A musician, Ide Kensuke was a staff member at the Kichijoji Baus Theater in Tokyo, where he helped run events including the Bakuon Film Festival. In 2012, he began performing live as <i>Kensuke Ide ＆ His Mothership</i>, and in 2015—after the Baus Theater was demolished—released the project’s debut album, <i>Kensuke Ide & His Mothership</i>. In April 2020, he released his second album, <i>Contact From Exne Kedy And The Poltergeists</i>, produced by Ishihara You and engineered by Nakamura Soichiro. Built around the fictional figure “Exne Kedy,” the project continued with the live album <i>Strolling Planet ’74</i>. In recent years, he has also worked as a filmmaker, directing music videos for Sakamoto Shintaro, Bialystocks, and Kaneko Ayano, among others.