SPANOVA is a Japanese music duo formed by Ken and Shin Tasaki. The brothers started composing and playing instruments together from the very early age, absorbing every kinds of music they were exposed; from '70s an '80s Pop and Rock as they always enjoyed on the radio; to Jazz, Soul, Bossa Nova, Hip-Hop, and Modern Music as they get fascinated by the sounds from the unknown world. Starting their career as composers in late '90s, the duo issued their debut album under their own unit name Spanova on WEA Japan in 1997. Since then, the duo has been enthusiastically exploring their music in deep at their private recording studio "Daily Planet Studio", working on all process by themselves from making demos to the final mixes. While playing an active role in Japanese pop scene as composers and producers, they started with more experimental works in early '00s, building materials into a unique and sensitive sonic texture instead of having a straightforward vocals or an acoustic instrument, and arranging them into an organic piece.
In 2006, they contributed their song "Absentminded" to the10th anniversary compilation album "History Is Bunk" for the Chicago-based electronica label Hefty Records

Hefty Records

Hefty Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois . Founded in 1995 by John Hughes III , the label releases a range in genres that include post-rock, IDM, down-tempo, nu jazz, experimental music, and hip-hop.-History:...

, along with Savath & Savalas(Scott Herren

Scott Herren

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), and other Japanese musicians such as Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto

After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...

 and Haruomi Hosono

Haruomi Hosono

, also known as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese popular musician, best known internationally as a key member of the rock band Happy End and the pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra.-Biography:...

.
Achieving the exquisite synthesis of the performance-oriented songwriting and the electronic experiments in the post productions, the duo is expanding their music experiment to the collaborative projects with various artists from different field and drawing more attention from the Crossover (music)

Crossover (music)

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/Electronica

Electronica

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 scene worldwide.

Albums

Title	Year	Label
Daily Planet	1997	WEA Japan
Dead Music Flamingo	1998	Warner Music Japan
Super Ball	1999	Warner Music Japan
Speak Loud	2000	Warner Music Japan
Diary of the Headphonist	2000	Warner Music Japan
Beautiful Lifelines	2002	Felicity
Fictional World Lullaby	2003	Felicity
SetsunaLized SetzunaRider	2010/5/19	Columbia - iTunes Japan Electronic Chart #1

Singles

Title	Year	Label
Tamashii-wa Konoha-no You-ni (Souls like Falling Leaves)	1997	WEA Japan
Apollo	1998	Warner Music Japan
Harumaki	2002	Felicity
As Far As Ends Go	2003	Felicity

Soundtrack

Song Title	Movie Title	Collaborated Artist	Year
Itoshii Hito(My loved one) (Main Theme)	69 sixty nine	CHEMISTRY Chemistry Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....	2004
What Is A Life	Memories of Matsuko Memories of Matsuko is a 2006 Japanese film written and directed by Tetsuya Nakashima. It is based on a Japanese novel by Muneki Yamada.It has not yet received North American distribution, though in its North American premiere at the 2007 New York Asian Film Festival, the film received the Audience Award with an...	AI Ai AI, A.I., Ai, or ai may refer to:- Computers :* Artificial intelligence, a branch of computer science* Ad impression, in online advertising* .ai, the ISO Internet 2-letter country code for Anguilla...	2006
Yasumi-no Hi-no Shizuka-na Jikan (A quiet moment on a weekend)	Yasumi-no Hi-no Shizuka-na Jikan (A quiet moment on a weekend)	Yuki Hayashi	2007
garden	garden	Yuki Hayashi	2008

As composer, producer on other artists' albums

Artist	Song Title	Album/Single Title	Year
YOSHIKA	Stand up	Stand up	2008
YOSHIKA	happiness	timeless	2006
HALCALI Halcali , is a Japanese pop and new-school inspired hip-hop duo consisting of members Halca and Yucali from Meguro, Tokyo, Japan...	Shibafu(lawn) feat. Shuntarō Tanikawa Shuntaro Tanikawa is a Japanese poet and translator. He is one of the most widely read and highly regarded of living Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad, and a frequent subject of speculations regarding the Nobel Prize in Literature...	Ongaku-no Susume	2004
GAKU-MC	Guys on the Moon	a day in the life	2002
	Tokyo Super Stars
	flash back
	I wish
	Happy Vibes
Chocolat (singer) Chocolat (singer) is a Japanese singer from the greater Tokyo area in Japan. Chocolat debuted in 1997 on Epic Records with her first single Chocolat a la mode. Chocolat is a twin, her younger sister heaco is a singer as well. In 1998 Chocolat married musician Akito Katayose from the band GREAT3 in Maui, Hawaii...	Butterfly	Hamster	1999
Chikuzen SATO (SING LIKE TALKING)	BLUE	Okura	2005
CHEMISTRY	Dance With Me(KOREA/JAPAN Ver.)	Kimi-ga Iru	2005
	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	2004
	Itoshii Hito (My loved one)	Mirage in blue/Itoshii Hito	2004
	Itoshii Hito (My loved one)	One × One	2004
	Bound for Identity -dear friend
	YOUR NAME NEVER GONE
Chocolat	Maigo-no Tori(Lost Bird)	Chocolat Notes	2003
	Heaven 11
	ballerina
V6 20th Century	Working Man	! -attention-	1998
Chikuzen Sato (SING LIKE TALKING)	Believe In Life - featuring Tomohiko Nishimura & Yamagen	CORNERSTONES 2	2002
AI	What Is A Life	Soundtrack for "Memories of Matsuko"	2006

