DJ Kentaro - Enter

DJ Kentaro is best known as a phenomenal turntablist and former DMC World Champion, but on this debut record, he's more concerned with showing his muscle as a music producer.  Which is why ‘Enter’ runs from the funk of ‘Free’ to the dubby downtempo soul of ‘Tasogare Highway…’, through the drum and bass attack of ‘Rainy Day’, the live reggae feel of ‘Handmade Gift’, the squelching dance aesthetic of ‘Space Jungle’, on into the tribal space-jazz of ‘Harvest Dance’, the epic turntable cut-up of ‘One Hand Blizzard’ and, finally, the cosmic hip hop of ‘Let It Go’. It's not that he can't scratch the s**t out of a piece of vinyl when he wants to (check finale ‘Grateful To You’) it's just that he understands that making a great album demands a wider palette.  Utterly contemporary and yet completely rooted in hip hop's old skool aesthetics and with a magpie naivety which gives him a freedom within them.

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