Kento Oizumi

General Information

Name: Kento Oizumi (大泉研人)
Birthday: May 7th, 1990
Homepage: http://djnoriken.com/, http://sketchuprecordings.com/index2.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/noriken
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/djnoriken

Profile

DJ Noriken is a Japanese hard dance and hardcore producer. He owns the SKETCH UP! Recordings label alongside DJ Genki and is a member of the HARDCORE TANO*C circle. He often contributes to other major doujin labels.

His musical style is very varied, being well versed on hard dance and hardcore. He also contributes with psy trance tracks for cubegrams, and tech dance for Madstiffs Tracks as well as appearing frequently on S2TB Recordings, EXIT TUNES and HARDCORE TANO*C albums, doing EDM and progressive house alongside hardcore. He also makes freeform, trance and drum'n'bass songs.

Noriken has made various tracks under different pseudonyms, most notably "The Harder Disco".

Trivia

DJ Noriken is a Kaiden-level (Single Player) beatmania IIDX arcade player.
DJ Noriken mastered the beatnation RHYZE vs HARDCORE TANO*C album.

Aliases

DJ Noriken
Durandal

BEMANI Songs

Song	Artist	Game	Genre	Composition	Arrangement
Neonlights	DJ Noriken	beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro	TECH DANCE	✓	✓
Ancient Scapes	Durandal	beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA	DYNASTIC FREEFORM	✓	✓
Elektrick U-Phoria	DJ Noriken	beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA	UK HARDCORE	✓	✓
#The_Relentless	DJ Noriken	beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL	DUBCORE	✓	✓
ARACHNE(DJ Noriken Remix)	DJ Noriken	REFLEC BEAT groovin'!!	-	-	✓
SEED (DJ Noriken Remix)	DJ Noriken	SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH	-	-	✓

Discography

Albums

Extreme Meltdowner (2008, with DJ 490)
Glitters (2009, with P*Light)
Minamotrance Core X Sketch! (2010, with 源屋)
Second Liberator (2010, with DJ 490)
Impulse Of The Moment (2011)
RADIANCE (2012, with P*Light)
シンシサクラク・エンハンサー (2014, with 源屋)
#From_Ten_Wonderland (2014)

EP

****ken Sampler (2011)
The Beach (2013)
One After "Another" (2013)
Bloomy Colors (2015, as n.o.d.e)