Mother: Aug. 13-15
Mother Records presents "Space of Sound (S.O.S.)" at Hakuba Tsugaike Kougen in Nagano Prefecture. Tickets are 14,000 yen at the gate. Live acts include Atomic Pulse, Beckers, Logic Bomb, Midimiliz, Pop Stream, Protoculture, Xerox and Illumination, X-Noize, X-Dream and more, plus DJs Ta-Ka, Daijiro, Messie, Ryo, Nate Raubenheimer, Arturo and more. Music starts at 5 p.m. on the first day. (Last year, the gates were open by noon.)
This is the party that established that the Japan psychedelic trance scene was back on its feet last summer. Coming together in the mountain mist, we found both solace and the strength to dispel the demons of Kandatsu and push through to October and beyond. What is it about a Mother party that lets us feel like innocent kids again?