Shinjuku Zulu

Bio:

.. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC:  SHINJUKU ZULU:   K.I.A.:

Individual albums:
"F-1 Papillons - 'Best Of' K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu", feat "Make Me Shake", "Hey La"
"DXLR8 - Chillout 'Best Of' K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu", feat "Allelujah", "Mrs. Major Tom"
SHINJUKU ZULU: "Kiss the Honey, Honey" E.P. feat."SXYLV","Hey La","Dirty Liar"
SHINJUKU ZULU: "Various Chimeras" feat. "Make Me Shake","We Do Supersonic"
SHINJUKU ZULU: "Various Chimeras Instrumentals" feat 12 instrumental edits of the above
K.I.A.: "Sonorous , Susurrus"; 22 tracks, feat "Nevermine", "Scatter", "Large Slow River"
K.I.A.: "Adieu, Shinjuku Zulu" feat "Allelujah", "Almighty Beat", "Mrs Major Tom"
SHINJUKU ZULU: "Shinjuku Zulu" feat. "That Groove", "Segue", "Yedayed", "Sweetness..."

AMAZON.COM (ANY-PLAYER) MP3S HERE:
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MP3s (ANY PLAYER) LINKS (Click cover):
"DXLR8" - Downtempo 'Best of' K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu (13 tracks feat. "Broken", "Allelujah"

"Various Chimeras" (19 tracks feat. "Make Me Shake","We Do Supersonic")

"Kiss the Honey" (7 tracks feat. "SXYLV", "Dirty Liar")


"Sonorous Susurrus" (22 tracks feat. "Nevermine","Large Slow River","Scatter")


"Adieu Shinjuku Zulu" (15 tracks feat. "Mrs. Major Tom","Almighty Beat")


"Shinjuku Zulu" (14 tracks feat. "That Groove","Segue")




PRESS:
"FOUR STARS. Breaks,house,reggae, exotic vocals...Shinjuku Zulu is a cd that warrants repeated listens" -MONTREAL GAZETTE

"FOUR STARS. Sheer brilliance, haunting vocals...top ten CDs of the year" -THE GLOBE & MAIL

"' ...high tech boom cut with voodoo...the most casually efficient encapsulation of culture clash we've ever heard... 'Shanghai Masai' .. featuring Shankhini, is stark skittering electronic hip hop [that segues from] M.I.A. to Prince..." - Anti-Hit List "The best new music outside the mainstream" -TORONTO STAR

"Impressive...create[s] three-headed songs by grafting cultures onto collaged beasts that growl with different tongues..."Be My Woman Be My Man" comes replete with DFA grooves and Herbert snorts..."We Do Supersonic" and "Dirty Liar" will have your dance floor moving..."Rainbowbeau" sees Larissa Gomes bouncing her voice off soft clouds of pizzicato strings...my favorite is "Make Me Shake" [with] sentences that say so incredibly much with so little...as devastating as anything else this year...often surprising... Make Me Shake, Da Riddim Griffin, and Coal Coal Black [are] fantastic." -COKEMACHINEGLOW

"...especially ambitious trans-continental mash-ups...melds components elegantly into compositions that sound surprisingly natural...great moments, like when "Make Me Shake" leaps from synth-shamisen-encrusted grime-pop to reggae to tango, "Dirty Liar", the surprisingly listenable country-electro-hip-hop number ("Chemical Brothers, Dust Brothers, O Brother, quips the song's ven diagram), astonishes when it slides seamlessly all the way into banjo-driven folk, "Massive Ballerina" manages to dodge effortlessly from spacey computer-narrated-ambiance to rolling techno-rock...Stick-in-your-head melodies and enough stylistic ADD to stay fresh..."Various Chimeras" is on solid footing in the current mash-up-informed, pop cultural petri-dish." -POPMATTERS

""Various Chimeras" is a cosmopolitan musical sponge...a smooth, electronic pastiche featuring hippie sloganeering and rave-ready sensory overload.... The strongest cut is "Shanghai Masai", and fare like the choral/hip-hop of "My Man Amen" or Kraut-rocking "We Do Supersonic" play to Shinjuku Zulu's strengths..." -EYE Magazine

"Good dubby house, good electronic dancehall...'Sonorous Susurrus' is minimalistic, melancholly...", & " 'Various Chimeras' is classic hipster material... "We Do Supersonic" and "Shanghai Masai" represent urban dance at its best." -EXCLAIM!

"Like Kevin Yost spinning Everything But the Girl with Mad Professor remixes...a master at aural collage" -THE HERALD

"The worldly sound of Shinjuku Zulu...sweltering breakbeat for the summertime heat from the cooking cobblestones of Toronto!" -CBC Radio

"...really f**king good...'Shanghai Masai' is brilliant" -
YOUTH (remixer/producer U2, the Orb, etc)

"I bought "Various Chimeras" because of the artist's name and the bizarre song clips, thinking it would be some sort of Duran-Durany-Hungry-Like-The-Wolfy-Shaka-Khany-bad-Eighties-world mishmash music. I was wrong." -by Horseface (a cleary-disappointed-interweb-afficianado-of-Duran-Durany-Hungry-Like-The-Wolfy-Shaka-Khany-bad-Eighties-world mishmash music.)

