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FRIDGE - This Friday @ EDGE

2011-10-11T13:25:00.003+09:00

This Friday at Bar Edge myself, Paul, Rinn and Jin will be hosting FRIDGE. A night of house, UK bass, Tech-House and perhaps more, it's free. ノーチャージです。

Starting around 11ish, pop in.

Here's a handy map for public transport.

NEW E.P. Available on Beatpick

2011-09-14T20:12:00.004+09:00

I have a new 4 track E.P. available here on Beatpick.

The 4 tracks are :

1. Next Rhythm
2. Hot Out
3. Hold It
4. Part Timer

It costs £4.00 ( ￥５００, 6.32 USD or 4.63 EUR) and is downloadable as a Wav file or Mp3

Heads of huge multinational companies, you can also license the tracks for global advertising if you so wish :)

You can also stream all the tracks on Beatpick, but I'm sure you'd all much rather support a starving artist....right? ....RIGHT?

Many thanks to Tarekith at Inner Portal Studio for mastering and Malachy Byrne for the use of his photo for the artwork.

Have a listen anyway.

よろしく

New DJ Mix

2011-08-12T14:35:00.002+09:00

I've just put a new DJ mix up on my Soundcloud page , see if you can count the number of times the word 'house' is repeated.

House and tech-house for the most part, including my own track Next Rhythm at the end. Download or stream and enjoy.

Windcheater - Next Rhythms DJ MIX by Windcheater

BAGUETTE!! July 23rd SAT @COVER

2011-07-22T03:10:00.003+09:00

Tomorrow, Saturday 23rd July, it's Baguette!! at COVER again.

As always, no charge and starts at 12am.

This time RINN is providing the delicious filling to Ton and I's crusty warm baps.

With me and Rinn behind the decks later on I think things might get a bit ravey.

Baguette 2 Baguette time starts at 4.30 and so far has always been a great laugh.

Kind of a belated birthday celebration for me too. Feel free to buy me a drink. Just please don't get me tequilla....

New Track - Hot Out

2011-07-18T16:58:00.002+09:00

Just uploaded a new track to my Soundcloud Page. You can visit there and listen, or right here on the player.

Comments welcomed.

As always this was mastered by Tarekith at Inner Portal Studios. Any producers out there looking for mastering options should check him out.

Hot Out - Windcheater by Windcheater

Friday Night July 1st VIBERATION BASE

2011-06-28T17:26:00.002+09:00

I'm DJing at VIBERATION BASE this Friday (1st) at Sacred Spirits (Cafe Jamaica).

It's only the second time I've DJed there so looking forward to it and their great sound system.

Should be some different genres on show all with a distinctly UK flavour to them. Resident DJ/Organiser KOO1 is very much into his drum and bass.

Starts at 10pm, I think I am DJing at 1am or 2am.

I might have a free ticket or 2 if you want to come.

If not I think 'advance' prices of a 1000en can be 'booked' so let me know.

2011.07.01(FRI)@SACRED SPIRITS cafe JAMAICA

"VIBERATION BASE vol.9"

START 10PM - LAST AM
ADV:1,000yen
DOOR:2,000yen

奇数月第一金曜日にSACRED SPIRITS cafe JAMAICAで開催されているDRUM&BASS PARTY "VIBERATION BASE"。
RESIDENT DJのKOO1は5.20(FRI)@Keith Flack(博多)で開催された"BASSRAIN -6th Anniversary-に招聘されるなど、ドラムンベースシーン拡大の為に日々精進している。
今回で第9回目の開催となる"VIBERATION BASE"は広島で活躍するDJの中でも屈指のスキルとグルーヴを兼ね備えた"豚"&"Windcheater "をFriendship Guest DJとしてピックアップ。
RESIDENT DJのKOO1、ISREAL、さらにSUPPORT DJにJUNGLISTの墨とDUB STEP DJのYASSが更にパーティーをヒートアップさせる。
"VIBERATION BASE vol.9"を見逃すな！！

Friendship GUEST DJ
豚
WINDCHEATER

RESIDENT DJ
KOO1
ISREAL

SUPPORT DJ
墨
YASS

ART DIRECTOR
IJG

This Saturday DMC #2

2011-06-13T16:58:00.002+09:00

This Saturday (June 18th) is the 2nd installment of the Hiroshima club circuit night DMC. At 5 venues and with over 30 DJs the last time I DJed at this it was a lot of fun.

Organiser Toki, decides who DJs where by getting all the DJs to play a あみだくじ. Last time I was lucky enough to get Edge and the 1am slot. This time I've been lucky enough to get.......Edge at the 2am spot.

I guess I'm just good at あみだくじ。

Advance tickets are ￥１５００　On the door it's ￥２０００　which ofcourse gets you into all 5 venues.

2011年06月18日(sat)
広島HOUSE系 ONLYのダンスミュージックサーキット2回目開催！！！！
前回の4会場から1会場増やしました！
1500円で5会場サーキットしちゃおう！
etc出演アーティストは街の店頭フライヤーでチェック！！！

『D.M.C~DANCE MUSIC CONNECTION~』

OPEN21:00~
@ ASTRO/B.O.B/COVER/edge/rootz
ADV 1500 ADAY 2000
各会場での1ドリンクオーダー
**********************
EVENTの入場ルール
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インヴィテーションカードお持ちか並びにメール予約頂ければ、
受付でADVでご入場いただけます。
どちらも該当の無い場合、DOOR扱いとさせて頂きます。
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出演DJ`s
SLEEPY EYE
DJ JELL(FABLIC)
DJ CA2(SURGE&COA)
DJ JITO(SURGE&COA)
DJ MATSUBARA(HYBRID BOOGIE)
DJ IT`S(LOST&FOUND)
Windcheater
DJ MAEDA(edge)
DJ TOKI(body move)
DJ 豚(COVER)
DJ 墨(COVER)
DJ 助
西ダン(SECOND HOUSE)
DJ JIN(edge)
DJ TOMO(body move)
DJ TAKA(spark mafia)
DJ SAI (body move)
snpy(NO TV PARTY ON)
DJ hryn(NO TV PARTY ON)
DJ HAL(body move)
DJ SHIM▲(POLICE)
DJ TSUN
DJ NICO (FABLIC)
Brinxton(shelter)
POCKET(SPIRIT MOM)
DJ choro(body move)
DJ SHINYA(melting)
DJ chiaki(rootz)
DJ Kevin(melting)
and more.................
その他多数のDJゲストあり!
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DJのタイムテーブル情報を希望の方に限り、下記送信アドレスに
送信/ドメイン解除、「DMC」をご記入頂きますと、タイムテーブルを送信
させていただきます。
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New track - 'Hold It'

2011-06-03T12:39:00.002+09:00

I've kind of skipped a track, what with Part Timer still being up as a demo mix, but here's my latest track Hold It, up on Soundcloud. As always, comments welcome and a high quality download is available for the time being. Thanks.

新曲’Ｈｏｌｄ　Ｉｔ’です。聞いて見て下さい。コメントを出来るしダウンロードも出来るよ。よろしく。

Hold It by Windcheater

This FRIDAY 20th May - HUG A SPEAKER @Mugen

2011-05-16T22:40:00.001+09:00

This month, Mugen's monthly Sunday night event Hug a Speaker is moving to a Friday.

Boys will have to pay ￥１０００ and get a drink, the girls get in free of charge. Life just isn't fair is it?

Don't let the picture of the 'Close Up DJ' put you off. Mugen are kindly giving my releases a little push with this special Friday night Hug a Speaker.

It's usually an eclectic load of sounds with some if not all of this lot appearing too PAUL WALSH, FILTER KINGS, JAH LOVE IS SWEETER, 3K, SKM, Its, 2DA RUDE BEATZ

Hopefully see some of you there.

MUGEN details here

New DEMO MIX - Part Timer

2011-05-16T15:03:00.002+09:00

My newest demo for anyone and everyone to have a listen to, over on my Soundcloud page or right below here, see? It's called Part Timer and I'd welcome any comments, particularly on the production aspects. どうぞ

新曲です。聞いて見て下さい。あなたのコメントも聞きたいんですけど。。

Part Timer (DEMO MIX) by Windcheater

Ba Ba Ba Baguette

2011-05-12T23:31:00.000+09:00

Yay! Baguette time again

@COVER this Saturday with guest DJ ⊂НΨ∈.

Starts from midnight, is free ofcourse, and you might even get some free baguette.

House, Tech-house, Techno and stuff

またバゲットだよ！

今週の土曜日でもちろんノーチャージ＠ＣＯＶＥＲです

今回のゲストフィリング。。。ちがう。。今回のゲストＤＪは⊂НΨ∈ですよ！

バゲットスタイル楽しみましょう！

Next Rhythm - Finished version up

2011-05-06T14:50:00.001+09:00

I previously posted a demo version of this. Here's the finished article. As always you can download a 320kbps mp3 of this for a week or so. After that it'll still be available to be streamed.

Windcheater - Next Rhythm by Windcheater

New Demo Track - Next Rhythm

2011-04-21T21:39:00.002+09:00

My newest demo for anyone and everyone to have a listen to, over on my Soundcloud page or right below here, see? It's called Next Rhythm and I'd welcome any comments, particularly on the production aspects. どうぞ

新しい曲です聞いて見て下さい。あなたのコメントも聞きたいんですけど。。

Next rhythm DEMO by Windcheater

oi!

2011-03-11T01:44:00.002+09:00

we're doing BAGUETTE again this Saturday.

This time around DJ CHYE is joining us.

Start at 12, finish at, not sure o'clock

Baguette time starts at 4.30AM and was a lot of fun last time.

