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New Zealand's mad scientist of scientific dub, Freeform, will get loopy at Chocolate and Love tomorrow night. PHOTO: MAX WOODWORTH, TAIPEI TIMES

The weekend starts tonight with DJ Vertigo laying down Techno-Phonic in Luxy's Lotus Room, while in the Galleria, Liquid Lifestyle will launch 2 Legit, bringing their signature mayhem to the club on the second Friday of every month, that being tonight. The new theme is 90s hip hop, R&B and reggae, so prepare for plenty of MC Hammer and hopefully some Vanilla Ice. 2 Legit picks up from the 3rd Heaven parties, which go off on the third Wednesday of each month, that being next Wednesday.

Another delight for rappers will come next Saturday at Luxy, when none other than Grandmaster Flash will be in town. Paint that date red on your calendar and show up early. It'll be the year's first absolutely-positively-must-see.

At Ministry of Sound tonight is guest resident DJ John Robinson from the UK with Taiwan's own DJ DK. Tomorrow night is Remus from Hong Kong plus local boys Alex Wu and Jimmy Chen.

Tomorrow night at Eden, DJ @llen will play host to his monthly Love Groove party with Nina backing him up on the decks with their signature blends of West Coast, latin and funky house. They'll have their work cut out for them after last week's Deep Inside party, but they aren't the types to disappoint eager partygoers.

Also tomorrow night, a professional VJ from New Zealand who goes by the stage name Freeform -- which also happens to be the name of the software he uses -- will be the highlight of a show at the bar Chocolate and Love. Vinyl Word had a chance to catch up with Freeform earlier this week for a short preview of the video work and can say with some certainty that it's several cuts above the moving layered images we commonly see at clubs.

Using a battery of gadgets he'll be manipulating sound -- termed scientific dub in this instance -- and 3D images, with the projections shot onto fabric screens installed throughout the bar. The show promises to be part performance, part party, with DJs Creeper and Opiate playing house and tribal tunes before and after Freeform. Entrance is NT$500 and includes a shot of absinthe. The bar is located at 148 Xinyi Rd, Sec 4, Taipei (台北市信義路4段148號).

The Vinyl Word is happy to hear Coffey back in town and at the decks after several months away. He was at Luxy's Lotus Room on Wednesday and scored a dancefloor hit with a stack of new wax.

The Vinyl Word: absinthe on the house!
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