05.06 (Tue)
ONEMAN LIVE "Project" After Party-Special Guest Performance / eyden
STYLE/GENRE
Hip Hop (Old School, 90’s, Underground, Jazzy, Bass, House-Crossover, Top 40)
Funk/ Soul
Breakbeats
Disco (80’s to Contemporary)
Bass music/ Electronic
House (Dance, Music, Tribal, Deep)
DJ SARASA a.k.a. Silverboombox is an internationally acclaimed DJ, Producer & Performer of Bass music group XXX$$$, Founder of Mynority Classics (street wear/accessories brand), an influential blogger for Wax Poetics Japan, and a Japanese Representative for the Universal Zulu Nation.
DJ SARASA has released Hip Hop LINE stamps which placed 1st in the LINE chart and release of a total of 16 compilations and mixes. Internationally, DJ SARASA has performed with government involved cross-cultural events with Germany, India and Canada.
She continues touring around Japan, the US, Canada, Australia, Dubai, China, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Germany, India and many more. She has played a wide range of events such as festivals like Burning Man, Sonar, and Fashion Night Out by Vogue. On other days, she would DJ for Rap battles or bboy battles. Whether it be an audience over 5,000 people at Chingay Parade (Singapore’s largest street fair), or at a fancy and low-key venue such as Blue Note New York, where she recently performed at the Hurricane Sandy relief show in 2012, her ability to cater to her surroundings at anytime has made DJ SARASA one of Japan's most popular international DJs.
DJ SARASA’s latest project XXX$$$, an international Tokyo-based Bass music duo consists of Japan-born, NYC-raised DJ SARASA and Ukraine-born, UK-raised XLII. Together, they have made successful releases such as the official remix of I AM LEGION’s (Noisia + Foreign Beggars) lead single “Make Those Move.” As live performers XXX$$$ creates their own brand of bass-heavy dance music combining their own predilections for turntables and digital controllers with XLII behind the pads while SARASA cuts up a storm. Using turntables, laptops and N.I Maschine controllers, XXX$$$ create music that is thick and layered, pulling from their respective experiences and backgrounds to create a high energy mix of dance floor friendly hip hop beats and bass, electronic dance music and a little je ne sais quoi born of this unique fusion: energetic like Tokyo, colourful and exotic like India, heavy like London while also dirty and danceable like Baltimore.
DJ SARASA was also featured in the music video for Ghostface Killah’s “Rise of the Ghostface Killah” and Talib Kweli’s “Turnt Up”. She was the official DJ for Illa J (younger brother of the late J Dilla) in 2010 from his "Tribute to J Dilla" show in Japan. Furthermore, she has collaborated with Brownman, the trumpet player who replaced Donald Byrd in “Guru’s Jazzmatazz”, and was the DJ counterpart for his new project “DJ + HORN” that he created with DJ Cutler (DJ for Jeru the Damaja). DJ Premier also participated in this project prior to DJ SARASA. She also made possible the Japan tour of El Da Sensei (The Artifacts) X DJ SARASA in 2013, doing 8 Shows in 15 days.
DJ SARASA not only she hosts events such as Grandmaster Flash’s Japan show in 2012, but is also the top choice for promoters to book as an opening act for overseas artists that tour Japan. She has performed alongside Questlove, DJ Premier, Talib Kweli, Pete Rock, The Roots, Mayer Hawthorne, Dam-Funk, Peanut Butter Wolf, Dimitri from Paris, TAZ ARNOLD (TI$A), Thundercat, Lapalux, Teebs, TokiMonsta, Group Home, Bow Wow, Large Professor, DJ Krush, C.L. Smooth, Lupe Fiasco, Hieroglyphics, Rascalz, The Rebirth, K-OS, The Brand New Heavies, K’ naan, Kool Keith, Verbal, DJ Kentaro, Mighty Crown, De La Soul, Marley Marl, The Beat Junkies, DJ Spinbad, Mac Miller and many more.
As one of Tokyo’s key fashion icons, DJ SARASA has been sponsored by brands such as Louis Vuitton, Rugby by Ralph Lauren, Fossil, Casio, Nike and Adidas, and has also launched her own apparel and accessories brand called MYNORITY CLASSICS. The brand has collaborated with P.H.A.S.E.2, legendary aerosol artist from NYC, MSGR, KIKS TYO, and Manhattan Records. MYNORITY CLASSICS has received worldwide recognition from the "MYC Hip Hop Playing Cards" and was featured in The Source, Hypebeast, Freshness Magazine, and many other influential international and Japanese publications.
