Interviews
The Japan Times - Holy big beat funk, Captain! | About Tatsuya's early career as Captain Funk. Interview with Simon Bartz | 1999, Japan (English) | |
Movement Magazine - Tokyo: Captain Funk (aka Tatsuya Oe) | Mainly about Captain Funk's album "Songs Of The Siren." Interviewer: Brent Csutoras | 2000, United States | |
Metropolis - Japan Beat: The Birth of OE | About OE's album "Here and You." Interviewer: Dan Grunebaum | 2002, Japan (English) | |
HMV Japan - Captain Funk "Heavy Metal""Heavy Mellow" Interview | About the releases of "Heavy Metal" & "Heavy Mellow" albums. Interviewer: Akio Tono | 2007, Japan (Japanese) | |
J-Pop World - Captain Funk (Tatsuya Oe) Interview | About Tatsuya's career, thoughts on music production, and his own digital distribution. Interviewer: Andrew AA Smith | 2008, United States | |
Metropolis - Clubbing: Tatsuya Oe opens an online “club” for his banging digital creations | About Tatsuya's original digial music store. Interviewer: Don Crispy. | 2009, Japan (English) | |
David Report - Specialty music boutique for the digital high street | About Tatsuya's original digial music store. Interviewer: Kristina Dryza. | 2009, Sweden | |
10 Asia - Japanese Shibuya-kei DJ Captain Funk | About Tatsuya's career, musical roots, and impression about South Korea. | 2010, South Korea (English) | |
Sync Exchange - Creating a Successful Licensing Business as an Independent Musician | Tatsuya's thoughts and tips about music licensing business. Interviewer: Mark Frieser (Sync Summit) | 2013, United States | |
The Independent Music Awards - Dark Model Q&A/Interview | Q&A about Dark Model, a nominee of the 14th Independent Music Awards (Genre: Dance/Electronica) | 2014, United States | |
Unter the Gun - Tatsuya Oe Discusses Dark Model's Debut LP, Past Projects | Interview about Dark Model's first album. Interviewer: Brion Lion (Under the Gun) | 2014, United States |
Official Websites
Dark Model official website | Tatsuya's lastest project focused on progressive and dramatic orchestral electronic music. Please refer to the project page at tatsuyaoe.com as well. | |
Captain Funk official website | Tatsuya's longest-standing project focused on Electronic Pop / Dance music. Please refer to the project page at tatsuyaoe.com as well. | |
Model Electronic Records | Music publishing and label owned and managed by Tatsuya Oe. | |
OE - Suchness | This website features his “Suchness” project, where he focuses on ambient music compositions inspired by the Japanese view of nature and Zen philosophy. |
Dark Model Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/DarkModelMusic | |
Captain Funk Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/CaptainFunkOfficial | |
Model Electronic Youtube channel | https://www.youtube.com/user/ModelElectronic/ | |
Captain Funk Youtube channel | https://www.youtube.com/user/CaptainFunkOfficial | |
Model Electronic SoundCloud | Soundcloud page featuring music of Dark Model and Captain Funk | |
Model Electronic Records on Vimeo | Enjoy our "Non-Normalized (Louder)" videos here | |
Model Electronic Records on Spotify | Follow Model Electronic Records and our playlists on Sporify |
Resources
Wikipedia (US) - Tatsuya Oe | Wikipedia (US edition) page about Tatsuya Oe. | |
Wikipedia (Japan) - Tatsuya Oe | Wikipedia (Japanese edition) page about Tatsuya Oe. | |
Wikipedia (US) - Dark Model | Wikipedia (US edition) page about Dark Model | |
Discogs - Captain Funk | Discogs page of Captain Funk | |
Discogs - Dark Model | Discogs page of Dark Model | |
Discogs - Tatsuya Oe | Discogs page of OE/Tatsuya Oe | |
Tatsuya Oe on The DJ List | DJ Directory & Dance Music Resource | |
Captain Funk on The DJ List | DJ Directory & Dance Music Resource | |
Captain Funk on MusicBrainz | Online music encyclopedia | |
Dark Model on MusicBrainz | Online music encyclopedia | |
Tatsuya Oe on MusicBrainz | Online music encyclopedia | |
Captain Funk on MusixMatch | Song lyrics database | |
Captain Funk on Tunefind | American music search website which helps to find music featured in television series and movies. |
Social Media Websites