Two new additions to the vinyl fold are now open for business. Champagne 3, 171, Songde Rd, Taipei (台北市松德路171號) opened up last Friday with SL in the mix, free-flowing sparkling wine and a light finger buffet. The basement club is surprisingly spacious with VIP rooms, a vodka bar and a two-level dance floor. Entrance is NT$500 for party nights.
This weekend all the action is taking place tomorrow night, and a smorgasbord of vinyl treats it is too.
DL Delight, formerly Player, at 96, Zhongxiao E Rd, Sec 3, Taipei (台北市忠孝東路三段96號) has a new sound system and will host a party with Saucey, Code, Elements, Yoshi and Tyson stepping up to the wheels of steel.
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It's Saucey's birthday and Eden will open later than usual to make sure one of Taiwan's most prolific DJs celebrates appropriately. Interhouse at Eden opens at 10pm and will carry on until 11am on Sunday.
The Loop presents The Demo Tour, with Underground Nation, E-Turn, who is Taiwan's DMC Champion and the Demo Tour Dancers rocking Luxy.
If Valentine's Day was a disappointment, Rob Solo, Glenn, Ugly, Frank, Syntax Error, Stan and Nov are throwing a Valentine's Breakup party at Tokyo City, Kaohsiung.
Iain Taylor, current Tribal Sessions resident at Sankey's Soap, Madchester, will bring his own blend of breakbeat and house to 18 Lover. Sometimes playing on as many as five turntables, Taylor has toured with The Jungle Brothers, Cash Money and Kentaro, who is himself due to grace Room 18 with a set next Friday.
And for something a little bit different, Murd`n'bass looks set to rock the rafters at The Wall. Admission is NT$500 for all you can drink with Da, Danjah, Elements, Funkstar, MC Beemer, Zeon and Chin.
Deluxe, a restaurant-sports bar at Taipei Arena is adding another string to its bow. United Nations of Funk is putting on a Vice party, featuring "funky hillbilly" K Fancy, Junior Van den Berg and Coffey. The place will be turned into a club venue with VJs from 11pm until 4am.
MoS, meanwhile, is taking a break. Charles Liu, the club's PR manager, said the place will be redecorated and is slated to re-open in March.
Hump day (Wednesday) may be less of a strain this week as the Prodigy are jetting into town for a gig at Zhongshan Soccer Stadium on Tuesday night. Tickets are NT$1,200 in advance and NT$1,500 on the door. Visit www.ticket.com.tw or call (02) 2341 9898 for more details. Liam Howlett, Maxim Reality and Keith Flint have climbed to the top of the charts without abdicating artistic integrity.
"The British dance scene has become anemic, washed out and simply beat orientated," Howlett said in a recent interview with Web site NY Rock. "Our sound has become harder, more guitar orientated."
Punk, rock and electronica make an explosive mix, and a good one to watch go off on stage as well.
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
Located down a sideroad in old Wanhua District (萬華區), Waley Art (水谷藝術) has an established reputation for curating some of the more provocative indie art exhibitions in Taipei. And this month is no exception. Beyond the innocuous facade of a shophouse, the full three stories of the gallery space (including the basement) have been taken over by photographs, installation videos and abstract images courtesy of two creatives who hail from the opposite ends of the earth, Taiwan’s Hsu Yi-ting (許懿婷) and Germany’s Benjamin Janzen. “In 2019, I had an art residency in Europe,” Hsu says. “I met Benjamin in the lobby
April 22 to April 28 The true identity of the mastermind behind the Demon Gang (魔鬼黨) was undoubtedly on the minds of countless schoolchildren in late 1958. In the days leading up to the big reveal, more than 10,000 guesses were sent to Ta Hwa Publishing Co (大華文化社) for a chance to win prizes. The smash success of the comic series Great Battle Against the Demon Gang (大戰魔鬼黨) came as a surprise to author Yeh Hung-chia (葉宏甲), who had long given up on his dream after being jailed for 10 months in 1947 over political cartoons. Protagonist
Peter Brighton was amazed when he found the giant jackfruit. He had been watching it grow on his farm in far north Queensland, and when it came time to pick it from the tree, it was so heavy it needed two people to do the job. “I was surprised when we cut it off and felt how heavy it was,” he says. “I grabbed it and my wife cut it — couldn’t do it by myself, it took two of us.” Weighing in at 45 kilograms, it is the heaviest jackfruit that Brighton has ever grown on his tropical fruit farm, located