DJ Kentaro – Club World, Kyoto, Japan (20/04/07)
Dj Kentaro is fond of scratching. Like a chicken pox sufferer with an incurable itch or an angry cat, he seems hell bent on clawing his way to some other place, and taking his audience along for the ride.
Having won the DMC World Championships in 2002 (the premier competition for DJs, like a competitive Oscars), Kentaro’s pedigree as a pound-for-pound scratching, cutting, mixing, matching, juggling turntablist of the highest calibre is undisputed.
He was the first Japanese to win the Techincs sponsored DMC’s – a big thing for DJ competition sponsoring music hardware companies from Japan, like Technics. This meant little to any of tonight’s crowd though save the geeky looking guys standing train spotter style in front of the turntables.
Club World was plunged into silent darkness. Hearing and anticipation suitably heightened, sounds emerged from the deep. A series of tigerish scratches and growling bass could mean only one thing: DJ Kentaro had entered the building. His opening was a reworking of “Sakura” a traditional nursery rhyme replete with the unmistakable wail of the Japanese flute.
Kentaro is noted for is his cross genre record collection and outside the box thinking. Over the course of his set the crowd were treated to a river of sounds that flowed from nursery rhyme, through drum and bass and hip hop, to electro, breakbeat and house, returning via the nth dimension.
This potent brew was mixed and chopped expertly, and sprinkled liberally with trademark scratches and beat juggles that left the crowd on the outskirts of delirium, and dancing until dawn.
Eardrums suitably scored by aural consumption, appetites satiated, the crowd began to disperse. They had been scratched to within an inch of insanity and they had enjoyed it. Parting like lovers in the early morning light we were left with a warm glow and the tingling scratch marks of an amorous night.
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‘Enter’ – by DJ Kentaro is out now, available from all good record stores. It is good but the BBC don’t like it.
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July 8, 2007 at 8:44 pm