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Ametsub which is active based in Tokyo. His previous album “The Nothings of The North” (2009) gets a big evaluation from wide listeners of the world. It was chosen as “the best disk in 2009” of Ryuichi Sakamoto and determined licence-release by Mille-Plateaux and built a firm unique position in the current scene. He achieves appearance on festivals such as SonarSound Tokyo, SummerSonic Festival, NagisaMusic Festivl, 2009-2010&2010-2011 Unit-CountDown Night, TaicoClub Festival Show, DeLaFantasia Festival and he did a live with Yagya and Ruxpin(n5MD) in Laugavegur22, Reykjavik, ICELAND in the summer of 2010. He got result by the activity as DJ also, and he showed the unparalleled musicality such as an endless trip in his live-show and gradually attracted many people and acted with the artists beyond the border such as Plaid, Cornelius, Fennesz, AtomTM, Floating Points, Jel(Anticon), Vladislav Delay, Oval, Moritz Von Oswald, Alva Noto, Tujiko Noriko and DJ Krush etc. In 2011, he played a live at L.E.V. Festival in Spain with Apparat, Johann Johannson, Lorn, John Hopkins, Sbtrkt and others, it was called the best act live by a review magazine later in spite of a condition bottom surrounded by audience on a lake and he left a large trace. then, he achieves success in Spain tour with Crisopa.

In 2012, he appeared on MiRA Festival Spain with Actress, Lone, he also appeared FujiRock Festival'12 Japan, the tour with Daisuke Tanabe in Ukraine. In 2013, the tour in Vietnam, supported Yagya japan tour and Bvdub japan tour etc. He performs activity also outside Japan across a border.
Long-awaited 3rd Album released on June 2012 also has gotten massive response. It was ranked 5 on outside jp music charts of Tower Records(The biggest cd shop in Japan) along with Sigur Ros, My bloody valentine etc.

His new album for the first time in three years is packed focusing on the musical piece played in his live, and an overpoweringly attractive stretch of his land exists compared with past work. A succession of feeling of floating drifting melodies that seems to remind an endless trip is finished in the strong sound-scape like a drawn spectacular nature, the solemn horizon, the silence of the evening, fluttering reminiscence in the old tape, magnificence red landscape like an album artwork. We can feel a gloom warmth in sense of isolation. He passes various music-style creatively, his album has a many melancholy melodies that are changed faintly by old tape-recorder. The field recordings around the world. Also a new flavor with the prepaid piano sounds are knit. By the beat process closely, beautiful darkness and bold tone echoes sound, The one musicality that can be called the New field is beginning. The music that an infinite view of the world of Ametsub which evolved steadily was expressed in to the next field without being stopped on one place. His enormous individuality and wide strong soundscape widen a fan all over the world.