Originating from
Aomori Prefecture, Nakamura was convinced by his friend,
Jyunji Ishiwatari to follow up on an advertisement posted in a local magazine by Miki Furukawa looking for fellow musicians. After Kōdai Tazawa, a middle school acquaintance of Nakamura and Junji, joined in as the drummer, the band Supercar was formed. Supercar, which released its influential debut album
Three Out Change in 1998, has been characterized as having "almost foundational importance to 21st century Japanese indie rock" and music critic Ian Martin has called it "one of the all-time great Japanese rock albums." Nakamura played guitar, sang vocals, and wrote all of the music. For 10 years (1995–2005), Supercar produced different
indie styled songs, played in rock concerts and festivals across Japan, and released several albums. Their later albums incorporated more
electronic music into their work. In 2005, Supercar broke up because the members decided to go off in different musical directions. Nakamura began recording under the name
iLL in 2006. iLL's musical style is similar to Supercar's latter style in many aspects. The band hasn't gone into a completely electronic direction like Supercar's
Highvision era, but aims for a more zoning style of music. Globally, Nakamura's music is known for being used in the
anime Eureka Seven, its spin-off film, the film
Ping Pong, the anime ''
Viper's Creed, the anime No. 6 and the anime Un Go''. In 2011, Nakamura and former supercar bandmate
Miki Furukawa formed the band called
Lama. Lama jump-started their formation with a single entitled Spell which has been used as an opening theme for the anime
No.6. He also serves as the composer for the anime series
Eureka Seven: AO. In April 2014 he released a new solo album, "Masterpeace", under his own name. == Solo discography ==