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Customer stories / Let The Music Play #14: Seiya Matsumiya of Black Cat White Cat Music Curates Lebanese, Japanese, and Colombian Sounds With DISCO Catalogs

Let The Music Play #14: Seiya Matsumiya of Black Cat White Cat Music Curates Lebanese, Japanese, and Colombian Sounds With DISCO Catalogs

Let The Music Play #14: Seiya Matsumiya of Black Cat White Cat Music Curates Lebanese, Japanese, and Colombian Sounds With DISCO Catalogs

Meet Seiya Matsumiya of Black Cat White Cat Music, a music agency based in Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Tallinn (Estonia). Based in Japan, Seiya is a music supervisor and oversees the agency, which has worked on a global scale with clients ranging from Toyota and Honda to Samsung and BMW, among others.

“I love that I get to continue living in the passion I found in music as a teenager in so many more ways than I imagined,” Seiya tells DISCO. “Outside of work, I love old Japanese cars, particularly old Land Cruisers. I’m currently learning how to fix a 45-year-old diesel engine.”

For our latest edition of DISCO’s Let The Music Play Series, Seiya has curated a playlist of songs he’s enjoying right now, including selections from his hometown heroes Thrice, plus some deeper-diving tracks from Lebanon, Colombia, and Japan. Seiya also shared some insight into why he picked a handful of songs from his playlist, which comprises 12 tracks overall. Each of the tracks can be found via DISCO Catalogs, where vetted music supervisors can access hundreds of Catalogs — from retro hits to new releases, indie artists to major label acts, local score composers to world music — via the Discover Music browser. 

Music Supervisors, you can access Seiya’s playlist in the Discover Music section of your DISCO account.

We hope you enjoy his picks!


Thrice — “Betrayal Is A Symptom” (Hopeless Records)  

Thrice are from the same town where I grew up in Orange County and the single biggest influence in my musical life. When this song was released on their website, I ditched school to go home so I could listen to it on my home computer... way before we had little devices in our pockets. 

Ishtirak – “master wasentha” (Tiny House Music) 

Found this one in a Catalog of a Lebanese label. I love the electronic Middle Eastern synth. 

The Brain Police (頭脳警察) — “Shijin No Matsuro (詩人の末路)” (Victor Entertainment)  

This song was written in a very different time in Japan’s history, just a few years after the peak of the student movements and the clashes between protesters and riot police. The atmosphere around music was far more radical and politically charged than it is today. Years ago I tried to sync this song and it was denied because of its political affiliation. It is such a beautifully badass song. 

Carlos Roman Y Su Sonora Vallenata — “Very Very Well” (Discos Fuentes) 

This is, I believe, the first interpretation of rock n’ roll in Colombia. I was introduced to it by Alejandro Santa, who organizes Colombian Sync Market. This song sends me back to that beautiful country where I spent a week in the summer. 

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou — “The Story of the Wind” (Maps Good Sound) 

I never knew this artist prior to making this playlist, but everything about this piece — the performance, the audio quality — puts me in a different time in a different place.