About me
Justin Woolsey is a media composer, musician and producer based in Tokyo, Japan specialising in indie rock, electronica, underground dance and pop genres. He creates music and sound design for advertising, events and anything that need to make a sound.
He started playing guitar in indie rock bands at the age of 15, gigging professionally by the age of 18. He studied music Capilano College in Vancouver, Canada for one year, but quit after one year after the teachers tried to insist he learn jazz. By then he was becoming inthralled by the burgeoning DJ culture and gave up the guitar for turntables. When he moved to Tokyo from Montreal, he quickly started experimenting with a MPC2000 sampler and soon was creating music and soundscapes for artist friends' multimedia events. His first commercial project was for Toyota Altezza at Spiral Hall in Tokyo.
Since then has created music for numerous television and web commercials for clients such as Lexus, Toyota, The Walt Disney Company, Coca-Cola, National Geographic Channel, Fox Sports, Panasonic, Hitachi, and Uniqlo among many others.
His music was featured on National Geographic Channel Japan’s Top Gear promo which won the PromaxBDA Asia Gold award and on ThreeBond’s “Bond Your Sparks” film which was a finalist at Spikes Asia.
He started playing guitar in indie rock bands at the age of 15, gigging professionally by the age of 18. He studied music Capilano College in Vancouver, Canada for one year, but quit after one year after the teachers tried to insist he learn jazz. By then he was becoming inthralled by the burgeoning DJ culture and gave up the guitar for turntables. When he moved to Tokyo from Montreal, he quickly started experimenting with a MPC2000 sampler and soon was creating music and soundscapes for artist friends' multimedia events. His first commercial project was for Toyota Altezza at Spiral Hall in Tokyo.
Since then has created music for numerous television and web commercials for clients such as Lexus, Toyota, The Walt Disney Company, Coca-Cola, National Geographic Channel, Fox Sports, Panasonic, Hitachi, and Uniqlo among many others.
His music was featured on National Geographic Channel Japan’s Top Gear promo which won the PromaxBDA Asia Gold award and on ThreeBond’s “Bond Your Sparks” film which was a finalist at Spikes Asia.
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As a producer, he has worked on projects featuring such artists as Medeski, Martin & Wood, Hilary Duff, Placebo, Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran), Monday Michiru, Rie fu, ACO, Martina Topley-Bird, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, Koichi Korenaga, Wildbirds and Peacedrums, Her Space Holiday, Jazzida Grande, Toshiyuki Yasuda. Tin Cup Gypsy, Coppe, M-Swift, Wendy Parr, Tierney Sutton, Gary Griffin, Cyro Baptista, Maïa Barouh, Tavito Nanao, Wyolica, Caroline, and Root Soul.
He has produced music for two Disney Mobile Japan albums: Glamorous POP Disney and Sparkling POP Disney (Walt Disney Records). |
A deep fascination with recorded music started from the age of 2 when his parents gave him The Beatles "White Album". From then on his musical influences expanded to My Bloody Valentine, Talk Talk, The Velvet Underground, The Smiths, Cocteau Twins, Joni Mitchell, Atom Heart, DJ Premier, UNKLE, Radiohead, The Pixies, The Neptunes, J. Dilla, Shintaro Sakamoto, Damon Albarn, Massive Attack, Mura Masa, Burial, Clint Mansell, Ben Salisbury, Johann Johannsson … the list goes on.
As a musician and a DJ, he has played with Kid Koala, A-Trak, Jeepster, Phil Western, Cevin Key (Skinny Puppy), Stacey Pullen, and Depth Charge, |
The team hard at work. |
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Let's collaborate and create new memories. |
I'm a music composer and producer based in Tokyo, Japan. I create music and sounds for TV and web advertisements, apps, mobile phones, and events. Music for me is a culmination of past experiences, people, place, instinct, and happy accidents.
I want to collaborate on film work, whether it be short film, feature film, documentary or episodic format. Let's start a conversation. I want to meet dreamers and weirdos. Let's start a band. I want to create memories with the people and for the people. And have fun doing it. |