Completely out of the blue, as far as I can tell, but Shinjuku’s club complex Code appears to be closing. As one of the biggest venues in Tokyo, it’s definitely a surprise – but one final NRG event is taking place next week, and what an event it promises to be. Energize & Hardcore Baby’s Revenge sees nigh on every name in Japanese Hardcore/NRG making an appearance – it might be best if I simply list them all, in a shameless copy/paste from mixi. Behold:
ENERGIZE [Main Floor]
DJs: [AtoZ]
COGI / DJ CHAMP / DJ YOUSUKE / DJ ZET / enbun8wari / GULD / HATAKEYAMA / HIDEAKi / HIROSHI / KEITA / KEISUKE / m@-nya / marix / MASUO / MUNETICA / NODA / TOSHIYUKI / YAGISHITA / YAMARIKI / yoshiko
VJ:
CDC
HARDCORE BABY’S REVENGE [Second Floor]
DJs: [AtoZ]
aSaKO / ASSHI / AZSA / Betwixt&Between / bio animal / Blasterhead / BUZZMASTA / DJ BIRDHEAD / DJ EUTO / DJ KONNY / DJ YOUSUKE / eckoz / kanon / Lunch / MAREHITO / NDE / REDALiCE / Short-Cutz / takahashit / yucadisco / 狗神 / 唐沢 / カリビアンコム / 電撃姫
MCs: [AtoZ]
KONNY MC / MC Euthman / MC Tyrant / MC YAMATO
One not to be missed, as you can see – but as my trips into Tokyo are now temporarily via Shinkansen rather than the Hibiya line, I’ll be reluctantly conserving my energies for next month at NRGetic Romancer. Hopefully the sets will be recorded, and I’ll be sure to get an account of how things went from one of the fortunate souls who can make it.
Hardcore Baby’s Revenge… any idea when on earth the album is actually coming out? The tracklist looked oh so promising.
Well, it seems like all sorts of stuff is going to be happening reasonably soon – there’s talk of a Full Circle collaboration with someone (I don’t know who yet), and bookings all over the place..but as for HBR, it’ll definitely be after NRGetic Romancer…but maybe the first half of this year? I haven’t heard anything about it since November-ish, but once I do I’ll be sure to let my loyal reader(s?) know 😉