I'm starting things off from 12-1.30am, CHYE takes over until 3 and then Ton takes us on to B2B from 4.30AM

Free Baguette once again. All at COVER, this Saturday (March 12th)

New EP out on Beatpick

2011-02-25T13:57:00.002+09:00

My latest EP is now available over on Beatpick.

Follow this link here to find it. You can stream, licence and/or buy it for a mere 4 quid (6oo Yen).

4 tracks as follows

1. Rabbit Feet
2. The Girlfriend
3. Cover ft. WaynB
4. Cover ft. WaynB (Out in the Hall mix)

よろしく！

BAGUETTE @ COVER FEB 19th 0.00AM - .....

2011-02-14T19:02:00.002+09:00

This Saturday is the first Baguette night at Cover. An irregular regular event where myself and Ton-san will be joined by one of Hiroshima's army of female DJs. This Saturday is Hiroko's turn.

It's free ofcourse and starts at 12 midnight. Hiroko will be DJing from 1.30am. From 4.30am it will be all three of us for Baguette2Baguette time.

There'll even be free Baguettes, and I'll have some Free mix CDs for the first 5 people to say 'I like baguettes' to me.

New Material

2011-02-01T21:05:00.003+09:00

Been a little while but will soon have some new tracks up on Beatpick.

Couple you may have heard and a couple of brand new (kind of) tunes.

'Rabbit Feet' is a brand new house track I'm quietly pleased with.

Cover (In the Hall Mix) is a reworking of the original featuring WaynB. I didn't use a lot of his vocals in the first effort so wanted to produce something with them in. It certainly ain't a sound system banger but is hopefully pleasing in it's own way.

You can listen to, and download for now, both of them on my Soundcloud Page.

Christmas Day - REALYTHM

2010-12-20T22:08:00.002+09:00

Yep, this Saturday 25th of December, the Cover boys will be taking over Chinatown for their annual Realythm event.

I don't antcipate it being very Christmassy, but like most events that Cover are involved in it should be fun.

It costs ￥３０００ to get in but you get 2 drinks with that.

I'm on at the relatively early 11pm but apparently last year it was banging from the very start (10pm) so, if you are looking for something to do this Yuletide that doesn't involve falling asleep infront of the latest Only Fools and Horses Xmas special, you know where to find me.

oh yeah, and, Merry Xmas

今週土曜日はクリスマスディですよね

そしてＲＥＡＬＴＨＹＭでＤＪやります

すごく楽しそうだから皆遊びに来てね

私は１１時からＤＪする

ENJOINT OF FLAT presents

【REALHYTHM】

12月25日（sat）

＠CHINA TOWN

当日 3000yen （W2D）

22:00 START

�ＤＪ�

ＢＡＫＡＢＯＮ

Ｗｉｎｄｃｈｅａｔｅｒ

ｍａｓａｎａｒｉ

風心

清

豚

The Weekend

2010-10-08T21:09:00.003+09:00

Should be a good one this week what with the holiday on Monday.

I'm at 2 events:

There's a night on Sunday called DMC : Dance Music Connection where, for one price, you get 4 venues. I'm on at EDGE at 1am. Looking forward to that, been a while.... CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

Next up is Monday night at Jamaica (flyer pictured). Succhi from Cover's brainchild, me and Paul are on from 10pm-12am. The graveyard shift but you never know do you. It's our first time at Jamaica so looking forward to that. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

New Track - The Girlfriend

2010-09-24T10:41:00.001+09:00

Windcheater - The Girlfriend by Windcheater

Download is switched on for now if anyone wants a copy :)

Beautiful Day

2010-08-10T04:56:00.003+09:00

It really was. A classic English summer's day. Blue skys, a few puffy white clouds and brilliant sunshine without being too hot.

And I spent the whole day indoors.

I've finally got round to transferring some of my old vinyl onto the laptop, thanks Paul.

It's taking a while but is lots of fun and very なつかしい！

It could go all a bit rave the next time I DJ.

Latest track - Cover Feat. WaynB

2010-08-09T02:53:00.002+09:00

Wrapped this up a little while ago, my latest track features the vocal talents of WaynB and is called COVER.

I'm actually working on another version of this as a lot of what we recorded didn't actually make it into the final mix, which I thought was a shame.

Anyway, you can check out the track on my MySpace player or in better quality over on my Soundcloud page. You can download that version too, for now anyway ;)

Am currently visiting friends and family back in the UK, cream tea-tastic, burp. Got two new tracks on the go and am searching for new stuff to play out and about in Hiroshima town. Back on the 20th August and will be DJing at Cover that very night, jetlag permitting ;)

First rave!

2010-05-26T23:45:00.003+09:00

Well not quite, but the first time I've Djed at a free open air event.

This Saturday night at some point....check the site for details

Will be alongside, regular Mugen night 'Hug a Speaker' stalwarts, me and Paul representing the 3K corner.

Certainly doesn't look the most stunning beach in the world, but, I'm sure it will be fun.

SLEEPYEYE BAR 2

2010-05-13T22:10:00.002+09:00

11:00 open
11:30 paul
12:00 diet
12:30 shimomura
1:00 windcheater
1:30 skm
2:00 its
2:30 susu
3:00 daiji
3:30 kohki
4:00 close

last time's photos....
HERE

and HERE

and HERE

Shiny New Site

2010-05-10T19:48:00.002+09:00

If you hop on over to the WC Homepage, you'll see it's had a face lift. All courtesy of my friend Saru110.

After checking out my site do have a look at his and check out some of his superb designs. They really are very good.

Unless you've got an iPhone that is. Perhaps they'll bring out an app that'll allow it one day....

Please Give (Trailer)

2010-03-26T22:46:00.001+09:00

annnnnnnd, here's the trailer for the movie

GOGO CARAT and Hug A Speaker : Photos and Video

2010-03-26T10:54:00.003+09:00

Last week's club circuit event was a lorra lorra fun. Unfortunately for me I peaked a bit too early and went home at the embarrasingly early 5.30ish. For shame.

Anyway, you can check out some photos of the various events RIGHT HERE.

Last Sunday was also the monthly Hug A Speaker at Mugen, but with a twist this month as it was broadcasted over the net on UStream as part of Cracktown FM's schedule.

You can still watch/listen to the whole thing RIGHT HERE. I start at around 1hour 26minuntes if you are interested.

GOGO CARAT Timetable

2010-03-17T20:44:00.003+09:00

This Saturdays GOGO CARAT multi-club event's timetable is up. Visit the website here or have a look at the picture, right there <<<

Should be a great night. Loads of stuff going on, and if something doesn't inspire you....move on elsewhere.

3K are on at 11PM until 12.30am on Mugen's 3rd floor.

On a sidenote, I was pleased and completely unsurprised to see my favourite bar COVER has the latest running schedule with the final DJ's time put as 7.00 - .....

You could probably pop in for some Sunday lunch.

3K@ GOGO CARAT 2010 3.20

2010-02-26T22:21:00.003+09:00

Myself and Paul have been lucky enough to be invited to DJ at Mugen at this year's GOGO CARAT event in Hiroshima. You can read all about it in English on GetHiroshima.

We're on the same bill as Rob Smith (RSD, Smith and Mighty, More Rockers), Juzu AKA Moochy and 1945 AKA Kuranaka, on the 3rd floor at Mugen.

I couldn't go to this last year so am really looking forward to it. Check out the flickr images from last year : PART 1 PART 2

I'll let you know more details as soon as I know any more.

Read about it in 日本語　here.

Please Give has a release date now

2010-01-21T22:44:00.003+09:00

Please Give, the movie which will feature my track Apathetic seems to have finally got a release date of April 23rd and is, according to this article, number 85 in the top 100 (yes, 100) anticipated movies of 2010 :snigger:

Anyway, nice to see it isn't just a figment of my imagination, and, now there are some pics up on it's imdb page I was pleased to see I do actually know some of the actors who are in it.

The track Apapthetic is available from all good record stores.

As long as those records stores are named Beatpick or Dangerous Drums Records @ Beatport or Juno download .

Happy New Year!

2010-01-01T18:48:00.003+09:00

It's always a let down isn't it?

My first New Year's Eve in town in Japan and I had a ball.

Really didn't know how it was going to pan out but Edge was great, popped into the Shack, back to Edge and then over to my second home, Cover.

It didn't disappoint :)

Hope everyone has a fantastic 2010. I'm cautiously optimistic...

Anyway, here's that mix I hinted at in the previous post. You can download it or stream it, the decision is yours.

Enjoy, and 明けましておめでとうございます！！

WINDCHEATER 2010 MIX

Track listing for 2010 mix

2009-12-31T13:35:00.002+09:00

All of these tracks can be bought at Beatport. Even mine!

1. Future Funk Squad - RaveUlator (WINDCHEATER EDIT)
2. Block & Crown - Crowd Pleaser
3. Jorgensen & Mel K. - Get Lost (Beatchuggers Remix)
4. Santito - House Addict (Block & Crown Paradise Mix)
5. Kamuki - City Lights
6. Curses! - The Deep End (Bart B More Remix)
7. Rhythm Rockerz - Rock the Dizkotec (Dale Castell's Bounce The Diskotek Remix)
8. Windcheater - Blank Faced Groove
9. Baymont Bross - Wine up ya Waist feat. General Levy (NAPT Remix)
10. Tom Craft, Tim Healey - Real Smooth feat. DJ Assault (Krafty Kuts Remix)
11. Slyde - Block Parties
12. Windcheater - Ooh, Yeah!
13. Barletta - Panther (Torro Torro Remix)
14. Wippenberg - Pong (Extended Mix)
15. Dj Kay - Waterfall

Phestive Phun

2009-12-15T14:25:00.002+09:00

As the year draws to a close and as the day work winds down nicely I've got one last busy weekend with my WC hat on on the cards.

