More often than not, Oct. 31 is a weekday, which means Halloween events are split between two weekends. This year, though, in the immortal words of Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys on the hauntingly beautiful Mind is Playing Tricks on Me, “This year Halloween fell on a weekend.” Tomorrow night is the big one, even though a lot of clubs and bars are riding the Halloween gravy train today. These are Vinyl Word’s top choices for this year.
With the Halloween Massive at the World Trade Center on hiatus, The Loop and OMNI are still bringing out the big guns this year as their headliner, Canadian electro duo DVBBS (pronounced dubs), is ranked number 16 in the world on the recently-released DJ Mag Top 100 DJ chart. DVBBS’ biggest hit, Tsunami, has been a staple in club sets around the world since Sander Van Doorn premiered it in 2013.
■ Tomorrow night from 10:30pm to 4:30am at OMNI, 5F, 201, Zhongxiao E Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市忠孝東路四段201號5樓). Admission at the door is NT$1,800 and customers get four drink tickets if costumes cover 70 percent of their body.
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On the opposite end of the party spectrum, Korner will be going really dark tomorrow with Smoke Machine’s party called Black Halloween — Go to Hell. Singaporean sound futurist Xhin and Japanese underground DJ Haruka will headline the three stages inside The Wall and Korner.
■ Black Halloween — Go to Hell is tomorrow from 11:30pm to 5am at Korner inside The Wall (這牆) , B1, 200, Roosevelt Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路四段200號B1). Tickets are NT$850 at the door and photos are not allowed.
In Taichung, partygoers will get a triple taste of Taipei as Double G (DJ Golden and MC Gary) and Robi Roka take the crowd on a blood-soaked journey through EDM, trap and twerk music at the Party Like a Rock Star Halloween party. Also on the bill are reggae kings Dread Rider, female hip-hop duo Poise, DJ Mixter T, DJ Redo and DJ Weiwei. Wewei (real name Huang Wei-wei, 黃瑋瑋) who is also an organizer, promises that this will be Taichung’s biggest party, and there will be incredible Halloween-themed art installations.
■ Party Like a Rock Star is tomorrow night from 9pm to 5am at Show House, 161, Daguan Rd, Taichung City (台中市大觀路161號). Admission is NT$1,000 at the door.
On a normal Saturday night at Brickyard in Kaohsiung, the place is packed and people are going nuts to the music. On Halloween night, expect wall-to-wall madness as well as the best costumes the city has to offer. Last year, besides the plethora of sexy nurses, zombies and clowns, the most creative costume was a group of party people that went as the toy Little Green Army Men.
■ Brickyard Halloween Rager (紅磚萬聖趴) is tomorrow from 10pm to 4am at Brickyard, B1, 507 Jhongshan 2nd Rd, Kaohsiung City (高雄市中山二路507號B1). Admission is NT$500 for men and NT$300 for women, which includes a drink.
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