Base Entertainment Presents
KEN ISHII HONG KONG TOUR 2002

DJ Yama - Manabu Yamzaki
(Sublime Records, Japan)
(Sublime Records Label Manager/Top Japanese Techno DJ)

DJ Yama (Manabu Yamazaki) started his career in DJing through organizing his own events. His event ‘Sublime’, which started in 1994, creates a long queue every weekend at Maniac Love. Yama, in search of true Tokyo style techno, got together with now a world renowned DJ Wada (who comprises half of Co-Fusion) and started ‘Sublime’. In fact, it was the first party in Tokyo, which truly focused on techno music, and is still the best techno party in town.

In 1999, ‘Sublime’ was the only party in Asia to be listed as one of the best in the world by the Muzik magazine.

After talking to guests such as Ken Ishii and Yokota Susumu, who already had their debut in Europe, Yama started his own techno label ‘Sublime Records’. The label succeeded in releasing albums from foreign labels as well as organizing tours in foreign countries, which helped the label becomes established as one of the finest techno labels in the world. Recently, Yama started subsidiary of Sublime entitled Reel Musiq and Machingun; signing artists from England, US and Asia, releasing many albums of various styles of music.

With Yama’s hectic schedule as a label manager, he still manages to play as a resident DJ for a weekly Saturday party at Maniac Love, and produces irregular parties such as ‘Reel Up’ with Ken Ishii. Furthermore, he was asked to play at events with more than 50,000 people such as Fuji Rock Festival and Rainbow 2000. Yama, along with the rest of the star DJs at Sublime, are undoubtedly some of the leading techno DJs in Tokyo, and rock any crowd with their funky beats with a twist of Tokyo techno!!



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