01Profile
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Kaoru Inoue
DJ / Producer — Tokyo
03Interview
Name, where are you from?
Kaoru Inoue, Tokyo.
What do you do?
DJ / producer.
What’s the best gig you’ve ever been to?
I can’t come up with anything about live gigs, but I watched a lot of videos of Sex Pistols and the early PiL. I remember well that the audience threw bottles to the members of Sex Pistols on their last U.S. tour. Actually, the first band I was in were hardcore punk.
Which subcultures have influenced you?
Punk and post-punk, or perhaps I should say New Wave. They were mainly just UK musicians partly because there wasn’t much music from other parts of Europe around that time.
Of all the venues you’ve played, which is your favourite?
The most impressive place is somewhere that I played a long time ago - Daikanyama AIR, that’s exactly my favourite.
If you could be on the line up with any two bands in history?
Vini Reilly from The Durutti Column. I’d like to record with him too. He was one of the first signings to Factory Records. I’d also like to play with Dif Juz.
If you could spend an hour with anyone from history?
I'd sing karaoke with Paul Weller.
Your greatest unsung hero or heroine in music?
23 Skidoo, who became a hot topic in the underground in the age of post-punk. And gothic bands, such as Bauhaus and Cocteau Twins.
02Playlist
04Playlist Notes
How did you select the tracks for this playlist?
I traced my UK music history. It contains from my memorable songs of the last album “The Gift” by The Jam which I’ve listened to in real time to acid jazz that became my entrance of DJ culture.
The first track you played on repeat?
Probably 'God Save The Queen' by Sex Pistols.
A song that defines the teenage you?
'Keep on Movin' by Soul II Soul. Although I knew this song in my 20’s, it seems that this song reversed my teen musical history and became a motivator to face a new age. So in that sense, this song reformed my teens.
One record you would keep forever?
'The Gift' by The Jam. This is their last album.
A song lyric that has inspired you?
All songs from 'Never Mind The Bollocks' by Sex Pistols.
Best song to turn up loud?
I don’t often sing, but if 'Neat Neat Neat' and 'New Rose' from the first album 'Damned Damned Damed' by The Damned are being played, I might sing in the hook point.
A song people wouldn’t expect you to like?
'You’re My Best Friend' by Queen.
Any new bands you are listening to right now?
'Lanterns', which my British friend living in Japan, Max Essa released in 2018, and some songs of Jonny Nash, who lived in Japan before. I listen to 'Bathhouse' released in 2018 by Steven Legget, too.
03Interview
Name, where are you from?
Kaoru Inoue, Tokyo.
What do you do?
DJ / producer.
What’s the best gig you’ve ever been to?
I can’t come up with anything about live gigs, but I watched a lot of videos of Sex Pistols and the early PiL. I remember well that the audience threw bottles to the members of Sex Pistols on their last U.S. tour. Actually, the first band I was in were hardcore punk.
Which subcultures have influenced you?
Punk and post-punk, or perhaps I should say New Wave. They were mainly just UK musicians partly because there wasn’t much music from other parts of Europe around that time.
Of all the venues you’ve played, which is your favourite?
The most impressive place is somewhere that I played a long time ago - Daikanyama AIR, that’s exactly my favourite.
If you could be on the line up with any two bands in history?
Vini Reilly from The Durutti Column. I’d like to record with him too. He was one of the first signings to Factory Records. I’d also like to play with Dif Juz.
If you could spend an hour with anyone from history?
I'd sing karaoke with Paul Weller.
Your greatest unsung hero or heroine in music?
23 Skidoo, who became a hot topic in the underground in the age of post-punk. And gothic bands, such as Bauhaus and Cocteau Twins.
04Playlist Notes
How did you select the tracks for this playlist?
I traced my UK music history. It contains from my memorable songs of the last album “The Gift” by The Jam which I’ve listened to in real time to acid jazz that became my entrance of DJ culture.
The first track you played on repeat?
Probably 'God Save The Queen' by Sex Pistols.
A song that defines the teenage you?
'Keep on Movin' by Soul II Soul. Although I knew this song in my 20’s, it seems that this song reversed my teen musical history and became a motivator to face a new age. So in that sense, this song reformed my teens.
One record you would keep forever?
'The Gift' by The Jam. This is their last album.
A song lyric that has inspired you?
All songs from 'Never Mind The Bollocks' by Sex Pistols.
Best song to turn up loud?
I don’t often sing, but if 'Neat Neat Neat' and 'New Rose' from the first album 'Damned Damned Damed' by The Damned are being played, I might sing in the hook point.
A song people wouldn’t expect you to like?
'You’re My Best Friend' by Queen.
Any new bands you are listening to right now?
'Lanterns', which my British friend living in Japan, Max Essa released in 2018, and some songs of Jonny Nash, who lived in Japan before. I listen to 'Bathhouse' released in 2018 by Steven Legget, too.