Word: tsuyoshi
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...went mad for life on the circuit, and that escapism has fueled his emergence as the cultural figure most synonymous with the Asian rave scene. Few DJs have ridden the peculiar admixture of talent, trend and attitude that makes a career behind turntables further than Tsuyoshi. He has achieved near shaman-like success. His band Joujouka's new single Invade, featuring Kyono, the lead singer for the popular metal band The Mad Capsule Markets, is a clubland smash. (The band also scored the PlayStation 2 shooter game, Rez.) With a catalog of over 20 albums and mix CDs, Tsuyoshi, whose...
...party spots like Ibiza or St. Tropez. Koh Phangan never produced a Sasha or Tall Paul, a deck maestro who made his name under the full moons before jetting off to earn $20,000 a night spinning at Cream or Ministry of Sound. Instead, the Asian raves coughed up Tsuyoshi, who first brought Shiva to the Tokyo dance floor a decade ago during his DJ residence at Wanna Dance, the notoriously hedonistic after-hours club in Tokyo's Nishi Azabu district. The following year he took his decks and 12-inches to London where other DJs, inspired by their trips...
...Tsuyoshi was born one of Tokyo's cool kids?his father, Noboru Suzuki, was a catcher for the Yomiuri Giants. The DJ today projects a professional athlete's quiet confidence and easygoing physicality. The younger of two brothers, Tsuyoshi became obsessed with music while his peers were becoming passionate about his dad's sport. His mother, an elementary school teacher, remembers scolding a 12-year-old Tsuyoshi for cutting cram school to hit a Yellow Magic Orchestra gig at the Budokan...
...high school, Tsuyoshi, who played drums for a Kraftwerk and Cocteau Twins-inspired new wave band, spent most of his school days smoking cigarettes with his bosozoku (motorcycle gang) buddies. "But since my grades were good, teachers hated me more," he adds, laughing. His slacker attitude continued into university, where the budding DJ spent his graduation day "dancing in Goa." His absentee rate once prompted a worried Nihon University College of Art professor to land him a job at a local TV production company. He lasted two weeks. "Then I dropped out." He spent the next eight years wandering between...
...been a life and music fashioned from the movable aural and narcotic feast of the circuit, and Tsuyoshi, taking a break from remixing Joujouka's upcoming third album at his Nishi Azabu studio, says he's finally getting burned out, insisting that the beautiful madness that turned him on is now long gone. "The whole genre's gotten so conservative these last six years," says the DJ, sporting his new gold-streaked Mohawk. "It's reached the point where everything trance meant for me in India feels like this totally separate thing...