Selected by disk union
My customers often ask me for recommendations as part of my job, so I was enthused by this theme of “groove.” The word doesn’t have a definite definition. It’s more like something you feel, and so I felt I had a lot of latitude in making my choices.
While I’ve basically hand-picked recordings from my favorite genres of soul and hip-hop, given this opportunity I tried to choose a variety of music from other genres by decade from the stock at disk Union’s various stores.
Masato Ishii
Born in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1982, Masato took advantage of his enrollment in college to move to Tokyo in 2000 and joined disk Union in 2009. He worked as the store manager at the company’s Shinjuku Soul/Dance Music Shop from 2016, later becoming chief of its Shibuya Jazz/Rare Groove Shop in 2024. He loves black music, including soul, jazz, funk and rap the most.
