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DJ Krush

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DJ Krush (Hideaki Ishii) was born in 1962 in Tokyo. At an early age, Ishii dropped out of school, and joined a local gang, and a few years later, Yakuza.

UNKLE

11,202,823 plays (573,648 listeners)

UNKLE revolves around British producer and Mo'Wax Records head James Lavelle, working in collaboration with many others. From the sleeve notes for the latest release End Titles...Stories For Film released in July 2008, the current line-up is stated as James Lavelle and Pablo Clements, also a member of the Psychonauts.

RJD2

11,871,195 plays (451,191 listeners)

RJD2 is Ramble John Krohn, a hip-hop producer. RJD2 was born in Eugene, Oregon, and raised in Columbus, Ohio. Until recently, he was part of the Definitive Jux label and produced tracks for many of its artists, as well as having a solo career. In 2006, RJ "ditched hip-hop" for the indie-rock label XL, releasing The Third Hand in March 2007.

Cut Chemist

1,520,648 plays (127,367 listeners)

Cut Chemist is the performing name of Lucas MacFadden, a solo turntablist. He is a former member of the funk Latin band Ozomatli, and of the underground rap group Jurassic 5. He became known through the Los Angeles-based rap group Unity Committee, and debuted on vinyl on the B-Side of Unity Committee's 1993 single, Unified Rebelution.

DJ Cam

2,264,592 plays (244,201 listeners)

Parisian hip-hop devotee Laurent Daumail is one of a few but growing number of French artists updating hip-hop for the chill-out crowd, drawing on the beats'n'samples groundwork of producers such as Rakim, DJ Premier, and Prince Paul and combining it with broad, impressionistic strokes of dub, jazz, and soundtrack-y ambience.

DJ Shadow & The Automator

85,628 plays (5,194 listeners)

This is a meeting between Josh 'DJ Shadow' Davis and Dan 'The Automator' Nakamura. Whilst they are both exceptionally successful on their own, they teamed up on this bootlegged mashup of Bollywood Beats and hip-hop.

Kid Koala

2,265,601 plays (184,364 listeners)

Eric San is no ordinary DJ. While his peers dream of euphoric crowds and killer drops, Eric is thinking up characters, creating story-lines and building plots. “I try and make little stories. Whether it’s with a pencil or with bits of records, it’s really the same thing.”

Blockhead

3,849,456 plays (228,207 listeners)

Blockhead grew up in downtown New York City. The son of an artist, early on he found his passion was for music.