Name: Kenji Tanaka LIVE // Endrave // JAZ Rostock by Kenji Tanaka
Duration: 1 h 18 s
Description: Recording of my liveset played for "Endrave" at "JAZ" Rostock in december 2025

s.ra @STAUB XXL | 14.09.24

This is one of my most-requested live recordings in a while! For 4 days at Fusion, ~80,000 people grow a tail and run free in the German forest. It’s what happens when uncompromising art collides with anti-capitalistic freedom. I was invited to play on Saturday night from 2:30am-4:30am on Fusions biggest stage, Turmbühne. Soundtracked by heavy, intense psychedelia, this is a story of moving everybody from the darkest hour straight into sunrise. I wanted to push people’s limits, but I also wanted it to be fun. Thank you to those still standing and especially to the Fusion crew.

Dustin Zahn - Live @ Fusion Festival 2025 (Turmbühne Stage)

vinyl only set at Fusion 2025

thanks to all the crew & ravers at Tanzwüste. this was a huge experience

KWAINT @ fusion, tanzwüste

✩ happy happy bday sisy ✩ 

opening hammahalle 16-19, 04.10.2025 
due to the weather i spontanously got the chance to play at the infamous hammahalle instead of the tunnel floor. since it was inside and the vibe was on fire, i switched to a more hypnotic trippier track selection in the second part - thanks to all the dancers, looved your energy ꨄ︎

njoy! and many thanks again to all those great producers. 

ꨄ︎

LISA TBA @ Sisyphos Nichtgeburtstag | Hammahalle Opening | 04.10.2025

Recording of my liveset played for "Endrave" at "JAZ" Rostock in december 2025

Kenji Tanaka LIVE // Endrave // JAZ Rostock

Renate x Südpol Takeover 2025
w/ Südpol Residents: Surreal, Sheila b2b face*, Esshar

Floor Closing

|| live recording 11|25 ||

THANKS! THAT WAS FUN!

Esshar | Renate x Südpol Takeover 2025

that was fun, thank you so much!

watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/live/0s2MS9_DySI?si=Vr3325cKAQsl0jGi

full tracklist on instagranny < 3

LISA TBA | HÖR Berlin | 14.01.2026

BallertGut - Lebowski

Kenji Tanaka LIVE // HÖR Berlin // March 2026

Red Moon (Original Mix)

IN Time

IMPROVISED LIVE TECHNO
Psychedelic / Techno / Groove 
Berlin | Germany


Do you love techno?
Then take a stand for democracy.

The techno scene is built by and for people who choose freedom: be who you are, decide what you do, and think for yourself, while always respecting others’ boundaries.

Anti-democratic politics reject exactly that. Free people can’t be controlled.
Anyone who has ever felt that freedom — even just for a few hours on the dance floor — knows it’s worth protecting. 

By standing up for democracy, techno music, clubs and festivals can sustain. Techno lives on the dance floor!

This isn’t about followers, hype, hits, or fame. Techno music is one part of a larger system we call club culture — a place where people come together with respect, without violence, and in real communication.

Let’s choose democracy over fear! This is our planet too!

FCK AFD!

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

View, Watch, Listen:
www.instagram.com/kenji_tanaka_live
www.youtube.com/@KenjiTanaka_LIVE
www.kenjitanaka.bandcamp.com

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

Most recent:
06.03.26 HÖR Berlin 
21.03.26 Spechthausen
14.03.26 Parachute Istanbul
29.05.26 Exit Festival  Germany
25.06.26 Biesenthal
28.12.25 CCC Hamburg (additional workshop on my live set at 6pm)

2025:
20.12.25 Reflected Radio
06.12.25 JAZ Rostock
21.11.25 Jonny Knüppel Berlin
02.11.25 Sisyphos Berlin
18.10.25 Südpol Hamburg
11.10.25 Monopol Basement
27.09.25 Exit Hamburg
22.08.25 Entropie Festival Germany
16.08.25 Compact Madnass Festival Germany
03.08.25 Garbicz Festival Poland
26.07.25 Coucool Festival France
27.06.25 Fusion Festival Tanzwüste
31.05.25 Accension Festival
24.05.25 Choose Jonny Knüppel Berlin
17.05.25 Secret Rave
16.05.25 Rosa Greifswald
06.04.25 Sisyphos Berlin
01.03.25 BonkerSquad Salöön Berlin
...



My approach to my music: 
I love loopy and trippy techno. When dancing, I like to let go of everything around me and enter 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 love to create on the dance floor.

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

If you want to see how it works check out my youtube channel. www.youtube.com/@KenjiTanaka_Official




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


More nerdy Information:
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.

When playing, I rely on my intuition. I can sense what should happen 2-4 bars in advance. If 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 the whole structure is improvised, 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 move and get lost, I am happy with what happens.

Kenji Tanaka LIVE // Endrave // JAZ Rostock

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