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Jungle Hits Japan

Kodwo Eshun, i-D, September 1995

Tetsuya Komuro is a Japanese dance producer who's just made the world's first ever million selling jungle hit. Like the rest of his records, we'll never hear a note of it. But as he reinvents his country's teenagers as ravers, Komuro could turn out to be one of the music industry's most futuristic forces...

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