DJ Krush
Hideaki Ishi (石 英明, Ishi Hideaki, born July 29, 1962), better known by his stage name DJ Krush, is a hip hop producer and DJ. He is known for his atmospheric instrumental production which incorporates sound elements from nature and extensive use of jazz and soul samples.
Early life
Ishi was born in Tokyo in 1962. He dropped out of school at an early age and joined a local gang and, a few years later, the yakuza. Early in his career as a yakuza underling, Ishi discovered a severed finger wrapped in paper on his desk. Later, after discovering that it had belonged to his friend, he decided to leave the yakuza and cut ties with the criminal underworld. Ishi was inspired to start DJing after seeing the film Wild Style in 1983.
Career
Aside from being considered one of the pioneers of Japanese hip hop, Ishi has established himself as one of the most respected artists and producers in the hip hop industry, both in Japan and abroad. Upon entering the industry, Ishi, with his experimental beats and instrumental sounds, changed the face of hip-hop at a time when it was dominated by the American rap scene. He is reluctant to identify his music with any particular genre, for it would place limits on his listeners and on his talents. He has been regarded as ambient, trip hop, some combination of the two, and hip hop. DJ Krush prefers to exercise an ideological distance from the genres he is usually grouped into, while maintaining a healthy appreciation for all music forms and styles.
Podcasts:
DJ Krush
ALBUMS
- OuMuPo 6 released: 2007
- Stepping Stones: The Self-Remixed Best released: 2006
- Stepping Stones: The Self-Remixed Best -Soundscapes- released: 2006
- Stepping Stones: The Self-Remixed Best -Lyricism- released: 2006
- Def Beat Remixes, Volume 4 released: 2005
- 寂 -jaku released: 2004
- Krush Grooves released: 2004
- 深層 "The Message at the Depth" released: 2002
- Reload: The Remix Collection released: 2001
- Zen released: 2001
- Code4109 released: 2000
- Holonic: The Self Megamix released: 1998
- Kakusei released: 1998
- MiLiGHT released: 1997
- Ki-Oku released: 1996
- Meiso released: 1996
- Strictly Turntablized released: 1995
- Bad Brothers released: 1994
- Krush released: 1994
Stepping Stones: The Self-Remixed Best -Lyricism-
Released 2006- Only the Strong Survive (feat. CL Smooth) (Bon mix)
- Kiro (feat. Twigy & Rino) (Vib mix)
- Vision of Art (feat. Company Flow) (Broken mix)
- Zen Approach (feat. Black Thought) (Cradle mix)
- Final Home (feat. Esthero) (Piano mix)
- Kill Switch (feat. Aesop Rock) (Beep mix)
- Nosferatu (feat. Mr Lif) (Space Cadet mix)
- Song for John Walker (feat. Anticon) (Sticky mix)
- Meiso (feat. Black Thought & Malik B From The Roots) (Silent Gun mix)
- Danger of Love (feat. Zap Mama) (Gray Sky mix)
- Shinjiro (feat. Mos Def) (Harsh mix)
- Mosa (feat. KAN)
- Mosa (feat. KAN) (remix)
Reload: The Remix Collection
Released 2001- 哀愁とバラード (DJ Krush remix)
- Rise and Fall (DJ Krush remix)
- On the Painted Desert (DJ Krush remix)
- Spiritual Prayer (DJ Krush remix)
- Deep in Ill-Usion (DJ Krush remix)
- R.G 力学 (DJ Krush remix)
- Prism (Universe remix)
- Black Satin / On the Corner (DJ Krush remix)
- Deep Impact (DJ Krush remix)
- Maiden Voyage (extended mix)
- Just Wanna Touch Her (Stoned Jazz mix)
- The Essence (DJ Krush remix)
- Ibuki Reconstruction (DJ Krush remix)
Code4109
Released 2000- Intro
- Jingle Jangle (Mental mix)
- Back to the Essence
- No Competition
- Four Elements / Yes to Life / Just Be Good to Me (a cappella)
- The Flipshot / Love Is Life/Life Is Love
- 3hree6ix5ive (Detrimental)
- What Is It
- 太陽があるかぎり -Taiyou Ga Arukagiri- / Polegnala E Pschenitza
- No More
- Coffee Talk
- Wild Drums
- Incinerator (radio version)
- Final Home (vocal version)
- 流刀 -Ryu Tou-
- 知恵の輪 -Chie No Wa-
- Iléktrik
