A quick heads up on this snappily-titled event, coming up in a few weeks – the main reason being Zio will make a rare DJ appearance. He’s on the main ‘trance’ floor though, so it’ll probably be tech dance rather than anything harder. In a re-run of the Trance Halloween event, John Robinson will be the guest, and a separate ‘hard floor’ will be there for the two or three people who want to hear faster tunes. Two or three might not be an exaggeration, as during A2C’s (peak time) set at Trance Halloween I was the only person on the floor – what a weird experience that was.

Here’s the lineup so far, with more still to be announced, I think.

2F TRANCE FLOOR
SPECIAL GUEST DJ:
JOHN ROBINSON (ex-velfarre)

DJ:
YOSHIMASA (MASSIVE)
ZIO (HELL’S GATE)
TOKYO (Global Airwaves)
HIKO (ex-TRANCEENOUGH)
syun (SENSE)
and more…

4F HARD FLOOR
DJ:
A2C (SENSE)
AEMI (Muon)
DX PASTA (GET HARD BACK)

6F PSYCHEDELIC FLOOR -produced by ENOUGHOLE-
DJ:
addict88
Ryuushin
PONTA
Sauzaa

Something a bit different here – Betwixt & Between has been booked to play at a Cyber Goth event on the 23rd December. Other artists include Takuya Angel and SiSeN (who mostly plays dark psy/industrial etc). Not sure if the rest of the music would be my thing, but coincidentally I was just checking the Takuya Angel site earlier today – it’s incredibly hard to find anything connected to Cyber style in Tokyo now that Cyberdog and Fotus have both disappeared.

The flyer design for NRGetic Romancer is all finished (a bit small here, sorry), and confirms that it’ll be another DJ set from Full Circle DJs, rather than Live PA. The last one was a big hit, so definitely looking forward to that.

As it’s the Hannya release party, I’ll probably be using one of the new remixes in my set – should fit in with the style I’ll be going for this time.

This wasn’t a hardcore/freeform event, but it’s always great to see Decchi in full flow. Here he’s glowsticking alongside Tora at last night’s Vinylize – for a moment I thought about going too, but the selection is just too slow for me…for higher bpms we have Operation Karma, coming up tomorrow afternoon.

This time Jiipez has beaten me to it, but for anyone who missed his comment, here’s the video round-up from September’s Hardcore Tano*C. I wasn’t able to get there, but my man at the scene (aka Eirik) tells me that Alabaster had some technical problems once again – his gear froze up on him at the start of his Operation Karma set, too. In the video he’s in the middle of Ziggurat’s breakdown – definitely one of his best tunes recently. Man of many talents Betwixt & Between is playing the all-time classic Eternal Cannon, and sporting a visor/helmet thing that he made himself a while ago.

The flyer is still under construction, but the lineups have been announced for next month’s Romancer. It’s another free party, this time celebrating Guld’s Pieces of Hannya release, featuring remixes of Hannya8000 (the new version is known as Hannya X) by a number of artists from outside Japan, and Guld himself. I’ve heard a few of them already, and it’s going to be a great collection of tunes.

The Adrenaline crew are once again taking over the 4th floor of Studio Cube, and so I’ll be opening with a slightly slower set this time. I’ve already got a few ideas, so hopefully I can come up with something interesting/good at waking up the crowd in the early stages.

NRGetic Romancer

2009.12.18 (FRI)
@ARK STUDIO CUBE326 (http://www.studiocube326.com)
ENTRANCE FREE!! (*Only Drink Fee)
OPEN 23:00

END OF YEAR 2009!!
GULD”PIECES OF HANNYA/HANNYA X” release party!!

■DJ
GULD
Full Circle DJs
COGI
PlasmaDancer

■LIVE
Betwixt & Between

■VJ
VX PASTA
コケカキイキイ (Kokekakiikii)

-Adrenaline floor-

■DJ
SATOSHI HONJO
GOKURAKU & YUSUKE
MIKI
YUSHI HONJO

Quite late posting this one up, but here’s a nice video taken during Betwixt & Between’s Funeral set in Nagoya. I haven’t been able to get to this event yet, but a big group of the NRGetic Romancer crew made the 2 hour trip for this one. I’m sure everyone knows the two tunes here – Zusammengehorigkeit and Dust to Dust.