Hi Alex
Yeah Womb is pretty big, and isn't the Liquid room still open? Anyway my
recommendation is to go to either Disk Union or Cisco and just pick up some
flyers. I remember seeing some bigger clubs on them.. but I can't recall right
now what they were.
I put up some info here
http://www.technotourist.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=phpBB_14file=indexaction=viewtopictopic=971
Yeah I don't know any mags that do reviews in English, but I know of Shift
www.shift.jp.org which is a design mag which is bilingual and has lots of links
etc. so there might be something there that is electronic music related, but
not necessarily techno related.
Japan would be more fun if you know someone, but i think you can get around ok
and it wouldn't be that much diff to begin say, in another foreign country
where english isn't the first language. Most people know a bit of english (even
if they don't speak it well or pretend not to) and signs are in english and
it's easy to get around.
Cheers
Melody
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:56:55 +1000
To: 313 Detroit 313@hyperreal.org
From: Cyclone Wehner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: (313) Japan
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I went there recently and was totally lost. The language barriers are very
profound. Disk Union is the best store that I could find and even had a wall
dedicated to Movement. The Tower Records in Shibuya was great for electronic
music and urban and soul. There is an English language mag Metropolis which
is more lifestyle. I like Remix magazine but can only look at it and is
probably best for electronic reviews. I found it frustrating not being able
to converse, though I tried with my dodgy phrase book. I didn't go out much,
stayed in reading Thomas Hardly which didn't do much to alleviate my
spirits. Wonderful country, but would have been more fun if I'd had company
methinks!
One night I went to a club-cum-design store called Sputnik which was great.
It's one of those days where I just rattle on to myself.
Oh well.
Anyway, can anyone help me?
Have you ever been to Japan?
What are the music magazines that do techno reviews in Japan?
What are the large clubs there?
I notice that club womb seems to have been going for a while. Are there
other big techno clubs?
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
Alex
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