Ooops

It’s fair to say the upgrade in blog software did *not* go smoothly…

I think we are back to regular functionality, I just need to find the time to re-create the layout (yes I know I should have had backups, but didn’t, deal with it).

Pitchtuner

Usually a three piece Pitchtuner have brought their rock tinged electro music to Japan from the cooler climes of Germany minus their regular drummer. Sporting a very “European” sound akin to recent Soulwax, Miki and Hannes played a 30 min set on guitars and Synthesisers to a rapt audience at Shibuya Nest.

Pitchtuner play tomorrow night in Osaka at Bears and come highly recommended.

We’re on an express Elevator to…

HELL…

Nightnoises is back with a bang at Club Hell, we didn’t arrive until a little late so missed a fair amount of our host Mr Mu$ic’s set, but what we did catch involved some outstanding bootlegs smashed together in his superb style.

The headliner of the night however was the multi talented Shokkaboy, not content with playing bass with German electro group Nachlander, he is one of Europe’s most under rated producers and remixers and as we found out on Friday one hell of a DJ.

Playing a storming set including remixes of tracks which ranged from the sublime, such as Tiga — “Sunglasses at Night”, Depeche Mode -”John the Revelator” and Zombie Nation — “Kernkraft 4000″, to the frankly ridiculous including amazing re-rubs of Madness — “Our House” and Michael Jackson — “Thriller” Shokkaboy had a small but up for it crowd dancing like mad for a the entirety of his extended set…

So yes we shook it, we shook it oh so hard…

Back For Good

Yes Yes, It’s been a while, but other commitments,illness and downright laziness have put the site on hold. We’ve recently re-located to Tokyo also which had cutdownon the partying.

Tonight however is our big coming out party at Club Hell featuring our good friend from Germany DJ Shokkaboy (link is over to the right) and Mr Mu$ic as our host. Door’s open a 7pm more details over here

In the words of Diddy LET’S GO!!!

Midweek Mix #1…

Everybody needs a little something to keep them going through until the weekend. This weeks mix comes from Charlie Fan Club who produced this mix for the No Love Lost Records mix tape project back in March. It’s an absolute scorcher with some really twisted electro beats which hopefully will put a big old smile on your face.

Grab it here

I’ve been out of the Euro/US music loops for a little while now, so I’m finding a lot of awesome DJ/producers who have blown up while I’ve been in the Tokyo bubble, I’m going to try to introduce as many as possible of them here. If you have suggestions of artists I should check out please do so over in the comments…

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…

Plans for 22/11/08

Seing as how my Carl Cox guestlist place has evaporated and I don’t fancy paying $50 entry, tonight seems like tonight is a tossup between The Outlaws at Club 77 (again) and PhDJ and the Floorspace gang over at the Kings Cross Hotel.

Choices, Choices, Choices…. Seeing as it’s too late to throw this open to the comments I’ll probably just cruise by both.

Reports to follow.

Snowdroppers @ Club 77

Welcome to Night Noises’ first post. Without further ado onto the music….

I had seen The Snowdroppers perform before at the Newtown Festival, but this was the first time I’d seen them at one of their own shows. Suffice it to say they did not disappoint bringing, if it is possible, even more energy to the set than they had on that previous encounter.

The only thing standing in their way was the PA which was clearly not up to the job of transferring Johnny’s vocals, which got lost in the mix. Nevertheless the crowd ate up their sound and were moved by the power of music into the realms of dance which is something we love here at Night Noises.

Highlight of the night for me was their version of the classic “Cocaine Blues” which was played at what can only be described as breakneck speed. Lowlight, still has to be the blinding strobe which nearly causes me to have a seizure every time I ty to enter the gents toilets at Club 77, seriously guys, it’s not cool…

If you are in the mood for some high energy blue revival music in the vein of The Old Crow Medicine Show you could do a lot worse than checking out the Snowdroppers, highly reccomended.