Diamond Dave took over the airwaves the other night in Tokyo. Listen to it below!

Recently, he has been renting recording studio space in Japan and having fun speaking Japanese. Just a couple weeks ago, he thought it would be fun to put on his own radio show, entirely for fun. ‘Tokyo Hi-Power Style’ is Diamond Dave’s new radio show. Dave put a clip of it on his website.

It’s pretty interesting in that it’s American music with him saying stuff in English and Japanese and a female translator trying her best to keep up with him. Dave is very “DAVE” and will keep you listening and laughing for the entire 42 minutes. By the way, the lady translating has been DLR’s personal translator for the last few months.

The music is funk, R&B, soul, and dance. If you’re one of those people that only likes hard rock, you might want to just focus on Dave’s comments! But if you enjoy other genres of music, you will probably appreciate the whole thing. It’s a fun show!

Listen to the show here.
http://davidleeroth.com/music/highpower.mp3

I understand Japanese well enough to understand what the translator is saying, and it’s very interesting and entertaining. Although she translates most of the time, sometimes she is responding to what Dave is saying. Occasionally she translates things very literally – which is understandable as keeping up with Dave and the subtleties he injects into his rap would be really hard for someone who didn’t grow up in America – especially to do it on the fly. Dave’s Japanese accent isn’t bad at all.

Good stuff.

The second episode of DLR’s Tokyo Hi-Power Style Radio Show is up and available on DavidLeeRoth.com! Direct link here >>

http://davidleeroth.com/music/Tokyo2.mp3

Tokyo Hi-Power Style Radio Show Episode 3 is available! Listen/download here >> http://davidleeroth.com/music/hipower3.mp3