515 PRESENTS THE JAPANESE POPSTARS THIS FRIDAY @ TRIPOD SUPPORT DETBOI

515 tripod

Pod Concerts present The JapanesePopstars LIVE + DJ SET

Support
Detboi

Friday April 3rd @ TRIPOD/Doors 11pm
Advance tickets €15 plus booking fee.
Phone/internet bookings subject to extra service charges.www.ticketmaster.ie /24hr Hotline 0818 719300
More info @ www.pod.ie
www.myspace.com/thejapanesepopstars


The Japanese Popstars
“We Just Are”

Anyone who has seen them live will testify to one thing, in The Japanese Popstars we have possibly one of the best ever live acts to originate from the Green Isles. Native to Northern Ireland , and consisting of Declan McLaughlin aka Decky Hedrock, Gary Curran, and Gareth Donoghue, their sound can only be described as face-melting, big-room, cool as **** electronic music. The Japanese Popstars are riding a wave of great live gigs, major festival bookings, and media praise off the back of their amazing energy driven live shows and critically acclaimed debut album 'We Just Are'.

The Japanese Popstars are signed to bespoke indie label, ‘Gung-Ho Recordings’ (Gus Gus, Zoo Brazil) in the UK, and Beatink in Japan (home of Underworld, Aphex Twin, Cinematic Orchestra). Their only parallel with rock music is that they'd built up a sizable live following before releasing their first major single. some might even say cultish, judging by the amount of clips on Youtube. Their gigs are typically raucous affairs, with an energy that crackles with each beat, chord, and keyboard stab.

The Japanes Popstars are definitely not for the weak of heart. Their music is meant to invade the very space it inhibits with beats and vibrations strong enough to shake you to the core. And just when you think the ‘drop’ won’t happen, that the melody just won’t change and that you almost can’t take anymore…that’s when it happens… and the moment is exhilarating. You don’t even need to close your eyes to see yourself dancing and screaming like a maniac on the dance floor… you can feel it, see it, even taste it. Yes people, they’re that good. Beyonce couldn’t even ignore their talent and asked them to remix her single “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).

Part of what makes We Just Are, the trio’s debut, work so superbly is the approach. Every song crackles with a cuff of electronic righteousness and the punctuation of drum-and-bass accents. Noises blast out from beneath the covers, forming thunderous segments of music with mesmerizing production. “Face Melter” does exactly what the title suggests, providing a skin-liquefying cocktail of clanging clatter, rave beats, and rolling energy. The sound swells, staggeringly stops, and toys with standards of formation with a deformed upper level and serenity-testing synth sure to blow a few speakers. The broad-shouldered “Sample Whore” rides a wave of scathing white noise into a collapse of orgasmic ecstasy, using malformed delight as a beat and carving out a vital bulge that builds until the unavoidable culmination when everything is washed away in a flourish of speckled sound. Tracks like “B.C.T.T.” and “Anthepic: We Have Taken Over” are rock-hard near-ambient tunes that spread out magically like flowers set to greet a summer’s day. “The Smile” ignites similarities with the likes of Orbital and Underworld. Ultimately, The Japanese Popstars have crafted a charitable spell of stunning music. Their range as a group is palpable, with equal parts reverence and genre-bending grandeur coursing through We Just Are. There is no beat the trio will not play with and no ground they will not break the **** open.

Detboi

For those who don't know, Detboi's debut EP, ‘Do You Know Who I Am?’ has just been released through ‘On The Brink Recordings’. Detboi really has his own sound flowing through his tracks, which is always a good find, but on top of that the tracks are floor stompas too. His music fuses some tech and garage influence, along with a love of bassline, and chopped up beats making his sets prime dancefloor destroyers. Already banging out in many big name DJ sets is his track ‘Hold Up’, prepare for some squelch sound madness.

UPCOMING @ 515 TRIPOD


Japanese Popstars 03rd April
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Sven Vath 17th April
Booka Shade 24th April
Carl Cox 01st May

VinylJunkie

Excellent set!

gazzer

Yeah it was a great set. Its been ages since I was at Tripod and I had a great time. Couldnt find a house party to go to after though

markious

This set was brilliant..


10/10 ... Loved every second.