First up is Friday night and the monthly FROIDE event at Cover. Always good fun, I ALWAYS have work the next day. But not this weekend :) Hosted by the brilliant Rinn, and also featuring fellow 3K-er Little Foreigner (or whatever his DJ moniker is at the moment) I intend to let my hair down on a Friday for a change. There's no charge ofcourse.

Then on Sunday it's that other monthly event 'Hug a Speaker', this time over at Mugen. It's a special Bounenkai edition this week and there's even a guest DJ, so could well be a bit lively. Starts at 10pm, not that anyone gets there at that time.

Hopefully see some of you out and about.

Up on Juno Download

2009-11-30T18:11:00.001+09:00

My Dangerous Drums EP is up on Juno Download too and it seems they have the better offer if you want all 7 tracks ;)

Get it Here.

DDD release now available on Beatport

2009-11-27T19:13:00.004+09:00

My first release on Dangerous Drums Digital is now available on Beatport.

DDD0005 - Windcheater EP1

Click up there to see what's on it. You can grab all 7 of the tracks or they are ofcourse available individually.

Many thanks to Corin and Vela as always. It's real pleasure to be associated with them and hopefully the WC/3K/Hiroshima band wagon can roll into Berlin again some time...

皆よろしく！

Friday night　１６・１０ FROIDE＠Cover

2009-10-15T21:36:00.000+09:00

１０月１６日　金曜日　

フロイド　で　DJする

Timetable：

22:00-23:00 eiji-low
23:00-0:00 sakaguchi
0:00-1:00 paul
1:00-2:00 ウインドチータ
2:00-3:00 rinn

よろしく

October Ske-ju-wal

2009-10-09T12:01:00.002+09:00

A few dates in 広島市　this October :

Fri 金曜日 Oct 16th - フロイド　@ Cover Bar
Sun 日曜日Oct 18th - Hug a Speaker @ Mugen
Fri　金曜日 Oct 23rd　- Deadstock @ Mugen
Sat 土曜日　Oct 31st　- Halloween 10 @ Chinatown

hopefully see some of you out and about...

Windcheater3 out on Beatpick

2009-09-23T21:17:00.002+09:00

Originally titled, Windcheater3 is out on Beatpick now, click to have a listen.

My four latest tracks are on there which you can BUY or very easily license.

よろしく

Track Listing :

1. Ooh Yeah
2. Apathetic (Cinematic Dub Remix)
3. Long time rocker
4. Wallflower

New Mix - Berlin>Hiroshima>Aug2009

2009-08-31T23:36:00.003+09:00

This August was rounded off VERY nicely with the Mugen 3rd anniversary party. Bloody hell it was loud. In a good way. Brilliant sound from the guest sound systems I got a bit of a shock when I walked in to find the 2nd floor rammed. Bit nervous but it went really well and I had a blast.

September tomorrow and to celebrate this summers DJing activities here's a mix of some of my favourite tracks from this year. No fancy tricks, just the tunes. Hope you enjoy. Back to producing now. Hopefully.

AUG2009>BERLIN>HIROSHIMA>MIX

Mugen 3rd Anniversary Party

2009-08-28T09:30:00.003+09:00

....and after claiming I was going to get back to being a producer after just DJing the last 2-3 months....I'm DJing this Saturday at the Mugen 3rd Anniversary party. Representing the Hug a Speaker corner I'll be on at 3.30am in the downstairs bit (2F)

If you are out and about pop in, it's free if you're a lady (2000Yen if not).

Should be a good night though.

よろしく

Europe 2009

2009-08-25T14:07:00.004+09:00

I've been on holiday. Quite a long one. A month infact and it was a lorra lorra fun.

First off did the UK thing. No surprises there really although after 8 years away the rain/sun/rain/sun/rain/sun all in one day weather was bizarre.

Next up was Spain. First time in six years, it was great to catch up with family and be in Galicia again. My waistline was/is groaning under the diest of cheese, jamon, chorizo and Estrella Galicia. Still, I can't complain.

Lastly and by no means leastly I headed for Berlin, Germany with my windcheater hat on to do a bit of DJing and hook up with friends and label owners Corin and Vela. It was my first time in Germany and if you haven't been I highly recommend Berlin to anyone. Maybe cos it was August and people were away had something to do with the chilled out nature of the place, I don't know but it was all just so, relaxed. Even the cars seemed to be saying; It's fine, I don't have to be anywhere in a hurry, wander out into the street when you feel like it..

Throw in some fascinating history too and you've got one great city. Gigs went well, beer was drank, more old friends met and finally I limped back to Hiroshima.

So back to normal. Time to get producing again after a couple of months of just DJing, although having said that, hopefully see some of you out and about when I am behind the decks in town.

ただいま！

3K@Cover This Sunday 19th

2009-07-13T23:10:00.002+09:00

3K are off to Berlin this August to hook up again with our friends at Dangerous Drums and play 4 or 5 dates there. I can not wait.

So to celebrate that (and get some practice in), the future releases of mine on Dangerous Drums Digital and the fact that once it turns midnight it's my birthday, we'll be at Enjoint Bar Cover. All night long I expect.

We'll be playing the usual stuff. If you haven't been to Cover before, don't be put off by it's size, it can be one of the best nights out in Hiroshima.

よろしく

@Cover tonight

2009-07-10T10:42:00.001+09:00

from about 11....

Like this video. Never seen it before. The track is a remix so it doesn't quite fit with the images like the original does. Prefer this version though.

2009-06-27T12:50:00.001+09:00

Been Slacksville Arizona with this one; We are at Lotus tonight. 10pm - 3am or later.... Me and Paul will be DJing and it's his birthday so pop in and buy him a drink :)

Cover Bar Tonight - 12th June

2009-06-12T13:19:00.002+09:00

Am DJing a bit tonight at Cover. From about 10ish, it's free ofcourse.

よろしく

Tenor Fly - The Wickedest Sound: Stereo

2009-06-11T02:14:00.001+09:00

haven't had a youtube post in a while....The Rebel MC!

Still sounds great, 18 years on

All done....

2009-05-30T18:53:00.002+09:00

I've been working round the clock to bring music to the masses the last month. Well not quite round the clock or to any kind of mass but I did have a kind of deadline and 3 tracks to get ready and by george, I did it.

Of greatest interest to anyone with any kind of interest in what I do is the new remix I have just done of Apathetic. Thought I'd have a go at reinterpreting it to celebrate it's cinematic release and I'm kind of happy with the results. You can see what you think for yourself by shooting your chuff over to this link. Comments are always welcome. If you are living in the dark ages and have some kind of slow connection you might want to try my MySpace. There's a nasty 160kbps version on the player there.

You can also have a listen to the finished version of Ooh Yeah. Just a tighter mix. Nothing too exciting, just no bongos panning all over the shop :)

All these tracks should be getting released in the next few months. I will ofcourse post up details when I get them. I am now off to try and hold a beer in my RSI ravaged hand....

DEADSTOCK @ Mugen - Fri 22nd May

2009-05-19T20:56:00.004+09:00

After drunkenly falling around behind the decks at Mugen last Sunday it will be nice to return and restore some pride this coming Friday at DEADSTOCK.

Me and GHB did this event a while back and apart from the fact it's on a Friday (work the next day, bleurgh) it's a lot of fun. Or it has been the couple of times I have been.

Starts at 10pm.

It's a￥１０００ to get in and you get a drink with that.

Come on down, the beats are right.

Hug a Speaker @ Mugen Tonight

2009-05-17T12:38:00.002+09:00

I'm taking a break from making music tonight to, er, play other people's music at Mugen.

Starts around 10pm 'til late. Expect a mix of reggae, dub, dubstep and breaks. And ladies get their first drink free.

《HUG A SPEAKER》
@MUGEN5610
2F start 22:00　　

DJs

FILTER KINGS
JAH LOVE IS SWEETER
3K BREAKS
2DA RUDE BEATZ

SOUND:REGGAE DUB BREAKS DRUMandBASS

※もちろん入場無料！さらに女性の方には1drinkサービスです！！！ぜひぜひ

Charlie Brooker on Gordon Brown. Again.

2009-05-11T21:40:00.002+09:00

I linked to a previous piece about Gordon Brown by the excellent Charlie Brooker a while back. Dunno why his descriptions of the doomed British PM make me laugh so much but, there you go....

Here's the bit that I really liked;

If real life were a movie, instead of a cruel and horrifying string of random unfolding events, the mortifying slow-motion car crash that is Gordon Brown's premiership would inspire pity in all but the most stone-hearted audience member. Assailed from all directions, stumbling, bumbling, droning, punch-drunk, hapless, hopeless, and aching with palpable misery, he increasingly resembles a depressed elephant, slowly being felled by a thousand pin-sized arrows fired into his hide by a million tiny natives, still somehow moving forward, trudging wearily toward its allotted graveyard-slot with morose resignation.

The whole article can be found here.

Tonight at Cover Bar

2009-05-08T13:52:00.002+09:00

I will be DJing at Cover tonight (Friday). Not sure exactly what time but I will be down there from about 10pm if anyone fancies popping in.

It is ofcourse, free.

:)

Golden Week in 広島市

2009-05-07T02:31:00.004+09:00

My insides and my bank balance might not agree, but have just had an excellent Golden Week holiday here in Hiroshima.

Lots of good things on, I decided to take advantage of the lovely 8 days off I had.

First up was ex Deee-Lite man Towa Tei at restaurant-come-club for the night Suiren.

It was kind of bizarre getting the lift up to the 7th floor in the same building as The Shack to walk into what felt like a very smart club in Tokyo. Where did all these beautiful people come from?

It was good though. Lots of people, nice atmosphere, great sound and the tunes weren't bad either. Have to say though, after DJing for 20+ years TT's mixing left a lot to be desired. Not that I can talk or that it really matters (it's all about the music baby!) it was just a bit surprising. After Towa Tei came Susumo and Daiji of Sleepyeye and my only regret was that I had one gin too many and stumbled out a bit earlier than I would have liked.