Sponsors include:
Music/Electronics:
Monster Headphones -Beats by Dr. Dre & Diamond Tears
Technics
Pioneer
Vestax
Nixon
Casio
Elecom
Fashion:
Louis Vuitton
Ralph Lauren RUGBY
DC
Burton
Fossil
ROXY/Quicksilver
LB-03 (Japan)
Stussy
Joy Rich
Shel’tter
AZUL by mousy
ciaopanic
Sports/Footwear:
NBA
Nike
Adidas
Puma
Sneaker Freaker
FTC
Beverages/Tabacco:
Hennessy
Red Bull
Mild Seven
Marlboro
Heineken
Piper-Heidsieck
Moet & Chandon
Areas Performed:
Japan, U.S.A., Canada, Australia, Dubai, China, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Germany, India and more.
Performed With:
The Roots, Questlove, DJ Premier, Talib Kweli, Pete Rock, Mayer Hawthorne, Dam-Funk, Peanut Butter Wolf, DJ Spinbad, Thundercat, Lapalux, Teebs, TokiMonsta, Dimitri from Paris, Pete Philly & Perquisite, Group Home, Bow Wow, Large Professor, DJ Krush, C.L. Smooth, DJ Evil Dee, Percee P, Lupe Fiasco, Hieroglyphics, Rascalz, The Rebirth, Mac Miller, K-OS, The Brand New Heavies, K’ naan, Masia One, Kool Keith, Verbal, DJ Kentaro, Mighty Crown, Aceyalone, Imani (The Pharcyde), Blackmoon, Black Milk, Black Sheep, Smiff N Wessun, Nice and Smooth, Dilated Peoples, De La Soul, Marley Marl, Grandmaster Flash, The Beat Junkies, and many more.
DJ SARASA releases:
- 2007 Krates Records “OWL (One Woman’s Love )” Sold out
- 2009 Rainbow Entertainment “Mr. B-Girl” Top 2 on DMR Weekly Hip Hop Ranking
- 2010 P-Vine Records “Hip Hop is Funk & Jazz (Vol.1)” Top 2 (of 100) on itunes Hip Hop Ranking
- 2010 P-Vine Records “Hip Hop is Funk & Jazz (Vol.2)” Top 2 (of 100) on itunes Hip Hop Ranking
- 2010 dj honda recordings “LA” Now on Sale！
- 2010 IRMA Records “4X4 –live mix vol.1” Top 2 (of 100) on itunes Hip Hop Ranking
- 2010 VITTEL Water FREE DOWNLOAD MIX http://vittel.jp/ Now being downloaded!
- 2010 MYNORITY CLASSICS Clothing Brand Launch
- 2010 P-Vine Records “Hip Hop is Funk & Jazz (Vol.3)”
- 2011 Apparell Store KWANZAA X DJ SARASA “KWANZAA” limited edition mix
- 2011 dj honda recordings “Searchlight vol.1″
- 2012 dj honda recordings “Searchlight vol.2”
- 2012 P-Vine Records “Paradise Funk -Sunshine”
- 2012 P-Vine Records “Paradise Funk -Wind”
- 2012 P-Vine Records “Paradise Funk -Moon”
- 2012 Jazzy Sport Records “Love Lost”
- 2013 Popgroup “EXES”
- 2013 KSR Single “I AM LEGION (XXX$$$ remix)”
COMMENTS:
Questlove (The Roots) “DJ SARASA is an ill DJ. You mess around and judge a book by its cover and get messed up when she got you shazaming like 17 cuts in a row like “oh!!!! This is where the drum break came from!!!!!!!!! Great last night in #Tokyo”
Notrax “Uniquely Hardcore”, “One of the Biggest Party Girls”
Warp Magazine “The New Generation Artist you need to know now”
Floor Magazine “The DJ which we are paying attention to”
Samurai Magazine “The New Generation”
Myspace Japan “The DJ who is gaining the most the focus of the street”
Macka-Chin（Nitro Microphone Underground) “The person who shocked me the most in the year 2008”
Luire “One of the artists that is in the front line of the scene”
Ollie “Tokyo V.I.P.”
