DJ Nobu last year on the decks at the Red Marquee

DJ Nobu last year on the decks at the Red Marquee

All-Night Fuji, a special Friday night rave DJ Royal Rumble of sorts, way back in the Orange Court where you can be freaky as you wanna be, celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the festival. And my top pick for Sunday night, Annie Mac closing out the fest in style with one last surge of dancing frenzy, for the win!

Ringing in the 10-year anniversary of Fuji Rock Festival, the bludgeoning jungle-y DnB tracks of DJ AKI, Future Terror artist DJ NOBU, DJ KRUSH, techno axe murderer Ken Ishii, DJ “Psy-Trance” Tsuyoshi, and that is only half the lineup. (Already I have twice been obliterated by DJ Aki who is equally as energetic on stage while he plays as the furious dancers in the dust rising just trying to keep up with his raunchy 280bpms!)

In Osaka and seemingly the whole of Kansai, government has put the sledgehammer to all-night parties. And yet they are putting nuclear reactors back online, disregarding the 80-some percent of the population who begs and protests otherwise. Major bummer. Anyway, unless you live in Tokyo (or Kanazawa) it seems that you are quite possibly doomed to ipod dance parties in your underwear at home on an otherwise awesome Saturday night. Coming from Kyoto, I for one am stoked sideways for the electronic onslaught kicking off Friday night, out at Orange where no one can hear you scream.

If you survive the weekend, and didn’t come just for Radiohead, check out Annie Mac’s late night Sunday Session set in the Red Marquee. Annie Mac has been kicking off the UK masses’ weekend right for some time now as Radio 1’s esteemed 7-9pm Friday night slot DJ hosting her very own mash-up show specializing in drum and bass. She seems versatile enough, what with her Mini Mix featuring five-minute DJ collaborations as well as numerous TV appearances as a music presenter. She also shares an increasingly popular Free Music Mondays mix via SoundCloud. And, since she essentially plays at 1:45AM on, well, Monday, it will be a super-long version of her Free Music Mondays.

Taste the drum and bass stream with DJ Aki here for a bit to whet your palate. Live from Tokyo just last week. Just getting warmed up!

Photo by 府川展也 and used with permission of Smashing Mag.