While central Yenshui detonates millions of small explosives in its annual fireworks festival, a group of Taipei dance party organizers will give the event a new twist with an experimental electronic music party in a nearby warehouse.
"The fireworks end at 2am, so we're pretty sure no one will complain about the music," said Dominik Tyliszcz, who will provide projected visuals at the free of charge event, which is dubbed the Pow! Party. DJs will include erstwhile singer/songwriter Lin Chung, Fish, the Seedy Pimps, Felix `66 (of Air Dolphin) and around 10 others.
Located just a two minute walk from the post office in downtown Yenshui.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WING GANG
The party is scheduled to begin at 4pm next Tuesday and run until early the next morning. Though near the center of the action, Tyliszcz said the event has no intention of being "invasive," as the venue faces away from the action and toward the river which runs through the town.
The Wing Gang, one of the event's three organizers, has put on other unconventional events before. Headed by Australian photographer Jimmie Wing, the group commemorated the first anniversary of central Taiwan's 1999 earthquake with an evening of Hakka folk performances and ambient electronic music for residents of disaster zones in Nantou County. Last year the Wing Gang used hip hop to promote AIDS awareness in a street stage in Taipei's Hsimenting highlighted by the performance of local rapper, MC Hotdog.
Transportation to and from the Pow! Party is available on specially chartered buses, which will leave Taipei at noon and 3pm on Feb. 26, and return at 4am and 6am the following morning. Bus tickets cost NT$550 in advance or NT$750 on the day of, and can be ordered by calling 0933-991-183 (English) or 0936-578-509 (Mandarin).
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