A lawsuit alleges an online company used Drake’s image and false narratives to bait customers. Things get wild and strange from note 1 on this genre-bending mix/performance/space exploration. DJ Krush ...

I'm not saying it's jazz, and I ain't saying it's not, but this is one curious album. If you're interested in the latest developments in the "Jazztronica" shoot off the jazz tree (or modern ...

The double bill at the Showbox Friday night sounded more than a bit ambitious. Up-and-coming, lightning-tongued Chinese-American hip-hop MC Jin and prolific Japanese hip-hop/trip- hop/acid-jazz DJ and ...

Not much is known in the U.S. about Japan's DJ Krush, but that's set to change with the release of a 3-disc DVD career retrospective on Sept. 18 via Red Ink/Sony. By Michael D. Ayers Not much is known ...

Ever since seeing the 1982 rap documentary Wild Style as a Tokyo teen, DJ Krush has been in love with hip-hop. But he was also an early exponent of acid jazz, and on Ki-Oku (Apollo), a late-90s ...

DJ Krush doesn't speak English, and he doesn't speak Japanese either. "I speak music," he explained, via two interpreters required to make our conversation possible. "Music is an international ...

THIS is how much things have changed for Hideaki Ishii since the early '80s in Tokyo. "I went to a music store and told the man there I wanted two turntables. And he laughed at me, said 'You don't ...

Japan s founding father of instrumental hip-hop, DJ Krush, has lost none of his serene prowess since the mid- 80s. The man born Hideaki Ishi exploded onto the radar of most American fans a decade ...

Sublime, subliminal, cool, collected, Zen, well then ... if one were to think of the perfect sleek and stylish venue in which to catch oneself up-to-date with DJ Krush, Mezzanine would be that venue.

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