A classically trained pianist, TOKi synthesized DJ Krush, DJ Shadow, J Dilla and RZA into a singularly innovative form, fluorescent and astral-minded, but girded by a heavy Richter-shaking hip-hop thump. beat music mecca, her performances are indelibly stamped in your hippocampus. If you were there during the early days of that fabled L.A. After cutting her teeth in the famously competitive Beat Battles at the legendary Leimert Park hip-hop night Project Blowed, the barely out of college TOKi became a rising star, making necks snap as one of the only female producers in the Low End Theory scene. Maybe itвЂ™s best to start at the beginning. It easily could have proven fatal or destroyed her career, but instead she summoned extraordinary strength, energy, and rhythm to make some of the most powerful and cathartic electronic music of the last ten years - complete with epic comeback performances at SXSW and Coachella. The quote references TOKiMONSTAвЂ™S triumphant battle against Moyamoya (Japanese for a вЂњpuff of smokeвЂќ), a rare neurological condition in which certain arteries in the brain are constricted. Pitchfork hailed TOKiMONSTA for taking her music to вЂњnew emotional heights.вЂќ While Billboard named it the 30th Best Dance Album of the last decade, one that is вЂњimpressive for its warm synthetic moods and hyphy rhythms, but downright mind-blowing when you hear its creator underwent two brain surgeries and temporarily lost her ability to understand music just before making it.вЂќ Not to mention that even being recognized at such a high level is a rarity for a completely independent artist without a major machine backing them. Of course, there is 2017вЂ™s triumphant Lune Rouge, which received a Grammy nomination for вЂњBest Electronic/Dance Album,вЂќ making her the first Asian-American producer to be up for the award, as well as the first woman. Visualize a neon-lit, till-the-break-of-dawn journey filled with weightless grooves and propulsive funk, featuring assists from Bibi Bourelly, EARTHGANG, Channel Tres, Dumbfoundead, and more.

We can focus on the current moment, where breathless anticipation abounds for her fourth full-length, Oasis Nocturno, a nocturnal opus that might be the best thing the producer born Jennifer Lee has ever done. Her career has been so dynamic and versatile that itвЂ™s difficult to even know where to begin. The secret is that there is no secret, other than the compositional genius and futuristic melodies embedded into the gleaming, technicolor mandalas of hip-hop instrumentalism, pop, R&B-soul, house, and IDM that encompass the TOKiMONSTA sound.

In the process, she has received the co-signs of the biggest names in electronic and repped for the West Coast underground at the Grammys - all without sacrificing the purity of her vision or relying on exploding glowstick bombast. Over the last decade, the Los Angeles producer and Young Art label boss, TOKiMONSTA has helped define the sound of modern dance and beat music.

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