Fantastic Plastic Machine

Tomoyuki Tanaka (田中知之, Tanaka Tomoyuki) is an electronic music artist/DJ, better known by his stage name of Fantastic Plastic Machine. He is considered to be part of the Shibuya-kei movement, drawing heavily from bossa nova, lounge music, house music, and 1960s movie soundtracks, but he also incorporates many other types of music. Tanaka was born in Kyoto, Japan. In the late 1980s, Tanaka played as the bassist in a rock band called Margarine Stri... more

Tomoyuki Tanaka (田中知之, Tanaka Tomoyuki) is an electronic music artist/DJ, better known by his stage name of Fantastic Plastic Machine. He is considered to be part of the Shibuya-kei movement, drawing heavily from bossa nova, lounge music, house music, and 1960s movie soundtracks, but he also incorporates many other types of music. Tanaka was born in Kyoto, Japan. In the late 1980s, Tanaka played as the bassist in a rock band called Margarine Strikes Back. Then in the early 1990s, Tanaka became a regular club DJ in the Kansai area, working as part of a DJ team known as Sound Impossible. While playing with Sound Impossible, fellow artist and friend Towa Tei convinced Tanaka to go back to recording music, and in 1997 Tanaka created his solo project Fantastic Plastic Machine under the Readymade Records (a Columbia Music Entertainment sub-label) label in Japan. His first two albums, The Fantastic Plastic Machine (1997) and Luxury (1998), were critically acclaimed and gained him... less