Looking back, although my stay in Senegal was short (less than two weeks in fact), I was able to spend very rich days, different from ordinary tourists, by spending time alone at the home of a musician named “Latir,” who is in a sense a “goodwill ambassador between Japan and Senegal,” and by interacting deeply with him through the medium of music.
Knowing almost nothing of these basic information, I asked a lot of questions, mainly to him and various people I met in the area, and I feel that there are some errors in the story told from their words, as locals.
The reason for this is that such historical information is often written and produced from the viewpoints of those who created the system. There is a saying, “Winners make history,” but considering that Africa is not a “winner” in the current economic sense, the true history will not be told to the general public for some time to come. I believe that the true history of Africa will remain generally untold for some time to come.
Furthermore, in the aftermath of the 2001 World Trade Center bombing, when Muslims all over the world were suddenly accused of terrorism on some unfounded grounds, the story of Senegal, where 98% of the population is Muslim, seems more distant to Japanese and people from other countries who are not familiar with Islam.
「イスラム教＝テロリスト＝怖い、危険」という西欧メディアが映し出したイメージは強烈だ。
The image projected by the Western media of “Islam = terrorists = scary and dangerous” is powerful.
My father told me at the age of 10 that, for example, Ryoichi Sasakawa was the head of evil (a shock to me since I was forced to watch commercials every week that made me think that the entire nation was a good person). I was also taught that professional wrestling was all about “illegal extortion,” and since my father’s sister worked for Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company that has become known throughout the world in recent years, I was exposed to how ruthless pharmaceutical companies are in their pursuit of profit only. I was aware of the harmful effects of television, in other words, the spreading of false fog and the hypocritical way in which corporations covet profits, so I was completely suspicious of and rejected the bombing of Afghanistan in 2001 and the suspicion that Muslims are terrorists.
ともかくセナガル紀行を始めよう。 Anyway, let’s start the Senagal travelogue.
I hadn’t slept at all when I arrived at Goree Island, but the weather was nice, so I took a short walk around the island with Latir and his junior colleague, Mars.
However, I knew that this island, which I visited because it was Latir’s family home, once had a fortress aspect, as evidenced by the fact that cannons like this one are lying all over the place. At that time, I did not know what kind of historical aspect it had…
静かでのどか、 先述した様に沖縄の竹富島を思い出す。
Quiet and tranquil. As mentioned above, it reminds me of Taketomi Island in Okinawa.
しかし、島内のそこかしこに立ち現れる妙にヨーロッパ的な要素は、おしゃれとも言えるが違和感も感じた。
However, the strangely European elements that appear here and there on the island can be described as stylish, but I also felt a sense of discomfort.
頑張れば泳げる距離に首都ダカールが見える。 しかし、浜は少なく島自体が絶壁に囲まれている様だ。
The capital city of Dakar can be seen within swimming distance if one tries hard enough. However, there are few beaches, and the island itself seems to be surrounded by cliffs.
そして上記の壁画に目がいく。 Then the above wall painting catches my eye.
At this point, I had no idea about “Islam” myself. I had read the Old and New Testaments in a book that my father had sent me a few years earlier, and I was aware that Islam was a part of the Bible…or at least a genealogy of the Bible.
But to my surprise, the day I arrived was a full moon and the birthday of Muhammad, the founder of Islam… This can hardly be called a coincidence. It was a divine providence!
So, the whole island, perhaps even the whole of Senegal…or even Muslims all over the world, will celebrate the day. Naturally, Latir and his friends will also participate in the festivities and rituals. (By the way, I just read on Wikipedia that the mosque on Goree Island is the oldest house of worship in Senegal.)
Being a non-Muslim and having no knowledge of the island, I wandered around the island in the dark under the full moon, where such sounds echoed all the way to the morning.
