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ALEX FROM TOKYO

Paris born, Tokyo raised international eclectic DJ, producer and international co-ordinator.
Based in New York from 2004.
Alex has been playing regularly all around the world in Tokyo, New York and Europe.

Alex still travels back to Tokyo every 2 months to continue his 8 year residency at the Sunday afternoon party "Gallery" with DJ Nori, Kenji Hasegawa, and Fukuba.
He also continues to host his weekly radio show "Tokyo Club Mix Showcase" every Wednesday on Shibuya FM, now running for 10 years.
In April 2006 he joined up with Manu (Supreme records) to begin "Cosmic Boogie" their monthly party at APT in NYC, inviting guests such as DJ Milo, DJ Red Alert and Todd Terje.
In Fall 2006 Alex began a weekly residency on Fridays at the Lower East Side's 205 Club and produced a deep house compilation "Suboceania" for Italian tastemakers Slam Jam.
Additionally, this fall saw the Japanese release of Laurent Garnier's book "Electrochoc", which Alex translated from French to Japanese.

He has been producing music under the name Tokyo Black Star with partner Isao Kumano, releasing original material on Sonar Kollektiv/Innervisions (Tokyo Black Star "Pysche dance EP" Innervisions 01 and "Beyond the future EP Innervisions 04) and on DJ Deep's deeply rooted house music records label (Tokyo Black Star "Rainbow/Fantastique voyage"), and has done remixes for labels such as Flower Records, Yellow Productions, Frikyiwa, Bassmental and Disorient.
His third Tokyo Black Star release on Innervisions is expected in the Winter 2007.



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