Nori (posivision) aka Norihiko Kawai
Hypnotic, Acid yet elegant Techno and House music, a Japanese DJ based in Amsterdam Nori aka Norihiko Kawai selects.
On the floor he plays, space is created in which you step into his world of mystic symbolism and spiritual layers in abstract storytelling. His music doesn't need words, it speaks for itself in a universal language, these are deep and more than just selecting music. After 20 years of his career as a DJ, editor for music media, and organizer in Tokyo, he moved to Amsterdam in 2015. Because of his keen eye for music cultivated through his career, he has been established trust with a lot of labels and agents around Europe then the latest trucks including ‘hidden gems’ have been gathering into his hand.
Regularly DJing at Loop Aoyama, Club Air, and Bar Bonobo, the deepest and experimental venues in Tokyo before 2015.
The first experience of a party was at the Tokyo legendary club Geoid aka Flower in the early '90s. It was German techno and acid music influenced a lot and made starting DJ.
Nori has been performed in European clubs, festivals, and underground freak spots including London (fabric, aquarium, cafe1001, The Queen of Hoxton, EGG, Scala), Bristol (Lakota), Barcelona, Belgium, Genève (Electron Festival 2016), Fribourg, Luzern,Berlin (Farbfernseher, Chalet, Suicide Circus), Offenbach (MTW), Hamburg, Giessen (MuK), Luedenscheid, Chemnitz, Heidelberg,
Kassel (A.R.M.), Betzdorf, Lisboa (Boom Festival 2010, Europe Sunrise), Den Haag (PIP, Laserfest 2019) and Amsterdam (Garage Noord, Radio Radio, Melkweg, Noorderlicht, ADE 2016).
He was in charge of planning and compiling the D/L charity compilation project "JAPANEASE" with wordandsound (GER). http://www.whatpeoplesay.com/japanease
Nori is half of the electronic music duo NOS which has been released 2 tracks on Snork Enterprises (GER)
Snork #97: „Dok Nitschi Pakt“ by Various Artists
Format: digital
Release Date: December 21th, 2018
Norihiko Kawai also works as a writer, editor, and sales with Japanese music media such as posivision, remix, msn music Japan, Clubberia, banana, Wax Poetics Japan, Time Out Tokyo and tokion.jp.