Adenosine Tri-Phosphate is a Japanese

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band.Sinervä, Sami (ND). Japanese Pop in an Alternative Way. Retrieved from Moving Hands Music Magazine http://www.movinghands.net/articles/detail.asp?id=24 . The group's name was suggested to the band from a fan. The concept of Adenosine Tri-Phosphate is powerful music with musical experiments. The group began with the

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ist, Mug, who is the lead composer, plays guitar, and also plays other instruments.Band History. (ND). Retrieved from http://www.geocities.jp/atpmania/index.html He has been described as a sonic and experimental guitarist. He is a student at

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. After Mug's band, "African Tribe Punk" broke up, he started to run the Bazooka Recording Studio in Japan. He later invited Taata, also a graduate of the University of Chicago, to join him as a

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and keyboardist in Adenosine Tri-Phosphate. In 1993, Adenosine Tri-Phosphate was formed in

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.ATP (adenosine tri-phosphate). (ND). Retrieved from Drummer Kaz and bassist Kohei joined the band in 1995.ATP. (ND). Retrieved from http://sharemyplaylists.com/artists/ATP) ATP draws their inspiration from everyday life and is always seeking to be in the alternative scene. Their music contains a multitude of different sounds of

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, vocals, and guitars, but is also described as having a strong composition and attitude. With their debut of the CD ''Sun Dancer'', ATP was hosted on the national Japanese TV shows ''Zeus' Holiday'' and ''Jaka-Jan''. The program ''Dash/Dash'' regarded ATP as the best band in Japanese alternative music. In 1996, the producer Crane got ATP a record deal with BMG/Vivid. For two years after the release of Sun Dancer the band took a break to experiment and record new music while their producer, Crane, became seriously ill. The band resumed normal performances in 1998. That same year, the group produced the album ''Aroused Zen'' that included work from the two year performance break. The chairman of MP3.com called ATP “the greatest unknown band from

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, and a good example of

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possibility.” Due to this ATP became big overseas, and had their first overseas tour through Asia in 2000. In 2001, ATP produced the soundtrack to the

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movie ''Guilstein''. In 2002, they toured through Japan. After this, the group took another two year performance break and produced 50 new songs. The first tour in the US was in 2005 in

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. Their most recent album,'' Welcome to my Psychedelic World'', was finished in 2010. Adenosine Tri-Phosphate's discography includes ''Sun Dancer'', ''Aroused Zen Monk'', ''Deranged Angel'' (2000), ''A Wish Away'' (2007), and ''Welcome to my Psychedelic World'' (2010), and their compilations are ''Unquiet Grave: Unearthing the Underground'' (2001) and ''Rock In Asia'' (2007).

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