Alien Sex Friends is a party collective that started at Mitsuki in 2021, at the dawn of Shibuya club culture in Tokyo. Many club dancers and music lovers gathered on the dance floor with a minimum of DJs in the booth.
For the past three and a half years, Alien Sex Friends has been supported by a wide range of ages and personalities in its pursuit of party quality.
This new event, A.S.F., will expand the activities at Womb, the largest venue in the Shibuya area.
The main floor will, of course, feature A.S.F.'s resident artists, P-yan and Ryokei. After building their careers in Tokyo for more than 15 years and moving to Berlin, they launched Alien Sex Friends, where they have worked with local and international DJs such as DJ Masda, Mr. Ho, Kino, Unai Trotti, and many others. In recent years, the two resident DJs have been gigging frequently in Asian countries. In 2023, A.S.F. RECS, a label associated with this event, was launched, releasing 100 vinyl copies of music by Takashi Himeoka and A.S.F. The label is also releasing a limited edition of 100 vinyl copies.
Yamarchy, a key figure in Japanese club culture of the 20s, has performed with A.S.F. on many occasions until now. In 2024, a B2B with P-yan at Rainbow Disco Club's 15 Years Tour in Korea was a fantastic outcome, and the chemistry between A.S.F. and Yamarchy is guaranteed. The floor will be colourful and freaky, with functional grooves of minimal house/techno, Balearic and psychedelic senses, and a fun disco.
Ryosuke Tsuchiya will design the sound of this floor. He has been in charge of Alien Sex Friends since its early days and has a career at decent festivals such as Rural, Mutek, and Wonderfruit Festival. REALROCKDESIGN, who has worked with Rainbow Disco Club and other critical underground parties in Tokyo, will participate in the scenography side.
You can lose yourself in the stripped-down house grooves on the 4th floor. G, a DJ who runs Nagoya's leading label, RICE, has been exploring minimal and deep dance music. Also from Nagoya and has a release from RICE, Goemon will make his appearance. Nehan will join them, who has been a part of Tokyo's nightlife for over 15 years with the A.S.F. crew through parties such as Nuts at Grassroots and ARTEMIS at UNIT.
The first floor will be a musical tale curated by Occa, a Sapporo-based artist whose reputation is rising in Europe and Asia. His Telepath event at WOMB has attracted challenging guests from Japan and abroad to expand the possibilities of techno, and he has also handpicked P-yan and Ryokei to create a floor at the event. This floor welcomes Akiram En, the genius of left-field abstract music. Also not to be missed is B2B by Imus and Kyomi, expanding their activities from the deepest parts of Tokyo to various locations throughout Japan.
Each floor is filled with artists whose musicality A.S.F. has come to rely on with great enthusiasm. This is where club music lovers can experience a moment that will make them more eager than ever before.
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