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Heading into 2021

It’s been about a month since I last posted… would like to announce my final three mixes in the Quinta. series to round off the year in style. “oldSchool” is a step into the good old days, “no43” a slightly melancholy futurescape as we jump into the unknown, and “liftOff” as we take off through […]

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Quinta. II “stemSketch” – out Monday

The second installment in my Quinta. remix compendium is called “stemSketch”. As the name implies it is a sketch, which means equal parts audio doodle and complete improvisation in the moment and see what happens. Part of a refusal to stay on the well-trodden route of dj mixing of the past. Searching for something new. […]

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Quinta. I “thursdayDub” – is out

It’s been 15yrs since I stopped playing clubs in Tokyo, putting serious time into preparing new track collections for the dancefloor. At that time, I was playing a lot of ethnic house, some techno. After that I briefly setup an on/off online radio station in 2006-2007 which was fairly popular in the electronic music section […]

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Launching Quinta. – a set of remixes

While the outside world reels from increasing levels of coronavirus, and the sad stories of death and anxiety, we try to make sense of the new normal. Equally it is often a time to reach inside and see what is really important. Family, dreams, passions. One of the things that I have been researching heavily […]

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Been a while

It’s coming up to almost three years since I moved to Toyota to take up the general manager role at the Advanced R&D Engineering company. Then subsequently also seconded to my role as VP at TRI-AD, Toyota’s automated driving software company. No specific reason for the silence over these couple of years: mainly that of […]

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New Year, New Direction

Wishing all readers out there a very happy new year 2018! With the end of the year comes reflection on the year past, hopefully providing insights to the year ahead. Looking back at 2017, I realized it’s been 9 months since I started this blog and am reaching the limit of what is available out […]