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AWARDS:

"Make Me Shake" - Winner, Artist Forum -EMC

"Da Riddim Griffin" is a Finalist in the International Songwriting Competition

"Da Riddim Griffin" is a Finalist, Best Dance/Electronica Song Independent Music Awards

"Make Me Shake" is a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition

"Shanghai Masai" was a UK Songwriting Competition semi-finalist ...

Shinjuku Zulu is a TIMA 2006 WINNER, in the Urban category...

"We Do Supersonic" was used as the theme song for the Serbo-Creole Speed Yoga Championships...

"Dirty Liar" failed to even place in Horseface's "Duran-Durany-Hungry-Like-The-Wolfy-Bad-Eighties-Mishmash Awards"

View Shinjuku Zulu's EPK

DISCOGRAPHY:
as Shinjuku Zulu:
"Various Chimeras",
"Shinjuku Zulu";
as K.I.A.:
"Sonorous Susurrus",
"Adieu Shinjuku Zulu".

K.I.A. has fused the experiences of traveling, living in Tokyo, L.A., and Toronto, his love for the future, and his background as a visual artist, into an eclectic mix of dance and downtempo pop electronic music that mixes styles and eras. He was released 4 well-reviewed CDs as Shinjuku Zulu, as well as K.I.A.

K.I.A. (Kirby Ian Andersen) is also a well-reviewed visual artist. View the remixable artwork HERE









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Member Since:

February 13, 2005

Members:

F-1 PAPILLONS -BEST OF K.I.A. & SHINJUKU ZULU, feat. MAKE ME SHAKE, WE DO SUPERSONIC, HEY LA, etc., now at iTUNES

KISS THE HONEY,HONEY by SHINJUKU ZULU, 7-track release at iTUNES
VIDEO for Kiss the Honey, Honey:

VARIOUS CHIMERAS by SHINJUKU ZULU, 19-track release at iTUNES
VIDEO SONG SAMPLER:
BROKEN by K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu, from the "DXLR8 - Downtempo Best Of K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu" 13-track release, at iTunes:
VIDEO:

WE DO SUPERSONIC by Shinjuku Zulu (the No Mo' Slo-mo Go-Go Global Video
from the 19 track Various Chimeras release by Shinjuku Zulu

MP3 at iTunes:
NEW 'BEST OF' CHILLOUT CD "DXLR8" by K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu now at iTUNES & CDBABY.COM, seel Links at right...

"DXLR8 - Downtempo Best Of K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu" sampler Video now up at Youtube:

SHINJUKU ZULU Video channel, feat. freq'd body morphing, a velocity collage, time stretches/compresses, electrorobopornodisco, & Courteney Cox in a limo having sex (see widget below w/o Courtney) GET CODE to SHARE/EMBED on YOUR SITE:
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SLOW IS THE NEW FAST (Naked, the new Thong) Video by Shinjuku Zulu now up at Youtube:

SXYLV by Shinjuku Zulu: The ElectroRoboDisco Show (video) now up at youtube:
"Shanghai Masai" by Shinjuku Zulu: an A.D.D. v.i.d.e.o.

Music Video for "Make Me Shake" by Shinjuku Zulu feat. sexy booty shaking and freaky body morphing...


All music, words, production: K.I.A. //// Contributing vocalists: MC Shankhini, rapper, singer. MC General, rapper, vocalist. Larissa Gomes, singer. Prince, toaster, singer. Caryn Green, singer. Sydney White, singer. Shawn Skeir, singer. Giancarlo Pecchia, singer. Courtney Farquhar, singer. Eugene Spanier, singer. Sarah Daye, singer.

Influences:

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dub, dance, house, hip hop, aboriginal music, devotional music, musicals, grime, trip hop, techno, old tyme music, blues, soul, funk, breakbeat, drum'n'bass, ragtime, techno, disco punk, tribal music, african & middle-eastern music, irish traditional songs, acapellas, scratching, chillout, world music, kitchen sinks; air, boards of canada, caribou, diplo, eminem, faithless, gorillaz, hot chip, imogen heap, japan, K.I.A., LL Cool J, m.i.a., nightmares on wax, outkast, lee scratch perry, queen, rjd2, soul II soul, thievery corporation, underworld, armand van helden, tammy wynette, xtc, yazoo, zero 7

Sounds Like:

(M.I.A. x Gorillaz + Air) + (Groove Armada + Buddha Bar x St. Germain) / (Timbaland + Thievery Corporation ÷ Gnarls Barkley) = Shinjuku Zulu

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