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GOA VIBE 1989

Goa vibe 89 by genkigroove

"YES I AM A WITCH BITCH"...provocatively, as ever, she says.

Yoko Ono's notoriety was accelerated by her partnership with John. The demise of the Beatles and her continued controlling, protective, mythologising of John's post Beatle period and estate gives her an infamous reputation. In Japan she is revered, but also portrayed as a kali goddess figure.

I discovered this, rather dark, mythos-narrative on a t-shirt in Harajuku, recently. Ono, in true provocative, Aquarian iconoclastic style, last year released a remix, collaborative album, called: YES I AM A WITCH.

SONIC SMORGASBORD MINGLE OF BEAT BYTES

Nagisa music festival, camp out, in a car park in front of sci-fi Fuji building, Odaiba, is a random access mingle amongst competing PA's. Urban & hippy youth culture/club culture/music culture/coagulates to the cacophony of drum beats and drum machines channeled by DJs/bands/performers; including Okinawa traditional singers. Its very socially, spontaneous, colliding into people within the swirling, reverberating, maelstrom of multi genre dance music.

What became of that Goa Trance bastard child ?

Goa-psy-trance has been well commodified since the dust-disko, jungle-fury, tribedelic melt down euphoria in the ancient vase of mother India in the early 90s.

DJ as Rock Star

Next gig Electro Sex set

                                    The most flamboyant party in Japan (and for that matter, in the world).

Come dressed to strut your mojo. I will be playing dirty disko rump thump deep groove electro phat bass fetish freakquencies to get your latex steaming.

You will get to hear my xxx explicit version of 'Garden Of The Earthly'. The venue – Trump Room – Shibuya, is an utter elegant baroque fantasy palace where you can let your sub personalities run amok.

Electric Generation

Tokyo Tribute To The King Of Funk

Tools Of The Trade

Nagisa 8.4.07

The Sky PA zone has the most imaginative decor, assembled from recycled techno trash. The banging thump of  hippie psy 'trance' draws a big Shibuya Vuitton fashion possee loaded on a cocktail of messy substances. They dump their trash and broken high heels on the dance floor. A mish mash of conflicting values & ideals for the organisers to comtemplate ? Hippie goes haute couture Channel glam trash.