Biography
Ninja Tune were introduced to the work of DJ Kentaro through his success at the 2002 DMC World finals where the Japanese turntablist won outright to become World Champion with a set of pure innovation using not just hip hop, but also reggae, drum & bass, house and electro, in the process achieving the highest score ever in a DMC Final. This was unsurprising for those who had already come across him, a man who can play long, scratchless floor-filling sets, or turn his hand to VJ mixes using DVD decks with the same skills, a man who is enabled by his technique rather than imprisoned within it.
"DJ Kentaro may be a turntablist - a world-beating turntablist, in fact - but that doesn't mean that only spotty geezers in puffas and baseball caps need to look out for him. Because hip hop and scratching represent merely one side of Kentaro's multi-faceted musical persona." - IDJ "More than just a technical DJ, Kentaro is a performer, inciting the crowd into a frenzy while titillating the scratch fetishists." - Blast
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