Toshio Matsuura

Japanese electronic DJ and producer.

Matsuura is probably best known for his work as one of the three collective of the United Future Organization in 1990, who released five full albums over 12 years. 

Since their demise in 2002, he has concentrated more on DJ-ing at clubs and festivals internationally, producing events and music supervision for notable fashion brands. While his solo production and remix work during this period, often using pseudonym Melanie De Biasio, et al.

In 2013, he gathered talented and forward-thinking artists based in Tokyo to produce a project called Blue Note.

Around 2018, new project Brownswood Recordings.

Matsuura's has two regular radio programmes. The first being "WW Toyko", broadcast 11:00-13:00 (UK time) on the 1st & 3rd Monday each month, on Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM. With the second being "Tokyo Moon", which airs 17:00-18:00 each Sunday (Japan time) on "InterFM897".