Last night I went bar hopping with some friends in Shinjuku. The bars we went to were these little tiny affairs:
Seems like they’re all about the conversational aspect of bar hopping, not so much the loud, hard partying thing like in New York. Quiet rock or pop music, one bartender, and we’d file out when another group came in.
Afterwards we ended up hanging out at a venue that Daisuke runs called Soup, just kicking it and listening to records. I played some juke and ghettotech for them on the (really impressive) sound system, and we watched a couple YouTube videos of footwork battles. I was also hipped to this guy Yousuke Fuyama, who does AV art ala Ryoji Ikeda or Skif++, except like more maximal and awesome:
I immediately bought his tape 0.06479891/MOTIV from the Sludge label, run by the same crew.
Big shout to Yuka for like practically being my rep man this week. Scope our new collabo coming out this Spring, I dunno what it’ll sound like but prolly be pretty sweet yo!!
PS I guess I’m Tom Waits now, damn, Brendan stop it:
GOODNIGHT
