Who Makoto is
Makoto Shimizu (清水誠, Shimizu Makoto) (born 1977 in Tokyo, Japan), professionally known as Makoto (マコト, Makoto), is a Japanese drum and bass musician, producer and DJ. Among other distinctive elements of Makoto's musical style, a heavy influence of 1970s-era soul, funk and jazz fusion can be heard throughout the vast majority of his repertoire.
Biography from the Makoto article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Makoto, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
The trend line fills in as weekly snapshots accumulate.
Scene ranks
Around them in the chart
Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in drum & bass, and the biggest names from Japan.
Makoto in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Makoto have?
Makoto has 170,500 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Aug 17, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Makoto's world ranking?
Makoto is ranked #812 of 1214 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Makoto from?
Makoto is from Japan, where they rank #13 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Makoto make?
Makoto is categorised as Drum & Bass in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as liquid funk, drum and bass, jungle.
Snapshot from the week of Aug 17, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.