Amsterdam-based Japanese underground electronic music DJ, booker, promoter and a crew of posivision mag based in Tokyo.
Also working with Wax Poetics Japan magazine (sales).
Nori aka Norihiko Kawai is first experience of PARTY was at the club Geoid a.k.a. Flower in Tokyo, early '90s. It was German techno and trance music that influenced him a lot and made him to start playing DJ.
Starting DJ career in 1995, playing from deep minimal, raw house, acid and dark techno. Organizing and spinning at LOOP aoyama (closed), Zero, bar bonobo, Hachi, ageHa, module and Air in Tokyo, Club circus and Compufunk in Osaka, club about and mago in Nagoya.
His constant tour to europe in this 9 years has been motivated by a passion to bridge music scene between Japan and Europe.
His hypnotic groove and artisan skill make audience united with intoxication for music. He played at, for example, London (fabric, aquarium, cafe1001, The Queen of Hoxton, EGG and Twisted Records party), Bristol, Barcelona (2009 sonar week), Belgium, Amsterdam, Berlin (farbfernseher, Eschschloraque), Hamburg, Giessen, Luedenscheid, Chemnitz and Lisboa (Boom festival 2010, Op art cafe and Europe Sunrise).
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