Even though it is a festival, it is a Muslim festival, and there is no way anyone would drink alcohol on such a holy day, and the sound of pure prayer echoes through the air. I could hardly sleep that day, and under the moonlight, I was intoxicated by the sound of their voices and drums. It was an ecstasy I had never experienced before, an experience of ecstatic time and space.
前編冒頭で先述した自分の中の『廃墟』が癒される様な…。いや、言葉では、筆舌しがたい。
It is as if the “ruins” inside me, which I mentioned earlier at the beginning of the first part, are being healed….No, words cannot describe it.
とにかくこの日は人生の転機だった。 Anyway, this day was a turning point in my life.
この時、イスラムというものが完全に自分の中で肯定され、深く知るべきものとなったのだ。 It was at this time that Islam was fully affirmed in me, and became something to be deeply known.
改めて この人物の存在がいかに現在のセナガルにとっていかに重要なのか。
Once again. how important this person’s presence is to the current Senagal.
Latir tells me that he is a “saint” in every sense of the word, with a litany of legends that I find hard to believe. It is worth mentioning that Bamba denied the Hajj, one of the Five Elements of the Muslim religion, which requires one to visit Mecca at least once. This is clearly a heretical idea even among Sunnis, who make up 90% of all Muslims, about 1.4 billion believers.
He himself dared to perform the Hajj, but in the Sufi concept of oneness with God and Allah, it is not important to go to Mecca, but rather the individual’s love for God and the consciousness of connecting with Him that is important…
If you are not interested in religion or have an aversion to it in the first place, it may honestly be hard to follow, but I myself have been thinking about God since I was a child, so it is extremely interesting.
Since I was a small child, whenever I saw a Buddhist altar, a shrine, or a cross, I always wondered what on earth this was all about. Even at a young age, I was saddened and angered by the absurdity of family troubles and society, and felt resentment at the discrimination of people due to economic disparity, even though I was only five years old. Specifically, I was really pissed off when I saw the assistant director of the kindergarten I attended treat my childhood friend (the photographer’s son) badly, but flatter the child of the bank president. If there is a God, why does he give us such absurdity…. Why do people bicker, kick each other down, bad mouth each other, hate each other, start wars, etc.?
人間とは本当にこの世界に必要なのだろうか？ Are human beings really necessary for this world?
こんな世の中に生きる意味はあるのだろうか？ Is there any meaning to life in such a world?
That was the first time I wanted to die, and I grabbed a knife. However, as a child, I didn’t have the courage to take my own life, and ended up crying. After that, the sadness and anger never went away, and when I was 15, I began to curse God…. Seriously. I’m going to destroy this shitty world.
However, music, which I began to listen to seriously from the age of 12, soothed me and gave me hope. I was taken to a live music club for the first time when I was 11 years old, and seeing my classmate’s older brother playing in a punk band and making a lot of noise, I impulsively joined the band and found something to vent my anger and sadness about there.
Then, my friend TASAKA, whom I met in junior high school in Shinjuku and with whom I still have a connection, introduced me to HIPHOP, and I was shocked by a group called PUBLIC ENEMY. This was probably my first exposure to pitch black music…and I also learned of the existence of MALCOM X, an organization influenced by the Nation of Islam. Although this information was difficult for a junior high school student to understand, I still understood and sympathized with how black people in the U.S. live in absurdity, struggle, and are compelled to express themselves.
怒りを音楽で浄化する。
The anger is purified through music.
これは、現在50歳近くなった今も、全くといっていいほど変わらない。
This has not changed at all, even now that I am almost 50 years old.
余談ではあるが、この前提があっての、ここアフリカなのだ。
As a side note, it is this premise that we are here in Africa.
In the morning, almost unable to sleep again, I went fishing with Latir early in the morning. He left here at the age of 18 and moved to Japan ( migrant worker), not being able to speak English or Japanese, of course. I heard that he went through a lot of hardships, but he loves his mother deeply, and while he is back on the island, he does fishing out of the goodness of his heart and out of filial piety, hoping to make a little extra for his meals every time.