- Beataholic Reformatory
- Kemuri / コンドルは飛んでいく-El Condor Pasa-
Kakusei
Released 1998- Intro
- Escape (feat. asa)
- Parallel Distortion (feat. DJ Sak)
- Inorganizm (feat. DJ Kensei & DJ Hide)
- Deltaforest (feat. Jun Sawada)
- Crimson
- The Dawn (feat. Shawn J. Period)
- Interlude
- 85 Loop
- Rust (feat. KK)
- 1200 (feat. Hideo)
- Krushed Wall (feat. Rhythm Troops)
- The Kinetics (feat. Mista Sinista)
- Final Home
- No More (feat. DJ Yas & DJ Hazu)
- Outro
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Shinjiro
by: DJ Krush[Featuring Mos Def]
? got the sound you know the vibe baby
And DJ Krush he get down word up you know the vibe baby
Yeah and ? get down word up you know the vibe bay
But Mos Def keep the crown representin Brooklyn you know the vibe yo
From all borders doorways and gates
Resurrection draws near mankind awaits
When you're livin in this world you got to survive
Shaitan is lookin on alert attackin from all sides
Witness before all eyes, the evidence of unseen
The power past the comprehension that controls all things
The battle fought by good and evil is a real contest
It is the outcome of the struggle that we play context
To all sets sections cruddy clicks crews and clans
Gilgreens to Badlands, jump up, to understand
I'm just a man, not the univeral architect
We tread the face of this heavenly place, and show respect
Tokyo, raise your hands, where you at?
Osaka, raise your hands, where you at?
?*Mos Def says something in Japanese I don't understand*?
DJ Krush Mos Def on the touch, we let it fly
I send my, salaam to my, entire squad
Meiso hard, wherever you are, stay on your job
Strugglin hard, to overcome the perils of life
We writin rhymes on enemy lines to shine light
Stay in meditation to keep the head right
Spreadin wings like heavenly things, we take flight
Flight flight flight flight flight flight flight, ha ha
Everything gon be alright (2X)
And you got to believe
(repeat 2X)
Everything gon be alright (2X)
I said you got to believe (2X)
Yo bust it baby
Me and Krush politickin buildin on this money mission
? somethin so I had to stop and listen
It's time for ever tickin, my gift for-ever thinkin
I'm tryin to get mine cause Son it's here for the gettin
Allah's provision, will help us in the providential
My pad and pencil, will transcribe the elemental
The raw essential, the South bound resedential
The pure and simple, to resonate in your mental
I flash a dimple, my ? shine like precious metal
Left the rah rah livin alone, about to settle
Fast act tryin to go slow down, and save your petrol
Cause the beat don't stop, like yellow cabs in the metro
Rejoice your verse to Earth, as the verbs connects
This is a daily operation like birth to death
And I burst the breath, yep, as a so-called vet
I've orchestrated designs while they slept, quiet as kept
Everything that you heard in advance is just a glance
of the landscape, furnish we ?crops? and props till
sunsets and ?tree-dots, back jobs? of pure skill
At night, I do right, to excite, what truth reveal
Got to believe, that the Most High I see
Every degree, of this three-see-ix-to-e
We maintain Son and carry on officially
From troubled projects to the shores of Tripoli
I speak prolifically, I write reciprocally
Transmit upliftedly, it sounds terrific G
Allah has gifted me, with great ability
To speak to my beloved, and make em all love it
Refined rugged, a product of the ghetto public
Allah is the King of the world, we just subjects (2X)
Allah is the King, Allah is the King and you know
Everything's gon be alight (2X)
And you got to believe
(repeat 2X)
You know the vibe baby
Everything's gon be alright (2X)
(repeat 2X)
Yo bust it baby
*Mos Def shouts out a lot of people I don't know and couldn't spell*
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