For a complete contrast to Suiren's style, you can't get much further away than Chinatown and Dove Pro Wrestling....

Not the first time I have blogged about these utter nutters but last Sunday's fight fest was as always, great entertainment, one fight even spilling out into the street at one point :)

Lastly and not leastly was Masashi Osaku at Sacred Spirits, put on by the lovely boys at one of WC's favourite bars in Hiroshima, Cover. Now I had never heard of Masashi Osaku but his mix CDs can often be heard at Cover and very good they are too. It's a little dangerously close to the kind of plodding trance beat that I'm not keen on but he's a lot better than that and manages to get a good groove going. Particularly impressive as he does it for 5 hours. At the risk of repeating myself, the Sacred Spirits sound system is fantastic and with a lot of people in there up for a good time it was an excellent night, depite the hippy decor ;)

So it's back to work :( and I've also got to get my arse in gear for not 1 but 2 upcoming releases on Dangerous Drums. Looks like I'm going to be infront of my computer even more than usual, if that's possible, but it is, as they say, all good.

New Track - 'Ooh, Yeah'

2009-04-20T23:24:00.002+09:00

Just finished off a new track and have stuck it on my MySpace page. It's called 'Ooh, yeah' and is at the top of the my player there so should start up the minute you 'arrive'.

Am always keen to hear people's thoughts so if your ears survive the fantastic quality that a MySpace music player provides, let me know....

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Hug a Speaker @ Mugen This Sunday

2009-04-13T19:49:00.002+09:00

Have been DJing at this monthly Mugen 'ladies' night for a while now but as of this week, it's changing days from Wednesdays to Sundays, which is, for me atleast, excellent news.

The music is pretty eclectic, but, one thing that does bring them all together is the bass. And lots of it.

Expect a lot of dub and reggae and a bit of dubstep and breaks from me and ghb.

It's free and the girls get a free drink with one order, hence it's 'ladies' night.

I'm looking forward to this as I can often be found out and about on a Sunday and this gives us another option in Hiroshima on an understandably quiet night.

Oh, and from then on, it's every 3rd Sunday よろしく

4月19日(SUN) 《HUG A SPEAKER》
@MUGEN5610 2F start 22:00～　　

DJs
FILTER KINGS
JAH LOVE IS SWEETER
3K BREAKS
2DA RUDE BEATZ
SOUND:REGGAE DUB BREAKS DRUMandBASS

※もちろん入場無料！さらに女性の方には1drinkサービスです！！！ぜひぜひ

And the Oscar for best contribution to a soundtrack goes to...

2009-04-01T13:14:00.002+09:00

Me. Maybe. If that category existed. Why, because my track Apathetic is going to be used in a film called 'Please Give' (click for details), starring Catherine Keener amongst other people I have never heard of, although, it does seem they are fairly famous so perhaps some of you with a better memory for names of actors than I may know them.

Beatpick again sorted it out for me, so many thanks there. Thanks again to Susan for singing so lovely-ly on it. This is starting to sound like an acceptance speech! :sobs: More thanks to Messyman for the mastering. :breaksdown:

If you fancy a listen, click on the Beatpick link above and search for Windcheater - Apathetic. You can even buy it if you want ;)

Might have news of a single release soon too. Will let you know when I have more details.

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Stuff I Like VOL1 - Hip Hop

2009-03-30T21:31:00.004+09:00

Started doing a mix recently and was getting fed up trying to work different genres together and so did what all hard working artists do. I gave up. Instead I just made a one genre mix of music I like. This first one is a hip hop mix. A few new tracks in there but mostly stuff everyone's probably heard before. No surprises, just the kind of Hip Hop I really love.

Get it here if you fancy - Stuff I Like VOL1 - Hip Hop

Depth Charge - Depth Charge vs Silver Fox ( Feat MC Alkaline )

2009-03-23T15:20:00.001+09:00

I used to have this on vinyl. My favourite track from the brilliant Depth Charge (J Saul Kane) - Silverfox Featuring MC Alkaline.

Anyway, somehow it got lost. How do you lose 12 inch records? I blame the son of one of my old landlords. He always used to play this when he came over and I don't remember having it after I moved out.

Obviously YouTube doesn't do the bass justice. Great to hear it again though. If anyone knows where I can get an MP3 of it....

New year, New track

2009-01-20T22:25:00.002+09:00

Hello. Happy New Year. Bit late I know but....first post of 2009. I seem to have lost the urge to blog recently. Not that it was much of an urge in the past, but you know what I mean. My resolutions this year are the same as last year which tells you how successful I was, hohum.

Anyway, I have stuck a new track up on my MySpace. Certainly not a soundsystem banger but have a listen if you fancy. It's called 'Wallflower' and should start up rudely uninvited as soon as you visit the page....

Windcheater's MySpace

3Kurismasu @ Enjoint Bar Cover

2008-12-02T23:42:00.004+09:00

Have to say I am looking forward to this. Our first time in cosy Cover bar with it's great hosts Ton-San and Tsuitty, it's often a lively little bar.

Just little ol' me and GHB will be there from 12 til late. We'll have plenty of tunes and I've even finally got round to burning some of my old hardcore tunes :)

:whistleposse:

It's FREE ofcourse and, well, I've already said the rest....

Hopefully see some of you down there.

Read all about it

2008-10-29T23:02:00.004+09:00

I've made it on to my hompage. And, no, I didn't just go into internet options and change my home page setting to http://www.windcheater.co.uk/ . Nope, Hiroshima features in the travel section of today's Guardian and for once the focus is on the city's livelier aspects.

The Guardian's Alex Hoban who is living here in Shikoku contacted me to ask a few things about the night life here and we ended up meeting at the Aba Shanti I gig at Mugen a couple of weeks back. Also featured are 3K friends Sleepyeye , Wide Island's Goto Izumi and some kids down by the river. The raid stuff is all a bit old hat for us living here but I suppose it makes some interesting reading for people who don't know about Japan or the city.

It's pretty positive though, as Alex himself was, and it's always nice to see other sides of Hiroshima portrayed to the world.

I do feel a bit bad as the great photo that is used on the front page was taken by my mate Paul at GH but has been credited to me. You only have to take a quick look at my snaps from last weekend's Halloween party to know I wouldn't have managed to get such a great shot. Then again, my beautiful visage has been cruelly snipped from the edge.

Anyway, read the whole article from here.

Hiroshima, Japan

2008-10-13T23:12:00.011+09:00

I thought I should blog about my nice weekend but wasn't really in the mood. That was until I happened across probably my least favourite EVER blog, and what I read there was so arse clenchingly awful, so toe curlingly embarassing, that I felt I had to. Well, that's a bit strong, this post ain't gonna end the credit crunch , but after reading such abysmal head-up-arse, 6 form

student, musings upon Japan, I felt a normal view of 'stuff' here deserved to be belched out into cyber space. Or the blog-o-sphere, Whatever. Yes, I'm normal. I'm not a freak with a bloated opinion of my er, opinions. I also like to stick to talking about stuff I know. You know, not like, making things up? Or scaring girls.

So, lets start with the weather, cos it's fucking gorgeous right now. That bit's for my readers back in the UK ;) Anyway, it was a long weekend here in Japan, not that it makes a lot of difference to me

as I always have Mondays off but, that long weekend spring was evident in people's steps. Saturday started in the lovely Organza and then took me to Mugen for Aba Shanti-I. I escaped with my hearing intact. Fuck it was loud, and obviously bass heavy. There was some guy from Osaka with the longest dreads I have ever seen who I enjoyed the most. Maybe not one for the purists, but fuck purists. Bloody luddites.

Back to Organza on Sunday to meet and then move on to Aina Haina for a gig, which, turned out to be pretty good. Couple of

pretty impressive bands with the ever rotating Hiroshima indie circuit musicians in evidence. How do they find the time to write material and practice I always think. One band was particularly impressive (used that word again, not good style) and featured Noodle out of Gorillaz.

After the gig we were invited along to a nice little party at Edge featuring a very elegant looking Minyaco who's energy always

astounds me. Bit of nabe and bedtime....

Today was yet another perfect day and even I thought I should atleast get out for a bit so headed off to Chuo Kouen to look at, well, lots of T-Shirts hang out on washing lines. The photos I had seen kind of captured my imagination but it was a little bit of an anti-climax. Gorgeous weather though so who's complaining?

In the early evening I played Futsal which was fun and I managed to find my shooting boots again :) No aggression, whilst not pussyfooting about, girls playing aswell without anyone acting like twats.

Dub, eccentric cafes, live bands, parties, art and football. All with the minimum of attitude, healthy doses of creativity and talent, and not a wanky blogger in sight. (Apart from me)

It really was a very pleasant weekend.

Carp again

2008-09-26T00:18:00.002+09:00

I just blogged about the Carp, but hey, I'm no writer, and I know fuck all about baseball and the history of the team. This is a nice article from the Daily Yomiuri. Thanks to GH for pointing me there.

Oh and they beat Manche...Giants tonight.

(and speaking of Manchester, Brighton beat the richest club in the world, Manchester City, last night.....Check it :)....)

