There's an embarrassment of riches for party people this weekend and in the coming month, as Ministry of Sound (MoS) has finally opened, Luxy takes its show on the road, Citrus celebrates its second birthday and there's an intriguing event that involves rollerskating around a rink looking at photos.
First, MoS had its star-studded opening last night, along with canapes, a lightshow and dancing to the early hours. Project director Peter Bowden hadn't been sleeping much but said he was "real excited" by the look, the sound and the feel of the place. Tonight there's a chance to hear the resident DJs Damian Saint and DJ Buff.
Tomorrow, we have UK turntablist Jon Carter, who has been one of the leading lights on the party scene since the "Summer of Love" in 1989. Carter has remixed some of the biggest names in the business, including U2, Manic Street Preachers and Prodigy (with whom he toured). He's played all over -- including the millennium event in Australia and 3 million people at one gig in Salvador -- and should put together a fired-up house if he's in form.
PHOTO COURTESY TENSEGRITY PRODUCTIONS
Citrus Squared at Luxy tonight is guaranteed party action, with the arrival of DJ Chozie from Beijing, lining up with DJs SL and Saucey. Their previous second-year celebration earlier in the month at Eden was a good one and this should be even better, with a double CD (SL and Saucey), T-shirts and speciality drinks being given away. Speaking from Hong Kong, Chozie said he was ready to play. "I've got a bunch of new records, which I hear people may have already heard, but I'm gonna drop them anyway. And I'm gonna play a bit harder too." Saucey said all the songs on the album have got memories of Luxy and 2nd Floor. "This will wrap things up a little bit and then I'll move on, spending time making my own music."
Also tonight is JungleMania presenting Louder! at Bacchus, with DJs FunkStar, Danjah, Flanky, DJ Mykal, plus Edmund and Em with back to back sets, with MC Beemer from the UK. Further competition comes from Circuit, which last week started putting on foreign DJs -- a move so successful they're doing it again tonight with the Evil 9 Asia Tour, from 11pm to 7am, with supporting DJs Stone, Teddy and Joe.
Elsewhere, the Love Shuttle is about to leave town and tour the country, leading up to a FREE party in Kenting on the beach next Friday and Saturday. This Sunday the monster wagon set up by Sony PS2 and Pioneer will settle in Warner Village for a small event, and is in Taichung on Monday and Tainan on Wednesday. Alan Hsia of Luxy said the sound truck is the biggest of its kind in Asia, so expect some noise.
For something completely different try "Skatetown, Taipei" on Sunday, which is loosely based on the unreleased masterpiece Skatetown, USA with Patrick Swayze. MC Marcus Aurelius will be wearing four hats for the event, as the promoter, photographer (Marcus Maurice), DJ and master of ceremonies. The first 50 get a free mix CD. It works like this: you go in, put on some rollerskates, circumambulate the DJ who has set up in the middle of the rink, and view the photographs by Katherine Wang, Li Chen and Maurice, which have been hung on the pillars and walls. Visual artist Djie Zhou has also got in on the act, along with hip-hop DJ Kill and Elements with drum `n' bass.
The Vinyl Word: Get yer skates on.
As we live longer, our risk of cognitive impairment is increasing. How can we delay the onset of symptoms? Do we have to give up every indulgence or can small changes make a difference? We asked neurologists for tips on how to keep our brains healthy for life. TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH “All of the sensible things that apply to bodily health apply to brain health,” says Suzanne O’Sullivan, a consultant in neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, and the author of The Age of Diagnosis. “When you’re 20, you can get away with absolute
When the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese forces 50 years ago this week, it prompted a mass exodus of some 2 million people — hundreds of thousands fleeing perilously on small boats across open water to escape the communist regime. Many ultimately settled in Southern California’s Orange County in an area now known as “Little Saigon,” not far from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, where the first refugees were airlifted upon reaching the US. The diaspora now also has significant populations in Virginia, Texas and Washington state, as well as in countries including France and Australia.
On April 17, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) launched a bold campaign to revive and revitalize the KMT base by calling for an impromptu rally at the Taipei prosecutor’s offices to protest recent arrests of KMT recall campaigners over allegations of forgery and fraud involving signatures of dead voters. The protest had no time to apply for permits and was illegal, but that played into the sense of opposition grievance at alleged weaponization of the judiciary by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to “annihilate” the opposition parties. Blamed for faltering recall campaigns and faced with a KMT chair
A police station in the historic sailors’ quarter of the Belgian port of Antwerp is surrounded by sex workers’ neon-lit red-light windows. The station in the Villa Tinto complex is a symbol of the push to make sex work safer in Belgium, which boasts some of Europe’s most liberal laws — although there are still widespread abuses and exploitation. Since December, Belgium’s sex workers can access legal protections and labor rights, such as paid leave, like any other profession. They welcome the changes. “I’m not a victim, I chose to work here and I like what I’m doing,” said Kiana, 32, as she
RSS