five dimensions

went to see five deez a few nights ago at unit. the line up looked pretty dope, dj akakabe (former japan DMC champ), dj haruo from the digital junkeez, and some other japanese cats. there were two floors, one was the big concert hall and the other section was the "saloon"- a bar area with a small dancefloor. i came in to one of the guys from conflict spinning, he was playing a lot of instrumental hiphop and a lot of (good) shit i've never heard.


the good hiphop continued with another guy, but this time with lyrics..


so the other half of force of nature stepped up to the decks and for the most part he played some sort of 4/4 electronic music that was super monotonous- maybe changed ever-so slightly every 64 or 128 bars. then he would play something random like a dj shadow break mix that would get the crowd hype, but then he would immediately go back to his shitty electronic music. i dozed off occassionally (standing up, mind you), the guy next to me sat down and played soccer on his PSP, and the rest of the crowd just stood there nodding there heads (not to the beat, but from sleepiness).

BOOOORING.

luckily fat jon and pase rock came to the rescue, yet pase rock was still courteous enough to thank force of nature for opening for them (i guess their boring performance made it all the more hype though). the crowd was jolted awake by pase rock dropping one of fat jon's signature dance-rap beats. i guess the rest of five deez couldn't show up, but fat jon and pase rock (dj'ing and mc'ing) held it down.


i was surprised that there were fat jon groupies. well two were white americans? (FAT JON WE LOVE YOU!!) and one was a very drunk japanese girl next to me that kept on yelling "jon come here!" for like half an hour and eventually she just gave up (thank god). there were a lot of females there actually, especially for an underground hiphop group from america (i don't think i've seen that many girls at a underground hiphop show before). oh so a little about five deez. they're outta midwest- cincinatti (aka kinkynasti, 'natti, etc.)- with a very diverse sound. they aren't very popular in the states, well they're hardly known.. but they have a huge following in japan apparently. so much so that they have japan-only releases (and fat jon specifically released a japan only album just to show his respect). ah, the japanese know good american stuff better than americans do (this goes for many things... especially american vintage clothes). but i digress...

there's a big block party going on in yoyogi park this sunday, amanojax but i think it's gonna rain.. i guess i'll go out and see what's up anyway... i really need to get a goretex jacket of some sort here. like a crazy north face that they don't even have in the US.

denim goretex! img's compliments of jeffstaple