DJ Scotch Egg (born Shigeru Ishihara) is a Japanese producer of chiptune / gabber music based in Brighton, England. Shige started out making improvised noise music, performing under the name Shiez 2000, and later contributed to a few little known groups including Megadrive, Noony Banoony, and The Fighting Seizure Robots Busking Crew.

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  • DJ Scotch Egg (born Shigeru Ishihara) is a Japanese producer of chiptune / gabber music based in Brighton, England. Shige started out making improvised noise music, performing under the name Shiez 2000, and later contributed to a few little known groups including Megadrive, Noony Banoony, and The Fighting Seizure Robots Busking Crew. After moving to Brighton from Tokyo, he founded Brighton's premier breakcore/noise night Wrong Music with friends Henry Collins (aka Shitmat) and Matt (Roger Species). Collins took Shige under his wing, and convinced him to use his Game Boy to create gabber tracks. Shige claims that his music was not appreciated while studying music at university but pursued his musical direction anyway. Sometime after the release of his debut album, KFC Core Shige got notice that his student visa had run out, and he was almost sent back to Japan. This led to the creation of the Save The Scotch Egg Site, which had a (now defunct) petition to keep Shige in the UK. After numerous signings from fans and friends (some from fellow breakcore/wrong music artists Shitmat, Mike Paradinas and Chevron) Shigeru was granted permission to stay in the UK. As of 2006, he has released music on the Wrong Music label, Adaadat and is apparently signed to Lightning Bolt's Load Records (he was apparently offered this after Lightning Bolt was impressed by his music). A new album entitled Scotch Hausen was released in Spring 2007. Shige uses Ableton Live for post-production but produces all of his sounds using GameBoy software such as Nanoloop and LSDJ. Occasionally when playing live, DJ Scotch Egg runs around the stage with his loudspeaker or microphone screaming gibberish, shouting obscenities or something related to Kentucky Fried Chicken. He puts the microphone through a Boss MT-2 Metal Zone guitar distortion pedal, to create the heavily distorted vocal sound. He usually ends the show by throwing scotch eggs at the audience. Notable contributions with other artists include Ove-Naxx, Hrvatski, Mike Paradinas, Duracell, Bong-Ra, Germlin, 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. Shige's influences include Karlheinz Stockhausen, SKREAM, John Carpenter, Walter Karloss, Steve Reich, Moondog, John Cage and Speedfreaks amongst others. Many of the tracks on his Scotch Hausen album are inspired by one or more of these particular artists. (en)
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  • Shiez 2000 Scotch Grind (en)
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  • Shigeru 'Shige' Ishihara (en)
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  • Shigeru Ishihara, 2007 (en)
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  • Wrong Music Adaadat (en)
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  • DJ Scotch Egg (en)
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  • Duracell (occasional live drunner)
    MC Coleslaw (live MC) (en)
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  • 2003 to present (en)
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  • DJ Scotch Egg (born Shigeru Ishihara) is a Japanese producer of chiptune / gabber music based in Brighton, England. Shige started out making improvised noise music, performing under the name Shiez 2000, and later contributed to a few little known groups including Megadrive, Noony Banoony, and The Fighting Seizure Robots Busking Crew. (en)
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  • DJ Scotch Egg (en)
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