Carp dream of landmark finish
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Fish might not dream, but Hiroshima Carp do. With Hiroshima Citizens Stadium staging its final games, outfielder Shigenobu Shima revealed his dream to The Hot Corner on Monday.
Before the Carp are transported to a new pond, a larger ballpark near Hiroshima Station for next season, the team has some unfinished business to attend to.
"There's no next year here," Shima said of the park that's scheduled to host its final regular season game on Sunday.
"If we get to the Climax Series, some fans will make it to our road games, but so many wouldn't be able to see us play. That's why we need to win so that we can come home in the Japan Series and play again for our fans here.
"We want to do this, and the fans share the feeling. It's pretty special."
Hiroshima Shimin is fairly special as well: a downtown, natural-surfaced, open-air facility, where fans walk or arrive on the streetcar that stops 30 meters from the gate. It is noticeably old and cramped, but it is also intimate. The atmosphere is similar to that at Koshien, but the fans in Hiroshima are perched closer to the action. The only stadium where the fans are any closer is the Eagles' remodeled park in Sendai.
It is a shame the club and city decided a new park was the best option, because with some serious renovation, this little gem could be unsurpassed.
When the Carp moved here in July 1957, the team was already seven years into an 18-year spell in the lower reaches of the Central League standings. That streak ended in 1968 with a 68-62-4 campaign, the club's second winning season, but Hiroshima's fans continued to suffer until 1975. That was the year the club emerged as a powerhouse.
With a mass of talent developed under former manager Rikuo Nemoto, the Carp won it all in 1975, 1979, 1980 and 1984 under skipper Takeshi Koba.
The Carp continued to be a force in the CL, but failed to win the Series in 1986 and 1991, with that last year being a turning point in the team's fortunes. The old guard of the 1980s was gone and new stars were emerging. Third baseman Akira Eto, shortstop Kenjiro Nomura and an outfield trio of Koichi Ogata, Tomonori Maeda and Tomoaki Kanemoto should have powered Hiroshima to some pennants, but the decline of the club's pitching and catching proved too big an obstacle.
Shinji Sasaoka had the stuff and heart to be Japan's best pitcher for over a decade, but the abusive management of Koji Yamamoto turned the dominant right-hander into a journeyman by the age of 27. Under Yamamoto and Toshiyuki Mimura, who skippered the Carp from 1994 to 1998, the Carp burned out one promising young pitcher after another.
Free agency, the inability to keep young pitchers healthy and the organization's unwillingness to pay the cost of keeping successful foreign players doomed the Carp to 10 straight lower-division finishes from 1998 to 2007.
The loss of the team's two best players, third baseman Takahiro Arai and pitcher Hiroki Kuroda, to free agency made things look bleak for a turnaround in Shimin Kyujo's final season. For those focusing on players who were either gone or long past their prime, the Carp had no chance.
But fortunately for the Carp and their fans, names do not win games, players do.
By fighting the owner's desire that every Carp lineup look like an old-timers game, Brown has given chances to younger, faster and more ambitious players.
Instead of having the popular, but lead-footed, Maeda in the outfield as ownership wants, the combination of Shima, Soichiro Amaya, Masato Akamatsu and Alex Ochoa provides a healthy supply of speed, offense and defense.
The addition of league strikeout and ERA leader Colby Lewis (14-7) has helped a fairly young pitching staff be even better without Kuroda.
The new-look Carp have played better and better as the season has progressed and seized a slight advantage in the race for the CL's final playoff spot over the past week.
So while the Carp fans are celebrating the old times, the team is giving Hiroshima a chance to see the old park in its best way possible--as the home of a winning team.
(Sep. 25, 2008)

広島市民球場, Hiroshima Shimin Kyujo

2008-09-23T10:17:00.003+09:00

I've always liked stadiums. Even despite the fact there has always been the distinction between the 'cheap seats' and the not so cheap and that in some modern arenas you have to pay a small fortune to get in, I have always find there is something egalitarian about them. Once everyone is in, you're all a -insert team name here- fan, you all want one thing and you all get behind -insert team name here- together. Aesthetically aswell, I just enjoy seeing a full stadium.

I'm also often depressed by stadiums, solely down to the fact that the team I support, Brighton and Hove Albion are still without a permanent home after more than 10 years of waiting.

Sadly another venue I have become attached to won't be lasting much longer as Hiroshima Carp's home, Shimin Kyujo, will be torn down at the end of this season and the Carp move across town to their new stadium.

Now, I'm not going to pretend to be a big baseball fan. I'm not. I have however, grown quite fond of the Carp, and the stadium has played it's own part in that.

For one thing, it's the atmosphere. Loud and passionate, it doesn't matter that the Carp are generally pretty shite, whenever I have been there the fans have been great. And it truly is for everyone. There's none of the overwhleming presence of men as in sporting venues in the UK. The whole family can go. And not in that horribly patronising way some places try and fit families in, much to the chagrin of the 'fellas'. That's just how it is. You can take your 3 year old kid and no one will mind if they climb over the seats. When I went last week there was a family of 3 generations sat infront of me with a small baby. It's the norm rather than the exception and the passion is not diluted for it.

Even after 5 years or so here I still am unsure on all the rules and I doubt I will ever develope a real affinity for the sport but I would definitely call myself a Carp fan. When I first got to Japan I thought I should atleast give Baseball a look in. I decided that I should obviously be a Carp fan, but how else could I try and involve myself in this game I was initially finding pretty dull. The key to my first stirrings for Yakkyu was infact coming across the Yomiuri Giants. The equation that lead to the result of me being able to get into my first Baseball games was quite simple;

Hiroshima Carp = My team + Yomiuri Giants = Manchester United = COME ON CARP!

Instant hatred, rivalry on tap. The underdogs versus the fat cats from Tokyo. Something I could understand and cling to like a, er, favourite hated teddy?

Anyway, the seeds had been sewn and since then I have always looked out for Carp results, stopped to watch when I see them on telly, and sometimes been to see at their home...

Which will very soon be no more. This is incredibly sad. It's always sad when a team leaves an old home but this is Hiroshima. The Carp's stadium is directly across the street from the A-Bomb dome. I doubt there are many other places in the world that have two such contrasting images of their city so close together. I hesitate to use the word beautiful, but on a warm evening, when the floodlights are lit, and people are streaming into the stadium, with the ruins of the dome in the foreground....it is some sight. One I never fail to appreciate. In the space of a few hundred metres you have the best and saddest of the city. It will be such a shame to lose it.

All is not lost though. You could never hope to better the location, significance and atmospere of the current stadium but, the new one doesn't look too bad at all. It is a proper stadium as opposed to one of those horrible dome things. More importantly though, unlike a lot of new stadiums that get built in the UK, this one is still in the centre of town. Not quite the centre like the old one, but next to Hiroshima station. They won't be any long out of town bus rides like there is if you want to go and see San Frecce play virtually out in the mountains and it's not, thank god, being built in some out of town 'development'. Infact, it's going to be easier to get to for a lot of people in Hiroshima Ken. It's never going to match it's predecessor for me, but it looks like it will stay very much a part of Hiroshima and is very much, in Hiroshima. It could of been a lot worse.

So what will go up on the old site? I am past caring really as I'm resigned to it falling way short of Shimin Kyujo and as long as it is at least architecturally interesting and not a shopping centre, it will have to do. For some reason City Officials seem to be ignoring my idea of building a stunning new stadium there for San Frecce. Hiroshima's two sporting representatives right in the middle of the town. Would be fantastic.

Why does nobody ever listen to me?

In the name of the father the son and the drum and bass

2008-09-19T11:44:00.001+09:00

Haven't done a YouTube post for a while (not including my tracks) but this is a goody

My all new dance troupe

2008-09-09T22:42:00.001+09:00

Not real, but then neither are Gorillaz are they?

Found this on YouTube taken from the game 'Audition' which my track 'Apathetic' was licensed for.

The two on the right don't look much cop.

3K at Lotus and a new mix

2008-08-25T15:34:00.002+09:00

On September 6th 九月六日3K will be back at Lotus for one of our semi regular-ish nights. It is ofcourse FREE, starts at 10pm and will go on until 3am.

As a taster you can download the latest 3K mix FROM HERE

It's got a bit of reggae, a bit of dub step, some breaks, some hip hop and ofcourse some sounds from Okinawa on it. Watch your bassbins (I'm telling ya).

Fucking hell!

2008-07-28T17:16:00.003+09:00

Excuse my French. There are a number of reasons for it. For example, last week I turned 36. Fucking hell. When did that happen? After work, (on a sunday, on my birthday. Fucking hell.) I went to Dove Pro Wrestling. I've blogged before about Dove Pro, the only other time I have been, which I thoroughly enjoyed. This time up, it was held in a kind of events hall and I'd wondered if I would enjoy it. It all seemed a bit too 'official' and well, wrestling-like to me, and I have no interest in wrestling generally. I shouldn't have worried. We got there late, just before the final bout, and I was surprised to see how many people were there and what a mix. Once again the music was great, a lot of dub, reggae and ska, and when the two local lads came out, one to the Dead Kennedy's - Holiday in Cambodia, you realise this is no place for hairspray and cock rock.

Next came the visiting fighters from Tokyo and everyone gets introduced by the MC.Before he's done though the guys from Hiroshima throw a punch, the drum and bass kicks in and within seconds, all 4 fighters are outside of the ring wading through crowds and chairs, apparently, taking no precautions about either. Fucking hell! My heart rate went through the roof at that. For the next 40 minutes I could be heard repeating the same thing every couple of minutes at the sight of some back breaking dive or nose splitting head kick. Two moments stood out. First, one of the local boys being laid out on a table on the floor and the Tokyo fighter climbing to the top of the ropes and then back flipping onto the prone guy, snapping the table in half. FUCKING HELL! Secondly, and bizarrely, one of the guys from Tokyo bringing out a load of fluorescent lightbulbs that were taped together as some kind of weapon, only to be holding it to his chest when his opponent ran straight into him. Chest to chest. SMASH! FUUUUUUCKING HELL! Glass everywhere and then a series of throws to the ground. A lot of very bloodied (real) backs. You should see me if I get a splinter.

Since I last went they seem to have taken things to new and, well, mental heights. What a weird hobby? But, again, brilliant entertainment. Highly recommended, it's underground Hiroshima culture at it's best.

