Artist【K.E.I.（Third Brain / VOVIVAV）】All In Mix DJ with a traveler's temperament who sticks to playing with a clear concept every time. In 2001, he started h...
K.E.I.（Third Brain / VOVIVAV）
All In Mix DJ with a traveler's temperament who sticks to playing with a clear concept every time. In 2001, he started his DJ activities in earnest. In the same year, he formed the art punk band VOVIVAV. He is still active as a leader and bassist. In November 2009, he appeared as a DJ on Lightning Bolt's Japan tour, and also performed as VOVIVAV + Hair Stylistics.
In January 2012, they performed together at DOMMUNE when Dan Deacon came to Japan. He will be the live opening DJ for Buraka Som Sistema with Bambounou at Gaite Lyrique in Paris. From March of the same year, he joined The Floating Guitar BOrchestra led by Masuko Shinji as a bassist.
He accompanied BOREDOMS to their live performance at the UK "A.T.P. Festival" and four performances in Japan. In November 2015, he played an improvisational session with Mino Peric as a turntablist in Melbourne.
At Mullum Bimby, he DJed at an outdoor party hosted by VITAMIN-Q, where DJ Nobu appeared. In September 2017, she appeared at a party hosted by Soft Circle (Hisham A. Baroocha) at Secret Project Robot in New York.
In September of the following year, he performed as a DJ at an event held at LaCitéFertile in Paris, and actively engaged in overseas activities. In June 2018, he released his own band VOVIVAV's 1st album "ART PUNKS IS LOCALS ONLY". In 2020, along with ex)VOVIVAV's umeo, he formed Third Brain, a duo that interprets techno music from the southern hemisphere right on the equator. He has released a total of 4 7-inch digital songs in a style that creates a third brain by mixing the sounds that ring in the two brains and the ideas that dwell in them.
Since 2013, he has been the countdown DJ for 10 years in a row at the countdown party of Kobako Bonobo, which represents the Tokyo underground world. Also, as a "One Artist Only DJ" style that selects songs by one artist, there are careers such as Phew and DMBQ at DOMMUNE, and BOREDOMS at the BEAMS Harajuku gallery.
He was in charge of the music for the fashion show at the Tokyo collection of the fashion brand "Name." Starting with the 2016 A/W with "contemporary music + noise", the 2017 S/S featured a noise mix created with DJ + analog synthesizer under the theme of "rock + noise", and the 2017 A/W was " We provided a mix with the theme of DUB.
Currently, he works as a regular DJ with suimin and 7e on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at Débris in Daikanyama. Organize parties such as "ORANGE POOPLE" that are held regularly.
Characteristic is the activity style that closely links with core artists such as 90's Tokyo basement, 00's US Brooklyn group, OOIOO that continues to evolve music after new wave, and junk that makes full use of the viewpoint of band / fashion + noise. & A song selection that makes you feel emotional and warm while having a sense of tribal.
He was particular about discovering tracks that are created with dance culture from the streets of the world, mainly in South America and Africa, and mixing variously as a global base to create unique frontier grooves. The crowd on the floor will be fascinated by the storytelling and psychedelia, and aim to experience the pleasure of visualizing sound into images while dancing.
DJ K.E.I. http://soundcloud.com/keivovivav
Third Brain https://lit.link/thirdbrain
VOVIVAV https://twitter.com/VOVIVAV
