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Dos Monos is a Japanese experimental hip hop group based in Tokyo, Japan. The group consists of Zo Zhit, Taitan, and NGS, also referred to as Botsu. All three members provide vocals while Zo and Botsu produce and sample as well. The group released their debut album Dos City on March 20, 2019, under the independent record label Deathbomb Arc. Dos Monos has gained more attention from both within and outside of their homeland of Japan.
The members attended same junior and senior high school in Tokyo. Each of them formed a band, Zo Zhit was a guitarist , TaiTan and Botsu were drummers . 2015, Zo Zhit formed Dos Monos with TaiTan and Botsu to make a song that used beats he had been making as a hobby. At the time, the three had experience in bands such as rock and punk, but no rap, and TaiTan had never even heard of hip-hop. Dos Monos means "two monkeys" in Spanish. Proposed by Botsu, who was interested in Spanish culture, the other two also liked the sound and adopted it. After that, Zo Zhit added the meaning of "monkey 2.0 (evolved monkey)".
Although they were temporarily suspended due to Botsu's study abroad, they succeeded in their first overseas concert at Henz Club in Seoul in 2017. After that, they won the audition project "We Won!? Summer Sonic !?" and defeat other 3600 participants, and appeared in rock festival Summer Sonic. In 2018, they signed with the American label Deathbomb Arc and performed at the French music festival "La Magnifique Society" and the Shanghai music festival "SH △ MP".
Released the 1st album "Dos City" which will be the album in 2019. Also, it was talked about that they are the first in the world to remix "bmbmbm" by British rock band black midi. 2020 In March, the first tour in US including appearances at music festival SXSW was scheduled, but it was canceled due to the corona epidemic.
In May 2020, they released the official collaboration song "Civil Rap Song ft. Audrey Tang who is Taiwan's IT minister, which attracted a great deal of attention as an unusual collaboration between hip-hop and the politician.
In July, an outdoor advertisement was posted in Shibuya, Tokyo, which greatly projected the sound source production screen of Ableton Live. Other musicians are planning to freely create the unreleased song "The Rite of Spring Monkey" with this screen as the only hint. This announced the release of the new album "Dos Siki".
In September 2021, they released a new album "Larderello" in the video work "Cover(蓋)" that was aired on TV Tokyo at early dawn. The content of the work was that the image of zapping the surveillance cameras in the town in real time, and it gradually projected another world spreading underground. This video work attracted attention as a complex mockumentary which connected to blogs, videos, report material-like documents, etc. posted on the net.