Tsugutoshi Goto is a Japanese bassist, arranger and producer whose slap bass playing and 1980s songwriting for idols made him one of the busiest figures in Japanese pop; he played bass on Miki Matsubara’s “Mayonaka no Door”.[1]
Early career
Inspired as a teenager by The Beatles and The Ventures, Goto took up guitar, joined a high school jazz club and studied at a Yamaha music school before switching to bass when asked to fill in on a tour, after which he became a session musician.[1] His slap bass on Tin Pan Alley’s “Chopper’s Boogie” (1975, on Caramel Mama) helped popularise the term “chopper” in Japan.[1] He played in Sadistic Mika Band and in Sadistics alongside Masayoshi Takanaka, Yukihiro Takahashi and Yutaka Imai.[1]
Arranger and producer
Goto began arranging in the late 1970s and won the arrangement award at the 22nd Japan Record Awards for Kenji Sawada’s “TOKIO”.[1] In the 1980s he became a prolific songwriter and arranger for idol and pop acts including Onyanko Club, Akina Nakamori and Shizuka Kudo, often with lyricist Yasushi Akimoto.[1] In 1983 he joined CBS/Sony as artist and producer and launched the mini-album label FITZBEAT, which produced acts such as Rebecca; he released synth-focused solo albums there, including City Trickles.[1] His bass on “Mayonaka no Door” has drawn renewed international attention through the city pop revival.[1]
Discography
Notable songs
References
- “後藤次利”. Wikipedia (Japanese). Retrieved 11 October 2026.
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