{"id":1041,"date":"2013-04-02T23:55:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2013-04-02T23:56:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:56:28","slug":"operation-karma-dark-dimension-30th-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Operation Karma \/ Dark Dimension, 30th March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RbYquwUmc6s\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday there was a flicker of life from the Tokyo darker scene, and for once I was organised enough to make it to two clubs on the same night. First stop was Operation Karma, back in Tokyo (Roppongi, unfortunately) after a 3-year absence and a few events in Kawasaki.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly the days of Karma being the hard-but-more-melodic counterpoint to NRGetic Romancer and Tokyo Hardcore Construction seem to have gone, as most DJs have abandoned freeform\/NRG or dropped out of the hardcore scene altogether, but thankfully ASAHI was there to represent our kind of sound and I mainly headed along for his set. It turned out to be a superb hour of tunes that started with <em>Private Demon <\/em>and progressed up through the bpms to finish with Aryx&#8217;s <em>Aurora<\/em>. There&#8217;s a strong Guld influence to ASAHI&#8217;s sets, but I love the way he&#8217;s introduced some of the industrial\/dark electro sounds we&#8217;ve heard at events like Dark Dimension. With terrible timing I stopped my video [see above] during BRK&#8217;s <em>The Nobodies<\/em>, just as he was about to mix into a great track from Grendel &#8211; unexpected, but I reckon it was the connection of the set and did wonders for the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately ASAHI was timetabled to open the event, so the floor was very quiet until a few more of the Karma\/Romancer crew arrived towards the end of the set. It was fantastic to see everyone though, and as we all settled into some dancing it made me realise how much I&#8217;ve missed having a healthy hardcore scene for the past couple of years. The music was taking a turn for the over-happy though, heavy on the anime samples and glass-shattering female vocals, so after sticking around for some of DAIRIN&#8217;s hard house I wandered over to Shinjuku and Decadance Bar.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lU1ll8-yruM\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kohaku and the Dark Dimension crew have really done a fine job with this event, as now it has a large, eclectic following that rivals Tokyo Decadance but with far, far better music\/atmosphere. Although there was no freeform this time, the timetabling is superb these days and seems to finish with a good couple of hours of very danceable industrial\/dark psy, leaving it just late enough for the fans of the slower stuff to be willing to give it a go too. SHiN even sneaked in <em>Hannya X <\/em>during his dark psy set, and it went down a storm with everyone from the Romancer ravers to the goths.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z193\/plasmadancer_2007\/IMG_0782_zpsabd3b7a2.jpg\" onmouseout=\"undefined\" onmouseover=\"undefined\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\" align=\"top\" title=\"undefined\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z193\/plasmadancer_2007\/IMG_0788_zps1bd27232.jpg\" onmouseout=\"undefined\" onmouseover=\"undefined\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\" align=\"top\" title=\"undefined\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\">The other highlight was finally catching one of Hiroyuki Takahashi&#8217;s live painting performances, which really lived up to expectations. Responding to the music and crowd as usual, his piece became darker and darker as the night went on &#8211; not the clearest photos in the world, but hopefully you can get an idea of the end result.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday there was a flicker of life from the Tokyo darker scene, and for once I was organised enough to make it to two clubs on the same night. First stop was Operation Karma, back in Tokyo (Roppongi, unfortunately) after a 3-year absence and a few events in Kawasaki. Sadly the days of Karma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-japanese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}