Inside Japan’s Underground Hip-Hop Scene in 2003 | Full Documentary
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Scratching the Surface: Japan* was filmed in 2003, travelling through Tokyo, Osaka, Kanto and Kansai to document Japan’s underground hip-hop scene.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction and opening credits
02:11 AFRA and beatboxing
15:23 Jif-Rock teaching scratching
19:08 Journey to Osaka
20:57 Osaka graffiti with Cosa and Zen 1
25:50 DJ Baku
44:50 Inden in Kobe
48:50 Tokyo MCs – Shinjuku
51:20 Kan MC
We made the film over 20 years ago, meeting rappers, DJs, graffiti writers, beatboxers and breakers across Japan.
It features *AFRA, DJ BAKU, KAN* and many others, with footage from clubs, streets, battles, studios and performances, alongside conversations about music, influence and what was happening in the scene at the time.
This was well before Instagram, YouTube and social media made scenes like this easy to discover from anywhere in the world. A lot of what we came across felt difficult to access unless you were actually there.
The film was originally released on DVD and we’re putting it back out here as part of the SOI archive.
Director — Suridh Hassan / @shazdirector
Producer — Ryo Sanada / @ryosrk
Ryo and I still work together today through at Soi Publishing, making books around music, art, photography and visual culture.
We’ll be putting more of our old films and archive online, alongside new films about the books we make, books we find and the people behind them.
Subscribe if that sounds like your thing.
SOI
https://www.soibooks.com
Filmed in Japan, 2003.
#JapaneseHipHop #HipHopDocumentary #Japan #UndergroundHipHop #DJBaku #AFRA
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Inside Japan’s Underground Hip-Hop Scene in 2003 | Full Documentary
Soi Publishing
1,270 views
Scratching the Surface: Japan* was filmed in 2003, travelling through Tokyo, Osaka, Kanto and Kansai to document Japan’s underground hip-hop scene.
MAKE A BOOK WITH SOI
Got an archive, body of work or story that could become a book? We work with artists, photographers, musicians and cultural projects to make books from the things they’ve collected, created and lived through.
https://www.soibooks.com/make
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction and opening credits
02:11 AFRA and beatboxing
15:23 Jif-Rock teaching scratching
19:08 Journey to Osaka
20:57 Osaka graffiti with Cosa and Zen 1
25:50 DJ Baku
44:50 Inden in Kobe
48:50 Tokyo MCs – Shinjuku
51:20 Kan MC
We made the film over 20 years ago, meeting rappers, DJs, graffiti writers, beatboxers and breakers across Japan.
It features *AFRA, DJ BAKU, KAN* and many others, with footage from clubs, streets, battles, studios and performances, alongside conversations about music, influence and what was happening in the scene at the time.
This was well before Instagram, YouTube and social media made scenes like this easy to discover from anywhere in the world. A lot of what we came across felt difficult to access unless you were actually there.
The film was originally released on DVD and we’re putting it back out here as part of the SOI archive.
Director — Suridh Hassan / @shazdirector
Producer — Ryo Sanada / @ryosrk
Ryo and I still work together today through at Soi Publishing, making books around music, art, photography and visual culture.
We’ll be putting more of our old films and archive online, alongside new films about the books we make, books we find and the people behind them.
Subscribe if that sounds like your thing.
SOI
https://www.soibooks.com
Filmed in Japan, 2003.
#JapaneseHipHop #HipHopDocumentary #Japan #UndergroundHipHop #DJBaku #AFRA
If we did it, what would you want to see in the book?
Would you like us to go back and find some of the artists in this film 20+ years later? More photography and archive material? Graffiti, DJs, rap, breaking, regional scenes, record shops, flyers and ephemera?
Tell us who we should speak to, what we shouldn’t miss, and what a great book on Japanese hip-hop needs to include.