kenyatta:

【2007】 Sara & Ryusei (8 & 5 years old)

Resurfacing an old YouTube viral for a talk I’m doing later this week.

These kids rule. Where are they now? 

Bubop by Super Square

A must see music video from the Bay Area’s best up and coming EDM group. Super Square is just so SICK! 

I have a Free Digital Copy of Random Access Memories by Daft Punk to give away if you follow DJ Kento on tumblr and reblog this. Winners to be chosen soon. 

deadmau5:

Well I know what I’m doing all night now! #TheLastOfUs @NaughtyDog

the perks of being Deadmau5 are so very clear now. 

peaceroxi:

p0pulationus:

zillyewe:

jakewhyman:

Oh my… GOD!

Don’t like this type of music but holy shit???? 

REALLY INCREDIBLE

Hugely inspiring. Getting out the Maschine and getting to work! All night music session COMMENCE! 

Hope everyone is having a great week. Remember there are plenty of great mixes on DJKento.com for you to listen to!!!

Daft Punk - Lose Yourself to Dance

Whoever did the editing on this is just plain dope!

time to go hard on that #edm workout. Keeping my skills sharp! 

Major Lazer’s Bubble Butt Remix.

I’m 99.99% sure BabeO Baggins should have a verse on this remix. Seriously her innocent sounding but dirty flow about bubble butts would have made this track 100X better. FACT!

Beatport added a Trap Section… 

So excited about this. The genre is finally starting to come into it’s own.

jsphhng:

Flux Pavilion - Do or Die (feat. Childish Gambino)

this is too hot. Song of the moment. 

kentballs:

anamanaguchi:

ENDLESS FANTASY (NOW ON iTUNES)

the most important news of the day… 

As a masked DJ/EDM Producer, I’m always looking to my counterparts for how they’re progressing with their look. Deadmau5 has the freedom to be as playful as he wants because he’s both the costume and not. Joel is not afraid to take the mask off during a regular DJ set some places and in his music video for Professional Greifers he doesn’t wear it at all. DJ Bl3nd who I don’t know much about has adopted a visual style that isn’t found in the world of music that he plays. That high energy progressive house doesn’t match the punk rock plaid pants and the Chucky mask with the neon green and orange mullet attached. But that’s all him. Then there’s Daft Punk, the originators.

Daft Punk have had a style that’s pushed into the futuristic. Showing up as a couple of MP3s in the film Tron Legacy which they also did the score for was probably the most modern sci-fi look they’ve had to date. Now they’re taking a step back to the late 70s, early 80s with a look that screams disco/funk and Star Wars. The helmet light shows have fallen by the wayside and now we’re getting shoulder padded sports coats with sequins everywhere and chain necklaces and turtle necks. What The Lonely Island did in irony, Daft Punk is owning completely.

That says a lot about Daft Punk and their iconography. They’re able to take these forms and costumes and do everything from the live band style performance they’re doing in the “Get Lucky” music video to the live show they did with Kanye West in the red outlined suits to the Alive 2007 tour stage set up and costumes. There’s the Electroma look as well which still has that gritty 1970s sci-fi feeling but without as much of the cheese and a dash more 2001. 

Myself, my costume and mask tell a story that I’m creating with my designer as I go. To be fair the mask isn’t even finished and I’m not sure when it will be. It has intricate lighting, room for different paint jobs and tweaks and is designe to tell a story of a character who’s alone in the world. 

What’s hard for me is deciding how to approach the character. It’s easy to see when Joel puts on the mask he becomes Deadmau5 and it’s a character performance. It’s impressive and showy and I love it. Then there’s the reality behind it of him just being a guy and that means that Deadmau5 as a character doesn’t get the privilege of blurring the line between the character and himself the way Daft Punk does. DJ Bl3nd is the same. Cazzette also wear masks and tell a story but started as normal unmasked DJs and take their masks off during sets. 

So where will I find myself in a year when I’m touring, playing all over and the mask is how people see me? I don’t know yet. But I have a feeling I’ll want to go all in on it and my face won’t be the one you associate with Kento.

yeah this will get worked into many mixes

check out DJ Fresh Fluke with (what I assume is) her baby, just jamming out to some dubstep/reggae. Babies just love Skrillex. FACT!

DJ Kento - For Miss Veno (Live Mix)

A brand new mix made for one of my very good friends who told me that I’m the best DJ she’d ever seen. Those words have driven me to continue to try and be the best DJ I can be.

Track Listen:

• Deadmau5 - Arcadia Remastered (again)
• Feed Me - Grand Theft Ecstasy (Original Mix)
• Adventure Club ft. Kai - Need Your heart (Candyland Remix)
• Madeon - Icarus
• Discopolis - Committed to Sparkle Motion (DubVision Remix)
• The Aston Shuffle & Tommy Trash - Sunrise (Won’t Get Lost) (Tommy Trash Version)
• Nero - Guilt (Major Levi & Bluestone Club Mix)
• David Guetta - Toy Story
• Kanye West - Strong (A-Trak Remix)
• Miike Snow - The Wave (Thomas Gold Remix)
• Hypster - Nitro Party (Heren Remix)

Computers are complicated machines that can often get bogged down by random processes that continue to run long after you’ve shut down some piece of software. This will eat away at your memory and could cause problems during your mix.

For instance today I was working on my weekend mix for a friend and mid-mix I had to stop, shut down and restart. Nothing would run, everything was slow. This was with everything shut down too. iChat, Google Chrome, Mail, Skype, all of it closed. 

Think of it this way… a clean slate means a clean mix.

a few years ago I got a very small piece of DJ kit that allowed me to leave the booth and do almost everything I do behind the decks out in front of them in the palm of my hand. That was the Tonium Pacemaker. That company has since turned into another thing entirely and now they make an app for the Blackberry Playbook (anyone even seen one of those?) Since then that part of the market, the portable DJ market, has been completely empty and the Pacemaker is a collector’s item. 

Now a new company has created the PDJ or Portable DJ by JD Sound Inc. They’ve created a vice that feels like two iphones slapped side by side with a mixer in the middle. It’s wide device, and looks a little odd frankly. I don’t know what position this thing is trying to fill.

In order to use this, you have to have a computer. In order to use it out on stage you have to place it down on something and to move from the stage you’d have to hold it oddly and couldn’t really play it like an instrument the way you could the Pacemaker.

The Pacemaker always felt like a one handed solution. It was meant to be taken around, played with, danced with. I’d hook it up to a wireless mic pack and move from behind the decks out to the dance floor and dance while I DJ’d which is something you never see. The closest thing I have seen to that is when Deadmau5 would leave his booth and go out to the middle stage and play that giant touch screen, but even then it was part of a set routine and he wasn’t really interacting with the audience.

Now this PDJ is here and I don’t know what to think. 

For more information on it check out Digital DJ Tips’ video on it

and for more about the Tonium Pacemaker check out this older video floating about. 

Song of the Moment 
Keys N Krates - Treat Me Right 

This trap single from Keys N Krates really kicks with a good melodic hook that is sure to be stuck in your head for you days on end. The tripplets on the drums are subtle as are the off beat rhythmic shouting sample that’s become a staple of the genre.

The drums are fat and not too dubby and when the vocals travel from L to R channels it kills. If you’re looking for a good track to transition from Dubstep to Trap this is absolutely perfect, especially with it’s melodic jump off.

I am 100% comfortable with playing this during a live set. 

livetune adding 中島 愛「Transfer」Music Video