On jaku, the 41-year-old’s eighth solo album, Krush’s combination of beats (some slippery, some direct and austere) with strings, murky samples, and traditional Japanese instruments could be the ...

The double bill at the Showbox Friday night sounded more than a bit ambitious. Up-and-coming, lightning-tongued Chinese-American hip-hop MC Jin and prolific Japanese hip-hop/trip- hop/acid-jazz DJ and ...

JAPAN'S HIP-HOP scene boasts one enigma: DJ Krush. Whereas some critics call him the 'godfather of trip-hop' and others view him as the Asian parallel to US turntablist DJ Shadow, Krush seems ...

With each new release, this Japanese genius seems to pull further and further away from the initial blueprint he laid down with his early Mo Wax releases. His compositions are becoming more ...

Although the world teems with indigenous versions of hip-hop--varying wildly from Frankfurt to Cape Town and beyond--Japan's DJ Krush is perhaps the only foreigner who's managed to change the way ...