Mistabishi is a UK

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 composer, singer/songwriter, electronic music producer, at present signed to Hospital Records

Hospital Records

Hospital Records is an independent record label based in South London. Primarily releasing Drum and bass, the label was started in 1996 by Tony Colman and Chris Goss, and has grown in recent years to become one of the most well known labels within UK dance music...

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He has gained recognition in the international dance music scene with his first Studio Album 'Drop'. He is also known for using unconventional sounds, such as the noise of a windscreen wiper

Windscreen wiper

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 in 'Wipe Your Tears' and the sound of a printer in 'Printer Jam', to create an original, experimental sound to his music. The track 'No Matter What' quotes the vocal line from Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

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's Paprika Plains and directly samples the end of the recording of that song (which includes Jaco Pastorius

Jaco Pastorius

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 on bass).

Background

Mistabishi grew up in North Essex, attended The Perse School in Cambridge, notable alumni of which includes Dave Gilmour . He is a Philosophy Graduate of York University.
Mistabishi signed for Hospital Records in early January 2008.

In August 2009, Mistabishi was nominated 'The Best Newcomer Award' in the Drum and Bass Awards.

Previous productions include a 12" singles on various Dubstep and Drum And Bass Labels including Virus Recordings, Violence Recordings, and Commercial Suicide.

He has remixed various bands including Placebo

Placebo

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, White Lies

White lies

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, and Enter Shikari

Enter Shikari

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, with the most notable being his remix of The Temper Trap

The Temper Trap

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's debut single 'The Science of Fear'. His song 'Talk Me Down' was featured in the 2009 video game Forza Motorsport 3

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Criticism

In October 2009, Mistabishi faced criticism on the internet from amateur and professional drum and bass DJ's for allegedly playing a DJ set in a bar in Reading, UK that was nothing more than pantomiming to an entirely-prerecorded set of his own music. This caused argument and uproar on forums Dogs On Acid

Dogs On Acid

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 and Drum and Bass Arena

Drum and Bass Arena

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. He has since apologised for the upset his actions have caused, but he has remained unrepentant about his DJ'ing practices. He had previously stated "The music became very centred on what happened in the DJ booth and that clique, which meant the end product was for the DJ not for a raver or listener."

Discography

Mistabishi has released one album Drop which was released on 23 February 2009

'Track Listing'

1. Heavens Sake
2. No Matter What
3. Printer Jam
4. Lean
5. View From Nowhere
6. White Collar Grime
7. Damage
8. Greed
9. Wipe Your Tears
10. The Lights Really Bad
11. From Memory
12. Hidden (CD only)

The deluxe version was released on 2 November on digital only. It was the same album with all his singles, two remix of singles and his track 'Talk me Down' off Sick Music.

'Track Listing'

1. Heavens Sake
2. No Matter What
3. Printer Jam
4. Lean
5. View From Nowhere
6. White Collar Grime
7. Damage
8. Greed
9. Wipe Your Tears
10. The Lights Really Bad
11. From Memory
12. Falling in Love
13. She Lied
14. Lowlife Theme
15. Talk me Down
16. I Feel LOL
17. Hidden
18. From Memory (Matrix Remix)
19. Printer Jam (Barbarix Remix)