I tried it myself, and it was nice to fish in the morning glow… I remembered my father taking me boat fishing and rock fishing several times when I was little.
東の果ても、西の果ても、人間は変わらない。 Whether in the far east or the far west, people are the same.
そしてまず最初に絶対に奴隷博物館に行くべきだとラティールに言われ、マースと共に行く。 Then Latir tells me that I should definitely go to the Slave Museum first, so I go with Mars.
Goree Island was the largest hub of that slave trade. That is why the Western nations were competing with each other for it. The island, with its precipitous cliffs and fortress-like shape, was the perfect place. And so, the cannon at the beginning of this article.
In North America alone, there were 5 million. The total number of slaves forcibly transported to South America and Europe is estimated to be about 15 to 20 million, but that is only the number of survivors who made it through the long voyage, and in reality three to four times that many were transported.
そのうちの大多数がこのゴレ島から運ばれた。 The majority of them were transported from this island of Goree.
Closer to home, Fukuoka City has between 15 and 20 million people. In total, more than 70 million people were abducted from Africa, according to researchers who are not white but black. Among them, of course, were children…and given that they were to be used as labor, young boys and girls would naturally have been taken in the greatest numbers.
The feelings of children torn from their parents and siblings and taken away. The feelings of parents who suddenly lose their children. What kind of grief it is.
どれだけの心を壊したのだろう。 I wonder how many hearts were broken.
そしてこの写真に写る、電灯などはなく真っ暗の部屋に糞尿まみれで押し込まれた人たち、子供達の心は。 And the hearts of the people and children in this photo, who were shoved into a dark room with no electric lights and covered in feces and urine.
上記の写真は、下の作品のジャケットに使わせてもらった。 The above photo was used for the jacket of the piece below.
この窓から見る景色は、彼らにとってどんな光だったのだろう。 What kind of light was the view from this window for them?
断崖絶壁の奴隷収容施設としてのゴレ島をまさに痛感させられた。 The island of Goree as a precipitous slave holding facility was truly a painful experience.
多少の涙が出たが、そんな同情を寄せつけないほどの過酷さ。 Some tears were shed, but the harshness of the situation was so severe that it did not attract such sympathy.
しばし沈黙の中、このゴレ島の美しい情景と熱い日差しに包まれながらマースと歩いた。 In silence for a while, I walked with Mars, surrounded by the beautiful scenery and hot sun of this Goree Island.
次の日もラティールの釣りに付き合う。 The next day, I continued with Latir’s fishing.
そして毎日ラティールのお母さんの家に行き（自分が泊まってる離れから）ご飯をご馳走になる。 And every day I go to Latir’s mother’s house (from a distance where I am staying) and treat myself to dinner.
不思議な東洋人を見つめるラティールの親戚の子w His relative’s child staring at the mysterious oriental.
そしてご飯がお世辞抜きで超ウマイ！ 基本米だし、肉も鶏がメインで魚が多い！！ And the rice is flattering and super tasty! It’s basically rice, and the meat is mostly chicken, with a lot of fish!
Goats were being processed in the neighborhood early in the morning, as circumcision, a mandatory ritual not only in Islam but also in Old Testament religions, was being practiced.
そこらに放牧されていたヤギがある日、捌かれる日常。 A goat that has been grazing around the area is one day processed.
生と死の境界線は浅い。 The line between life and death is shallow.
いわゆるコロニアル（植民地）建築、様式と言われる建物が港には立ち並ぶ。 The port is lined with buildings of so-called colonial architecture and style.
There are not many white tourists now, but I imagine what it must have been like during the heyday of slavery, which lasted about 300 years. It makes me feel sorry for them.
そしてラティールの先輩クラスのパーカショニストが帰郷してライブするとのことで足を運ぶ。
And then I heard that a percussionist of Latir’s senior class was coming back home to perform live.
