His career took off when techno veteran DJ Nobu invited him to perform at Future Terror in Tokyo.
His cancer is now in remission.
“I went for a medical checkup at the beginning of the year, and there is no longer a tumour,” he says.
During his illness, he focused on music and rest, working at a friend's record shop to survive.
Yukimatsu tailors his setlists to each country he visits, browsing Bandcamp daily for regional releases.
He wears a “no war” pendant and praises Jamie xx’s track Treat Each Other Right.
“The title is something all the people in the world should engrave in their heart.”
His motivation is constant growth. “I want to be a better DJ and a better human being.
Every day I think that. And if I start to forget it, someone always reminds me.
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It’s a constant growing process, until the day I die.”