Last month’s edition of Back To Chill was special for a few reasons - end of year celebration, another all nighter and live sets by Japanese artists T2R and Quarta330. Quarta’s set was a particular highlight for me, as it was the first time I got the chance to see him do his thing live, which is pretty spectacular not the least because it involves him making some absolutely banging music using 2 Gameboys, some pedals and an interface. It was 30 mins of 8-bit, platform memories inducing, bass driven goodness. T2R’s live set was also nice, a lot darker than I expected it but very interesting.

And I guess even better is that we’ve managed to get audio from the whole night, thanks to man like Hyaku Mado. And so here’s a selection of sets from the night as well as the live from Quarta and T2R.

For more info on the BTC nights peep the blog. For more info on Quarta go to his myspace, and if you haven’t already go and cop his excellent Hyperdub release, which includes the devastating ‘9 Samurai’ refix.

BTC vol15 audio:

Hyaku Mado b2b Kper - 75 mins (right click and save as)
Goth Trad b2b Kper ft. Chinza Dopeness - 75 mins (right click and save as)
Onedown DJ - 75 mins (right click and save as)
Quarta 330 live set - 27 mins (right click and save as)
T2R live set - 20 mins (right click and save as)

Big up to everyone involved, check the blog for info on the next one.

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With 2007 now behind us this might be a good time for me to actually get back to writing… still working on that, what with living in temporary accommodation and having to sift through piles of to do stuff. I’ll get round to it though, promise. In the meantime here’s some more pictures, this time from my New Year skiing trip.

Getting out of the city for New Year was probably the best idea I’ve had in a long ass time. Having spent the majority of the last 10 new year eves in a big city, I must admit that the great outdoors is a hell of a better place to spend your time. With that in mind I somehow managed to squeeze in a 3 day holiday over the New Year period, despite my now working for a Japanese company, and a newspaper on top, which entails no bloody holidays whatsoever (and I don’t qualify for legal holidays yet  :sad: ).

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written by Laurent \\ tags: food, Japan, mountains, ski, snow