ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: DJ OMKT

DJ OMKT’s biography: [STUDIO ATARI]

He first encountered YMO and Kraftwerk, became fascinated by electronic sounds and was baptised into house music when he visited Ibiza in 1998.
His DJ style is a mix of tracks with roots in NEW WAVE and ROCK, and self-edited tracks that utilise his skills as a track maker.
He also produces other tracks that are always in the news, such as ‘TOMODACHI’, which samples T-REX’s ’20th Century Boy’.
REZ (Pray For JAPAN Mix)”, released in June 2011, was long-term No. 1 on Wasabeat, a paid distribution site specialising in club music.
He has provided music for the compilation CD ‘HOUSE NATION’, ‘Tokyo Girls Collection’ and TV drama commercials, as well as working as a programmer, arranger and engineer at the recently opened music production studio ‘STUDIO ATARI’. At the recently opened studio ‘STUDIO ATARI’, he also holds workshops on track production using Ableton’s Live.

YMOとクラフトワークに出会い電子音の魅力に取り憑かれ、1998年に訪れたイビザでハウスミュージックの洗礼を受けその虜となる。

NEW WAVE、ROCKをルーツとした選曲と、トラックメーカーとしてのスキルを活かしたセルフエディット曲を織り交ぜるDJスタイルを得意としており、自身の制作したCOLDPLAY「VivaLa Vida」のハウスカバーは全国のクラブでスマッシュヒット。

他にT-REX「20th Century Boy」をサンプリングした「TOMODACHI」等、常に話題となるトラックを制作し、 2011年6月に発表された「REZ (Pray For JAPAN Mix)」はクラブミュージック専門の有料配信サイト【Wasabeat】にて長期に渡り1位を獲得した。

コンピレーションCD「House Nation」や”東京ガールズコレクション”、TVドラマCMへも楽曲を提供し、プログラマー、アレンジャー、エンジニアとしても活躍している。

また自身がオープンさせた楽曲制作専用スタジオ「STUDIO ATARI (スタジオ アタリ)」ではAbleton社のLiveを使用したトラック制作の講習会を開催している。

Links:

X (Twitter), Instagram, Beatport, Apple Music, discogs (CD), Tower Records (CD)

Sounds:

Soundcloud

About LuNa

LuNaLUNA is a DJ from Osaka, Japan.
She started DJ-ing in dining bars back in 2011. Since then, she has decided to limit herself to online activities, such as podcasts and radio shows, which actually brought her to a wider stage.

As a child, LUNA grew up in an environment with different types of music and this contributed to the fact that her play style incorporates a diversity of music genres like House, Techno, something Deep and Progressive, and also Chill. She is free-spirited and plays in her own style.

In order to make more people interested in club music and enjoy clubbing, LUNA is still working hard on performing her mission.

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