Person: Nakamura Kouji

Nakamura Kouji is a Japanese musician who is most famous for being the lead singer/songwriter in the Japanese band Supercar. His music style in general involves drone-like guitar riffs and is mixed in raw electronica.

Originating from Aomori Prefecture, Kouji was convinced by his friend, Ishiwatari Junji to follow up on an advertisement posted in a local magazine by Furukawa Miki (フルカワミキ) looking for fellow musicians. After Tazawa Koudai (田沢公大), a middle school acquaintance of Kouji and Junji, joined in as the drummer, the band Supercar was formed. For 10 years (1995-2005) Supercar dished out several different indie styled songs, eventually leading in a more electronic direction.

In 1999, Kouji started an electronic solo project entitled Nyantora. This project was done at the same time Supercar began to release electronica themed albums, such as Futurama and Highvision.

In 2005, Supercar broke up because the members decided to go off in different musical directions. Kouji formed a new band named iLL in 2006. iLL's musical style is similar to Supercar's latter style in many aspects. The band hasn't gone into a completely electronic direction like Supercar's 'Highvision' era, but aims for a more zoning style of music.

Globally, Kouji's music is known for being used in the anime Eureka 7, its spin-off movie, the movie Ping Pong, and in the anime Viper's Creed.