ラティールは「お前も叩けよ」と煽られ参加！ Latir was encouraged to join in, “You should hit it too!”
ここで初めてラティールのパーカッションスタイルはかなり和風になっていて、現地のモロと比べると、明らかにソフィティフィケイトされてると感じた。 Here for the first time, Latir’s percussion style was quite Japanese, and compared to the local moros, I felt it was clearly sophiticated.
As you can hear, the machine-gun-like continuous attack of the senior Xima would be too much for you in Japan. (Chuckles) But in Africa, of course, this is more popular, and I feel that it is very African. There may be no music or food that is universally popular anywhere in the world.
DJのパーティーもあった。
There was also a DJ party.
小規模だけど現行の若者達のイマな音。 It was small, but it was the current sound of young people.
親近感が湧く！ I feel so close to them!
アフリカンアートと言われるものを最初に感じたのは『やし酒飲み』という本なのだが、 I first got a sense of what’s called African art from a book called “Yashi Sake Drinker.”
Cubism in Picasso, and other three-dimensional creativity. It is certainly in HIPHOP today, and of course in Jazz as well.Naturally, African local art, which is the origin of HipHop, is simple but somewhat strong, not in a neat form like in Japan, but rugged and dynamic. This can certainly be felt in the music.
上記の様な手法の絵をパッチワークというらしいが、自分には珍しく購入欲が抑えられず…、というかジャケットで絶対使える！と思ったので購入し、実際この作品で使わせてもらった。 I heard that this kind of painting is called “patchwork,” which is unusual for me, and I could not restrain my desire to buy it, or rather, I thought that I could definitely use it on a jacket! I bought it and actually used it in this work.
見ての通り、太陽光線の濃度が違うからか、湿度がないからなのか、色使いがとても豊かだ。 As you can see, the colors are very rich, perhaps because of the different concentration of sunlight or the lack of humidity.
個人的には東京の薄汚れた世界で生まれ育ったせいか、あまり色を使わない傾向があるのだが、やはり生命を感じる色使いにはとても惹かれるし、実際とんでもなく厳しい状況を乗り越えた人たちの生み出す世界観としての癒しも感じる。 Personally, I tend not to use much color, perhaps because I was born and raised in the dirty world of Tokyo, but I am still very attracted to the use of colors that feel alive, and I also feel a sense of healing as a worldview created by people who have actually overcome incredibly harsh conditions.
ダカールや少し離れたエリアまで観光にも連れて行ってもらったりもした。 I was also taken on sightseeing tours to Dakar and other areas a little further away.
ここでご馳走になったご飯も相当うまかった！ The food we were treated to here was pretty good too!
レコードを探したいと伝えたら護衛の若者を二人つけてくれ、ダカールの上野のアメ横みたいなエリアに。 I told them I wanted to look for records and they gave me two young men as escorts and we went to an area that looked like the Ameyoko in Dakar’s Ueno.
I was in this area when some guy tackled me and tried to take something from me. Unfortunately, he fell down, and as a result, my escort beat him up…I looked around and saw about a thousand people in all black looking at me, and the situation was quite thrilling. It was a thrilling experience. It was a good thing that I had been physically fit. And I’m glad I had an escort….
その後、政治にも進出したユッスンドゥールの経営するクラブ、ライブハウスで、VIVIANという現地では超有名なシンガーのライブにも、護衛を一人つけてもらって観に行った。 After that, I went to see a very famous local singer named VIVIAN live at a club and live music club run by Yusundur, who has also entered politics, with one of his escorts.
そこで女の子に逆ナンされたり、その後六本木にあった旧ガスパニック的なバーにも連れていかれたりしたが、そういう余計なことには介入せず笑、しかしそれらの場所で場末の空気を感じられたことは良かった。ドコでも『悪い』エリアというのはあって、そこにはドロッとしたリアリティーがあり、それはそれで大衆の息吹を感じるからだ。 There I got hit on by a girl and was later taken to an old gas-panic bar in Roppongi, but I didn’t intervene in those unnecessary things and laughed, but it was good to feel the atmosphere of the place in those places. There are “bad” areas everywhere, and there is a thick reality, which is why I could feel the breath of the masses.
