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DJ Krush (Japan)
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November 06, 20:00
YotaSpace 
 Krush began pursuing his solo career after the break-up of the group in late 1991, and soon attracted audience's attention as the first DJ to use turntables as live instruments, doing free sessions with live musicians on stage. Released his first album "Krush" in January 1994, and since then released countless records in Japan, Europe, US and around the globe. All his solo releases have ranked high in various charts in & out of Japan, and his sixth album "Zen" had been highly acclaimed and awarded the Best Electronica Album in 2002 AIFM Awards (US).
His eighth album "jaku" released in late 2004 has topped the RPM chart of CMJ for three weeks in the US. In March 2006, he released his first best albums in self-remixed style, "stepping Stone" “Lyricism” and "Soundscapes", making another huge buzz around the globe. In March 2007, a historical collection of the 12 years of his career "Suimou Tsunenimasu" was released in Japan in a special DVD box.
Aside from his outer national activities as producer, remixer and DJ, he constantly expands his field from soundtracks for films, TV dramas and commercials to live sessions with various musicians that transcends music genre. In spring 1998, he formed a production unit "RYU" with DJ Hide & DJ Sak, collaborating with Nigerian percussionists and releasing a single & album from Polydor Japan. From the end of the year 2000, he also got involved in "Jag" project which will be launching various projects to question worldwide issues in the 21st Century.
Today he is acknowledged as an internationally acclaimed producer, remixer and a DJ, producing music in vast variety of fields such as films, TV dramas and commercials. He has done countless collaborations with artists transcending jenres, such as Grammy winning artist, from Black Thought (The Roots) - provided a track for his solo album, to Herbie Hancock and k.d. lang - provided remixes. In 2009, he scored an animation film entitled "First Squad," which was shown in theaters throughout Russia, and won the Kommersant Award in Moscow Film Festival.
His November concert will be dedicated to a new album Butterfly Effect, the first DJ Krush record in 11 years. There are five instrumentals and six collaborated tracks with very unique artists such as DJ Free the Robots, a South African rapper Crosby, Divine Styler which lyrics are very poetic and philosophical, a Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan and a Japanese pianist Takashi Niigaki.
"Hello this is DJ Krush. I feel the album came out really good. I want you all to listen to it as soon as possible!"
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