| Shoji Kameda |
| Monday, 15 October 2007 | |||||
 Shoji Kameda, percussion, co-producer. I met Shoji while squatting in an empty apartment in the Silverlake district of Los Angeles. I had been subletting the apartment, but apparently the guy just kept the money and didn't pay the rent. He was getting evicted, but the building manager said I could stay and he'd let me know when the Sheriff was going to show up, so I could clear out in time. I would sit on the front steps of the building and hop on wireless networks around the neighborhood. One day Shoji came walking up and said, "Are you Knox Bronson?" I said yes. He said,"I see you on my network all the time. It's fine! Go for it!" And we began talking, very quickly discovering a shared life in the universe of music. Funny how that happens. We found that we love a lot of the same things, and then have grave differences in other areas.
For example, he considers djs artists, not businessmen, which they are. It is the
position of this site that there are a few djs who qualify as
percussionists with their scratching, but overall the artistry involved
never goes beyond that of decoupage. Don't get me wrong: I LOVE
decoupage: I used to have a picture of the Beatles and the Maharishi in
flowery pastel robes decoupaged onto a block of redwood. I gave it to a
true hippie in Hawaii.
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