Jun Yamabe & Enitokwa
Enitokwa (T.Hasegawa) began his music journey at the end of 80’s in Osaka. He started with punk, industrial music and New Wave, playing drums and guitar. From 1990 till 1993 he moved to the USA, Boston and studied hotel management. During his staying in Boston he came in touch with the club – sounds and he started producing house music, techno and ambient but also working as a Dj. In Boston he met for the first time Hiroshi Watanabe. In 1994 he return to Tokyo and started workingas a sound engineer, A&R and producer for the legendary Tokyo based record label of ‘Club Yellow’. In 1998 he return to his birth town Osaka. In 2001 he participated to the “Tokyo in Batofar Festival" in France and one of his tracks was used as a welcome music at the international flights of JAL. Apart from producing music Enitokwa is a great Dj, mixing chill out , down tempo, break beats, techno, tech-house, deep house, funk, Jazz and dance-classics in many Japanese Festivals.
Jun Yamabe was born in Iwate, Japan in 1976. During his childhood he started practicing on singing and music in general. Some years later he got his first drum machine and that was the reason he started experimenting with electronica and composing his first tracks. In 2000, he signed his first productions under the name Mexico and released his first album and E.P “Park Avenue” on USB, a sub label of the Japanese “Frogman”. Park Avenue had a very warm welcome from Djs across the world, such as Laurent Garnier and Thomas Schumacher. A few years later Jun Yamabe released the Forgiveness EP as well as his second album with the same title for Blank records. In 2006 he returned with his third album project Bit Suite which was released from Τοkuma Japan Communication. Most of the Bit Suite tracks were used as the soundtrack of the Nintendo game “Project Hacker “. That was his last release under the name Mexico. Since then Jun Yamabe is working with his real name and recently he released the “Ctrld” track on Klik Records’ compilation project “Big In Japan” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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