Motoaki Furukawa is a former KONAMI artist who began working at the company in November 1986. Since then, he performed in numerous Konami games, such as Twinbee, Parodius, Sunset Riders, and A-JAX. He first appeared in the GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series in 1999 for GUITARFREAKS 2ndMIX, and composed at least one song for each mix from GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX & drummania 3rdMIX until GuitarFreaks V4 & DrumMania V4. He re-appeared in GuitarFreaksXG & DrumManiaXG, his final BEMANI appearance to date. After 21 years at the company, Motoaki left KONAMI on September 28th, 2007. That same day he started his own music label - M's Art. He also currently serves as the guitarist in the band VOYAGER