, also known by the pseudonyms Tycoon To$h or Typhoom Tosh, was a Japanese musician and graphic designer who was best known as the founding member of
new wave band
Plastics
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in 1976. He was initially a part of the
technopop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s a ...
fever in Japan and later acted as a pioneer of the
Japanese hip hop
Japanese hip hop is hip hop music from Japan. It is said to have begun when Hiroshi Fujiwara returned to Japan and started playing hip hop records in the early 1980s. Japanese hip hop tends to be most directly influenced by old school hip hop, ...
scene with his band Major Force.
Personal life
He was formerly married to Japanese stylist and bandmate
Chica Sato
is a Japanese musician and fashion model best known as the lead vocalist for new wave band Plastics who then went on to form Melon with Plastics bandmate Toshio Nakanishi
, also known by the pseudonyms Tycoon To$h or Typhoom Tosh, was a Ja ...
of Plastics and
Melon
A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet, edible, and fleshy fruit. The word "melon" can refer to either the plant or specifically to the fruit. Botanically, a melon is a kind of berry, specifically a "pepo". The ...
. In September 2016, Nakanishi was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He died on February 25, 2017.
Discography
;Solo albums
* ''GORGEOUS GIRLS'' (1990)
* ''ユーリ ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK'' (1996)
;Albums with K.U.D.O
* ''THE 1st KISS'' (as Sexy T.K.O.)(1991)
* ''SANDII:COME AGAIN'' (1991)
* ''SANDII:JOGET TO THE BEAT'' (1991)
* ''EP'' (as Love T.K.O.) (1993)
* ''HEAD TURNER'' (as Love T.K.O.) (1994)
* ''Monday Michiru: Maden Japan'' (as Love T.K.O.) (1994)
;Other albums
* The Clap Heads, ''Snakeman Show'' (1980)
* (Natural Calamity), ''DOWN IN THE VALLEY'' (1991)
* (Natural Calamity), ''LET IT COME DOWN'' (1992)
* (Natural Calamity), ''NEAR MOUNTAIN'' (1992)
* Group of Gods, ''GROUP OF GOD'' (1992)
* (Tamap Iijima), ''DASK 'TIL DAWN'' (1992)
* (高木完), ''Grass Roots'' (1992)
* (Natural Calamity), ''SUN DANCE'' (1994)
References
Further reading
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External links
Toshio Nakanishi Discography
1956 births
2017 deaths
Japanese graphic designers
Musicians from Tokyo
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Deaths from cancer in Japan
Deaths from esophageal cancer