JapanWho Ken Ishii is
Ken Ishii (ケン・イシイ) is a Japanese DJ and record producer from Sapporo. He graduated from Hitotsubashi University. He has released work under his own name as well as under the pseudonyms FLR, Flare, UTU, Yoga, and Rising Sun. Ishii had his first release on Belgian label R & S records. He composed the music for the opening ceremonies to the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. "Creation the State of Art" was used in the third level of the 2001 video game Rez, and some tracks in the soundtrack release to the game LSD were produced by Ishii. His track "Let It All Ride" has also been used in the PlayStation Portable video game Lumines II. His music video for "Extra" (directed by Koji Morimoto) won Best Dance Music Video of the year for MTV Europe in 1997.
Biography from the Ken Ishii article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Ken Ishii, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
ExtraJelly Tones · 2008382
Stretch - Shogun RemixStretch · 1995333
Take No Prisoners - Original MixTake No Prisoners · 2019314Cocoa MousseJelly Tones · 2008315
ObiaKen Ishii · 2026286StretchJelly Tones · 2008257Endless SeasonJelly Tones · 2008248
Giant KillerGiant Killer EP · 2025249PhantasmaObia · 20262210EidolonObia · 202622Latest releases
18 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
C-Smash VRS, Vol. 12026 · album
Sleeping Madness2025 · album
Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)2023 · album
WHITE and BLACK2022 · album
Möbius Strip2019 · album
Taiyo2013 · album
Taiyo (Deluxe Edition)2013 · album
Daybreak Reprise -Sunriser Remixed- (The Mix)2008 · albumJelly Tones2008 · album
Sunriser2006 · album
Interpretations for Ken Ishii Future In Light Visualized & Remixed2004 · album
Future In Light2002 · albumPost this ranking
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Ken Ishii in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Ken Ishii have?
Ken Ishii has 45,600 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Aug 17, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Ken Ishii's world ranking?
Ken Ishii is ranked #978 of 1214 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Ken Ishii from?
Ken Ishii is from Japan, where they rank #18 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Ken Ishii make?
Ken Ishii is categorised as Techno in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as idm, techno.
Snapshot from the week of Aug 17, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.