Ill Suono has been played on NTS in shows including Hit Factory, featured first on 29 November 2024. Songs played include Soul Spirits (Assembler Remix).

Ill Suono is a duo of beatmakers hailing from Tokyo & Los Angels. Azzurro had his start producing beats and DJing for the Japanese hiphop group, Mellow Yellow, while Hashim B. made beats and scratched as one half of the instrumental hiphop duo, Cappablack. Both teamed up for the first time on Azzurro's solo album "Il Mare Azzurro". The two joined forces to create their self titled album in 2004 on Soup Disk which traversed hiphop, breakbeat, dub, house, and gained critical acclaim. Their most recent remix album features reworkings by the likes of Detroit's Dabrye, LA's Omid and Nobody, and Japan's Takemura Nobukazu, and also new tracks by Ill Suono themselves. They have been known to rock parties across Japan using laptops and CDJ's, and are working in the lab on more projects together.