DAFT PUNK: All Hail the Pyramid

December had started off to be a very busy month. Cam is up at 5.30am and Sophi not long after at 6am. Early starts and late finishes means not much sleep is being had. Both are very tired by the end of the week, only to be working Saturday and Sunday from 10am till 8.30pm. Sophi is able to take Mondays off, Cam Tuesdays. So we are so busy that we are not even seeing much of each other. Hopefully it will pay itself off with a large amount of Yen some time soon. We had taken the 8th and 9th off to go to Daft Punk, which we have been looking forward to for some time now:



The Daft Punk concert was scheduled to start at 3pm and finish at 9 at Makuhari Messe, so in true style Cam had beer with his breakfast at 11.30am and Sophi a Bacardi Coke. Somebody told Cam that the reason it starts and finishes so early is that if people are outside at night time dangerous things might happen. Everyone in Japan is so unconfrontational; not sure what they think is going to be dangerous.

The event was sold out months ago, so we were expecting a good show. What we got was something much much better than that. First on stage was a Japanese duo DJ team who were playing a varied selection of funk, rock, techno and house with the likes of Primal Scream and Michael Jackson.

Next up was Hifana, a Japanese hip-hop, breakbeat duo, during which they cut beats with realtime sampler (MPC) and incorporating scratch and percussion, without using programmed sequences, while above them was some mad animation sequences playing.

Folowing on was Sebastian & Kavinsky, who played a selection of hard, edgy electro fused with rock. They played an awesome mix of RATM's Killing in the Name Of.

Daft Punk came on around 6.45pm and they didn't disappoint. They had the full set-up with the pyramid and amazing light display. The graphics in the pyramid are awesome, and they know how to play to the crowd, even though they are just playing their own songs. Each songs is tweeked and sampled with amazing effect. It was definately worth the wait and the $100 to see them!







Those crazy cat friends of ours who had the honour to see them a couple weeks later in Sydney, can share one of the most memoriable experiences in music history! Just wish we were all in the same place at the same time!

As Winter was coming to an end, and we hadn't experienced much of the changing colours of the leaves, we ventured out for a bike ride the following morning, much to Sophi's disgust. But once we did we saw some beautiful trees around where we live with amazing yellow leaves dropping like snow onto our heads as we rode past. Japan definately has 4 very distinct seasons.