{"id":150,"date":"2008-11-04T19:25:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T10:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2008-11-04T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:31:09","slug":"tokyo-hardcore-construction-2nd-november-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Hardcore Construction, 2nd November"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday was my first THC, and it turned out to be a storming event – I was expecting a lot more speedcore\/other undanceable genres, but it was mostly dark and nasty gabber, plus Technetium’s slightly incongruous Happy\/J-Core. It was probably getting on for 1am by the time I finally arrived, so I’m not sure what was happening in the first couple of hours – but I was just in time for Stanfield’s set, one of the main reasons I was keen to get to this one. Relatively slow for gabber, it was a great set even if there were a few technical problems towards the end. Most of the tracks played were new to me, or I didn’t know the titles, and so Technetium’s set was pretty welcome. It took me back to my brief spell of mixing Tano*C-style Japanese hardcore a few years ago, and I picked up on some RED ALiCE classics, especially.<\/p>\n

Of the other DJs, Kanon again played a great hour or so, with really top-class mixing and excellent selection. She played Lunch’s recent Tokyo Hardcore Construction<\/em> track (heard in the recent promo video<\/a>), and while I didn’t know many of the tunes, there was a fantastic track around the halfway point with a long female vocal\/guitar breakdown, mixed in at just the right moment. Lunch was as good as expected (actually the first time I’ve seen him play live, I think), although I actually missed the changover from him to NDE, through a combination of dancing like a madman and recovering next to the air conditioner. Anyway, they played one of my favourite gabber tunes at some point – featuring the vocal line ‘Clap your hands if you want to die!’, the title escapes me right now…but truly a classic for all the family, that one.<\/p>\n

I forgot that THC actually runs until 6am the following day, so this was a long night, even with my late arrival. It’s a great event though, and a few of the NRGetic Romancer crowd also made it along. Next one is January 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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