Satoshi’s career in music kicked off in 1989 with a collaboration with Frankie Knuckles and Robert Owens on the classic ‘Tears’. His debut album ‘Full Lick’ finally arrived eleven years later. During that time Satoshi has worked and lived in New York, becoming the best-known Japanese House DJ/Producer on the planet. As part of the Def Mix ‘family’, he has worked extensively alongside Frankie Knuckles and David Morales as a keyboard player, remixer, DJ and producer in his own right. He’s remixed Simply Red, Michael Jackson and Diana Ross, Loleatta Holloway, Ultra Naté etc. and established a worldwide reputation for silky smooth NY-style grooves.

Satoshi Tomiie runs the record label Saw Recordings since 2001.