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Mysterious Japanese female producer · Duo = DFT is also talked Besides Japan

A Japanese female producer duo, DFT who just released a debut Album "story to tell" last November is also talking about Besides Japan .

DFTは、英語学校で知り合ったというmimiとviviのふたりから成るデュオで、「Don’t Fxxkin' Touch」の略称。10代でDJ、シンガーとしてそれぞれ活動していたが、お互いにヒップホップ好きということもあってデュオを結成するに至ったという。ソングライティングからトラック制作、アレンジ、プロダクションまで全てをこなすDFTは、昨年11月にデビュー・アルバム『story to tell』を発表。全8曲のうち4曲はラッパーをゲストに迎え、残り4曲はインストという構成だが、自分たちのビートに乗せるボーカルには明確なイメージがあったということで、アメリカのアンダーグラウンド・ラッパーたちを起用している。

In addition to engineer Tom Coin who died at the young age of 62 at the other day, digital boy who was in charge of the mix of major razor, Snoop · Lion work, Luca · Pretresi, and DOI which Japan boasts participated. The DFT that the activity base is currently defined as LA, while also being influenced by Shibuya's hip-hop scene, and its style of letting the beat of DFT flow that swallowed Atlanta trap and dance music be heard, It is starting attracting attention from Besides Japan as well.

It was a short movie "story to tell" that used all songs of "story to tell". This picture, directed by Sayaka Nakane, directed by Screenplay, is composed of a story with a hypnotic movie like about 15 minutes and the characters are lip-synched according to the rap, but violence full of videos that reminiscent of Kitano Takeshi and Tarantino Beauty praised from Besides Japan as "a yakuza movie". Indeed, in Berlin's <Berlin Music Video Awards> where the results are announced in mid May, along with Mike Snow's "Pull My Trigger" etc., they are nominated as candidates for "Best Art · Director" category, At the <Los Angels Independent Film Festival Awards>, I won in the month of March 2017 in the "Best Music and Video" category. It is entering the final which will be announced in August. In addition, Mass Appeal of rice hip hop and media, which is known for being restarted by Naz et al., Is also receiving coverage and it is said that Besides Japan attention will increase more and more.

In addition, mimi also offers trucks of "YEDI", which will become the full English language from the new work "INDIGO" released by SALU on May 24th, and the activities of DFT are attracting more attention in 2017.