Monthly Archives: May 2006

Tokyo Dark Castle #20 @ Marz, Shinjuku TOKYO :: Sat. 3 June

[Goth/Industrial Live] UPDATE!! This is the last event for EUTHANASIE this year! Don’t panic, this is not the end - just time off while #449 is in Britain from June to December… BUT if you love EUTHANASIE you better haul ass to TOKYO DARK CASTLE this weekend! If you really love EUTHANASIE you might want [...]

Back online notice….

Jgoth.com is back online after some fuming on whether to pack it in or not. [Re-edited for]
For me personally, the site has grown from a happy little hobby that covered all kinds of things going on under the radar in Japan to a kind of second job for things Goth - since I work for [...]

Jet Pepper Tower & Red Ill Princess in Goat Lan Music @ Holiday OSAKA :: Sat. 3 June

Kyoto’s Jet Pepper Tower will be heading to Osaka to team up with Red Ill Princess and others for an assault at Holiday. JPT are a hot moody Goth-rock unit, while Red Ill Princess is the new (and still mysterious) project for Rie, Satanyanko’s former singer. Not being on that side of Japan, the only [...]

Jet Pepper Tower @ Coffee House Jittoku KOBE :: Sun. 28 May

[General Live?] Late entry for moody, bluesey Goth-rock unit, Jet Pepper Tower at the end of the month. I cannot add any information about the other bands alas, but worth checking for JPT. Jittoku, the live house for tonight’s performance proclaims itself to have “Good Food, Cheap Booze & Real Live Bleeding Music.” There you [...]

Aural Vampire, Shisen & Selia in Tokyo Decadance vol.8 @ Aoyama Fai TOKYO :: Sat. 27 May

[Electro-dance DJ & Live] Late addition to the May listings. How to describe this event…. Maybe 21st century cocktail of electro-dance, fun to fetishy cosplay, experimental cabaret, and more. Decadent and fun with good music. Lots of DJ’s and performers including Aural Vampire, Selia, Shisen/Violet from the darker side of the tracks. Still confused? Well [...]

Electr-ohm streaming electronic radio from Kobe!

Awesome! Our first local streaming Webcast that plays funked out, crazy stuff 24 hours 7 days a week! Electr-ohm has started an Internet radio service (details below) for iTunes and Real One Player. The show streams each week’s selection of tracks which are updated every Wednesday. Sound cool? You better believe it.
Electr-ohm is a Kobe-based [...]

Suicide Pacts :: Three die in minivan in Yamaguchi

Minivan + people + charcoal burners = death. Two men plus one woman in their 20s to 30s. There is not much to say, but here is the Yamaguchi tourism site.

Iszoloscope Japan Tour :: Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka :: May 27 to 31

[Industiral] Canadian industrial unit Iszoloscope will be touring Japan in late May with shows in Tokyo (May 27), Naogya (May 30), and Osaka (May 31). This is a great opportunity for locals and local gaijin to catch a major underground overseas band whose range spans harsh tech-noise to ambient soundscapes.
For the uninitiated (like me - [...]

Iszoloscope in Midnight Mess @ Marz, Shinjuku TOKYO :: Sat. 27 May

[Goth - Fetish - DJ & Live] Midnight Mess is a regular DJ’d Goth event in Tokyo taking place on the fourth Saturday of every month. The May show sees international live performances from Iszoloscope (Canada). There are also a harsh noise performance featuring Contagious Orgasm (Nagoya) and Government Alpha and Chaos Royale.
Mess’ general sound-scape [...]

Harshrealm (Fukuoka) album demos on MySpace!

Hailing from Fukuoka, Harshrealm is a dark harsh electronica unit with some great sexed-up sounds and were part of the massive overnight Goth invasion of Urga in Tokyo last month with Auto-Mod, Destruct System, Calmando Qual and other hot local underground bands. Harshrealm is preparing for their first album release in October, but have put [...]