The voting is underway for LOUD magazine’s annual Japanese/world DJ ranking - it would be great for Guld (and the scene here) to have some support in the Best Japanese DJ category (which he’s ranked into for a few years running now). The voting form is in Japanese, but take a look here if you’d like to fill it out.
As usual with things like this, only the parts marked with an asterisk are required, and are (from top to bottom):
Name (surname first)
Birthdate (in year/month/day format, followed by which sign of the Chinese zodiac you are…the world probably won’t end if you just pick a random one, though)
Email address
Same email address again
No.1 DJ in Japan (then no.2 and 3, if you feel like it)
No.1 DJ outside Japan
[plus the right of the two buttons at the bottom to finish things off]
By the way, the video at the top of the post was taken at the last NRGetic Romancer - Guld playing the extremely awesome new version of Requiem. The full report will be coming soon, I’m just trying to find out a couple of track titles before I post everything up.
I’ve already written a bit about the West edition of Hardcore Tano*C 9th Strike, but here’s a video (and photo for the Osaka version) roundup of the artists involved. The Shibuya version was a quality event, and the next one is June, it seems, so I might be along to that too.
The lineup is looking good for the next Tokyo Hardcore Construction, with Betwixt & Between playing again. No DJ Stanfield though, it’d be good to see him playing out somewhere soon.
ACT：
Lunch (TOKYO HARDCORE CONSTRUCTION/S.H.C.)
NDE (NIGHTNARELAND)
Betwixt & Between (NRGetic Romancer)
Kanon (A.I.N.)
狗神 (NIGHTNARELAND)
DJ WILD PARTY (赤線企画)
DJ Technetium vs. MC Tyrant (Cis-Trance)
LALA (LoveScreamTerror/SUPER GABBERS)
DJ Takahashit (RODEO)
VJ：VX PASTA
Floor Decoration：ARTHUR
Movie & Report Work：TAK666 (Cradle to Grave)
Guld only finished this remake of his first released track a couple of weeks ago, but it’s scheduled for a release this week via Trackitdown, on the NRGetic Romancer label. It’s one of Guld’s best so far I think - he played it last weekend at NRGetic Romancer and it really sounded good through the Cube speakers…some great twisty synth stuff going on, as you’d expect.
A roundup of what happened last Saturday should be coming soon too, by the way.
Here are a couple of videos of the ’super raver’ Detch (でっち／Decchi as he’s known here) at the last Tokyo Hardcore Construction. The first [above] shows his pretty amazing glowstick style….he often uses more throws and so on, but this clip is still a great example. He’s one of the very best dancers here, and can/could be found at Hell’s Gate, NRGetic Romancer, THC and all the less regular events too.
I can vouch for his ‘crowd-uplifting’ abilities too, as every time I play Alanamra he’s up the front, doing his thing - I made sure to thank him after my first set, he made all the difference. The second clip [below] is a kind of fusion of Melbourne Shuffle and the typical raver step that you find at most events here - smooth stuff.
Here’s last month’s top ten - a few promos have started to be er, promoted by the artists now, so they’re ok to be included, I think.
By the way, the tune above can’t really go into this list, but it’s an all-time favourite of mine - Only You by Nookie. I loved the tune when it first came out in 1994, but I only found out the title last week! Ah, those drums….
Back to the top ten:
Alek Szahala - Voices of Babylon
Nomic - Delta Pavonis
Betwixt & Between - The Beginning
Guld - Nightmare Freak 09
Hangover Academy & Decion - Technological Terror
Psycho Keaton - Hell Night (Android Lime remix)
Betwixt & Between - Tankobu Hesotarou no Hourou/The Wander of Hesotarou Tankobu
I’m late posting this one up, but the new NRGetic Romancer flyer has been completed by Captain Multi-talented himself, Android Lime. As for me, work is kicking back in again now and I’m having trouble getting together the tunes I was hoping to play - there’s still time though. I’ve stumbled on some pretty nice combinations to throw in at certain spots, and it’s going to be a bit darker this time, all being well.
A batch of news has come along at the same time (sorry about the silence for a while though), and first of all we have May’s Tokyo Hardcore Construction - luckily it’s on a Saturday, so I’ll be able to make it. No lineup announced yet….
Thanks again for about the millionth time to Decion, this time for letting me know about a nice mix of freeform from around the world that includes a few Japanese tunes. It starts off with Eternal Cannon….it’s tough to find anything to follow that, but the set has a lot of energy and would definitely be a good one to hear live.
Decion found it in a thread on the Hullabaloo forums, which also very kindly bigs up my mixes and Decion’s Metaform.
RaverRoseTF - Eternal Cannon
Dok & Ponder - Ribcage (Oli G Remix)
Nomic - Holocaust
MINAMOTOYA - Miss You
Betwixt & Between - GENSHI KURAGE
Mark Smith - Bring On The Noize
Oli G - Cordelia
Ephexis & Seventy-7 - Psymbiosis (Blistering Breaks Mix)
EFM-7 - Dream Machine
Kevin Energy & K Complex - Suck My Rock
Tazz vs. Digital Anarchy - Kickin It Ruff
EFM-7 - Pulse 2
Addiction - Senselessness NRG
Oli G - Gir (Arkitech Remix)
Ephexis - Nan Chuan
Teranoid vs Betwixt & Between - AYAKASHI
