Friday, 12 March 2010

Wild Mood Swings party - dance!



Wild Mood Swings is an all-new, all-night, all-mix DJ party in Tokyo, playing an unpredicatable mix of different tunes, aimed to frizzle-fry your brains! Ideal for those with short attention spans, like the guy from Memento.
It's at Hell's bar in Sangenjaya on March 21st (Sunday, before a national holiday) from 11PM 'til the break of dawn. And it's free.

The bipolar DJs are:
craig eee (Tokyo Gig Guide)
Grant McGaheran (Abikyokan)
Jake Arntson (Abikyokan)
Timebred (GaijinTonic)
Yukari (UK Sound)
Brendan Smith (Belgium Internet)
Mu-tan
Junko
Special K



Expect to hear all genres like indie, disco, dub, italo, old-skool hip-hop, electropop, 80s pop, krautrock, African 70s, Farsi pop, psychedelic, shoegaze, electronica...

On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wildmood

On Tokyo Gig Guide: http://www.tokyogigguide.com/en/gigs/details/2420

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Sunday, 24 January 2010

Tokyo Gig Guide presents Farm Party #1 on Jan 31st



On Sunday January 31st, Tokyo Gig Guide will hold its first music event.
It will be a bit different than the usual Tokyo gig though.
Tokyo gigs often have heaps of bands playing straight after each other, but at this event there will be three bands spaced out through the evening. Between bands, DJs will be playing some eclectic sets.
Also, it won't be held at a typical livehouse, but at Gamuso, a fun bar/gallery in Asagaya. Gamuso has a bar downstairs and a small live music room upstairs. You can read about it in this Metropolis article.
It will be cheap too, just ¥1000, plus ¥500 for a drink.

The bands playing are Abikyokan, Walkie Talkie In The Cornfield and PSOCASE.


Abikyokan formed around the core trio of Jacob Arntson (Seattle, USA), Grant McGaheran (Sheffield, UK) and Tatsumi Ochiai (Chiba, Japan) in Tokyo in 2004. The band pool a wide variety of influences to create a new avant-pop sound.


Walkie Talkie In The Cornfield is a two-piece Irish/Australian lo-fi experimental electro-pop group which formed last year.


PSOCASE is a Japanese experimental lo-fi duo which combines electronic sounds, guitar, sax, vocals and keyboards. The wonderful Eri Makino will join them for a song.

DJs on the night will be Jake and Grant from Abikyokan, DJ Timebread, and dj craig eee who will also be providing video projections.

The party kicks off at 7pm.

Details here: http://farmparty.tokyogigguide.com

Don't worry by the way, although it's called Farm Party, there won't be any chickens wandering around and there (probably) won't be any barn dancing.

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