Review by: Kayla Sturdevant

 

Perixd, or Yuki Morinobu, began DJing when he turned eighteen. “Right after I finished high school, I went to a regular 4 year university in Massachusetts,” said Yuki about his attendance at Salem State University in 2010 where he first got into making music.

 

He described his initial attraction to music, “when I lived in New Jersey for 10 months when I was 12 years old, because of my father’s job, I liked pop music at that time so I didn’t know about music that deeply.” At this time in his life, his music interest changed with one song.

 

He continued, “one of my friends, he was my neighbor. I couldn’t speak English at all... He gave me his earphones and he played the 50 Cent song ‘Candy Shop.’ That changed everything for me. I never heard that kind of sound. That just changed me and that’s what he keeps me doing this kind of thing.” However, he has now steered away from that kind of work.

 

“DJ-ing, I kind of quit. I just do it for fun. If someone offers me a DJ-ing gig, then I just refuse it,” he began explaining how he now works with hip hop artists. Perixd mostly makes beats for other artists now.

 

He digressed: “I just make the beat however I want and then I just pass it to a hip hop artist or I just upload it to maybe soundcloud then let people hear it, listen to it and if they’re interested in using that beat then I ask them to contact me and I sell those beats.” Recently he became apart of an independent label. Now, he studies Economics at Temple University because he doesn’t feel interested in making DJ-ing and beat making as full time job. He wants it to remain a hobby.

 

For the future, “in December, next week, I’m going to be releasing my album ‘Aurora’, so right after that maybe I’m going to work on the next album... I mean, making the beats, that’s what I’m interested in… I want to produce. I just don’t only want to make beats.”

 

Check out Perixd’s past and future work on the Tokyo Slice.