 
There is a saying From nowhere to everywhere,
don't fuckin' touch.
Just like that phrase, we are female
producers who think out-of-box.
We see ourselves as producers who are
coming out big not only in Japan
but also in the world.
I'm a DJ as well as a composer for
our group DFT.
I'm in charge of coordinating the team
and directing how our music should be in the same direction of Mimi.
I want to change this sound.
It's fun to play with sound.
It was great, we had such a good vibe.
It was awesome working with them.
Since the new year's eve 2017,
we've been desperately looking for
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singers and rappers who are suitable for
our songs.
We literally dug in any kinds of samples.
And then, we got recommendations from Instagram.
That's how we met them.
In LA, everyone values good vibes.
That's why the outcome is always good,
and it's so much fun to work with them.
I can see singers and rappers having fun as well.
It's little different from Japan.
I love thinking about a concept of music.
A concept about our album, what DFT wants to do, and such.
We both love conceptualize what
we want to do.
As for our latest album, we focused on sexuality.
We want to make listeners feel comfortable.
It's a music for lovers when they wake up together.
We wanted to make a music that
lovers listen in bed.
The concept is to express own sexuality.
What kind of music you want to listen
depends on the situation you are in.
Music changes the emotion of whoever listens to.
As our expression,
we came up with the title called Porno Shop.
I like DFT's music, I like everything going on
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i think it's gonna be great especially Japan and bringing back over here would be great.
I'm glad to be a part of it.
I elaborate a picture about music in my head first, and that's important.
And then, I start up my PC and get down to the business.
Even though I don't have any image in my head,
I try to get an inspiration from any sound such as synthesizer.
I usually make music according to how my body reacts.
Let me show you.
Getting the base sound like this,
now I try to make it more groovy.
Then, I play around the sound in MIDI like this.
Programming sound in MIDI and
adding some beat notes into it.
Think of when you are going
for a ride with your lover in the city…
Well, this is just my imagination,
you know.
I come up with a story like,
what if my boyfriend doesn't
love me although he says he does?.
That's why I came up with the title Scented.
It means that you can smell your lover's scent in the car,
or this music reminds you of a scent of your lover.
I get inspirations from anything.
But my biggest inspiration since I started producing is people.
For example at a nightclub,
I see people like I'm seeing through
a fisheye lens.
So I see them in a rounded view, and
colorful sound comes out from people.
And sound with colors eventually
put together to bring me music.
It's really fun to get inspirations from people like that.
It's great.
What Mimi wants to do is very cool.
We've never had a fight about how our music should be.
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I love her sound.
I respect her sound so much.
Recently, her sound made me cry.
I trust her and her sound deeply.
I want her to do whatever
she wants even more.
I've been providing my beats for Ultimate MC Battle.
But this time, I had a opportunity
to play as DJ during the battles.
Mimi is the first female DJ to play
original beat for UMB in Japan.
We wanted to get deeper into the depth of hip hop.
So it's such an honor to participate in the contest.
So much fun, right?
I have 9 year old son.
While I'm going to a club with Mimi
for her DJ gig,
I bike back and forth to raise my son.
When my kid was a baby,
I had no time to do a make-up,
so I used to get irritated by that.
Now my son has grown up,
things got a lot easier.
When my son entered an elementary school,
he stopped going to school
after only three months.
I asked him the reason, but
only he said was I don't know.
I found out that he was Gifted 2E.
I decided to fight with this impaired intelligence.
We first worked with With ALS group
as a charity
because of the situation with my son.
We invited Masa from With ALS
to our studio.
And we talked about music and
decided to make something together.
Masa always uses the word
No limit and Keep moving
for his activities and the name of
his radio show.
Mimi and I used to talk about
living our lives without any limit.
So our vision matched, and
we all became emotional.
This song was born from
the pure connection of our souls.
I took my son to With ALS event.
After the event, my son said to me
Mom, I understood the
meaning of never giving up.
Since then, my son has been living his life
without giving up.
He trains hard to practice
writing on his own.
Masa has given my family
a huge opportunity to step forward.
Doing DFT is a challenge,
it's a challenge to become world-class.
I'm happy to be with Mimi
who can make it happen.
It's not easy to make everyone listen
what we produce.
Music lives inside myself.
Music comes out from what
we have gone through in our lives including hardships.
That's how our music comes out, so
we value both badness and goodness.
We want to make our music
acceptable to everyone.
If we don't improve our humanity,
it's going to be hard to spread
our music around the world.
So it's really important for me to
think of how I want to live my life
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my music producing.
Our motto is go with flow.
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Japanese tend to think too logically
of how to live one's life.
But if you go with flow,
you can go further in your life.
It will bring you a change.
It doesn't mean we don't have a goal,
but we are seeing a bigger picture in
our lives by going with flow.
We would like to spread our music
in the world more and more.
And hopefully our music can take us
from nowhere to everywhere
in the future.
To the far place.
We would like to output what
we input more in the future.
