Latest Release
- 28 JUN 2023
- 10 Songs
- Ghost In The Shell Superb Music · 2013
- Point · 2001
- Point · 2001
- Dream In Dream · 2023
- Dream in Dream · 2023
- Dream In Dream · 2023
- Dream in Dream · 2023
- Dream In Dream · 2023
- Dream in Dream · 2023
- Dream in Dream · 2023
Albums
- 2023
- 2017
- 2006
- 2001
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- This oddball indie genius builds thrilling songs out of pop history.
Compilations
- 2001
Appears On
- Shuta Hasunuma
- Korallreven
About Cornelius
A master of luxurious layering, Keigo Oyamada, a.k.a. Cornelius, has always been unabashed about his musical loves. Born in Tokyo in 1969, the singer/musician/producer became a leading light of Japan’s openly referential Shibuya-kei pop scene after co-founding the band Flipper’s Guitar in the late ’80s. Adopting the solo guise Cornelius in honor of a Planet of the Apes character, Oyamada cited The Beach Boys and other touchstone influences in both the music and song titles of 1998’s Fantasma. That immersive breakthrough mingled bashful dream-pop with the sampledelic spirit of premillennial hip-hop and electronic music. Soon Oyamada was remixing such marquee names as Blur, Moby and Beck, before swapping out Fantasma’s bravura busyness for the more low-key jazz and ambient vibes of later releases such as 2017’s aptly titled Mellow Waves. His status as a figurehead of repurposed sounds was confirmed when he guested on 2020’s “Music Is The Light” by kindred collagists The Avalanches.
- HOMETOWN
- Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- BORN
- 27 January 1969
- GENRE
- Alternative