Dj Muro - The Golden Era of Hip-Hop

DJ MURO (Diijei Muro) is an active Japanese hip hop producer and DJ. His real name is Takayoshi Murota. In 1987 DJ Krush, Microphone Pager, , TWIGY and others formed the "KRUSH POSSE", a crew of rappers and Dj's.During this time he excelled at DJing hip-hop and began producing hip-hop beats. His solo debut appeared 1993. In the late 1990s he worked extensively with Nitro Microphone Underground, one of Japan's most successful hip-hop crews. In addition to producing he also was active as a designer.

Muro is at once a rapper forever pushing the boundaries in Japanese rap and a constant influence on the Japanese hip hop scene, a sell-out DJ with his own distinctive line in track selection, the owner of the hip Udagawacho shop "Savage", the founder of his own "Incredible Records" label and a mentor and producer of new talent.
His latest release is the soundtrack of Japanese hip hop animation called “Tokyo Tribe 2”. In this soundtrack Muro featured the names like Ghostface Killah & Raekwon (WU-TANG CLAN), De La Soul, Kool G Rap etc and more Japanese rappers. Muro produced all the tracks for this soundtrack, and also co-produced some tracks with Just Blaze and the Alchemist. This album is very highly acclaimed both in the street scene and the main stream scene of Japanese hip hop, and also became a big talk in the US and European scene.

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