Oh, and what is it with the wrestling grannies? Actually, it would be a bit unfair to call them grannies, but almost as entertaining as the fighting was watching some of the audience (female, over 40s) getting so worked up by it. Fantastic.

Wrestling aside, I have recently discovered Sub Swara. You could lazily describe them as Dub Step, but there's a lot more to them than that. Brilliant bass led music with an amazing mix of live and electronic percussion and Ragga influenced vocals. The production on their new album Coup d'Yah is superb. First time I heard it....fucking hell. If you like a bit of a heavy bassline check it out.

A question

2008-07-11T13:01:00.001+09:00

If you were to visit a prostitute in Japan, after you're all done, do you think the young lady would say 'Otsukare samma deshita' to you?

I bet they would.

If anyone can shed any light on this, the comments section is open :)

New Track - Long Time Rocker

2008-07-02T23:24:00.002+09:00

I've been posting this up in a few places around the net and even played it out on Saturday so why I haven't put it on my own blog until now I'm not sure. Here it is though. Windcheater fans (hello John and Derek) might have noticed that this 'new' track has exactly the same name as a slightly older track. This version did start out as a remix, or reworking, or whatever you want to call it but is so far removed from the original version I did plan on giving it another name. When I put it up on my MySpace though I didn't want to call it Work In Progress or anything so stuck with the older one. The previous version won't be seeing the light of day now anyway.

I digress, as my English teacher Mrs Welford used to say. You can hear it on my MySpace page, with all the sonic quality that the MySpace players provide. Comments, both cruel and kind are most welcome.

Campeones!

2008-07-01T18:24:00.004+09:00

Never mind Spain's 44 year wait or England's 42 years of hurt, what about my 35 years of never getting to watch a major final that I have some connection with eh?

Finally, in the very early hours of Monday morning I got to experience one of my football dreams. The one about being a professional footballer unfortunately looks like it might need to be shelved.

Incase you don't know, Spain beat Germany 1-0 in the final of Euro2008 and thanks to my Dad deciding to go and wait on tables over 40 years ago from A Coruna in Galicia I was able to watch one of my teams win something.

I've only ever really liked one sport, probably in part due to my Dad's nationality (he didn't exactly have much of a passion for Rugby and Cricket) , but also just cos it's so bloody good. Despite the ridiculous money that sloshes around in it, the scandals, the sometime violence and the gamesmanship it still, usually, retains it's essence once the game is underway. It's the one true world sport, the game of the people, the beautiful game, insert next football cliche here. It's simplicity and skill are what I think people like. You can play football on your own, with a couple of people, without posts (Jumpers for goalposts....), without a ball even. And it's all at your feet. In the past I have read American pundits scorn football because you use your feet. Complete idiocy. Hand eye coordination is easier guys. That's why people get so excited when a player threads a ball through to a team mate, dribbles past 2 or 3 opponents or looks up and pings a ball perfectly to another player. That's why one goal is so special and why they are celebrated so wildly.

I'm going on I know but waking up on Sunday I felt like a kid, rushing out to buy a Spain shirt and then wanting to walk around in it, and I am still grinning when I think about it. For once Germany didn't wreck my dreams and, bias aside, by far the best team in the tournament won.

Now if only England could win something....

wait for that blog post! Or rather, don't hold your breath. It could be quite a while yet.

Wax on, Wax off

2008-06-24T22:11:00.002+09:00

I was hoping to do this post in the style of the Star Wars introductions, where the text disappears off into the nether reaches of the galaxy. Came across a website the other day where you could put your own text in and it would do that for you. Visited it today and Lucasfilms have asked for them to take it down. Arses. The website in itself was infinitely better than Star Wars 3 - Whatever the fuck it was called.

:Sulk:

Anyway, on a shit movie tip, last week my sleeping patterns were very much disturbed by illness and on Saturday night/Sunday morning I found myself watching the Karate Kid. On Youtube. All of it! It was kind of fascinating in a couple of respects. Firstly, it came out when I was 12 and at the time was AMAZING. It obviously isn't amazing now but it really is incredible how BAD it is. For non-Americans growing up watching Hollwood teen movies, High Schools really are fascinating places. Are they really in any way like how they are portrayed in the movies? The 'popular' kids, proms, jocks, everyone driving their cars to school (or getting pulled behind them on a skateboard), everyone being really horrible to each other etc? It's a fascinating world to a 12 year old English kid. Then throw in Karate....OH MY GOD. He wasn't bad at football either. Interestingly all the women, or rather girls, are all really plain, and as for Ralph...I think he was as skinny as me. I never tucked my tops in though.

The other thing that is now funny is the Japanese bits of it.....cue mystical oriental pipe music, wind chimes and the like. Oh god. I suppose it's not even worth thinking about but it's all there bar the cherry blossom (Bonsai do the job admirably though). Just another little chapter (well more like footnote) in Western cultures mystification of Japan, with a bit of help from Japanese culture's mystification of Japan. Completely irrelevant but funny all the same, seeing it after all these years. Now, I wonder if Karate Kid 2 is on YouTube....

arrrgggghhhhhhhh! 2

2008-06-09T19:22:00.001+09:00

Dunno what happened with the previous post. One great big copy and paste mess with a few typos for good measure.

Anyway, to prove I'm not incapable, here's another video of the same place and it even has English sub-titles. It kind of makes it look not that scary which is a shame. Don't be fooled though.

arrrggggghhhhhhh!

2008-06-08T19:30:00.001+09:00

I once blogged about my terrifying experience in an Obake Yashiki (Haunted House) in Odaiba Tokyo - I once blogged about my terrifying experience in an Obake Yashiki (Haunted House) in Odaiba Tokyo - http://windcheaterblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/tokyo.html

I've often told people about it and how scray it was and then it occurred to me to have a look on Youtube for it......and there it is. There's actually a couple of videos. Anyway, If you sit there watching it and think that the girls in this are a bit wet and are screamig way to much, you really should try it out yourself. I've never sworn so loudly in my life.

I've often told people about it and how scray it was and then it occurred to me to have a look on Youtube for it......and there it is. There's actually a couple of videos. Anyway, If you sit there watching it and think that the girls in this are a bit wet and are screamig way to much, you really should try it out yourself. I've never sworn so loudly in my life.

Charlie Brooker

2008-05-26T22:10:00.002+09:00

Charlie Brooker is always worth a read on Mondays in the Guardian. If you haven't heard of him, clicketh there, or here, or if you're pushed for time, just have a chuckle at today's description of British PM Gordon Brown;

Ghastly and nightmarish though Miliband may be, he's got nothing on gloomy Gordon Brown, who increasingly resembles a humourless, imposing old butler slowly creaking the mansion door open in a Frankenstein movie. Prime Minister Igor, the shuffling fun-free zone. No wonder the nation's fallen out of love with him. Imagine playing a carefree game of frisbee with Brown at a summer barbeque. You can't. That's why the poor bastard's doomed.

Drinking strong alcohol in city centres

2008-05-23T13:09:00.002+09:00

Yesterday I stopped by the Sake Paradise event by accident after bumping into a friend who was on his way there. I'm not much of a Sake drinker and wasn't really enthused by the idea of lots of people drinking it in Alice Gardens but went along anyway.

One of my least favourite Japanese stereotypes is the salaryman, drunk or sober, I'm not fussy. Now, I say stereotypes because I ofcourse know many very nice salarymen but we all generalise, however enlightened we feel ourselves and when I'm in the mood to generalise, I like to generalise about annoying salarymen. For the sake of this post, let's focus on the drunk variety. Loud, obnoxious, thinking it's hilarious to chat to a Gaijin. I'm sure a lot of us have been there. The thing is, after being here a while, this starts to grate and more importantly, I forget about drunkeness back home. Last night however brought it back to me for a moment.

Now, I know there are beer festivals and the like in the UK but like this? Completely open to all, from 4 in the afternoon, Sake being downed amongst shoppers and school kids on their way home. Where were the sirens? Where was the blood? What's all this good natured drunkeness? Not tipsy or tiddly, but properly, commitedly, studiously drunk. I had wondered why my mate enjoyed this event so much but it quickly became clear. It was just really nice, and no one was fighting. As another friend commented last night; 'Beer gardens? Nomihoudai? At home? You must be joking.' (He's from NZ)

So it was nice. Nice to realise again, one of the finer aspects of living here. No doubt the next time a salaryman staggers over to me in an Izakaya I'll have forgotten, but I'll try at least, to remember.

3K@Bar Edge Sat 24th 10pm - ?am FREE

2008-05-19T21:27:00.003+09:00

Sick of sitting on the door whilst people enjoy themselves and in an attempt to ride the wave of the moderate success we've been enjoying at Lotus recently, 3K have decided to book Edge for the night and throw it's doors open (not literally, the neighbours would complain) for free.

We'll be joined once again by the shy and retiring boys ;) from Sleepyeye. It shouldn't be a night for the wall huggers and head nodders.

Seriously though ladies and gents, we're hoping that this could be a bit special and more importantly, a lot of fun. Cos that is, after all, why we do it.

You can check out some of the kinds of tunes we play over at the 3K website or if that's just a couple of clicks too much, here's a DIRECT LINK to the last one.

よろしくね！

WC goes Pro

2008-05-13T19:23:00.002+09:00

I haven't taken to hanging around on street corners under lamps yet, no. Today I heard that one of my tracks was commisioned to be used in an online game. 'Audition' it's called apparently although I am not 100% sure on that.

It's not much (it really isn't) but it's the first time I have really received anything like cash money for any of my music, so, I might have a beer tonight.

