Yoji (DJ)


Yoji Mabuchi, known professionally as Yoji Biomehanika, and also known as YOJI, Mutant DJ, Ozaka Oz, Bionico, Biomehanika, Yōran and The Arcade Nation, is a Japanese trance/hard trance DJ. A household name in the Japanese club scene in the 1990s, Yoji entered the international scene in 2001 when he was featured in the lineup for the Dance Valley music festival in the Netherlands in front of 90,000 people. He then started headlining some of the largest international music events such as Sensation Black, Tomorrowland and Street Parade. He is now considered one of the icons of hard dance music.
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Career

Yoji's style of music has changed throughout his career, starting off in the 1980s as Yōran, and for a time a member of Japanese punk band Laughin' Nose. He began DJing trance music in the 1990s before moving into the tougher variants of hard trance and NRG by the start of the 2000s. He produced many hard trance anthems during this time, including his most well known tracks of "Hardstyle Disco" and "Samurai".
In April 2005, in his Yoji Biomehanika guise, Yoji recorded an Essential Mix for broadcast by Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1.
In 2007, Yoji dropped his 'Yoji Biomehanika' alias and changed to a new style of music with the release of "Techy Techy". Yoji calls the style Tech Dance and can be described as a mix between Hard Dance and Techno, mainly characterised by its speed, offbeat rhythms and energy. Further accentuated by Yoji's energetic performance style, Tech Dance has become a genre in its own right, with artists such as Joe-E, Vandall & Remo-con all producing this style of music. The latest releases on Yoji's Hellhouse label have been in this style of music.
Early on in 2012, Yoji announced via his Ameba blog that his Hellhouse label was being shut down to make way for a new label project entitled "dieTunes". The official site and the label itself was launched in June, with the first 3 official releases in July that same year.
In early 2015, Yoji announced on his Ameba blog, website and other social media outlets that he was moving back to his previous alias of Yoji Biomehanika after feeling that he had drifted away from Tech Dance and back to more "big room" sounds. With a studio album in the works for release in June 2015 and an artist album celebrating 25 years of his work in music, Yoji also announced a new single to be released around the same time.
Yoji has been named one of the world's top 100 DJs three times, in the DJ Mag annual poll. His highest position was number 32, in 2005.

Discography

Albums

Technicolor NRG Show Tales From the Big Room
  • ''Chapter X''

Compilations

Greatest Works X Years of Hellhouse
  • ''A Quarter Century Of Yoji Biomehanika''

Mix compilations

Nu NRG Party NRG Essence NRG Essence 2 NRG Essence 2001 Yoji Biomehanika Presents Lab 4 In The Mix The Future of Hard Dance 1 & 2 Music for the Harder Generation Volume 2 Goodgreef: Album 3 Pharmacy Vol. 4 - Reign in Blood GIGA Tech Dance Extreme Tech Dance Euphoria: Mixed By YOJI ЦЕХ 2009: Hellhouse Techdance Treatment VIBLE 01: Mixed By YOJI VIBLE 03: Mixed By YOJI FABTASTICA -The Black Album- dieTunes LABEL SAMPLER 01 - YOJI IN THE MIX The Weekender Has Landed: Mixed By YOJI
  • '' MUSIC CIRCUS '14 BLACK STAGE ANTHEMS: Compiled & Mixed By YOJI''

Singles

As Yoji Biomehanika

  • Party is my life
  • Rendezvous de telepathy
  • Blinded By The Trance/Blinded By The NRG
  • Expect EP
  • Go Mad
  • Seduction
  • Anasthasia 2001
  • Look @ The Heaven
  • Look @ The Heaven
  • Big in Japan EP
  • Do The Nasty
  • A Theme From Banginglobe
  • Ding A Ling
  • Look @ The Heaven “Gatecrasher NEC Edit”
  • Never End
  • Hardstyle Disco
  • Samurai/The Rain
  • Monochroma
  • The Place For Freedom
  • Wake Up To Reality
  • Let's Go
  • Storm
  • It's A Dream
  • Life Is An Illusion
  • Still Here
  • Warriors
  • Unleash the Urge
  • A Theme From Banginglobe
  • Ding A Ling
  • Seduction
  • Recovery
  • Look @ The Heaven
  • Anasthasia 2001

As Yoji (or YOJI)

  • Techy Techy
  • Airport
  • Don't Wake Me From The Dream
  • From Flower To Flower
  • Don't Wake Me From The Dream
  • Surrender
  • Sandwich EP
  • Samulight
  • Theme Of Get Hi-Tech
  • Alone
  • Needs
  • Evil Mushroom

As Biomehanika

  • Fade To White
  • The Key

As Mutant DJ

  • Hardhouse Raver
  • B-Raver
  • Amsterdam Waar Lech Dat Dan?

As Bionico

As The Arcade Nation

  • Theme Of Arcade Nation
  • Dance Electric
  • Magma
  • Amigo

In collaboration with Romeo Toscani

As George-S with YOJI

  • A Secret Gathering

Remixes

As Yoji Biomehanika

  • K.G.P. – Night Waves
  • B-Voice – Eternity
  • DJ Dag & Non Eric
  • Last Bronx – SEGA
  • Chris C – Fools Gold
  • Nish – The Philosophy Of Religion
  • 19 Kisses Go To Disko – Groove Me
  • Chris C – Fire On The Moon
  • West End Boys – Why Not?
  • Chris C – Freefall
  • Energy UK DJs – Gonzo
  • Arome – Hands Up
  • Trance Generators – Wildstyle Generation
  • Eurotrash – Get Up Get Down
  • Gouryella – Ligaya
  • Mauro Picotto – Iguana
  • Heavens Cry – Till Tears Do Us Part
  • Darude - Sandstorm
  • IK – X Bass
  • Blutonium Boy – Dark Angel
  • Atomizer – Time To Time 2007
  • Yoji Biomehanika - Look @ The Heaven
  • Felguk - This Life
  • Yoji Biomehanika - Hardstyle Disco

As Yoji Biomehanika & Romeo Toscani

  • A*S*Y*S* – Acid Flash
  • Dark By Design – Black Out
  • Dave202 – Vulcania
  • Derb – Satisfaktion

As Yoji (or YOJI)

  • Scott Attrill – Existence
  • Ayumi Hamasaki – Game
  • Remo-con – G Sigh
  • Joey V – Purity
  • Night Liberator – Concentrate
  • The Arcade Nation – Theme Of Arcade Nation
  • Organ Donors - Cutting Edge
  • Organ Donors – Makes Girlies Wet
  • Eternal Rhythm – Eternal
  • Laughin' Nose - Get The Glory
  • DJ ni-21 - Driving The Bassline