Biography
DJ Shuriken was born and raised in Óbuda, Budapest. He got hooked on records a while ago and converted his home into a storage room of vinyl junk ranging from ethnomusicological recordings to cosmic jazz and post rock wierdness.
He held down a series of radically eclectic radio shows on Budapest's legendary Tilos Rádió since 1995. In the last decade he worked with DJ Keyser as his steady partner in doing radio stuff and DJ gigs as well as producing and remixing music under the names of Keyser & Shuriken and - together with Erik Sumo - Crate Soul Brothers. A more detailed discography of their joint endevours is at: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Crate+Soul+Brothers
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During the years they’ve spent behind the decks they have built reputations in the local and worldwide scene as fanatic record collectors and selectors of old and new quality music: jazz, funk, latin, brazil, afro beat, rare grooves, hip hop, etc. – these sounds can all fit into their dj sets. Djing: So far they have toured all around Hungary, USA, the UK, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Austria and most of the Eastern European countries. On these events they shared the turntables with such well-known djs like Gilles Peterson, Richard Dorfmeister, Rainer Trüby, the Jazzanova, DJ Vadim, dZihan & Kamien among many others. The most memorable thing that came out of their collaboration is Blue Light, a compilation of 1970s Hungarian jazz dance classics for Cosmic Sounds records in London.
Their current weekly radio show is called " A barazdan is csomot" and is downloadable weekly from http://blog.tilos.hu/cratesoul/ along with fancy playlists.
DJ Shuriken also produces his own stuff at a very slow pace. His current beats are at http://www.myspace.com/djshuriken
His past discography is at http://www.discogs.com/artist/DJ+Shuriken
His debut album "Songs for broken instruments and dead seagulls" will be available as a free download from July 2009.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.