Stones Throw Tour, Japan

so at long last I finally got to see Madlib do a DJ set live, the Stones Throw Japan tour came thru town, it was, Peanut Butter Wolf, MED, Madlib and Egon, whatta mean lineup!!!!

So anyways, was a pretty cool night, just went lone warrior cos no one else was really that keen. Turned up to the club (Decadent Deluxe) at about 10:30pm which was relatively empty at that time (just like back home!), but that was cool i had a good look around the place, 3 floors, was very cool, kinda like an abandoned apartment turned into a club, had a look at the merchandise and got me a limited edition J Dilla 'Donuts EP' and a also limited edition J Dilla picture disc 7" with 2 tracks not on the album, sweet!

there were some Japanese DJs starting off the night playing some really cool jazzy hip hop instrumental styles which was cool, then this funny hardcore rap group came on, there were like 5 dudes all yelling and shouting over a wu tang beat and trying to act tough, i could what they were trying to do but it just came off a bit too shouty and stuff, was kinda funny

so after a little bit of that i decided to venture down to the main room and noticed PB Wolf was setting up so i thought id get a beer and find a good vantage point, done. PB Wolf was using Serato which was surprising cos he's such a vinyl fiend (actually no one used vinyl, both Madlib and Egon used CDs), but his set was pretty cool, at least half of it was a J Dilla tribute where he played alot of songs that he had produced and stuff like that, the dude was a legend man, actually throughout the night there was lots of Dilla related stuff played, was very cool

so after that PB Wolf stayed on and MED came out and did a set which was cool as, he even did the song that he featured on on Madlvillain (Raid), it was awesome hearing those songs (and lotsa madlib intsrumentals) on a big ass system instead of just my ipod headphones

after that Madlib came on, he started off just playing instrumentals, heaps of ones id never heard before, it was cool. haha everything was cool. anyways, the order of the night seemed to be funk and he played a boatload of really cool funk and stuff, would have been cool if he was MCing as well as DJing but maybe next time