Defend the disco

Making music for "cute ladies working at the office, girls from fashion school... and underground music nerds," Force Of Nature - aka DJ Kent and KZA - have built an awe inspiring reputation since Kent released his first breakbeats 12" in 2001. Since then, production work with the likes of Nigo, UNKLE, Rhymester and Shakka Zombie, a regular radio spot on Shibuya-FM and a series of masterful mix CDs have held up the release of their debut album, The Forces Of Nature, until now. Oh, plus the fact that the 11-track LP is entirely sample based, from brooding, bombastic opener (and single) A Dark Nebula to the blissful closing track A Light Source. Listing Afrika Bambaataa, Mad Mike, DJ Shadow, DJ Harvey and Italian label Jolly Music among their influences, Force Of Nature refuse to be restricted by genre.
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Defend the disco

"from Lodown Magazine"
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FORCE OF NATURE.
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The traditional value system of club culture alternatively club music is a dated one, my friend. Well, at least for KZA and DJ Kent. Under their moniker Force Of Nature, these guys are teaching dance music a lesson, because why should you be a HipHop or Disco or House or whatever DJ/producer only if you can easily combine everything that makes your heart beat and booty shake at once. If you allow yourself to push the limits and do something new and not retro?
You guys seem to be around for ages already... please tell me a little about how it all started, about how you first met.
We first met when DJ Kent joined the rap group formed by KZA... it was called "Yotsukaido Nature". Then in 1997, as Yotsukaido Nature, we released an instrumental Breakbeat album called "Urban Combatt 2001". From this point a massive amount of remix and production offers were coming to us... that`s probably the direct reason to form FORCE OF NATURE.




Force Of Nature have been stirring it up in underground circles since many years already, first in their hometown Tokyo, later, after they remixed the likes of DJ Shadow or Sly Mongoose amongst others, in the US as well. Before they entered their studio to record album #3 (which should be out in late Feb/early March), they got themselves in shape with several solo projects. DJ Kent did a few things for the ever reliable Bearfunk label while KZA focused on releasing a couple of mix CDs and mixtapes. These guys figured out early that the foundation of every good dance track is a tasty breakbeat... and we can call ourselves lucky that they ain’t sparing us the details of this valuable lesson.
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