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 ...

Mon Feb 17, Chop Suey, 8 pm $15 adv. Though active in the Japanese hiphop scene during much of the '80s, DJ Krush didn't arrive on the global stage until the mid '90s, with his debut CD, Krush.

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 ...

1.Trihedron 2.Toki No Tabiji (Journey Of Time) 3.Sanity Requiem 4.Supreme Team 5.The blackhole 6.Song For John Walker 7.D'you Hear That? 8.Alephevo (truthspeaking) 9.The Lost Voices 10.But The World ...

Speaking to Okayplayer, Otis Redding’s grandson, Justin Andrews, discusses his role in the Otis Redding Foundation. Speaking to Okayplayer, Otis Redding’s grandson, Justin Andrews, discusses his role ...

DJ Krush has been in a reflective mood lately. The Japanese producer/turntablist has been offering up his unique blend of hip-hop and downtempo electronica for well over a decade, and released a three ...

Not many foreign rap artists find their way to American ears–and even fewer hang around for a decade. But against all odds, Japan’s DJ Krush is closing in on the 10-year mark with his seventh proper ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Charles Tonderai Mudede, The Stranger’s senior staff writer, is a Zimbabwean-born cultural critic, urbanist, filmmaker, college lecturer, and writer. Mudede collaborated with the director Robinson ...