NightNoises -- Tokyo Music Scene

Oh What a Night

There are few things that will make me leave a party early and last night seemed to be an example of all of them. In chronological order:

22:50 – Arrive at Kings Cross Hotel,

22:54 – Walk into a room with people throwing beer, seriously who does this over the age of 15, the DJ deciding that mixing from Kylie to Guns n Roses was the way to go, sealed the deal.

22:57 – Leave the Kings Cross Hotel.

Now some may call me prudish but I have learnt from experience when a club isn’t my speed and this was one of those cases. I was kind of excited about being able to see PhDJ play but frankly even if he’d played the most blinding set ever I would have spent more time trying to dodge the drunken student crowd.

The second part of the night was at FAG at club 77 where things started off at a passable standard, with a pop centric electro set in effect, which was fine aside from the lack of even a hint of consistent tempo which seemed to jump between about 80 and 130bpm which made dancing tricky. Then again the number of people staggering and loitering on the dance floor drinking would have made any serious shaking it troublesome.

Things took a turn for the worse with a switch in DJs with an opening salvo of what I would describe as a hi-NRG megamix, we are talking 1990s style Out-There Brothers, Snap and Living Joy. I guess I was at the wrong party again. I stuck around at the bar and supped my cheap coke until about 3am when yet another change in sets still saw no outlaws but did see the dancability of the music drop even further (whilst I enjoyed The Presets back in March, there comes a time when it needs to be retired from the rotation) so I made a graceful exit and headed across town to my final stop of the evening…

With a name like Retro, I expected very little from my last stop where Erin was out at a hen’s night. It did not disappoint, with a selection of tunes from the early 90s. If nothing else no one threw drinks at me…

Ah well better luck next week, anyone have any recommendations for a nice dirty electro night in Sydney? If so hook a brother up in the comments…