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==Early Career== |
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Born in 1974, and classically trained in Violin since the age of 7, Kenji Williams performs live ethereal- style violin, with a laptop and drum machine transmitting self-produced classics to the dance floor. Tracking Kenji’s musical career, from serious classical violin training, to his early influences in Detroit and European techno and house, to 4 years touring with trance group Medicine Drum, the combination of ingredients that make the Williams's sound fuse into an exotic, tantalising, and intoxicating sound that can be described as progressive, psychedelic techno, tech-house, and tech-trance (for uptempo) and ambient techno, electro space dub (for downtempo). |
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Kenji Williams is an award winning filmmaker, electronic music producer, and classically-trained violinist. From the first ever “Illusion” EP release reaching a global audience of nearly 100,000 in collaboration with John Digweed’s Bedrock label, to ambient releases with top labels such as Flying Rhino and Interchill, to the latest full length tech house, tech trance album “Faces of Epiphany”, the network of recognition is growing. Combining unique skills in film and music, Williams has earned international film awards from the CSC to Sundance, and has been featured in the press in magazines, radio, and websites such as XLR8R, Jwave, Tokyo FM, and Apple.com. Director of 3 films to date, Moment Utopia, Vision Quest 2002, and the latest project WORLDSPIRIT, collaborating with world reknown spiritual artist, Alex Grey, Kenji Williams is establishing himself as a cutting edge audio visual artist. |
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While Kenji Williams has been compared to the great underground experimental techno of Russ Gabriel and the Black Dog, Kenji’s trademark use of highly expressive analog elements of voice and violin brings it into the sphere of sound acceptable by the mainstream, given comparisons to Underworld, Bjork, Orbital, and even Madonna (William Orbit). |
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But clearly, there is nothing else like it. |
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==Current Projects== |
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Booked from Europe to America to Japan, Kenji Williams performs at house, techno, trance, and ambient events, from intimate underground gatherings, to 10,000 person massive outdoor productions in Japan, to multimedia shows with visionary artists such as Alex Grey and evolutionary philosophers and thinkers such as Ken Wilber. |
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Kenji Williams is creating the cutting edge of musical composition and performance, while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of film and visual communication. Collaborating with the most respected artists and cultural creatives of our time, Kenji Williams is literally re-shaping the global electronic music and multimedia scenes. Considered by many as the "next level" of electronic music and performance, Kenji Williams delivers unique and un-matched audio visual talent to the dance floor with a violin that shatters any stereotypes of cold electronica. |
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==Discography== |
==Discography== |
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Kenji Williams is a psychedelic trance artist.
Early Career
Born in 1974, and classically trained in Violin since the age of 7, Kenji Williams performs live ethereal- style violin, with a laptop and drum machine transmitting self-produced classics to the dance floor. Tracking Kenji’s musical career, from serious classical violin training, to his early influences in Detroit and European techno and house, to 4 years touring with trance group Medicine Drum, the combination of ingredients that make the Williams's sound fuse into an exotic, tantalising, and intoxicating sound that can be described as progressive, psychedelic techno, tech-house, and tech-trance (for uptempo) and ambient techno, electro space dub (for downtempo).
Style
Kenji Williams is an award winning filmmaker, electronic music producer, and classically-trained violinist. From the first ever “Illusion” EP release reaching a global audience of nearly 100,000 in collaboration with John Digweed’s Bedrock label, to ambient releases with top labels such as Flying Rhino and Interchill, to the latest full length tech house, tech trance album “Faces of Epiphany”, the network of recognition is growing. Combining unique skills in film and music, Williams has earned international film awards from the CSC to Sundance, and has been featured in the press in magazines, radio, and websites such as XLR8R, Jwave, Tokyo FM, and Apple.com. Director of 3 films to date, Moment Utopia, Vision Quest 2002, and the latest project WORLDSPIRIT, collaborating with world reknown spiritual artist, Alex Grey, Kenji Williams is establishing himself as a cutting edge audio visual artist.
Reception
While Kenji Williams has been compared to the great underground experimental techno of Russ Gabriel and the Black Dog, Kenji’s trademark use of highly expressive analog elements of voice and violin brings it into the sphere of sound acceptable by the mainstream, given comparisons to Underworld, Bjork, Orbital, and even Madonna (William Orbit). But clearly, there is nothing else like it.
Current Projects
Booked from Europe to America to Japan, Kenji Williams performs at house, techno, trance, and ambient events, from intimate underground gatherings, to 10,000 person massive outdoor productions in Japan, to multimedia shows with visionary artists such as Alex Grey and evolutionary philosophers and thinkers such as Ken Wilber. Kenji Williams is creating the cutting edge of musical composition and performance, while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of film and visual communication. Collaborating with the most respected artists and cultural creatives of our time, Kenji Williams is literally re-shaping the global electronic music and multimedia scenes. Considered by many as the "next level" of electronic music and performance, Kenji Williams delivers unique and un-matched audio visual talent to the dance floor with a violin that shatters any stereotypes of cold electronica.