move profile

Name: yuri Job in move: main vocal Birthday: February 22, 1977 Height: 158 cm (about  5'3) Blood type: O Hobbies: Driving, nail art, perfume collection, snowboarding Favorite type of music: Alternative Rock, R & B Favorite Artists: Alanis Morissette, The Fugees

Name: motsu Job in move: Rapper (also a remixer) Birthday: May 22, 19XX (Don't know the actual year he was born) Height: 178 cm (about 5'9) Blood Type: A Hobbies: Computers, Cooking, Dancing, Reading, Clubbing Favorite type of music: dance, digital rock, GOA, trance, '80's pop Favorite Artists: Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Junkie XL, Asian Dub Foundation, Massive Attack

Name: t-kimura (Takashi Kimura) Job in move: Music producer, programmer, arranger, and composer (also a remixer) Birthday: January 25, 1969 Height: unknown (but about the same height as motsu) Blood Type: B

move History

When motsu was about 17, he left for the USA and taught himself how to rap and dance. He came back to Japan in 1990 and formed MORE DEEP with ZNA and SNAKE under the Sony label. During the years of 1991-1995, MORE DEEP released 3 singles and 4 albums (actually three of them were more like mini-albums). After MORE DEEP disbanded, motsu met t-kimura and started something called the RAVEMAN project in which they made some trance/techno music (I am not really sure of what RAVEMAN did, but I think it's somewhere around those lines). Around this time, t-kiumra was the producer of Favorite Blue, a duo that consisted of himself and female vocalist, Maya Matsuzaki. Favorite Blue was under the Avex Trax label. Around 1997, t-kimura wanted to create a group that served more like a side project. Recalling motsu's rapping skills, t-kimura invited him to take part in his project and motsu agreed. So, t-kimura started to look for a female vocalist for his new group. A woman named yuri, who was about 18 at that time, was auditioning for the ASAYAN singing competition TV show and t-kimura heard her. He was impressed with her singing and wanted her to audition for him instead. After hearing yuri sing several times, t-kimura decided that yuri was to be the female vocalist and motsu to be the rapper, while he would take care of all of the music and producing. motsu's writes all of the groups lyrics, which consists of half Japanese, half English lyrics. Many of these lyrics are viewed as "jibberish," but some see it as a form of art. motsu's energetic and amusing rapping gives the group it's edge and diversity and his rapping fits perfectly into yuri's vocals. move stands for "moving into anything that is fresh and not static." move has changed their style several times, first going into standard J-pop, then Eurodance mixed in with some techno music, and now trance mixed in with pop and rapping. According to t-kimura, move is the first group EVER to combine trance, techno, pop, vocals, AND rapping into their music. They did this by releasing their fourth album "SYNERGY." Many regard move as another version of globe. In my opinion, move is like a much more younger version of globe. The funny thing is, once producer Testuya Komuro moved globe into trance, so did t-kimura with move. However, if you listen to both styles of trance, you can tell that they are MUCH different. t-kimura has had several pseudonyms, some of them including GENESIS and RAVEMAN, and now ORBITRIBE.

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