbass TAKATSUKI (Samurai Troops), a percussionist Yuko Takahashi (Gomes the Hitman), a rapper ATOM and a poet TOTO as the members. SUIKA began in 2003.They played at FUJI ROCK FES. 2004, NAGISA FESTIVAL 2005 & 2006 and collaborated with SHINGO 2 at Candle Night 2005. They released 3 albums including the critically acclaimed first album "Harvest for the stripes (2004)", "RIPE STRIPES (2005)" and "COINCIDE (2005)." Through their host event "SUIKA-YAWA", they have good relationships with artists from different genres, such as ORIGAMI, illreme, HARCO, Romancrew, and Kazumi Nikaido.

http://www.suikaweb.com

In 2007, Kaztake launched a new solo project "D.I.T.A." He collaborated with Joi Cardwell and made her single "Celia/A Beautiful Life (Rambling Records)" released on May 2nd 2007. He wrote the original song "Delighted Butterfly feat. Satoko OKuda" for a compilation album "BUTTERFLY" released on July 4th 2007. Now he works for the album.

http://www.rambling.ne.jp/html/

As a producer or a player, in 2003 he produced an artist of Kyoto native, VIVA SHERRY's 2nd album. In 2005 he joined the recording for TAKATSUKI's 3rd album "TAKATSUKITASUKI"
as a fulltime keyboardist. Currently he still serves as TAKATSUKI's keyboardist, doing recordings, gigs, etc..