Fumiya Tanaka

Widely respected DJ and producer Fumiya Tanaka brought the sound of minimal, intense techno to Japan during the early '90s, and introduced thousands of club-goers to the best Detroit and German producers via his club nights around Osaka and Tokyo. His mix CDs, including 1995's I Am Not a DJ, were rapidly paced, breathtaking sequences of hard, driving techno tracks, and his own productions, including the Unknown Possibility series, were precise, well-crafted DJ tools, sometimes with tribal influences. Aside from work under his own name, he produced downtempo and experimental mu...