Avex Trax (エイベックス トラックス, Eibekkusu Torakkusu^?) (stylized as avex trax) is a record label owned by Japanese entertainment conglomerate Avex Group. The label was launched in September 1990, and was the first label by the Group.

Two years after Max Matsuura became busy in distributing studio albums from other countries, he and his two co-founders of Avex, Tom Yoda and Ken Suzuki, decided to operate their own label to compete with the older and more experienced labels (i.e. Nippon Columbia, Nippon Crown, Toshiba-EMI, CBS Sony, Nippon Phonogram and PolyGram K.K., etc.). This led to the birth of the Avex Trax label.

Some of their artists include Japanese artists such as AAA, Ai Otsuka, Namie Amuro, Do As Infinity, Every Little Thing, Gackt, Girl Next Door,Ayumi Hamasaki,Mai Oshima,Seikima-II, DREAM5, S2nd and Tokyo Girls' Style, as well as foreign artists such as BoA, TVXQ, After School, CSJH The Grace, 2NE1 (under Rhythm Zone), Super Junior, O-Zone., U-KISS and Lights Over Paris.

In 2011 they start to support and Kis-My-Ft2.

Avex Group Holdings Inc. (エイベックス・グループ・ホールディングス株式会社, Eibekkusu Gurūpu Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-gaisha^?), listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange as 7860 and abbreviated as AGHD, is the holding company for a group of entertainment-related subsidiaries based in Japan. The word Avex is actually an acronym of the English words Audio Visual Expert.

With leading producer's Tetsuya Komuro's assistance, Avex became Japan's leading dance record company during the 1990s, and continues producing and recording some of Japan's most famous pop singers such as Japan's highest selling solo musician, Ayumi Hamasaki. The company also provides theme music soundtracks to many anime and a few video games through its subsidiary Avex Mode.

Avex Group is mainly known in Japan because of its flagship music imprint, Avex Trax, which was founded in 1990. It is one of the top three record labels in Japan since the Komuro period, and is currently the second biggest, behind Sony Music Japan.

Avex is an acronym of the English words Audio Visual Expert. Since its foundation, its corporate name was Avex D.D., Incorporated, and ten years later it was changed to Avex, Incorporated.

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Akio Togashi (富樫 明生, Togashi Akio^?, born 1961 in Hokkaidō) better known as m.c.A·T (エムシーエーティー, Emu Shī Ē Tī^?, "Microphone Controller Akio Togashi") is a Japanese musician, rapper, and record producer with Avex Trax. He graduated from Hokkaido Sapporo Tsukisamu High School and the Hokkaido University of Education. His debut single as m.c.A·T, "Bomb A Head!," released in 1993 on Avex Trax, has since been re-released as "Bomb A Head! Returns!" in 2003 featuring DA PUMP and as "Bomb A Head! V" in 2004 as the opening theme of Tenjho Tenge.

He has also produced several of DA PUMP's releases, and like DA PUMP's ISSA, is a fan of the Kamen Rider Series. He has performed various songs for the series, collaborating with RIDER CHIPS on "The people with no name," the second ending theme for Kamen Rider 555, and on the single "Kamen Rider no Uta" (仮面ライダーのうた, Kamen Raidā no Uta^?) and with Rin' on "Flashback," the theme song for Kamen Rider Hibiki & The Seven Fighting Demons. He has also collaborated with Avex Trax artists such as AAA, Ayumi Hamasaki, Nami Tamaki, Namie Amuro, Toshinobu Kubota, and most recently Manabu Oshio on the single "Beastie Life" released late 2007. Several other artists he has worked with appear on the second disc for his latest album Music Conductor A·T.

Shy FX is the pseudonym of Andre Williams, an English DJ and Producer from London. He specializes in Drum and Bass and Jungle music.

Shy FX's debut record was "Jungle Love" released in 1992. Soon after, he signed to Sound of Unground Records and released "Original Nuttah", featuring UK Apachi in 1994. Throughout his career he has worked with T Power, both as Ebony Dubsters and Shy FX and T Power; their 2002 track "Shake Ur Body" with vocalist Di was a #7 hit in the UK Singles Chart. In 2005 he founded Digital Soundboy Recordings.

Shy FX and T Power then released the album, Diary Of A Digital Sound Boy on 17 October 2005. It included songs such as "Feelings", "On The Run" and "Plastic Soul". Shy FX and T Power also released "Don't Wanna Know", which featured featuring Di and Skibadee. The song was used on the television programme Soccer AM, as part of the 'Skills Skool' feature.

He produced "Da Feelin" for Dizzee Rascal's 2007 album, Maths + English. He also produced "Can't Tek No More" on Dizzee Rascal's 2009 album, Tongue N' Cheek. He remixed "She Said", a #3 UK chart single by Plan B. His remix was released on both the "She Said" single, and on the deluxe edition of Plan B's The Defamation of Strickland Banks.