So Thursday night I went to this. It was my first night in Tokyo doing anything by myself and I was pretty excited about it. It wasn’t too difficult to find the place, it was down some small back street that was lined with all sorts of different clubs. The entrance was pretty unglamorous but the inside was pretty dang nice. The event is on the 4th floor, so I went in and went past a line of lockers and climbed a large winding spiral staircase. On the 2nd level was a pretty sizeable dancefloor (think Orange Peel) with an absurdly large disco ball and a realllly high ceiling. One of the walls was basically covered with some crazy visuals to go along with everything (think Milkdrop). But I ignored it all for the time being and pushed up the stairs where I could hear some music coming… only to find a DJ doing his magic to basically nobodyyy. Whooppsss.
It was about 11 around this time, still time for me to go make the last train home at midnight if I wanted but I decided to stick around for a bit and ended up meeting the DJs that were coming on after the first one. John Wayyne was super nice and we talked for a while. Eventually this guy, Mike McKenna a DJ from London (his site), got bored and said he wanted to leave until he had to come on. I said sure, and he took me on a taxi ride to Roppongi (which was really fun, by the way) and went to a couple Gas Panics there where he bought me some beers and we admired the ridiculous scene present at places like that. He’s been living in Tokyo for 12 years and been a DJ for something like 20 and we had a really great conversation about Japanese society, music, life, and how huge the world is. He wasn’t so excited about the fact that he had to go back and play for nobody but after a while he paid for yet another expensive taxi ride back to Womb (thanks man!).
We both expected the empty scene that we left but we were pleasantly surprised to find the place going strong when we came back at 2 am. I joined the crowd and for the next hour John controlled the pulse of us dancing folk until he passed the torch to Mike for the remaining 2 hours. The music was amazing and the crowd would go crazy after really great moments of excitement building that the DJs would spit out.
Dancing around with these Japanese people was a really new experience. Some of the guys were doing the most insane, crazy, hilarious dance moves. It was a really, really friendly music-enthused group of people and ended up being a huge amount of fun.
The sun was rising around 5:30 when I left back to the train station. I was pretty sure I got on the right train but I fell asleep on it and when I woke up about an hour later I was in the middle of noooooooowhere. I looked out the window and I was pretty much in countryside, which is not a good thing if you are trying to get home. When I looked at the list of stops the train made I didn’t find a single one that I recognized. After much train hopping, confusion, and tiredness I eventually made it back to Azalea House at 9. Overall everything worked out great though and I can’t wait to do it again soon.
As is custom here are some completely unrelated pictures that I took in Odaiba last week:
The beginning of Rainbow Bridge on the North side.
The second largest ferris wheel in the world:
Skyline as seen from Odaiba
Gotta sneak in Rainbow Bridge and the boats you can rent for parties
And a couple ones that don’t really show anything about Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan, or pretty much anything for that matter.
By the way, it’s helpful to hear about which pictures you guys like the most so if you have favorites feel free to comment about it. Thanksssssss
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