1am here, so NRGetic Romancer is officially today! The past few days have been spent madly trying out different mix combinations, and I probably have a million ideas at the moment – hopefully that’ll narrow down a bit by the time I play.

Anyway, the timetable has been announced, and although I’m replacing Cogi, my play time is pretty late – starting at 12.50am, I’ll be playing for 1hr 10mins, which is the longest ever at an event. Really exciting, as that gives me plenty of room to play all sorts of stuff, instead of turning it into a semi-megamix in 40mins. The Full Circle set will be only 30mins this time, but I think it could be very unique indeed, I’m looking forward to it a lot.

東京に住んでいる方は明日是非遊びにきて下さい。ゲストで２０００円になります！よろしくお願いします。

11.00 – gokuraku & Yuusuke

12.50 – PlasmaDancer

2.00 – Full Circle DJs

2.30 – Betwixt & Between

3.20 – Guld

Only a few days until NRGetic Romancer now, and as I still haven’t seen any sign of the photos from the event, I thought it might be worth quickly posting up some of my hazy memories along with some YouTube videos, for those who haven’t seen them yet.

Android Lime was playing there as a guest, of course, but the rest of the DJs also did a great job as always. I only caught the end of gokuraku and Yuusuke’s set, but recognised a couple of schranz numbers from their previous sets. Great warm-up material, once again.

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What a start to 2009…I’m incredibly pleased to announce that I’ll be joining the staff of NRGetic Romancer – starting with the event on the 21st of this month! It’ s a little less than two years ago that I went to my first NRGetic Romancer, and to now be playing there alongside Full Circle DJs, Betwixt & Between and Guld himself is genuinely a dream come true. The one disappointment is that Cogi won’t be playing this time – he’s had to cancel, and that’s the main reason that my debut is coming a little earlier than planned.

So, huge thanks to Guld – I’m determined to repay his faith and really come up with an NRGetic Romancer-worthy first set. Once again though I also have to thank Zio and the Hell’s crew, as without them this almost definitely wouldn’t have happened at all. I’m going to have to change my style a bit though, because (for obvious reasons) I won’t be playing any tracks by Guld, Betwixt & Between or Full Circle DJs. It might be quite a challenge, but instead I’ll be aiming mostly for a best of FINRG/Hybridize set. After a couple of years as a raver there, I think I know what kind of tracks appeal to the NRGetic Romancer crowd, after all.

Final mentions for the fantastic flyer design, courtesy of Android Lime himself – great work once again. As for me, planning for the next set begins now!

The final Hell’s Gate event ended in fine style on Saturday, with a really upbeat atmosphere despite everyone’s disappointment that another hard event has bitten the dust in Tokyo. The general play style was hard house/hardtrance, but DJ Minagi as well as yours truly played hard NRG/freeform this time. As you might have seen from the timetable a few days ago, I was scheduled to play last, and so didn’t really want to use up what little energy I had left after work by overdoing the dancing – I probably did anyway, though. There were so many DJs this time that my memory of some sets is a bit hazy, but with the help of Soham’s photos and video I hope you’ll get a reasonable idea of what went on.

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