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audiot909, a pioneer of South African dance music and Amapiano in Japan, is proud to announce the release of its first album. It is the culmination of their activities to date, including collaborations with singer/rappers such as AKKOGORILLA, QN, CHIYORI, and Zo Zhit(Dos Monos) as well as producers PIANO FLAVA and TOMC.
The album, titled "JAPANESE AMAPIANO THE ALBUM," contains 11 tracks, including new songs with MORI, a rapper in the mysterious multinational music group 3KW a.k.a. Sanzen Sekai, and KΣITO, a producer in the DJ crew TYO GQOM, which plays African dance music with its own interpretation in Japan.
African dance music has been attracting attention around the world recently, with big-name musicians such as Skrillex and Drake incorporating African dance music into their own compositions. As the leading Amapiano in Japan, audiot909 presents challenging dance music that reaches alternative HIP HOP and R&B listeners. It is also Japan's answer to African music, which has become a digital native.
Producer/DJ/writer. Originally a house DJ, he began producing South African dance music Amapiano in 2020. The single "RAT-TATTAT" released with the rapper Akko Gorilla in 2022 was taken up in a lot of major playlists of each medium, and was picked up in the documentary image "Music That Moves: Amapiano" which took up Amapiano which spreads to the world. The album was an unprecedented hit despite being an auto-release. From the summer of 2023, he released a series of collaboration songs with rappers/singers such as QN, CHIYORI, and ZoZhit, and his songs were also featured on Amapiano playlists overseas, continuing to expand the possibilities of Amapiano in Japan. In November of the same year, he released his first full album "JAPANESE AMAPIANO THE ALBUM" as the culmination of his activities. In the same year, Amapiano has also been introducing the attractiveness of Amapiano through various media such as serialization in Sound & Recording Magazine, interviews with local producers, radio appearances, and so on.
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