Christian Audigier
The Night Club / Las Vegas,NV
Sunday,November,30th,2008
Ed Hardy Presents DJ ECHO × DJ BENKAY Japan Tour
@ Onzieme / Osaka,Japan Friday,April,10th,2009
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bookings@djbenkay.com
He is a DJ who specializes in bringing mainstream hiphop to an audience in an anti-underground party style.
Attracting 800 to 1000 people to a weekly hip-hop event is not an easy task. But that is just what BENKAY managed to do every week at the largest hip-hop party in Japan “Soul Free”. To call him “magic on the turntables” would not be an understatement. With a definitive understanding of party crowds, an amazing knack for selection and exquisite scratch techniques, BENKAY possesses an arsenal of tricks up his sleeve that he uses to move the crowd.
Based in his hometown of Osaka, Japan, BENKAY has expanded his reach and pretty much managed to conquer the rest of Japan. His next step is of course, the rest of the world.
DJ BENKAY started out his career as the break-time DJ at the legendary “Desperado” and has gone on to become the main DJ at a myriad of club events, also contributing to various mix-tapes and CDs (in 1998 he contributed to the Desperado/Ozirozaurus split CD “Double Impact E.P.” on Future Shock/Polystar).
In 2000 he released the officially licensed Def Jam mix-tape “Def Jam Owl Nite Interceptor” and “Cash Money Millionaire-Nonstop ‘Bling Bling’ Mastermix” on Universal International. The latter was a compilation of southern style hip-hop, which was still a relatively unknown genre in Japan at the time. Despite this, the CD went on to record excellent domestic sales and became part of, if not a catalyst for the “Dirty South Mixtape” boom in Japan.
In 2001 his commitments as a regular DJ at club events increased, as did his appearances as a guest DJ (in February he rocked a house of 4000 hip-hop fans with a 30 minute DJ showcase at “Osaka Rock The House”). That same year he began pouring more energy into recorded material (one of those releases included an appearance on one of the Kansai area’s most renowned turntableists, scratch artist GM Yoshi’s album.
In 2003 he became heavily involved in track production. A major step was his appearance on the compilation album by club Harlem, one of Tokyo’s largest clubs, “Harlem Ver.2.0” where he contributed a track for Japanese hip-hop pioneer ZEEBRA (another major accomplishment, as participation in Harlem’s CD’s is an honor usually reserved only for club Harlem DJ's). He would later reappear with ZEEBRA on the theme song to the Fuji T.V. Toei movie “G@me”, on the Pony Canyon label (the soundtrack is currently on sale).
In addition, BENKAY became the first officially sponsored Japanese artist for Jay-Z’s “Rocawear” apparel line. You can find him sporting Rocawear on the cover of the June, 2001 issue of street fashion magazine Ollie.
In 2006, with his work flowing into various types of media, and his popularity still on the rise, he entered the sports scene as the DJ for the “Hoop It Up” 3 on 3 basketball tournament (a tournament. that in the U.S. attracts over 1,000,000 participants) helping to make it a major success.
Also in 2006, he became the host of the weekly R&B/Hip-Hop Television show “Night Cruising” on TV Osaka. The show has subsequently been picked up by other stations around the nation.
DJ BENKAY, definitely a man to keep your eye on.
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