via

The party "via," launched by Kajitsu and Taichi Tsuji (House Violence) at Shibuya Oiran in June 2025, is celebrating its first anniversary this time around! For this event, we are pleased to welcome German producer Hans Nieswandt as our special guest.
The party will be held on the fourth Friday of every even-numbered month, and will feature a selection of house music that will allow you to enjoy conversation and drinks at your leisure. Guest DJ: Hans Nieswandt from Germany IG @hansnieswandt For more than 30 years, Hans Nieswandt is a well know and highly respected personality in the music scene of Germany and beyond, a legendary character in the world of DJ culture, music production and pop culture writing. In the late 1980s, he was one of the pioneers for house music in Germany, playing it early on as a DJ and writing about it in the influential magazine Spex, where he was chief editor in the early 1990s. Solo and with his music group Whirlpool Productions, he recorded countless albums and even scored a worldwide hit with the song "From Disco To Disco" (number 1 in Italy, top ten in many other countries). Today, this song is considered a classic. As a DJ, the width of his depth is breathtaking. His club sets are usually build around his deep mix of disco, house and techno, but he also sometimes plays hippie music, hiphop, folk, jazz, soul, reggae, post punk, yacht rock, baroque pop and so on. Besides DJing and music production, Hans Nieswandt is also a prolific writer, who published hundreds of essays and articles as well as (so far) three great books on DJ culture and electronic music from Germany. In 2017, he won the International Music Journalism Award for his essay about the history of disco music. From 2014 to 2019 he was director of the Institute for Pop-Musik of the Folkwang University of the Arts, which offers a master degree for upcoming pop music artists. On christmas day 2019 however, he left the academical world and moved from his hometown Cologne to the South Korean capital Seoul, working on new music, writing a new book, deejaying and exploring the country. In November 2022, he received the Holger Czukay Award of the city of Cologne for his contribution to pop music from Cologne, House Music from Germany and the establishing of queer ways of life. In March 2023, he released his album "Flower Hans", a collection of his favorite songs from the hippie era, delivered in a disco style. In January 2025, Hans Nieswandt moved again, this time from Seoul to Tokyo, to continue his work as a DJ, writer and music producer. In March 2025, his latest solo album "Fluoreszent" was released on Hamburg based label Bureau B. It is a mix of synth wave, kraut disco and art pop. His regular radio show "Auf Montage" on Byte FM is a unique, elaborate collage of edits and customized versions of old and new musical material. DJs: 果実 (MUSICA MUNDI) IG @dj_kajitsu @musica_mundi Taichi Tsuji (Disco Disco/YUNG DUMB Records) IG @taichitsuji @yungdumbrecords Venue 渋谷花魁 Shibuya Oiran @oiran_shibuya 2-22-6, Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0043, Japan Tel: 03-5456-8782