Composer / Talent

DJ Matsunaga

DJ松永

Tokyo, Japan

DJ, turntablist and track maker, one half of Creepy nuts. Won the dmc Japan DJ championships 2019 final at Shibuya womb on 24 August 2019, then represented Japan at the dmc world DJ championships in London on 28 September and Beat the defending champion k-swizz to take the world title, since which every official profile has read “Sekai Ichi no DJ”. First entered DMC in 2010, winning the Hokkaido round and reaching the Japan final. Produces and supplies tracks for Cypress Ueno & Roberto Yoshino, Ken the 390, Oni and Shimpeita; live DJ for TOC of Hilcrhyme. Solo albums da Foolish (2012) and Sakasu Merodi (2014). Labels: Trigger Records (2016–17), Creepers (2017–20), onenation (2020–). Agency Steel Street / Sony Music Entertainment since 2017. Performed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics closing ceremony. Also a broadcaster and published essayist. Renamed himself from the romanised “DJ Matsunaga” to the kanji Matsunaga because the alphabet version never sat right.