XLR8R hosted Tanaka for a showcase event in Los Angeles back in February and he laid down four hours of beautifully paced tracks, flowing through cuts from the stable of producers on home label Perlon as well as old-school house classics from MD X-Press (“God Made Me Phunky”) and the late Kenny Hawkes (“Play The Game”).
His DJ sets are as technically immaculate as his productions, however, it’s behind the turntables that Tanaka really shows how deep and wide he can go within his chosen framework-a framework focused on pure groove. Perlon favorite Fumiya Tanaka featured in our Best of 2019: Releases list with Right Moment, an LP full of minimal grooves of the highest order, and this unwavering dedication to quality not only emanates out of his studio but his entire artistic output. It’s unrealistic to attend all the world’s musical events, but from the one’s we have, these are the DJs, live sets, and moments that have impressed us, in no particular order. However, we have given a list of the records that have stuck with us through a particularly turbulent 2019, and, in doing so, we’ve exposed some great music that would otherwise have been missed, and we’d also like to talk about the live performers that have impressed us, the XLR8R staff and contributors, over the past 12 months. What we mean to say is that by publishing this feature, we are not attempting to comprehensively rank the world’s DJs and live performers. This is not a traditional best of list, we’d like to make this absolutely clear.
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