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Sunday out: 524 and then SPEEDKING09

Last Sunday was a day out for some good music!

We started the day by going to Ginza and dropping by HMV Sūkiyabashi (in department store Mosaic Ginza) which was closing on that day. I spent a short time looking for the last time at my favorite sections there, and picked up some cheap CDs that were missing from my collection: pupa "floating pupa", YMCK & De De Mouse "Down Town", Nakatsuka Takeshi "Kiss & Ride", and Fascinated Session "s/t" .

Then we went to Amadana in Velvia where I had left my earphones for repair. The cords were defective after over a year of daily use, and they couldn't be repaired but instead they offered me a new identical pair at 30% discount, which I accepted. So these days I'm enjoying brand new earphones.

After eating lunch, we headed over to the Ueno campus of Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku, where was being held the yearly school festival. From 16:00 DJ Konishi Yasuharu played a one hour set outdoors for a delighted crowd. He was in the best shape I've ever seen him, dancing and singing on stage as he DJ'd. His set included some Shōwa dance party-ish selection, pleasing some older people while the young ones danced at the front, then some ska-ish tracks including his recent one for Ryō-san, then some rocking tunes, and a bit of some mainstream J-pop. He really knows how to please a varied crowd, all while keeping things danceable. Oh, he even sang along to Wada Akiko! :)

At one point a young guy from the audience come up on stage and although he was great at entertaining everyone, he was jumping a bit too much and Konishi-san advised to stop coming on stage because it made the needle skip. Well a bit later he switched to CDs and called everyone to come on stage! I just enjoying watching from the back, but things were really crazy and he seemed to be having so much fun too with dozens of young people having a great time dancing around him! Best set ever!

I only took a few photos until I noticed a "no photo" staff girl running around.

Later Ino Hidefumi was to play there from 18:00 again for free, which was very tempting, but instead we headed to Shibuya for techno event "SPEEDKING09" hosted by video mixing genius BUBBLE-B. SPEEDKING is a podcast radio show by himself, and there are also compilations of the same name that file under "J-death techno". :) The event was held at club Amate-Raxi in Shibuya. It was my first time at this nice-looking club with a lounge/bar floor that has a cool DJ booth built up in the air.

The afternoon event was already half-way through. We first headed downstairs for a few minutes where we saw a funny techno guy called omoshiro Sangokushi (おもしろ三国志). See his performance at YouTube. He seemed to be reading some of his lyrics off a pre-written toilet paper roll.

Then back upstairs we watched good friend Fukuta Takeshi's DJ set consisting of nothing but 7" records, from techno-cayō to anime songs and some obscure Japanese cover songs such as the pictured "Ghostbusters". Lots of fun!

Then back downstairs was TOFUBEATS, a young DJ (born 1990) from Kobe. He played an impressive CDJ set, doing stuff to his CD decks and mixer that's quite beyond my understanding. Great set, perfect mixes. I also realized that I've seen him before, playing an intro set to Aira Mitsuki's Liquid Room show last march. Hear one of his recent 30-song 12-minute mix.

Next up on the upper floor was Yoshida Tetsuto who also played some techno-cayō tracks, I was really happy to hear early 80's idol girl trio Starbow's "Heartbreak taiyōzoku". Then I was torn between the two floors as below came up a performance by MJ Spirit's bluetree, impersonating Michael Jackson. We watched a bit of that before catching more of Yoshida-san's set.

Starbow "Heartbreak taiyōzoku"

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