セネガルは勿論、西アフリカにおいて重要な太鼓 “ジャンベ” の工房にも連れて行ってもらった。 I was taken to a workshop of “djembe” drums, which are very important in West Africa, not to mention Senegal.
勿論何日間か小分けにレコーディングも敢行。 Of course, we also recorded for several days in small groups.
この手のゲリラレコーディングでは付き物の野次馬というかギャラリーもアフリカ、ゴレらしくなんだか長閑だ。 The onlookers, or rather galleries, that are a common feature of this kind of guerrilla recording are also somewhat tranquil, as is typical of Africa and Gorée.
これらの太鼓の録音は下記の楽曲にも収録されている。 These drum recordings are also included in the following music.
He came forward to record the track himself, explained his production concept through Latir, He listened to the track, wrote the lyrics on the spot, and here is the resulting song.
The combination of the two islanders, he from Gorée Island and RITTO from Okinawa, is quite a nice one. He has since become one of Senegal’s leading conscious rappers.
And the biggest and most personal gain of this recording session in Senegal was the opportunity to work with RITTO.He has since moved to Japan, where he has recorded several times since then, and has become a close friend of mine.
コラ奏者 Karamo Cissokhoとの録音 Recording with kora player Karamo Cissokho
Incidentally, he is from a family that has played only music for generations, the so-called grios, and is in a somewhat shamanic or psychic mood as a complete itako or medium. When I recorded him on the above song called PRAY, he so smoothly adapted the melody to the track that I asked him if this was an improvised melody. I asked him, and he said, “It’s a song dedicated to the king of Mandinga 700 years ago!”
The reality that a melody from 700 years ago can be created here and now is, in a sense, possible only through music.
聴く人間はタイムマシーンに乗ってその時にトリップさせられる。
The listener is transported to that time in a time machine.
ラティールが少年時代から練習場として参加してきた、ジャンベとダンサーたちのサークルにも参加する。 He will also join a circle of djembes and dancers that Latir has participated in as a training ground since he was a boy.
In the photo above, the person in the white T-shirt on the upper left is probably Down’s Syndrome in Japan, but I personally felt a sense of affinity with him because he blends naturally with the members of the drum circle. The group WANOWA, which was recently released on our CROSSPOINT label, is organized by Yohei Yamaura, a friend of mine who was born in Fukuoka, lives in Mie, and currently works at a care facility for the handicapped in Nara. WANOWA is a group organized by Yohei Yamaura, a friend of mine who currently lives and works in a nursing home for the disabled in Nara.
People with disabilities may be treated as lacking in modern society and daily life, but in the world of music and art, their expressions are so rich in life force that they overwhelm normal people.
In modern Japan, such people are placed in institutions and hidden away. Personally, however, I think that it would be better for children to feel the diversity of each person’s existence rather than to average them out, and to feel the value that every person has something lacking and that no one is perfect, so that they will not be so pessimistic about themselves and suicide will be less likely.
As Yohei Yamaura, mentioned above, often says, “It is as it is,” and this place is exactly “as it is. If each person could live “as it is,” there would be no lies, and we would be able to spend our time comfortably.
ここでは書ききれないことも色々あった。 There were many things that I can’t write about here.
Anyway, it was a total wonderful experience, but above all, I never thought that I would be able to feel the core of Islam completely within myself and in this far western land.
The MOVEMENT called Islam, which was born in Saudi Arabia, was already taking root in Africa by the end of the 700s, the Heian period in Japan, and here in Senegal, West Africa, there were leaders around 1000 AD, which is almost the same as the establishment of Buddhism in Japan.
