GUNIW TOOLS started from Tomo Furukawa's artistic outlet GUNIW in 1990, but became a full-time band after guitarist JAKE joined in 1992. ASAKI first joined as a support guitarist around 1994 and eventually became an official member.The band aimed at combining music with fine arts: music videos directed and produced by Furukawa himself were shot for every song, and contemporary dancers often joined the band on stage. In 1996 GUNIW TOOLS signed a contract with the major label Victor Entertainment and released a collection of videoclips produced during the indies days. One year later, after a succesful oneman live at the NHK Hall, JAKE left the band citing creative differences. Since JAKE had been the main songwriter and sound producer until that moment, Asaki took a more prominent role in