Name: Kenji Tanaka LIVE // Never Ending "Bonker" Closing // Concious Madness 2025 by Kenji Tanaka
Duration: 4 h 26 min 49 s
Description: Recording of my 5h closing liveset at Concious Madness. Magic moment for me, since "Bonker" is my favourite floor, which I feel very connected to. <3

Flight Møde @ Sisyphos Berlin, Hammerhalle Closing - 08.06.2025

Detroit Mirage EP

Detroit Mirage

Charon Styx im Exil @ Villa Grünefeld_NO_Nation_2025

Here is the recording of my liveset played at Coucool Festival 2025. Big thanks to Feu Folie for that amazing stage and this warm experience! And thanks to Coucool for organizing such a nice festival. The group of people you've put together for that weekend was just SWEET! <3

Kenji Tanaka LIVE // Coucool // France 2025

Lado B

Recording of my set at Klangtherapie Festival (@klangtherapie-kollektiv)
Closing the Basstempel floor.
https://www.klangtherapie-festival.de/
RA: https://ra.co/events/2169899

Closing @ Klangtherapie Festival 2025 - BassTempel

SURF

Set I played with my buddy @oleolsen for the closing of Tunnel at Sisyphos, Berlin on the 9th of June 2025.

Thanks to all the dedicated ravers for sharing your energies!

Feel free to share, comment and download!

Artwork by Lachlan Turczan

Kindred b2b Ole Olsen @ Tunnel // Sisyphos (2025)

Livemitschnitt vom Sonntagmorgen 5:30-7:30 in der Spelunke auf der Nation of Gondwana 2025
danke und liebe spelunkis <3

Emily & Wesley live @ Spelunke : Nation of Gondwana 2025

Recording of my 5h closing liveset at Concious Madness. Magic moment for me, since "Bonker" is my favourite floor, which I feel very connected to. <3

Kenji Tanaka LIVE // Never Ending "Bonker" Closing // Concious Madness 2025

Here is the recording of my set from an evening at semi outdoor floor Tunnel at Sisyphos. I had a blast.... Please listen, dance, comment and share this set!

Vittjas Tief im Tunnel Sisyphos 2025

IMPROVISED LIVE TECHNO
📍1312 Berlin | Germany

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If you do, inform yourself. 
If you still do, do not come to my gigs!


🌎 Booking & Contact:
Kenji.Tanaka@loft.contact

www.instagram.com/kenji_tanaka_official
www.youtube.com/@KenjiTanaka_Official
www.kenjitanaka.bandcamp.com

My Family: "BonkerSquad"
👉www.soundcloud.com/maldaneben
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👉www.instagram.com/bonkersquadberlin

Meet me here:
26.07.25 Coucool Festival France
03.08.25 Garbicz Festival Poland
16.08.25 Compact Madnass Festival Germany
22.08.25 Entropie Festival Germany
27.09.25 Exit Hamburg
06.12.25 tba Rostock 


LIVE:

My approach: 
When dancing, I love to let go of everything around me and enter into a deeper dialogue with myself. At this stage, I am 100% in tune with myself. This works for me when the groove drives me and the elements I hear are interesting but not too intrusive. That's exactly what I try to create on the floor.

To achieve this and also to create the necessary element of surprise, I combine different loops randomly and blindly. Since I never know exactly what will happen, I am also surprised and inspired by it.

My instruments:
-Drums (TR8S)
-Bass (Modular)
-Rumble Bass (TR8S)
-Atmos (Drumrack, Ableton)
-Synth 1 (MicroMonsta 2)
-Synth 2 (Polysix VST, Ableton)
-Vocal Samples (Ableton)
-Misc Samples (TR8S)

For each of these instruments, I have prepared about 30 different loops, most of them 1 bar long.
Using the Streamdeck and a self-built ‘Max for Live Tool’, I can select a completely random loop for each instrument with the push of a button. The tonality can be set. To make sure it’s not completely random, I can choose between different categories, such as chords/arpeggiator.
I can control the complexity of the loop using controls.

All instruments run through Ableton (RME Fireface UCXii). With the help of ‘Launchcontrol’ and 2x ‘Midifighter Twister’, I can control all the parameters that are important to me. Filters, reverb, random delay and pitch effects glue everything together.

I never know what I want to do next until two bars before. If, for example, I feel like I want to hear a new chord pattern, I press a button and let myself be surprised. If I like it, I develop it further. If I don’t like it, I move on.

Since I never know exactly what will happen, I am correspondingly excited before the gigs. Because almost nothing can be planned in advance. My biggest clue is whether I dance. If I get myself to dance, I am satisfied with what happens.

Kenji Tanaka LIVE // Never Ending "Bonker" Closing // Concious Madness 2025

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