'The Pure Land' is a musical work shaped around the image of 'returning to your primal self', evoking a hypnotic and pleasant euphoria through a spatial sound design of layered rhythms and soft particles.
Pure Land means 'Gokuraku-Joudo' in Japanese, but in English it is closer to 'utopia' or 'paradise'.
People tend to think about a world they cannot see or feel, but the ideal world exists individually for each person who envisions it, and there are as many different landscapes and forms there, and as many different visions that can be seen by as many people as there are people.
The layered, spatial sound design liberates the listener and is shaped with the aim of guiding them towards their primal self.

BOTA001 VINYL is out on 15th September, 2023 in worldwide.

BOTANICA EP

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Iori Wakasa - The Pure Land (192kbps mp3) - BOTA001

Exclusive vinyl only DJ mix for BOTANICA vol.1 - incl. BOTA001 tracks.
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-Track List - 
Artist name / Track name / Label

1. Kuniyuki & Cushty - Tremor (Kuniyuki Dub Mix) - Soundofspeed Records
2. SOUNDOPAMINE - Spiridusheala (Swoy Remix) - Everyday Paradise
3. Tijn - Pico Power (Original Mix) - Ubiyu
4. Iori Wakasa - Lunar Down - BOTANICA
5. Tripmastaz - W5 - Tartouffe
6. Deltano & Massimo Girardi - Tripper - Be Chosen
7. Antonio Ocasio - Merengue After Midnight - Future Jam
8. 3CA1 - Redemption (Alex Pervukhin Remix) - Razom
9. He Did - A Donde Vamos (Original Mix) - Saint & Don't Music
10. Archie Hamilton - Vadella - Moscow Records
11. NUMMER - DAYBREAKER - Nummer Music
12. Nathan Kofi - My Heart Will Go On - DE LICHTING
13. Chris Carrier - Momento - Sound Carrier Records
14. Carter Bros - Run - Black Catalogue
15. Herck & Somesan - Harlem Rennaissance -  Curtea Veche
16. Unknown - Unknown - Unknown
17. Sterociti - Ineffable Truth - Groovement
18. Glenn Underground - Fuego De Sangre - SUPERB
19. No Theory - Devil's Dance - Sin & Soul Records
20. DiSKOP - Visor - DiSKOP
21. Jale - Esistenziale - Uvar
22. Uhuru Republic feat. Msafiri Zawose, Migra, Lorenzo BITW - Brancolo - Salgari Records
23. ЁN - Trediberri (Cheise Remix) - Uzbar
24. Iori Wakasa - The Pure Land - BOTANICA
25. BLAST HEAD - NU WAVE (12inch Version) - Free Hand

Iori Wakasa Vinyl Only DJ Mix "Botanica"

Iori Wakasa DJ MIX LIVE Recorded On Floor@deep distance × BOTANICA Label Launch Tour FINAL 2024.0518

Iori Wakasa DJ Mix live recorded on floor@deep distance × BOTANICA Label Launch Tour FINAL 2024.0518

Label:Botanica
Cat-No:BOTA002
Release-Date:31.05.2025
Genre:Deephouse
Configuration:12" Excl

GENRES: Deep House / Minimal House / Ethnic / Balearic

TRACKLISTS:
Side A. Bedroom Disco (Original Mix)
Side AA. Tropica (Original Mix)

SHORT INFO:

Iori Wakasa, one of the leading lights of the Tokyo club scene is set to release his second 12” from his own label, “BOTANICA” which he established to express his own primal sensibilities.

The Concept of the Label:
Tokyo-based DJ/producer, Iori Wakasa launched BOTANICA to assert that his label’s activities in itself is art and a palette for his creative, self-expression. It is also based on 2 main concepts: To integrate the sensibilities of both "nature" and “artificial and human activities" and to “contribute music that presents a scenery from the listener's point of view”.

For Iori, his label is an interface of some sort and is also a symbol of his own personal musical expectations.

Iori produced these 2 new tracks during the recent pandemic when the world was under severe restrictions. While taking into account and focusing on both 'his current outlook' and returning to “the roots of his own production aesthetic', he strived to produce something that would substitute it and as a result, created these two new tracks and the artwork that are presented in the label's second release, 'The Party Is Here EP’.

In this EP, he also attempts to express the sentiment that 'the experience that music provides to people is invaluably infinite' and that 'if you truly want to go out and party, it will happen, then and there!’.

About the tracks:
For the track, ’Bedroom Disco’, Iori tries to express his memories of 'a virtual night of partying’ that he experienced during Covid and created this track while being ‘in a state of wanting to break free from oppression’ and reminiscing about a party in a bedroom at night.

He also wanted to express the idea that no matter what situation or environment you are in, you can go to anywhere you want if you really want to and with that sentiment, he wanted to express a scenerio that transcends it and at the same time, he also wanted to convey his feelings of nostalgia for the past, rebellion against the environment and his feelings of desire.

For this track, Iori did not use any sampled voices or field recordings and created it by layering pure sonic imagery repeatedly folded and desolved which triggered the creation of new developments while imagining the thought that “a party actually begins when you step out” and the swaying of emotions that take place from it.

’Tropica' is a track that Iori produced by heavily mixing a utopian feel that people have inside of them with his own sensuality and is designed to ‘guide you to a tropical seaside', regardless of what the listener may have experienced in the past.
Unlike 'Bedroom Disco', this track uses a variety of samples and envisages "many elements intertwining with each other, working together to create this sound structure”. And it also expresses that equal opportunity exists for anyone who wants to visit an imaginary tropical land as well as the hope that even a brief break of the mind can be created by yourself and those close to you, if one pursues it.

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WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: gpsr@wordandsound.net

Contacts to the label 'BOTANICA': botanicamusicofficial@gmail.com

Word And Sound

AA. Iori Wakasa - Tropica (192bps/mp3)  - BOTA002

A. Iori Wakasa - Bedroom Disco (192bps/mp3) - BOTA002

Iori Wakasa (BOTANICA / Dessous / Sound Of Vast / Get Physical / Saw / Highgrade)

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Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Iori-Wakasa-123387611052647/

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, Magda, Sis, Magda, Trus`me, 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, Mijk Van Dijk, Kuniyuki, 
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 Vietnam, Indonesia and South Korea.

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