japanese

Chihei Hatakeyama (畠山地平) is a musician and an organizer who was born in 1978, and lives in the outskirts of Tokyo. He has performed for years under his given name and also as one half of the electroacoustic duo Opitope, along with Tomoyoshi Date. Hatakeyama got involved in playing music through strumming a guitar in a few rock-oriented bands in his teenage years. Subsequently a laptop computer superseded his bands as his main platform.

There have been at least five bands called The Dynamites.
1. An instrumental/beat band from Sarpsborg, Norway who excisted from 1958-1966. They released two singles on the Troll label and did a tour of East Germany in 1965. Two of the members went on to the freakbeat group The Divorced.
2. A garage/R&B/freakbeat band from Basel, Switzerland.
3. A 60s garage rock band from Japan (????????) which featured a slide guitar (unusual for a Japanese band at the time).

Ex local Maryland Band. Unfortunately, they've been broken up for about 4 years now. Showcase's music does not fit into any one particular genre of rock, so they refer to their sound as being "NEOP rock". NEOP rock is described by Martin as "punk without the powerchords, emo without the whining, pop without the crappiness, and modern rock without sounding like everything else on the radio." By combining influences from these and other genres, Showcase has a very original driving rock sound that cannot be heard anywhere else.