first time to ItoI

huge speakers along the middle wall, selector's booth on the right side (not on this photo)

Very very long time no see!
Finally I have summer vacations and got time to see Killasan Soundsystem in ItoI, Osaka.

The event where I went is called "Rice & Peace".
It takes place every Tuesday and women need to pay only 1000yen (= 9euro.. well, yen is now strong ;-)) for entrance and two drinks, while men 1500yen for entrance and one drink.

And firstly brief comments: happy, but my ears hurt at the end.

My best friend and I arrived there around 23 o'clock.
As we came into the entrance, there is a small record shop and the next door was the way to the dance hall.
There was only 5 people there. Selector put on nice reggae records.
The sound was clear and beautiful as I experienced in Berlin, my friend was surprised with the strong vibes that Killasan speaker creates.
We chilled at the table at first and then danced quite happily.

Between 24:30 and 25:00, people came gradually.
Music genres became like mix with pop or R&B and the sound was much louder.
It was so loud that I couldn't make out what the genre is, so we went out after an hour.

I was excited and content to see the speakers and listen to some wonderful reggae tracks, but it was a little bit pity because of clipping noises. (Or did I stand too near from Killasan?)

Anyway, I'll go there again and learn more about reggae!

Legomatrix

lol


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I didn't post anything lately, but next year I'll be back in Japan and buy and borrow many CDs and go to many concerts and lives and and and ... (happy fantasy continues) :D

DJ play in a kindergarten

cute kids!

speaking piano

I'm too lazy to write my blog!
hopefully, see you soon :)

wondering bla bla after reading an interview

I've found the right photo when I googled "hightech player" in Japanese. Just in case you wanna buy :)









Brian Eno's Interview
http://www.timeoutsydney.com.au/thebridge/thehotseat/brian-eno--curator-of-luminous--vivid-sydney.aspx

The interview article was interesting, particularly the following part.

I think that in music there is no history any longer: everything is present. This is one of the results of digitisation, where everybody owns everything: you don't just have your little record collection of things you saved up for and guard so carefully. My daughters have 50,000 albums or something each, but not only that they have albums from every era of popular music history, from doo-wop onwards, and they don't really know what's current and what was done a long time ago. For instance, they were listening to something a few nights ago – some prog-rock thing, I can't remember what it was now – and I said "gosh, I remember when that came out we all thought it was really boring," and she said "what? Is this old then?" [laughs] To her, and many of her generation, everything is equally present so "retro" doesn't really have quite the same meaning.

I know! Additionally when you receive thousands of music data in your HDD from your friends, it's more radical... I don't remember many track and artist names anymore... :-/

Ryuichi Sakamoto's interview about music's direction in future was also good, so I'm wondering whether I summarize it in English... or first of all should I introduce YMO to you guys?