Iori Wakasa

Tokyo based Japanese DJ/ Producer, Iori Wakasa has consistently released his production and remixes from an array of labels such as Satoshi Tomiie's Saw, Steve Bug's Dessous, The Police's Sting's daughter Eliot Sumner's Baastard, Todd Bodine's Highgrade, Get Physical, Sound Of Vast, among others. With a unique DJing style, he weaves together a wide range of sounds including house, techno, minimal, jazz, funk, downtempo, disco, Balearic, chill out, breakbeats and ambient, with a focus on "chaos" and “sophistication" to create a distinctively organic, sound universe that swirls the dance floor into preeminence. When you experience his music internally, you will be transported into a supernatural subterranean zone that feels like a deep and warm enclosed forest.

Iori was born on a small island surrounded by the sea and mountains, to a family that regularly played classical music and from an early age, started playing the piano, to freely infiltrate his emotions and sensibilities. At the same time, he was also drawn into electronic sounds of video games music via the influence of his father as well as becoming fascinated by the spirit of rock music, especially punk. At 17, he began to like the music of Even Kick and became fascinated by the sounds of post-rock and ethnic music while going to tours of temples and shrines across Japan and made a trip to Indonesia as well. He also began going to clubs during high school which opened his eyes to the deeply alluring and energetic sounds of Detroit techno, deep house, Chicago house, click house, and black music. Up until then, he never thought of DJing until he was invited by a senior colleague to buy records for the first time and inevitably, he also sublimated his creative activities into music production.

Making his debut as a producer from Shin Nishimura’s Plus Records in 2011 and up until now, he has released 11 titles, 3 CDs and many other works and has received amazing support from many prominent artists around the world. He has also DJed with Radio Slave, Steve Bug, Move D, Ame, Dixon, Trus'Me, Satoshi Tomiie, Chateau Flight、Sis、Franck Roger、Pezzner, Sleep D, Fairmont, Ryan Davis, Timmy Resisford, DJ Sneak, DJ Nobu, Gonno, Ian Pooley, Tobias., Atjazz, Ben Watt, Levon Vincent, Luke Hess, Mathew Dear, Rick Wade, Delano Smith, Ken Ishii, and many other artists, and has also provided mixes for John Digweed's Transitions, Tomoki Tamura's Holic, Dessous, Get Physical, Highgrade's podcasts, etc.

He regularly DJs in Japan as well as around the world and in the past, has performed at a number of parties and festivals throughout Japan as well as done 2 successful European tours and has gone to a number of Asian countries such as Indonesia and South Korea.

After 3 years of planning, he plans to launch his own record label, Botanica in 2023.

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