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watching the one of omodaka reminds me all over again that picking up his album was all worth it.

the cTrix clips are a little short unfortunately, but i think i remember him saying he had some friends help to record his entire performance and that he'll edit it all together when he gets home.

sweet this is the picture i was looking for, Bit Shifter crooning "The Way You Look Tonight" to the winner of the 2011 Annual Blipfest beauty pageant.

from my experience, running LSDJ on a touchscreen-only interface is infuriating.

i loaded up LSDJ on a GB emulator for my android phone, and it was physically hard to navigate through the interface. You can do it, but you find that the tactile feedback of physical buttons proves to be pretty damn necessary - otherwise, entering notes decisively and chording of button presses is very hard to do.

for LSDJ to run well on iOS/Android/WP7/whatever, the interface needs to be rethought from the ground up, probably by making more extensive use gestures or physical buttons where available.

well i sure regret the shite out of having left japan now.

sweet photos gil, thanks for the snaps.

also best photobomb evar

haven't had much time to prowl around Tokyo so far, but it's been an absolute blast just meeting a ton of like-minded people.

i spent saturday in odaiba with a bunch of the japanese DS-10 crew.  periodically they have an event where they spend the day at a park, plug their DS'es and other sound-making gadgets/apps into a giant mixer + amp, and basically jam together.  there were at least 20 of us hopping in and out of the mix over the course of a few hours.  what a freaking awesome idea.

on Sunday i played a short 10-minute set at a party in roppongi featuring a bunch of DJ's spinning lots of jpop + chiptune + remixes.  everyone there ended up being really surprised at the capabilities of the DS-10!  i'm taking it to be a good sign and i'm looking forward to the crowd i'll be playing for at the blip afterparty.

i've been to tokyo before so i've already done a bit of the exploring stuff, but i'll have much more time for that in the coming days.  any must-sees i should keep in mind?

i'm leaving for hong kong today for a few days, but i should be free in the mornings/afternoons of oct. 21-24 if anyone is up to do anything.

some useful information for you all: I rented a mobile wifi router from the airport last few days, which has been tremendously useful in its own right (i can tweet/message/email from my laptop and phone anywhere at will), but i think i will need to get an actual tokyo number when i come back on thursday.  unless everyone you know is super on top of their twitter DM's, it's hard to coordinate anything on the spot unless you can reach other by phone right away.