It's all thanks to Beatpick where you can stream either of my 2 E.P.s or indeed BUY them from my own little page there - HERE -

ah pareee

2008-05-11T00:06:00.004+09:00

I've just watched the wonderful (going all language student on you there) movie (when did I stop saying film?) Amelie. It's been sitting in my drawer for over a year and I was in fact downloading Spiderman 3 when I remembered I had it, right here, to watch, right now, on DVD. Sake. Although I'm sure I will enjoy Spiderman too but, I am a man of many, er, what's the word?

Whatever. Really, really, lovely stuff. Loved it. Although it did make me feel very depressed at one point. Apart from it's cinematic qualities it was all so, well, French. What an accent. WHAT. AN. ACCENT! To think, I was also downloading 'This is England' and could have been listening to English skin heads (better music though probably).

And Paris. It really does do exactly what it says on the tin, and that's, be Paris. Yeah, hordes of tourists and miserable (Les Miserable?? Sorry.) shop assistants, but it's so beautiful. You might avoid the dog shit if you weren't looking around you all the while. And you'll shrug off that 4th slippy step of the day with a gallic shrug and a booooffff so what the heck?

Beautiful beautiful city. It gets a WCBlog 'Thumbs Up!'.

Who needs Michelin stars?

Toilets I have loved #1

2008-04-24T22:19:00.006+09:00

There's been a few 'classic' Hiroshima toilets on the WCBlog before and it's high time we had another. This one has even got me in it which is unusual and a bit rich (winks at Kiwi chum).

This lovely loo is in Bar Toronto which is a new place (or at least under new management) and so doesn't have a sign yet. It's in the building next to Barcos. Somewhere.

It was the venue for last Saturday's secret gig by 3K pals Sleepyeye which we DJed at alongside DJ D-Vine and Monsieur Flip and ofcourse, the 3pi boys. Lot of a fun, great tunes and a secret room with sliding bookcase door!

End of May we are doing a free party at Edge with Sleepyeye. It should be massive.

British haute cuisine

2008-04-11T11:49:00.002+09:00

Incredibly some people still labour under the impression that the UK lags behind the rest of the world when it comes to food. Well, feast your eyes on that Paris.

Jealous? I think so.

Full story here.

Can't help but think that Alan Partridge had some hand in the inspiration of this dish.

That video...

2008-04-07T20:58:00.002+09:00

Wondering whether the video that had my music in had been re-uploaded without it, I came across the original one that some paint ball enthusiast had put up. God knows why, the link to the activity is tenuous. Anyway, if your desperate to hear Windcheater set to images.....there ya go ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZBqq9Z8J9c

An apology

2008-04-05T12:58:00.002+09:00

Apparently the handsome fellow to your left was a bit embarrassed to be presented with a print out of the picture from this post at the beginning of a class last week.

Windcheater can only apologise for this violation of image rights and would like to assure the injured party that it won't happen again.

And talking of violating rights the youtube video in the post below this has been taken down. Beatpick decided it was a bit cheeky seeing as it did advertise their company and they didn't link to my site or to Beatpick's, which is fair enough. I imagine they wouldn't want their photo being used by all and sundry. Personally I didn't mind them using it but people like the guys at Beatpick work very hard making music available for free or at low costs and so it makes sense to do it properly.

So I suppose that puts me at the same level as Jamiroquai now.

Windcheater beats off competition from Jamiroquai

2008-04-04T19:57:00.001+09:00

Not really, but, my track Penalise 'em was used in the above video in place of the guy with the big hats cos, well, it's obvious really isn't it. They didn't pay for it. My stuff however, is available for non-commercial use through www.Beatpick.com . Have a look if you're in need of some music for whatever project, there's all types of music and it's all of a very high quality....that's why I'm on there naturally :)

P.S. I'm reminded by this of once talking with an Australian mate of mine who asked me if I liked Jamie Rock Y.

tee hee

A whole Lotus fun

2008-03-25T21:31:00.002+09:00

Sorry for that terrible terrible pun. What can I say, I strayed and read a News of the World article the other day that, if you stripped it of all it's word plays, would have contained only the words 'the', 'and', 'a' and 'he/she'.

Anyway, last Saturday we smashed it again at Lotus as the dancing shoes came off, feet stepped up onto the seating area, and the dancing socks most definitely came on.

Many thanks to moco, Eiji-low and Sakaguchi of ELECTROCKERH for helping us have such a good time.

Looking forward to the next one.

Oops I did it again

2008-03-17T18:17:00.002+09:00

I haven't shaved my hair off or wandered around drunk on stage at the MTV awards. Yet.

Keeping a blog it's interesting to look back on what I've been up to the past 3 years and also to see how I sometimes repeat myself.

Last year I bought back some omiyage for the kids I teach and ended up scoffing the lot. Well, this year, before I went back to the UK I had seen a friend of mine I don't often see and his very cute, very cooly named boy. He happened to mention that they were big fans of Jaffa Cakes (see pic) . At Sainsbury's one day I spied the Chocolatey Orange biscuit/cake (which side of the debate are you on?) and remembering what they'd said bought a packet to bringback. As I said, I don't see them often....and I don't have a contact mail or number.....and today it occurred to me to check the best before date.....5th of April. Shit!12 days out of date, I can't give them them now. But I can't just throw them away....so, I ate them. Old people eat out of date stuff all the time and old people never die do they?

Another thing occurred to me whilst I was eating them. Something that an alert blog reader might have already noticed. It's not April is it? It's March. They were fine. A genuine mistake, but I've just done half of the packet. Can't give them an opened box now can I?

Oh well. Maybe next time. On a side note I see that they now make 'Zingy' Blackcurrant and Lemon and Lime Jaffa Cakes, which, I have to say, sound disgusting.

This week

2008-03-16T19:34:00.003+09:00

This coming Saturday we're being joined by ELECTROCKERH at Lotus for another of our free little parties. The last two have been great fun so if you haven't been and like a bit of electronic music (whatever that is) come on down.

Expect to hear a mix of Electro, Breaks, House and a little bit of Dubstep early doors.

Some pics from our last events there can be perused here.

We're also at Mugen this Wednesday for 'Hug a Speaker'. Expect a heavily reggae influenced night where the ladies can get a drink for free (after buying one).

Perhaps see you out and about....

Clicking irritants

2008-03-04T23:30:00.002+09:00

Grrrr, first Microsoft decides there's no need for a delete icon in explorer anymore (whose idea was that?) and then the Guardian go and get rid of the Football link on it's front page. Apparently there are other sports I now have to navigate my way through. Ug. Life, my friends, is tough.

Anyway, the days are getting warmer, the light lasting longer, the blossoms are a-sprouting, my snot runneth ceaselessly and as of this week my eyes are definitely starting to itch. Yep Spring is coming and so is the pollen. I have never been much of an allergy sufferer until 3 years ago and I learnt one of my most used phrases かふんしょうです. Bloody hell, it's a nightmare. Last year I would wake up with my eyes stuck together. Ironically this was the nicest part of the day as they wouldn't itch then. So, I would lay in bed, for 10 minutes or so, with them safely sealed from all the goo they'd oozed. Mmmmm goo.

Anyway, I eventually got my pathetic arse down to a Doctor and he gave me some medicine and er, it got better. But it's back! Luckily this year, remembering the horrors of last, I went back to the good doc and got the same medicine over a month ago (I had a cold I thought it had started). It's been sitting on my kitchen table ever since and I think I might just crack it open tomorrow.

Which leads me in a wonderfully vague way to encourage anyone suffering in silence to get yourself to a doctor. Doesn't matter if you don't speak Japanese. Just sniffle and say Kafunshou desu. The one I went to is called something like the Hiroshima Respiratory and Alergy clinic and is behind Hiroshima Eki (Shinkansen side). Cross at the lights and go straight and take the first or second right. Then look out on the right hand side, about 5 floors up for some kind of clinic. How's THAT for 'sketchy'.

Bless you

Shouldn't laugh, but....

2008-02-22T22:42:00.001+09:00

A Japanese man who turned up at a school dressed in a girl's uniform and a long wig was arrested for trespassing, police said.
Tetsunori Nanpei, 39, put on the uniform he had bought over the internet and took a walk near the high school in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on Wednesday.
Students standing outside the school gates caught sight of him and started screaming, local papers reported, at which point Nanpei rushed on to the school grounds hoping to blend in with the crowds of teenagers.
When pupils in the school began screaming the man fled, losing his wig in the process. A school clerk pursued him and stopped him at a nearby riverbank.
Police confirmed the man's arrest but gave no further details.

'hoping to blend in'! :)

Back in the days...

2008-02-22T20:52:00.005+09:00

I've been wallowing in nostalgia of late. There's me on the left, aged around 16, banging away on the drums in my former space rock meets the Stranglers type band, Food.

Most of this recent sepia tinted memory-fest has come about because of Facebook. I only joined it to play Scrabble, but it certainly works in a kind of, browse your mates photo albums way and, it throws up a fair few people you haven't seen in a LONG time. One add of an old friend lead to another and another, and then one of those old friends put up a photo or two, which inspired another friend to do the same, and, well, you get the picture (or I did :BOOMTISH:). I now have a growing collection of photos, that I'd never seen before, of me, fresh faced and fancy free.

You also get groups...I have joined a few. Basically related to my social circle here. The other day though, I noticed, amongst all the frigging pokes, that one of my friends had joined a group called 'Spiral Tribe'. Spiral Tribe were (are) the sound system I had some of the best nights/weekends of my life with, and there, in their group/on their website are photos of some of those events. Not brilliant photos it has to be said, but photos none the less and recognisable....parties in fields and warehouses from 17 years ago that I could still see more or less in my mind's eye, but now there they are on my computer screen. Torpedo Town, the best rave I ever went to, Worthing, which I remember for dancing for around 8 hours solid, and the New Year's Parties at the Round House in London, the first being brilliant, the actual New Year party being a bit of nightmare.

