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[izmo]

I decided to do the radio edit out of mixed CD from mixed compilation called "Buchiage Trance Vol.3", which I have CD by myself. The bpm in mixed album was 150 BPM and I degraded to 143 BPM, because it was more authentic to hear it in D key, then I added exact VEC1 FX sample, that was represented after the song ended. Knight Star is Ace Closer in fact. He's been doing music since 1997 as DJ Kz and Xtlaview.

Here: https://pixeldrain.com/u/sDPQazuP

I don't know what Ace Closer aka Kazuhisa Hirota's doing nowadays. His last post from FB was in 2015, like he was somewhere at rave party in Germany.

I did ask DJ Daiki what he was doing nowadays, but never bothered to check my message.
EVEN though he did collab with Kazu under "DAIKI x ZK". They were doing lots of cover remixes of 2010s RnB and Pop songs.

Did he go full Jōhatsu with Shohei Matsumoto? This is weird phenomenom, but I do respect their privacy.
What I know about Shohei is that he has recently showed his activity as commenting to DJ Uto's Twitch streaming.
I'm very sure that Shohei's still ghostproducing to someone, but no longer under his legal name, which makes untraceable.

There's chance that Kazu might have died and no more infos were given about it. Not even Tracy nor Kors k have knowledge of his present activities.
I just feel worried about this person, because he's very inspirational guy for me, like he did those works what I enjoyed most:

Ace Closer - Take Off (R.O.C.K.Out!!! Mix)
Baracuda - Ass Up (DJ Ten 2005 Remix)
Supergirl - My Name Is Supergirl (DJ Ten Remix)
Ace Closer - Yo! The Party!! (Original Mix)
DJ Ten - Dance (Spiral Dirt Mix)
DJ Ten - Long Distance (Ace Closer Mix)
DJ Ten - Sa.Ku.Ra (Ace Closer Mix)
DJ Ten - Blue Globe (Ace Closer Mix)
Hi-End Attack - Tubthumping (Everybody Handz Up In Japan Mix)
Eddy Wata - La Bomba (Hi-End Attack Festival Remix)
Rimini Rockaz - Blue (Da Ba Dee) (DJ Ten Remix)
S.T.F - You Fill Me Up (DJ Ten Remix)

Anyways, the first handsup production he did was "Xtlaview - Party Party!!!" in September 2004, which never was finished nor released.
I guess he was very quick to catch up the handsup trance artists and started replicating their unique sounds.

I hope there will be more infos about him in future.

[skibblesx]

yooo thank you! this is also one of my favorite tracks

[FN LN]

I'm pretty sure that DJ Ten and Ace Closer are two different identities — DJ Ten is Keisuke Tensaka and Ace Closer is for Kazuhisa Hirota (https://mixi.jp/view_community.pl?id=534054)

Kazu's trance style is a bit similar to Tensaka's, maybe because they mostly (if not always) performs together at Atom. They eventually collab and make a duo "LADY BiRD". The first song produced by it was called Colors (https://youtu.be/VgTD3rThfv8?si=E0YcJKI-S0BwGkPI). After DJ Ten gone hiatus, Kazu probably just went back to his regular "chiller genre" route before eventually hiatus too (Kazu's idol song "Tactics" is a banger ngl)

I even made a playlist for both of them on YouTube (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4w5HSgfOKAdwhIWA4Bs2UIdHmV7C-6an&si=DdDXugshR5Y7ItUK)

Correct me if I'm wrong.

*Some browsers won't work with hyperlinks so I just slap the links there. You can copy and paste it, though.

This post has been edited by FN LN on Jan 19 2025, 07:11 AM