{"id":878,"date":"2012-04-29T23:28:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2012-04-29T23:34:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T14:34:11","slug":"welcome-to-my-babylon-28th-april-hanakawadoor-asakusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"WELCOME TO MY BABYLON, 28th April (HANA=KAWA=DOOR Asakusa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FoWwRU60e9c\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was in a bit of a dancing mood last night, and decided to give this event a try after discovering it on mixi. I haven&#8217;t been over Asakusa way for a long time, so the post-midnight stroll from Kuramae up to Asakusa itself was really nice &#8211; it really is the best time of the day to walk around Tokyo, I reckon. Here&#8217;s a typical sight as I wandered around trying to find the club:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z193\/plasmadancer_2007\/IMG_0326.jpg\" onmouseout=\"undefined\" onmouseover=\"undefined\" title=\"undefined\" align=\"top\" height=\"320\" width=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, HANA=KAWA=DOOR was a great little place, if more a bar\/live music venue than a club. There was plenty of space to dance though and the staff were great, which immediately puts it a notch above most of the places you find in Shinjuku\/Shibuya. I was very impressed by the tunes too, with almost the whole night being fairly high-bpm dark psy, with some more melodic stuff to start and finish.<\/p>\n<p>Add in some quality mixing from the DJs and a friendly crowd, and it&#8217;s definitely an event I&#8217;ll head back to again. The video at the top of the post was taken during Baboooo&#8217;s 03:00 &#8211; 04:30 set &#8211; I should have paid a bit more attention to the lighting, obviously, but it&#8217;s quite cool that you can see the middle-of-the-night traffic trundling past in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in a bit of a dancing mood last night, and decided to give this event a try after discovering it on mixi. I haven&#8217;t been over Asakusa way for a long time, so the post-midnight stroll from Kuramae up to Asakusa itself was really nice &#8211; it really is the best time of [&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-878","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\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}