If Mecca in Saudi Arabia is the center of this phenomenon, I can’t help but think it is an interesting phenomenon that someone like myself, who was born in the Far East, is deeply aware of it here in the Far West.
ちなみについ最近下記の本を読み終えた。 Incidentally, I just recently finished reading the following book.
As readers of this column will know, the Caribbean countries I experienced and the island of Goree in Senegal are the central subjects of this book, and there is no doubt that the wealth deprivation of the Western countries (especially Britain, France, and Spain) through slavery was so terrible that the result was the current global economic status of the world. The book is also a good example of why the distortion of historical facts, including by the media, has placed only the Western European countries in a significant political position.
To put it simply, the wealth that has come from nefarious abduction and extortion is the true nature of the G5 and the like. I don’t think many people understand the situation in which these nefarious people are wearing fancy suits and pretending to be world leaders.
The Black Lives Matter movement of recent years may be seen as a regional movement in the U.S., but it is also taking place in North America, South America, Africa, India, and other parts of Asia, and even here in Japan, the colonial system is still in place, with Okinawa (U.S. military base) at the top of the list.
After all, the Japanese government still contributes huge sums of money to the U.S. government in the form of royalties. What would we call it if we did not call it a colony?
I urge you to reexamine your imagination about the harshness of the situation, which you can never understand just by watching TV. Islam as a culture and its history should not be taken for granted from what is published in the so-called Western media. I believe that music can be an opportunity to learn the truth that does not appear in the current media or historical facts.
There are not many Muslims living in Japan, but if you have a chance to meet them in Shin-Okubo or any other area where there are Muslims, I would be happy if you could feel their vibe in person, even if it is just a small conversation. And I hope you will listen to the music played by Muslims from all over the world, including those from Africa who believe in Islam.
If we do not grasp the structure of this world anew and get out of the propaganda, our descendants will unknowingly become perpetrators, and eventually their children will become victims again… I want to avoid that repetition.
少々熱くなってしまったが、最期にラティールが語るイスラムそして奴隷制、現代社会の暗部について。 I have spoken a bit passionately about Islam, slavery, and the dark side of modern society, which Latir talks about at the end.
自らをCROSSPOINTとして定めた人間としては、この旅で学んだことは大きい。 As someone who has set himself up as a CROSSPOINT, I have learned a lot from this trip.
Then I greeted Latir and his friends with Salaam Aleikum and returned to Istanbul, the very CROSSPOINT of the West and the East. The arrangement was made for me to be introduced to a shakuhachi-like flute player named Ney in exchange for DJing at the recent BABA ZULA concert, and although I only had a day to spare, I was able to record the music.
The meeting place was the studio of YAKAZA ENSEMBLE, which would eventually be released on CROSSPOINT the following year, and the player was Fakih, a member of the band.
これらの演奏・録音はRe:OnenessやEarth Danceという楽曲に収録された。 These performances and recordings were included in the songs Re:Oneness and Earth Dance.
Although it was their first time to meet, it didn’t feel like the first time at all. Especially Fakih, who himself plays the shakuhachi and has a deep knowledge of Japanese culture, was full of love and respect. This is not only true for them, but also for all Turks…
映画化もされたエルトゥールル号遭難事件 The Ertugrul disaster, which has been made into a movie
The movie “The Ertugrul Disaster” was a case that all Turks knew about, and I later came to understand why everyone was so kind to each other. The film is well made and very moving, and I highly recommend you to watch it.
The recording itself lasted about an hour, and I could not talk much because I had a plane to catch on my way back home…but I listened to the CD of YAKAZA’s first album, which they gave me, on my PC on the Shinkansen bullet train to Sendai after I had reloaded my luggage.
まさにインシャッラー。神の思し召しとしか言いようがない。 Inshallah indeed. I can only say that it is God’s will.
I asked SYUNOVEN, the painter waiting ahead of me, how these guys would sound for the art book I had been approaching him about. He replied, “They are perfect.
