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Kei Kohara
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: Kei Kohara
: Shonan, Kanagawa
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Kei Kohara is a talented artist in the worldwide techno and house scene. He is one of the greatest track makers, fascinating whoever comes across his music with his open-feel sound style. He is known as a beach and surf lover. Those elements directly and strongly influence his music and evoking “the summer” and “the ocean” in the listeners' minds.
He started his career right after he won the prize of a remixing competition "EOS Circuit" held by YAMAHA and Tetsuya Komuro, a famous Japanese composer and producer from TM Network. Besides his focus on sound production utilizing synthesizers, he has another exceptional talent as a drummer. He takes advantage of this talent by playing in Death Metal bands and digital hard core units. Even though he belonged to an agency in Tokyo, he switched from working in live houses to clubs in 2000, the year in which he encountered club music. In the same year, he brought his energetic synthesizer sound to the clubs, going from city to city.
Out of tons of other labels that scrambled for his attention, he chose "Silly Spider Music", which includes artists such as Takkyu Ishino and Kid Q. "Midnight Express" debuted as a single from the label. Also it was re-licenced as “EP Mike Monday remix” by a UK label "Global Harmony". It’s sales rose to reach 9000. This is an outstanding smash hit in the analog market. It has been played heavily by Paul Van Dyk, DJ Roland and others.
From +AD, one of Asian Dynasty Records labels, he released “EP Reflection” in 2005. Through that, he attained an unassailable position. In July 2006, he released his first album "Summer Night Fever". This album again broke records and became a smash hit in the iTunes Store dance chart and on web sites where mobile phone users can download ring tones. On the web site it became the most downloaded ring tone of the month. He released his second album in 2007under AsianDynasty Records which also became a huge hit. He has also taken part in many Various Artist compilations in countries like Germany. Expect more great releases from Kei in the near future!

Albums

Summer Night Fever

Album
Summer Night F...

Heavenly Reworks

Mini Album
Heavenly Reworks

Heavenly Sunshine

Album
Heavenly Sunshine

Endless Summer

Album
Endless Summer

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