Kento Oizumi

Kento Oizumi

Kento Oizumi

Artist Information

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

Profile

Kento Oizumi, better known as DJ Noriken, is a Japanese hard dance and hardcore producer. He owns the SKETCH UP! Recordings label and is a member of the HARDCORE TANO*C circle. He usually contributes to nearly all major doujin labels and also works as a mastering engineer for most of the high-profile label releases.

His musical style is very varied, being well versed on hard dance and hardcore. He also contributes with psy trance, tech dance, EDM, rave, freeform, trance and drum'n'bass tracks, as well as trap, twerk and moombah for certain circles.

Kento Oizumi has made various tracks under different pseudonyms, most notably "The Harder Disco" and the recent "n.o.d.e".

Trivia

• DJ Noriken is a Kaiden-level (Single Player) beatmania IIDX arcade player.
• DJ Noriken mastered the beatnation RHYZE vs HARDCORE TANO*C album.
• Currently, Ancient Scapes and F/E/D/R(I Don't Care) are the only KONAMI originals by Noriken that haven't received long/extended versions on the soundtracks for their respective games.

Aliases

• DJ Noriken
• Durandal
• 元祖ボーイズ男子ボーイズ (member of)

BEMANI Songs

Song	Artist	Game	Genre	Composition	Arrangement	Vocals
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	✓	✓	-
Go Faraway	DJ Noriken feat. Yukacco	beatmania IIDX 23 copula	TRAPSTYLE	✓	✓	-
#MAGiCVLGiRL_TRVP_B3VTZ	DJ Noriken	beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ	NEON/TWERKCORE	✓	✓	-
Summerlights(IIDX Edition)	DJ Noriken	beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ	HARDCORE RAVE	✓	✓	-
Exhaust Hype	DJ Noriken	beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS	HARD BASS HOUSE	✓	✓	-
Illusionary Waterlily	DJ Noriken	beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS	EMOTIONAL RAVE EUPHORIA	✓	✓	-
dAuntl3ss	DJ Noriken	beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage	HARDER DANCE MUSIC	✓	✓	-
ARACHNE(DJ Noriken Remix)	DJ Noriken	REFLEC BEAT groovin'!!	-	-	✓	-
F/E/D/R(I Don't Care)	DJ Noriken	REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA	-	✓	✓	-
X-TREME 6	元祖ボーイズ男子ボーイズ	REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA 2	-	✓	✓	✓
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)
• #HYPRFLVX (2017)
• #H1STORYA (2017)

EP

• ****ken Sampler (2011)
• The Beach (2013)
• One After "Another" (2013)
• Bloomy Colors (2015, as n.o.d.e)
• One After "Another" 2nd (2016)

Singles

• Soldiers (2018)