1xAkai Force 
1xDeluge
1xOpx4 = Knartz Bass
1xTubeohm Jeannie = Lead Pluck Sound
1xMicromonsta 2 = Scapesound in backround
1xAccess Virus A = Acid like Sound
1x RD8/RD9/RD6 Drums and HiHats

Have Fun

2022

minimal2023

Close your eyes and enjoy this brief ride through space. 

Production notes:
Metropolix is doing all the sequencing, 2 different tracks, both pointing to the same patch on the Micromonsta 2, which is generating all the sounds (including the fx). These two make a great combo that's easily portable with the right battery & cables. 
Mastered with Ozone

Zephyr

Novation Circuit Tracks + Micromonsta 2
Boss RE-202 Space Echo
Sonicware Smpltrek

Æthernaut

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

Some fun tweaking on the MicroMonsta 2 showing its oscillators, filter fm and other features. The sequences programmed on the Arturia Keystep 37 (with a rather untight clocking in Ableton Live due to very busy usb2 audio streaming, sync via Din 5 midi is probably a better choice). The Monsta has a brutal sound and its portable format is really something for the couch. Drums are Kawai R50 sampes in Tal sampler. The deep sub is not produced by the synths itself but a plugin, as it does not go that deep frequency wise.

MicroMonsta 2 sequences

IMPROVISED LIVE TECHNO
Berlin | Germany


If you love techno, you can't vote right. On a real techno floor, you can be free no matter who you are, if you respect the freedom of all others. Right politics stand for the opposite. if you want this culture to sustain, please get informed and stand up against this oppression.  
So FCK AFD! and be loud against all the populist, right-wing parties around the globe.  They promise you a better future, but history can teach you better. <3

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

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

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

Meet me here 2025:
01.03.25 BonkerSquad Salöön Berlin
06.04.25 Sisyphos Berlin
16.05.25 Rosa Greifswald
17.05.25 Secret Rave
24.05.25 Choose Jonny Knüppel Berlin
31.05.25 Accension Festival
27.06.25 Fusion Festival Tanzwüste
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
11.10.25 Monopol Basement
18.10.25 Südpol Hamburg
02.11.25 Sisyphos Berlin
21.11.25 Jonny Knüppel Berlin
06.12.25 tba Rostock 


My approach to my music: 
I love loopy and trippy techno. 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 love 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. 

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.

Ableton Live with a couple of va, analogs, fm, romplers and various hybrid synths via a MOTU 828x and of course vsts. Style includes all sorts of genres, I guess film and games is the theme. As long as it resonates in my head even if its sometimes only the gear talking. Anyway, thanks for listening.

Technoid since 1990....(DT64 Dancehall/Nightflight) 

Making music since 1991, first on C64 ,then Amiga 500 , Mc303 ,Yamaha Rm1x u.s.w.
You can download and share my tracks .... have fun with my kind of music. 
Please repost and comment my tracks.

I love every electronic music. 

My Hardware setup:

-Akai APC 40 MK 2
-Synthstrom Audible Deluge
-Access Virus A
-MicroKorg
-Will System MAB303
-Doepfer MS404
-Roland TB3
-Acidcode ML 303 V4
-xoxbox
-TT303 mk2
-Novation Bassstation 2
-Behringer Model D
-Behringer Deepmind 12D
-Arturia Beatstep
-Behringer BCR2000
-Behringer XR 18 Mixer
- 2 FX Alesis Nano
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My Software setup: 

Linux Music Laptop Lenovo Y50 i7core (Kxstudio)

-Bitwig Studio http://www.bitwig.com
-Renoise 3 http://renoise.com/ 

Linux non free vst from u-he:

-Hive
-ACE
-Diva
-Tyrell6N
-Repro 1
-Ubhik
-Presswerk
-Satin


Use with (vst-dssi) wine 1.7:

AudioRealism:  Bass Line (best tb303 emu vst) 

diverse plugins for free Linux and Win vst under wine.

Grüße Ron

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