Manabu Iwamura

Manabu Iwamura began making music while he was still in junior high school, inspired by Yellow Magic Orchestra and Kraftwerk. He studied in US and Italy, where in Milan he began his DJ career whilst he was studying interior decoration. Soon he was composing for fashion shows in Milan & Paris, and became famous in Italy's fashion scene.

He met Yasuharu Konishi during Pizzicato Five's Italy Tour of 1999, and in 2000 he contributed a remix for Readymade Records sampler "565741" as well as releasing his first album "109316", which both J-Pop & Jazz DJ's/critics alike highly acclaimed. He also featured on "392617", and collaborated in the studio on the solo album of Maki Nomiya called "455082".

Now based in Tokyo since January 2002, he released his 2nd album "Teorema" on Readymade International which featured as guests the German film-music meister Peter Thomas and actor Ibu Masato. He also produced "321595", remixed for a remix album "Bossa Disney Nova" on Walt Disney Records (Japan), and composed for more fashion shows for designers Keita Maruyama, Bally, et al.