Back from Asakusa and a fun night at ECLIPSE. Guld was headlining of course, and I headed over there with Cogi just in time to catch the end of Morphonic’s set – it wasn’t the NRG he used to play, more like fairly mainstream techno, but for the last couple of tracks he played much older material from his Hashimoto days (and the crowd predictably enjoyed that more).

Guld followed right after Morphonics, and his selection was pretty much perfect for the event. The bpm was fairly low for the whole set, around 160, and he ran through a lot of older tracks while throwing in tunes like Android Lime’s Sunray remix and Hase’s Disintegration. The video at the top of the post was his intro, using a tune from anime classic Akira before going straight into Requiem.

The rest of the night was a lot slower and heavy on the hard house, but definitely had its moments. DJ ni-21 was technically fantastic, and even if I wasn’t too keen on many of the tunes, his mixing really kept the interest up. DJ 204 finished the event with a very varied set, going from chunky hard house to cheesy J-pop remixes, via the occasional hard trance tune. The highlight of his set (for me) had to be a hard house remix of Slipmatt’s 1993 hardcore classic from SMD 1. I was dancing at the time and forgot to take a video, but here’s the original – weirdly I was listening to this track in one of his live sets just a couple of days ago.