This trip deeply implanted in me the awareness of Islam and made me deeply aware that there are many people scattered all over the earth who believe in the religion, including its ideology (said to be more than 1/3 of the total population). I believe that the musical experience is at the same time an access to human activity, in other words, to human beings themselves and their hearts. Religion has more to do with that heart-connected life than Japanese people today realize. It is true that many people, like the cab driver who appeared in the first part of this article, suffer from the curse of religion. However, my personal interpretation of religion is that it is only a “teaching” and a “lesson. How can we, the younger generation, take the wisdom that our seniors, who have overcome many difficulties, have cultivated through their experiences, and apply it to the future? It is said that fools learn from experience and the wise learn from history, but personally, I would like to learn from both experience and history. Even if you miss the plane lol It is sometimes important to spend meaningful time there, and learning about history from the aforementioned books and other sources, learning about the current situation, and what kind of future you are going to create…
彼らともサラームアレイクムと挨拶を交わし、再会を誓う。 そしてまだ旅は続く。
I greet them with salaam aleikum and vow to see them again. And the journey still continues.
Born in Tokyo, he started playing in bands and DJing at the same time when he was 15. As a DJ, his innovative and original style has taken the world by storm, and his activities have quickly expanded from huge festivals to underground parties both in Japan and abroad. In 2003, he went on a recording tour with local musicians in Cuba. In 2003, he went on a recording tour with local musicians in Cuba, and since then he has been recording all over the world, and started his own label, Crosspoint, as a new guideline for world music. In addition to music production, he also produces video works, picture books and art books, and organized the outdoor festival “Jomon and Rebirth” in 2012. In 2017, he released HIGHTIME Inc. with DJ Tasaka, and in 2018, he released ZERO with MACKA-CHIN of NitroMicrophoneUnderground and MaL of PART2 STYLE. In 2018, he also started the unit ZEN RYDAZ with MACKA-CHIN of NitroMicrophoneUnderground and MaL of PART2STYLE. In the same year, his music under the name of J.A.K.A.M. was released in analog form on the French label HardFist, which led to a live performance at the huge 30,000-person Nuits Sonores Festival, followed by a DJ tour of Europe and Israel. In 2019, the production of MYSTICS, a unit with Marcus Henriksson and Kuniyuki of the internationally popular Minilogue/Son Kite, began, and this year, 2021, the long-awaited album will be released. His original vision is spreading all over the world, crossing all genres. He has been behind the decks at home and abroad with: Acid Arab (FR) / Adam Ffreeland (UK) / Alex Patterson (The Orb, UK) Andy Baz (Background Records, Germany) / Asaf Sammuel (islael) / Dego (4Hero, UK) / Fabio (UK) / Francois K (NY) / Fred P(NY) / Foolish Felix (UK) / Grooverider (UK) / I.G.Culture (People, UK) / Jeff Mills (Chicago) / Joe Claussell (NY) Nick the Record (UK) / Moodyman (Detroit) / Panasea (Germany) PHOTEK (UK) / Storm(MetalHeadz, UK) / Suv (Fullcycle, UK) / Q-Bert & Inbisibl Skratch Piklz, Mix Master Mike with D-Styles, Yogafrog and Shortcut (US) / Theo Parrish(Detroit) / Terre Thaemlitz (US/JPN) / Tom Wieland (Vienna) /DJ KRUSH (JP) / Flying Lotus(US)/ / Boredoms (JP) / FAUST (Germany) / Dennis Bovell(UK) / Dillinger Escape Plan (NY) / Juno Reacter (UK) /Lee Perry (Jamaica) / LKJ (UK) / Lake Trout (US) / Mad Proffesor (UK) / Mala (UK) / Marcus Henriksson(SW) / Meat Beat Manifesto (UK) / Merzbow , MMW (US)/ Yakaza Ensemble(Turkey) etc. His style keeps evolving and defies categorization.
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