The Last NUPHORIA
NUPHORIA was a word I made up in the late 90's. A combination of NU and EUPHORIA the word means new bliss. The original concept of the event was to bring live music back to the club event. When we started the party it was at the waning peak of the DJ boom. There were parties everywhere but it seemed like none of them where paying homage to musician and, instead, pouring all focus on the guys playing the records. Don't get me wrong. We had an enormous respect for the DJs c
Delicious Tokyo
We tend to describe cities using words like fun, exciting, or interesting. When I describe Tokyo, one of the first words that come to mind is delicious. Tokyo is a delicious city. I have been to many places around the world and as far as I can tell, when it comes to having a rich variety of high quality, mouth-watering cuisine, none come close to Tokyo. That doesn't apply to only Japanese food. The Japanese are extremely skilled at preparing a whole range of global fair fro
Music Mecca
I truly believe that the Tokyo/Yokohama music scene is the most exciting in the world. Deep in the underground musicians here continue to be the vanguard of creativity and melodic expression. I believe this is a backlash against a major music industry that is very bland in terms of variety and artistic depth. From what I can tell artists in the Tokyo Yokohama underground refuse to be pigeonholed and are happy as flowers in the sun to be free to create whatever musical conco