Remixes

Artist	Song Title	Album/Single Title	Year
APOGEE	Let It Snow ~SNOW IN APRIL	Just a Seeker's Song	2007
SLICKER	Knock Me Down Girl	Knock Me Down Girl	2004
A Felicity SAMPLE	Beat of the moment	BEAT OF THE MOMENT 03	2004
Ryōko Hirosue Ryoko Hirosue is a Japanese actress and pop star, best known in the West for her roles in the Luc Besson-produced Wasabi and the Academy Award-winning Japanese film Departures. She also starred in a comedy series Yasuko to Kenji in 2008.- Early life :...	Otona-ni Naranai You-ni (Wish I won't be an adult)	RH Remix	2001

Compilations

Album Title	Song Title	Year
Hefty Records 10th anniversary History Is Bunk Part 1&2	Absentminded (as Spanova)	2006
	Snowbreaker (as SOME WATER AND SUN)
	Cold Ease (as SOME WATER AND SUN)
▲SP-tsunagari (SP-connection)　L.A.M.N.S.	BEAT AT OF THE MOMENT(as Spangle call lilli line And Spanova)	2003

Other collaborations

Artists	Projects	Year
SOME WATER AND SUN of Shin Tasaki and John Hughes aka Slicker	"All My Friends Have To Go"	2005
Scott Helen(Production) × Spanova (Composition)	Chocolat "Ballerina"
Bo Kondren (Mastering) × Spanova	"Fictional World Lullaby", "SetsunaLized SetsunaRider"
Roger Seibel (Mastering) × Spanova	"Beautiful Lifelines"
Rei Harakami Rei Harakami was a Kyoto-based electronic musician from Hiroshima, Japan. He composed and mixed on two Roland SC-88Pro sound generators, at times supplemented by the Roland SK-88Pro keyboard model. He suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage on the 27th July 2011.Rei released his debut album in 1998 on Sublime Records...  (Production) × Spanova(Composition)	Chocolat "Maigo-no Tori (Lost Bird)", "Heaven 11"
Kouichiro Tsujikawa (Filmmaking) x Spanova (Composition)	"As Far As Ends Go" PV	2003
Yuki Hayashi (Filmaking) × Spanova(Composition)	"Hiroshima"	2003

TV/Web commercials

Company Name	Project	Song Title	URL
East Japan Railway Company East Japan Railway Company is the largest passenger railway company in the world and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo....	Trip to Northeast	Bound for Identity -dear friend
SONY Sony , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....	Walkman	YOUR NAME NEVER GONE
Credit Saison Credit Saison Credit Saison Co., Ltd. , commonly known as Credit Saison or simply Saison, is a Japanese financial services company affiliated to Mizuho Financial Group. Founded in 1946, Credit Saison is the 3rd largest credit card issuer with over 20 million cardholders in Japan, behind JCB and Visa Japan.-...	Sougen-no Kyousouba (Horse on a meadow)		http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ4CONWp4H4
NEC NEC , a Japanese multinational IT company, has its headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. NEC, part of the Sumitomo Group, provides information technology and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and government....	FOMA N704iμ "Slim Woman"	The Light
Kewpie	Dressing, Tuna&Onion"		http://www.kewpie.co.jp/know/cm/121.html#
Sharp Corporation Sharp Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products. Headquartered in Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan, Sharp employs more than 55,580 people worldwide as of June 2011. The company was founded in September 1912 and takes its name from one of its founder's first...	Softbank SoftBank is a Japanese telecommunications and internet corporation, with operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-Commerce, Internet, broadmedia, technology services, finance, media and marketing, and other businesses....  920SH "AQUOS Cellphone"	Autumn Color	http://www.sharp.co.jp/products/cm/tv/tv132.html
UNIQLO UNIQLO is a Japanese casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer.The company was originally a division of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.. On November 1, 2005, it was restructured as a separate wholly owned subsidiary called Uniqlo Co., Ltd. , which is listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock...	60th anniversary web site (Japan), 25th anniversary web site (US, France, Korea)