𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓⠀ •⠀ JAPAU

𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄
Berlin, Germany

𝐃𝐉 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓
2019

𝐒𝐓𝐘𝐋𝐄
industrial/hard techno 

𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐘
Let yourself be carried away by the hard and industrial techno sound of the 29-year-old Berliner "Japau". His style is characterised by driving and pushing baselines but also hard kicks that shape his unique industrial sound. You can expect an audiophile listening pleasure in the dB limit range!

Japaus passion for techno flared up in 2013 when he accidentally ended up at a techno party in Berlin's famous "Arena Club". He was immediately infected and since then, techno has been an integral part of his life and he can no longer imagine life without it. His fascination with DJing reached its peak after countless nights of partying, when Japau bought his first own controller - a Pioneer DDJ-400 in 2019.

𝐒𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐒
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JAPAU

IN•FER•NAL PODCAST #100 - JAPAU [173er Speedlimit]

USH closing set during the BASIS Talent Nights of 12th of August 2022. 
Enjoy this hard closing

USH @ Club BASIS  [Closing]

Decibelscast #017 by 6EJOU (Live set)

Relive the moment and experience relentless kicks, layers of industrial soundscapes with sharp and persistent rhythms. An onslaught of raw power.

Live recorded at Rotterdam at 4th of May 2023.

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KARAH @ RAVEXXL - 04-05-2023, Now&Wow, Rotterdam

Enjoy the set of Raxeller at Verknipt Festival 2023 | Strijkviertel, Amsterdam

Watch many more sets on YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/VERKNIPTYOUTUBE/videos

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Website - www.verknipt.org/
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Raxeller @ Verknipt Festival 2023 | 11 Juni

Verknipt 11th Anniversary Party!

𝐁 𝐎 𝐎 𝐊 𝐈 𝐍 𝐆 𝐒 - Luisa@paradoxonberlin.de

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UPCOMING GIGS

JAPAU @ VERKNIPT 11 YEARS 📍AFAS LIVE, NETHERLANDS (09-12-2023)

KARAH @ Rotterdam Rave Winter Special Afterparty, 16-12-2023, Maassilo, Rotterdam

Enjoy the set of Japau at Verknipt Kingsday 27/4 at Hembrugterrein, Zaandam.

Listen to many more sets on Soundcloud:
@verknipt-events

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Website - www.verknipt.org/
Facebook - www.facebook.com/VerkniptEvents/
Instagram - www.instagram.com/verkniptevents
Soundcloud - @verknipt-events
TikTok - www.tiktok.com/@verkniptevents

Japau @ Verknipt Kingsday 2024 | Hembrugterrein, Zaandam

Rotterdam Rave

KARAH @Rotterdam Rave Festival, 07-09-2024, Ahoy, Rotterdam

Enjoy the set of Jazzy at Verknipt Festival 08/06 at Strijkviertelplas, Utrecht.

Listen to many more sets on Soundcloud:
@verknipt-events

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Website - www.verknipt.org/
Facebook - www.facebook.com/VerkniptEvents/
Instagram - www.instagram.com/verkniptevents
Soundcloud - @verknipt-events
TikTok - www.tiktok.com/@verkniptevents

Jazzy @ Verknipt Festival 2024 Day 2 | Strijkviertelplas, Utrecht

When war decided to become mathematics, the sky flared with the cold light of coils. The world was offered an equation instead of a duel: trajectories, drift, sterile distance. And yet from the shadows steps out the one who doesn’t read formulas—he breaks them. A hand on the axe haft, breath steady, eyes like a sight without electronics. His school is steel, dust, and years of errors already paid for.

The perfect weapon calculates, and therefore predicts. Predictability becomes its fracture. A step on the wrong beat, a swing that lingers half a count longer, emptiness where the math says the target must be—and all ballistics shatters like glass under a blow. NERV3’s music captures precisely this moment: the lows hum like coils, but the rhythm slips off the grid; the drums compress and then tear the metronome apart, turning distance into a trap. Every part is not ornament but a close-quarters technique: a feint, a interception, an entry straight through the targeting diagram.

The climax comes when the charge scorches the air for the last time. He moves into the dead zone where instruments are helpless, and a single hewing arc splits the calculation like paper. The silence after is not a pause but a verdict on the system. “Gauss Cannon” is not a bow to technology but a challenge to it: an EP about a hand defeating a formula, about craft outlasting the algorithm. “Gauss Cannon” is the Paperfunk manifesto: where technology hits its limit, skill and mastery decide.



NERV3 - Rat Race

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