After 20 years in the DJ game, DJ Krush is widely acclaimed as the king of Japanese hip-hop, and, as a much sought after turntabilist, his impeccable skills have impressed crowds all over world.
But his music is actually genre-defying and vastly experimental. He fuses hip-hop, old techno, house, rock and reggae, and he is particularly fond of jazz, saying that the ¡°freedom that occurs in a (jazz) session is fascinating and exhilarating.¡±
The story of DJ Krush started humbly ¡ª at a Tokyo cinema. There the then-teenage Hideaki Ishi become enamored with hip-hop after watching old-skool godfather Grandmaster Flash in the 1983 film ¡°Wild Style,¡± with its gritty street aesthetic, fraught with subway shots, break dancing and freestyle MCing, and it was this love affair that saved him from a chimpira (street thug) lifestyle.
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