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New Zealand producer and multi instrumentalist Lord Echo (aka Mike Fabulous) has been flexing his dual-mastery of 60's production techniques and modern dancefloor aesthetics for over a decade now, through a flowing blend of boogie-laced Funk, disco-primed Reggae, futuristic Soul, and timeless African rhythms.

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Led by New York and Tokyo-based international french DJ Alex from Tokyo and Tokyo-based producer and engineer Isao Kumano, Tokyo Black Star are truly 21st century galactic funk artists. As their ship has advanced through the galaxy, meeting fellow travelers along the way, Tokyo Black Star have absorbed and translated influences from around the solar system and beyond.

They have released so far 5 EPs on the hi-profile Innervisions label in Berlin, 2 releases on the Italian taste makers' Slam Jam label Reincarnation, "Rainbow/Fantastique Voyage EP" on Dj Deep's deeply rooted house music records label, and various remixes wordwide including recently Kuniyuki "Birds" (mule musiq), nublu orchestra "Sketches of NY" (nublu), Bing Ji ling "Home" (Lovemonk), Master H and Greg Oreck "Coffee is ecstasy" (komplex de deep), Arno E Matthieu "Heritage" (clima records), Filipson+Lindblad "Reflections" (mood music), Wagon Cookin "Come into the light" (om records) and Mezza Luna vs Felix Cage new EP "Blizzard" (electronical reeds) in January 2011. Tokyo Black Star released in April 2009 their full length debut album "Black Ships" (Innervisions) on CD collaborating with the NYC based japanese painter Tomokazu Matsuyama. "Black Ships" can be described at once as a nonfiction travel diary, and at the same time as a supreme fiction of traveling through the world of imagination. Tokyo Black Star remixed in 2011 Carl Craig's Psyche masterpiece "Neurotic Behavior" for the 20th anniversary of the Planet E label. In May 2012 they released their latest "Together EP" on the japanese label Apt. International and their remix of the new Toby Tobias single "Choc Ice for 4" on the NYC label Let's Play House.

Tokyo Black star performs live too and has played live with machines for the release of the album in Japan and in Europe at Panorama Bar in Berlin and at the Robot 02 festival in Bologna, Italy.

Alex and Isao started in summer 2010 a new "revolutionary" audio brand called phonon (www.phonon-inc.com).

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