At times like this I really do love the internet. I imagine though that future generations will be able to call up almost anything, anytime, anywhere. I remember reminiscing, at around the time the top picture was taken, with friends about kids programmes we used to watch. I never thought at that time that I would see them again. Perhaps that was before nostalgia TV and video/DVD re-releases were so popular. More importantly though, it was before YOUTUBE. Hands up who's wasted many an hour on Youtube watching music videos/TV Shows from their youth? I have to say I love it, and it outdid Facebook in the nostalgia stakes when I discovered these videos of Nirvana playing at Reading festival in 1991. It's a gig I remember really well because they were so good on that day, but my god, the whole thing is there. My 17 year old memories, not just captured in a frozen image, but the whole bloody thing, audio an' all. It's like watching it projected from, or on to, as Alan Partridge would say, 'my mind's curtain cupboard'.

And why has most of this come from August 1991? Dr Emmett Brown might hypothesise about the cultural significance of that but for me, it represents a very (pleasant) surprising look back, and now record, of one of the most enjoyable times I've had. I never jumped into my drum kit like Kurt though.

Hajimemashite

2008-02-12T21:17:00.000+09:00

Seeing as I'm trying to be slightly more regular in my posting I figured it might be an idea to put the blog out there, just a little you understand. If I'm going to waste my time writing it, I may as well waste your time by getting you to read it. I joined up with Japan in Motion after picking up a flyer one night last week, sooooo, if it's your first visit, you'll be cockerhoop to find I've linked to some past entries that might give you a rounded view of the 'whole boy', me. Well the blog anyway. Enjoy. (If you get beyond the first one)

Where I live
When WC learnt to dance
Listening to music
The day job
Hifana come to town
The Noro virus
Buy my music :)
Golden Week
Long weekends with Dangerous Drums
GH Festival
Dancing in Japan
I love Tokyo
Blighty
Trying to find the normal people
My year

A farewell to Roxis

2008-02-04T21:50:00.000+09:00

It would be nice to report that we went out with bang but our last night at Roxis really only underlined why we can't be arsed with it anymore. Richard and Dai-chan have been great to us but at the end of the day, noone comes down for the event itself despite a few nights being busy with people on the dance floor. It seems that a lot of people go down to Roxis with a kind of unplanned private party in mind, bringing their own music and looking a bit put out when they realise they can't get comfy. A couple of times I've felt sorry for Dai-chan that we are there which isn't really what you want when you're doing an event!

So, no more regular nights but look out for irregular events at Lotus, Edge and the occasional spot at Mugen from us at 3K. Will ofcourse, keep you 'all' informed.

BRAINTAX Feat Dubble edge - ANTI GREY

2008-01-26T02:17:00.001+09:00

qualla UKHipHop

An ode to tea...

2008-01-21T18:50:00.001+09:00

PG Tips (warning: website includes slightly disturbing talking/staring monkey) tea to be precise.

An American colleague asked me if I ate lots of nice food while I was back in England at xmas. After I'd stopped laughing I did concede that I always enjoyed the bread and cheese back home, and do try and go for a curry just cos I can have it with rice other than Japanese rice, which I don't really find goes with curry. Oh, and bacon. Then there's tea. Now the tea in Japan is fine. It's not quite as nice as PG Tips, but then again neither is Tetley, but it is tea. It's pretty cheap aswell and very drinkable. So, no problem there, and what with Marmite being available in Jupiter and the high quality of food here (Asian or European) there really is nothing I miss foodwise about the UK (apart from your cooking Dad naturally....and you're not even English). I dread to think of a life without Ramen, Sushi, Okonomiyaki, Onigiri, Yakiniku, Soba, Kirin Lemon tea and Dars 100 yen chocolate. Oh and yakitori. I could go on.

Anyway, back to tea. This year's Omiyage involved a lot of PG Tips for expats and locals alike. I never really realised how NICE tea from England (not strictly from England obviously, you know what I mean) is until I lived in Madrid. Good GOD tea in Spain is undrinkable. Hideous tasteless dishwater. Emergency flares were sent up and luckily a steady stream of visitors kept us well in supply of our drug of choice. I think we even discovered you could buy PG Tips at an Asian food store. I suppose it is from Asia. Anyway, 2 tea stories that should leave you in no doubt as to the strength (brew) of a good cuppa...

1. In tea hell, Spain, I used to work for a British English language school. As you can imagine a lot of tea 'went down' in the staff room as most of us kept up the supplies with regular shipments from back home. Isabela, our secretary, eventually succumbed to the pressure of her peers and started taking the odd drop of cha. I remember her coming in one day to be offered a hot drink. Tea please she said only to break into a classic Madrilena sneer when she saw me reach for the only tea we had left (Spanish), 'Errrr not those ones, I want the ones you all usually drink' said the former dedicated coffee drinker. Don't think she'll be swapping her morcilla for black pudding though.

2. Concerning the omiyage I brought back this year. I presented my chum with a box of PG's finest at Opium the other day. Sometime 3K DJs Kazu and Daisuke where there with their lady friends. I don't think I have ever seen Kazu get so excited as when he spotted the box of PG. Jumping over to our table....EHHHH! Nani Kore? PG Tips!! Nande!!? Kazu used to live in England you see. His excitement drew the others over and for the first time in my life I think, I saw a Japanese person praise part of English cuisine......BARI UMAI! You should have heard him wax lyrical on how good it is. After that review we dolled out a bag each. Later on I noticed Kazu had 2 bags infront of him....one for his girlfriend he claimed.

Maybe I could become a PG pusher?

A listening loose end

2008-01-16T23:46:00.000+09:00

Blimey it's cold outside. I'm not straying far from my heater at the moment, hoping it doesn't make too many of those funny sounds it's prone to and enjoying the fumes when it does.....mmmmmmm fumes.

Since I was back in the UK I have been listening a fair bit to Dubstep FM . The UK part isn't relevant, other than the music's roots, as it's based in America. My brother just had it on often. It's very good, streams at 192kbps geek fans, and showcases a lot of very good dubstep. Not everyone's cup of tea, it's been slowly growing on me. It's definitely good sound system type music. Dropped a couple of tracks late on on Saturday when I had drank enough not to worry if anyone left. Sounded amazing loud. Give it a spin, you, you might like it.....you might need some half decent speakers though.

Hello!

2008-01-09T12:15:00.000+09:00

You really could only be in Japan when there's a Hello Kitty airplane taxiing (how do you spell that?) on the runway.

(Although on reflection it is an airplane so it's probably going to be going abroad at some point)

Rats!

2008-01-05T00:11:00.000+09:00

2008, the year of the rat. My year. I'm a rat. The Stranglers album on the left is one of my favourite ever albums, Rattus Norvegicus. Nice link (not the hyperlink). 2007 won't be going down as WC's best so hopefully 2008 will be better and I'm being PROACTIVE! Starting with this blog, so, Hisashiburi.

I'm sat in my parent's home much as I was this time last year. Some things have changed though, we've been playing PES 7 this year. Also I seem to have a mild version of my old friend the Noro Virus. It's all the rage in the UK right now.

I did get to go via Bangkok this year though which was a lot of fun. Very hot, very crowded, lovely food, and all sorts of stuff to look at and be entertained by. 5 days seemed too short in the end and I soon forgot any plans to go on a trip somewhere although it now would be nice to see a calmer side of Thailand.

I have at least now, spent some time in another Asian country other than Japan and a couple of days in Korea.

And I traveled north, to see chums in Newcastle. That was nice as we toured Britains majestic countryside in a VW Polo. I'm not even being that sarcastic. The countryside is amazing. We went to the Lakes, Hadrian's Wall, Scotland, Holy Island and er, Bigg Market.

If you've ever read Viz and not been to Newcastle, you'll be pleased to hear the stereotypes are far from made up. Biffa Bacon, The Fat slags, I saw them all on a brief walk through town on a Friday night. That said, away from your herds of binge drinking pleasure seekers the people were very friendly, a far cry from the miserable bastards round here.

And so, tomorrow night I fly back to Japan to start 2008. Will the rat bring me luck?

Musically I should be off to a good start with one of my tracks featuring in a documentary about street life and hip hop culture in New York (word) and GHB and myself will be at Seacake Style on the 12th of Jan. We had a couple of great parties at Lotus towards the end of the year....look out for a few more of them.

Happy New Year

Break N Enter in Brighton Emcee killa cappo karizma foz

2007-11-11T00:15:00.001+09:00

Electro Funk Daddy Superstar Brake

2007-10-24T01:26:00.001+09:00

Dangerous Drums - Saturday Oct 13th

2007-09-27T23:18:00.000+09:00

This October Dangerous Drums duo ED2000 and dj Vela touch down in Hiroshima again for 2 nights of Breaks, Electro, Dub Step and whatever else they fancy.

The main event is on Saturday 13th of October at Bar Edge. We haven't been there for a while and we're very much looking forward to getting back down underground.

Alongside ED2000 and dj Vela we are also proud to present

CA2 (CoA 3KBreaks)

Moco (ELECTROROCKERH)

Godfarm (Heartbeat of Dragon)

and your hosts GHB and, little old me, Windcheater

Saturday night will be a good ol' fashioned 3KBreaks night and costs 2000Yen in advance, 2500Yen on the door.

On Friday (12th October) night, we're having a little pre-event at Lotus. ED2000 and Vela will be spinning again, with a very different flavour to Saturday. Expect lots of Dub Step and records played at the wrong speed :)

Joining us on this night will be the Sleepeye boys, and it's free.

Come and chill out on the friday, then put on your d****** shoes for Saturday. Just don't tell the rozzers.

Making of the Doctor Who theme (full)

2007-09-23T05:59:00.001+09:00

lovely stuff