Alex From Tokyo

Dive into the exhilarating era of Japan’s electronic dance music scene from the mid ’80s to the mid ’90s with Japan Vibrations Vol. 1. The hand-picked collection by DJ and musical storyteller Alex from Tokyo pays homage to the trailblazers and innovators who shaped the landscape.

Paris-born, Tokyo-raised, Berlin-based DJ, music producer, and sound designer. world famous label owner.

Calling Tokyo home from the age of four, Alex grew up amid the sounds and spectacle of the world’s largest city— playing baseball, practicing Kendō (Japanese swordsmanship), and honing an ear for eclectic soundscapes in Shibuya’s record stores and at famed underground clubs like The Bank, Another World, and Gold.

Alex returned to his birthplace of Paris in the early 1990s, and formed the unit “A Deep Groove” with Dj Deep and DJ Gregory in 1993. Their now-legendary lunchtime radio show on Radio FG 98.2fm was one of the first to spread the “real underground dance music” sound from the US and put a spotlight on early French deep house artists like St. Germain and Shazz.

Arriving back in Japan in 1995, Alex emerged as the go-to contact for European labels, DJs, and artists seeking a presence in Japan. He worked with Laurent Garnier’s F Communications, London’s Mr. Bongo and its label Disorient, France’s Yellow Productions and its Bossa Tres Jazz project “When East Meets West” (Alex coordinated the Japan side), and recorded mixed CDs for Tokyo’s P-Vine, Flavour of Sound, Rush Productions, Flower Records, Ultra Vybe and Italy’s Reincarnation. Alex surfaced as one of the strongest crossover DJs in Japan in the late 1990s, running his weekly radio show “Tokyo Club Mix Showcase” every Wednesday night on Shibuya FM 78.4, holding a residency at club Yellow in Tokyo, and touring all over Asia and the world. “ALEX FROM TOKYO” was born.