DJ Scotch Egg (born Shigeru Ishihara) is a Japanese producer of chiptune/gabba music based in Brighton, England.
Shige started out making improvised noise music, performing under the name Shiez 2000, and later contributed to a few little known groups including Megadrive, Noony Banoony, and The Fighting Seizure Robots Busking Crew. After moving to Brighton from Tokyo, he founded Brighton's premier breakcore/noise music night Wrong Music with frien...
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DJ Scotch Egg (born Shigeru Ishihara) is a Japanese producer of chiptune/gabba music based in Brighton, England.
Shige started out making improvised noise music, performing under the name Shiez 2000, and later contributed to a few little known groups including Megadrive, Noony Banoony, and The Fighting Seizure Robots Busking Crew. After moving to Brighton from Tokyo, he founded Brighton's premier breakcore/noise music night Wrong Music with friends Ben Hudson (aka Ebola) and Matt (Roger Species). Henry Collins (Shitmat) took Shige under his wing, and convinced him to use his Game Boy to create gabber tracks. Shige claims that his music was not appreciated while studying music at university but pursued his musical direction anyway.
Sometime after the release of his debut album, KFC Core Shige got notice that his student visa had run out, and he was almost sent back to Japan. This led to the creation of the Save The Scotch Egg Site, which had a (now defunct) petition to keep Shige in...
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