Katsunori Sawa
日本京都から世界発信するインディペンデント・レーベル 10 LABEL の創設者。STEVEN PORTER の元メンバーであり、2020年に Yuji Kondo と新たに NUTS STAR として活動開始予定。
彼はこれまでに、Leyla Records ファウンダー Chafik Chennouf とのコラボレートや、Yuji Kondo とのユニット STEVEN PORTER、Future Terror ボス Dj NobuとのユニットNOBUSAWA、Weevil Neighbourhood トップランナー Anthone とのユニット BOKEH でも注目される日本人アーティストである。
Token、Opal Tapes、Snts、Weevil Neighbourhood、Bitta、Leyla、Semantica、Voidance、Mirae Arts、Prowler、Diffuse Reality、Kynant、Ai、Sludge Tapes、Bit-Phalanx、Stone Tapes、その他、数々のリリースを国内外から発表している。
Hailing from Kyoto, Japan, co-founder of 10 Label, currently producing and performing as solo artist under his own name as well as alias EOC.
Various collaborations with The Weevil Neighbourhood's Anthone (as Bokeh), Chafik Chennouf and DJ Nobu (as Nobusawa), earlier collaborative projects included Steven Porter with Yuji Kondo.
Even though Sawa debuted already in 2008 under his EOC alias on UK based AI Records, he made his first major appearance with his collaborative remix with Yuji Kondo of Jimmy Edgar’s "Sleight of Mouth" on Spanish Semantica Records in 2010, the same year he kicked off his own "10 Label" together with Kondo.
His debut full length album "Secret of Silence" surfaced in 2015 on The Weevil Neighbourhood after various EPs and single contributions to compilations on a variety of outlets.
Sawa's output remained steady and growing in the years after, with releases on Voidance, Mirae Arts and Stone Tapes just to name a few, culminating in two more long players on Opal Tapes and The Weevil Neighbourhood in 2019.
Katsunori Sawa’s trademark sound strives for the more industrial territories of techno. His work exists in a state of semi-organic flux reflective of traditional music, improvisation and the wide classical traditions of Europe, Africa and Asia.
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