We at Street Beats are very happy to be celebrating our first year of love music and dancing at the magical musical haven that is Loftus Hall . We have had an amazing year of monthly parties at Bohnen Gold together with great djs and great people. Now we are so so so excited to bring Street Beats to Loftus Hall for a very special night with none other than the international Eclectic French Dj & Innervisions maestro Alex From Tokyo . Alex will be joined on the night by a very special guest Liad Krispin and the Street Beats residents .
Check out his super Beats In Space mix (link below).
Here's a little about the Man from Japan
Having lived in Tokyo more than 20 years since he was a kid, he has developed into one of the strongest crossover DJ's in Tokyo and also became a key person connecting the world and Japan (F Communications Japan representative, Mr.Bongo/Disorient Japan, Yellow Productions/Bossa Tres Jazz project co-ordinator etc.
Now based in New York from 2004. Alex has been playing regularly all around the world in Japan, Asia, New York and Europe. Alex still travels back to Tokyo every 2 months to continue his 13 year residency at the Sunday afternoon party "Gallery", his Timewarp party at club eleven (where club Yellow used to be) and tour throughout Japan.
In NYC he regularly plays these days with Dj Nature for their monthly "Sound Proof" party .
Alex has been also active producing music under the name Tokyo Black Star with his partner Isao Kumano, releasing original material on the Berlin based label Innervisions, as well as on the joint label Reincarnation by italian tastemakers Slam Jam, and on DJ Deep's deeply rooted house music records label. Tokyo Black Star have done remixes for labels such as Flower Records, Yellow Productions, Frikyiwa, Bassmental, Disorient, with recent remixes as Kuniyuki "Birds" (mule musiq), nublu orchestra "Sketches of NY" (nublu), Bing Ji ling "Home" (Lovemonk), Master H and Greg Oreck "Coffee is ecstasy" (komplex de deep), Arno E Matthieu "Heritage" (clima records) and Filipson+Lindblad "Reflections" (mood music). Tokyo Black Star collaborated in summer 2008 on the german Great Stuff's label "Summer Games" Olympic compilation with the track "Japan".
Besides the club scene, Alex has been recently doing some music co-ordination, consulting and production work in fashion for brands like Y-3 and Louis Vuitton, and he has been invited to play at the official party of the world famous art fair ART BASEL in June 2007. September 2006 saw the Japanese release of Laurent Garnier's book "Electrochoc", which Alex translated from French to Japanese. Alex released in February 2008 his 5th mix CD in Japan for the DJ mix series "mi mix" on the Octave Lab label in Japan. In February 2009, Reincarnation released the official label mix CD "Dj Alex from Tokyo presents "Reincarnation" -The Flashback mix-".
Tokyo Black Star released in April 2009 their first long-awaited Tokyo Black Star debut album "Black Ships" on Innervisions, and they toured live and DJ in the Fall 2009 in Europe and in Asia. Tokyo Black Star remixed Wagon Cookin "Come into the light" (om records) and Mezza Luna vs Felix Cage new EP "Blizzard" (electronical reeds) in January 2011. Tokyo Black Star released their EP "Slam Jam" on Reincarnation in September 2011 and they remixed Carl Craig's Psyche masterpiece "Neurotic Behavior" for the 20th anniversary of the Planet E label.
Alex From Tokyo - Innervisions , Tokyo Black Star , World Famous NYC
Neil Flynn - Street Beats, DEM , KR Family , FEED
Boogiemann - Street Beats , BohnenGold , Herb
Liad Krispin - NYC , Berlin
Abendkasse: 8€