With each new release, this Japanese genius seems to pull further and further away from the initial blueprint he laid down with his early Mo Wax releases. His compositions are becoming more ...

Sat Oct 2, Neumo's, 8 pm, $15 adv. DJ Krush's latest CD, Jaku, concludes a trilogy that was activated by 2001's Zen (and followed up with 2003's The Message at the ...

Hideaki Ishi, better known as DJ Krush, is one of the very few artists from Asia who has commanded two decades of cred in the global hip hop scene. The 49-year-old Japanese producer and DJ got his ...

On jaku, the 41-year-old’s eighth solo album, Krush’s combination of beats (some slippery, some direct and austere) with strings, murky samples, and traditional Japanese instruments could be the ...

Although the world teems with indigenous versions of hip-hop--varying wildly from Frankfurt to Cape Town and beyond--Japan's DJ Krush is perhaps the only foreigner who's managed to change the way ...