I'm Back

Warning: This blogger is suffering from an over-abundance of shit to do.

Back in Japan after two weeks in China, shortly after the Chinese New Year celebrations. I was there in late Jan but left before the actual New Year's Day - though I was around for the brutal drinking of the factory parties. I can remember regurgitation onto such diverse objects as ashtrays and hedges, but not much else. Damn Chinese.


This time around we had lots of fun new products coming up for launch in the States - including some new Pokemon stylus - so things were pretty hectic.
I'm not quite sure about these new Pokemons' level of cuteness - I mean, Pikachu is cute-incarnate, but some of these new ones are the stuff nightmares are made of.


There's also some exciting new stuff planned for June release, so I wasn't getting a lot of sleep/still aren't. Can't say much as yet, but Hasbro's game deal with EA is involved. Will keep you posted.

The weekend I came back was quite intense - we were straight off to Labtribe in Kyoto for a night of drumnbass/dubstep at the hands of (Chase &) Status. Only the one of them showed up, but Will ("Status") brought the fine sounds and much fun was had. He even had the nicety to drop Killing In The Name Of SebastiAn in the middle of a dnb set. Very impressive.
The club itself was great - my first expedition out there - but the clientele were far more sparse than Triangle can pull in Osaka. Still, everyone was of the good sort - typical underground electronica round here. Wouldn't trade it for the world.


Sunday night was Tiga - 4 years and three tours to Japan later before we finally managed to be in the same room. He's a lot whiter and quite short in person. He led his two hour set with some minimal stuff he seems to be getting into lately, before busting out "Mind Dimension" and a few tracks I'm sure were his, but possibly new stuff from the album: "It's Six O'Clock" and "What's that sound/I like that sound" being predominant lyrics. Fever Ray and Mr. Oizo also made cameo appearances in a mix that went from strength to strength.


Life = work for the time being so I haven't got many amazing things to say, but The Whore did introduce me to a fantastic (and rather masculine-erotic) video clip from Germans Deichkind. The high quality copy (worth a look) is here.
I'm not gay, but I love anything that can combine porno with parody ("pornody"?)