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...Nishi-Kawaguchi is a hardscrabble, working-class town on the outskirts of Tokyo. There are literally dozens of seen-better-days, commuter-line towns just like it dotting the sprawling megalopolis. Massage parlors, hostess clubs and soaplands line the streets around the dinky train station, and the odd reveler or two is still wandering around well into the morning, trying to shake off last night's indulgences or perhaps just waiting to resume them. It's the kind of place where disappointment is the default emotion and where Japan's much-hyped economic revival hasn't quite kicked in. "This...
...earn $20,000 a night spinning at Cream or Ministry of Sound. Instead, the Asian raves coughed up Tsuyoshi, who first brought Shiva to the Tokyo dance floor a decade ago during his DJ residence at Wanna Dance, the notoriously hedonistic after-hours club in Tokyo's Nishi Azabu district. The following year he took his decks and 12-inches to London where other DJs, inspired by their trips to Goa, were creating a faster, harder and more synthetically-advanced style of techno dubbed Goa Trance. Tsuyoshi, with his striking features and Japanese post-punk style and sensibility?bondage pants...
...been a life and music fashioned from the movable aural and narcotic feast of the circuit, and Tsuyoshi, taking a break from remixing Joujouka's upcoming third album at his Nishi Azabu studio, says he's finally getting burned out, insisting that the beautiful madness that turned him on is now long gone. "The whole genre's gotten so conservative these last six years," says the DJ, sporting his new gold-streaked Mohawk. "It's reached the point where everything trance meant for me in India feels like this totally separate thing...
...dori, tel. 03 3400-3933. GLAMOROUS COCKTAILS Take in wraparound views of Tokyo at the New York Grill on the 52nd floor of the Park Hyatt Hotel. Live jazz and a drool-worthy dessert buffet cap off your evening. New York Grill Park Hyatt, 52nd floor, 3-7-1 Nishi Shinjuku...
...torturously slow. Every song was criminally banal. The sparkle and shine had been sucked out of life so completely that my world became a fluorescent-lighted, decolorized, saltpetered version of the planet I had known before. And my own prospects? Absolutely dismal. I would sit in that one-bedroom Nishi Azabu apartment and consider the sorry career I had embarked upon, these losers I associated with compounding the very long odds that I would ever amount to anything...