You’ve probably noticed that TYFTH has shut down all non-essential systems at the moment – I’m horribly busy, meaning fun stuff like Ustream is having to wait for another time. The forum is also still on pause unfortunately, as I”d like to be able to keep track of what’s happening on there/contribute in the early days. On the bright side, I’m coming up with some possible posts/competitions/interesting things ready for when it does eventually surface.

Anyway, last weekend I made the most of my evening off to attend Tokyo Decadance’s enormous Halloween event (I also went to last month’s Petit Decadance, but haven’t had time for a post yet). Taking up the whole of Christon Cafe and Decadance Bar, the scale of the event took me by surprise, with perhaps more than 1000 people crammed in by about halfway through the evening.

Crazy subculture gathering or not, after a couple of hours the bouncy electro on the main floor was starting to dissolve my brain, so I spent the rest of the time up on the industrial/goth ‘Dark Floor’. I’m glad I did, as Tokyo Dark Castle resident DJ Chihiro was fantastic – I haven’t heard such a well-considered/atmospheric set since the last NRGetic Romancer, when Yousuke came up with a stormer (that massively delayed post is still on the to-do list, by the way).

Following Chihiro was Siki, who played a far harder set than I was expecting, full of schranz and some awesome dark psy. It was all too much for most people though, and somehow (considering this was one of the biggest Halloween events in Tokyo) the floor almost completely emptied at one point, leaving four of the NRGetic Romancer regulars and some of the Decadance crew. I didn’t pick the best time for a video, but hopefully you get the idea.

I’ll be at another event this coming Sunday, but this time as a staff member (not a DJ, though). More on that later in the week…

You have to wonder if the Tokyo scene’s big enough to support all the new events that seem to be springing up lately, but this new project from Kohaku and UK is definitely trying something different. Dark Dimension’s theme is pretty obvious, and there’s a nice selection of darker DJs/genres in the initial lineup.

It’s also time for Destroyed High tonight – the fantastic news is that Zio will be playing an NRG set! Less fantastic is that he’ll be on the 4th floor of Cube, where the infamous speakers make a mess of anything you play through them…

【Dark Dimension】

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Thanks to photographer Hellfire Hasshin there’s now an amazing collection of images up on the Lunatic Sabbath site, all taken at last month’s Sabbath. You’ll probably spot a few of me (complete with my ‘baggy cloak’, as my brother brilliantly calls it) but there are plenty of photos of the madness on the floor, too.