Next date in London
DJ Scotch Egg Residency - 3 Day Pass
See all 2 datesDJ Scotch Egg is a British musician working in chiptune, a genre built on the sounds of vintage video game consoles and home computers, and active since 2003.
Next date in London: 18 December at Cafe OTO.
Upcoming dates
3 upcoming dates
Upcoming concerts
Profile
- Latest album
- Death by Tickling (2023)
- Born
- 2000
- Active since
- 2003
About — The artist
Shigeru Ishihara, better known by the stage name DJ Scotch Egg, is a Japanese producer of chiptune/gabba music based in Berlin, Germany.
He has released music on the Wrong Music label and Adaadat, and was signed to Load Records after Lightning Bolt were impressed by his music. A new album entitled Scotch Hausen was released in Spring 2007.
Contributions with other artists include Ove-Naxx, Hrvatski (Keith Fullerton Whitman), Mike Paradinas, Duracell, Bong-Ra, The Pipettes and The Go! Team.
Shige has recorded improvised music collaboratively with Ashley Marlowe and Sam Dook under the moniker Same Things. Two tracks have so far been released through Junior Aspirin Records.
Ishihara is a founding member of WaqWaq Kingdom, along with vocalist Kiki Hitomi. They have released a number of albums on Phantom Limb.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “DJ Scotch Egg” (en), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Discography
- KFC Core 2005
- Scotch Hausen 2007
- Drumized 2008
- Death by Tickling 2023