Halloweekend

Scream! tops up a weekend of Halloween hi-jinks

Tokyo Perve’s Luci Courtesy of Tokyo Perve

If you’ve lived in Tokyo for any length of time, you may have noticed the increasing fervor with which Halloween is celebrated each passing year. In my neighborhood, they’ve even started to trick or treat. But Halloween isn’t just for kids, it’s for us “kidults” as well, and it’s shaping up as one of the key club nights of the year.

This year’s pick goes to clubbing website Cyberjapan’s annual Halloween party at venerable Yellow. In recent years, Cyberjapan has been working with UK fetish event Torture Garden, but Cyberjapan’s Tokoto Mitomi says that this year he’s giving the event a harder edge by collaborating with Tokyo’s hardest fetish party, Tokyo Perve.

Tokyo Perve will be putting on a special event in the upstairs lounge that will include hardcore S&M displays, while the main floor will feature an “Ero-ween” show with one of the more popular gravure idol groups of the moment, Hotcat.

The traditional best costume contest will be hosted by favorite gay/mix drag queen group Red and will offer a ¥300,000 prize for the best look. Suggested fashions: porn star, cosplay, lingerie, drag queen, medical, S&M, rubber and kinky.

Mitomi himself will be spinning his blend of hard house and classics, while omnipresent expat DJ Mike McKenna will be on hand with his breaks and prog flavors. One of Japan’s most famous DJs will also be making a secret guest appearance. Don knows who it is, but he’s been sworn to silence.

Meanwhile, Mitomi says that next up for Cyberjapan, Japan’s oldest clubbing website (online since 1995), is a major overhaul to the site’s 8,000-plus pages...

For those with leftover fuel, fire your afterburners and head over to Velfarre, where Brazilian-Japanese clubbing entrepreneur Luciano Uchizono will be putting on a special edition of his Transit after-hours events. Since launching last year, Transit has pulled in both the house and trance crowds, featuring prog-house DJs like Dino Psaras and trance stalwarts including Spacecat and Shanti.

In addition to resident Brazilian DJ Roger Jordan, this weekend’s Transit has on the bill one of the few female psy-trance DJs to make an international splash. A DJ as well as singer, guitarist and producer, willowy Israeli Dalit Eizner, aka DJ Dali, recently performed in Japan at the Gathering festival.

With a background as a singer in rock bands, Dali got her first break when she was asked in 2003 to write the theme track for Rave-o-lution, the biggest trance festival in Israel. She debuted with Hectic, which featured plenty of vocals topping up the pumping bass lines and dynamic grooves. While the album has been ripped by trance purists, it’s flown off the shelves in Japan, where Dali is being given the idoru treatment.

Scream!@Yellow, Oct 28. Transit@Velfarre, Oct 29. See club listings for details.

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