For anyone looking for an update to this story, the Fueiho Law or 'no-dancing after midnight' law was dropped in 2016 allowing clubs in non-residential areas to operate after midnight under a specific licence and following certain regulations on lighting etc. I'm sure the club owners etc still have problems with the law and I'd love to see an update to this documentary about that, but its a step in the right direction for japanese night life!

just to leave an update: the tokyo techno scene is thriving rn since the borders opened again and most covid laws on clubbing were lifted. there are so many events to go to now

These series of docos need to have a followup. i.e the dancing ban was lifted in early 2015. It should focus on what changed and new stuff that rose since. All in all, pretty informative and different documentaries. thumbs up @Resident Advisor

just found out about Dommune from the interview with Naohiro Ukawa great live stream form tokyo. I really reccomend, sincerely has me as excited as one is when discovering something very healthy, new and innovative

Tokyo... One of the most interesting cities in the world, in my view. I love it.

i did not know about the fueiho. what a tragedy!

The music in this tho. That last tune is so so nice

most parties and events i know go on 'til at least 6am in tokyo

We're fighting to change people's perceptions about club scene & music in general. One of the things that I realized early on is that no matter what I may think or say, and no matter how many Japanese people are behind me n other foreigners that call Japan home, until japanese youth, and respected Japanese citizens fight for the same right to dance and club, nothing will change. It's up to you. You gotta fight for your right to party... for real though

"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws" Martin Luther Kink, JR

real scenes Glasgow !

the soundtrack of this documentary is wonderful... i felt the soul of the people involved on this video... deep and touching

I actually didn't know this although I've been to Tokyo twice the last couple of years. I've had the best club nights ever there, amazing vibe.

thx RA, Tokyo... one of the best places in this world.

Tokyo, man! It's my dream city. Hope I'll visit it someday!

Its still an amazing scene. lived there for a year and wow.

wow. AMAZING editorial. what other music publication does things at this level and depth? i hope to see more of this :) truly nxt lvl biz

Another awesome episode of an awesome series. Keep them coming :D

Wonderful piece of work

Went to Tokyo before the lockdown and it was a good time. Hung out in a bunch of clubs in the Shinjuku ni-chome area. Good times with some good djs. the night didn’t end till first train at like 5 am.

I love this series, so great, thx!

So cool. Thanks Tokyo and RA

Great! And the music is fantastic

Wow this is sad. I always hear music artists speak such good things about Tokyo. On the bucket-list to live there still though, but I hope they don't lose that creative and innovative scene they have. It's what pretty much attracts me to Tokyo

All i have to say is Good luck and happy thoughts to Japan. I can empathize with the feeling of not being able to do a simple expression. Prayers to their music scene.

A feature of these real scenes films is highlighting what the respective scenes issues are, and not primarily on the composition, history and future in an informative sense as it were. Whilst I think this is great for those already interested, it doesn't really paint a picture for those that have very little knowledge of these scenes. Im not saying this is a bad thing though, on the contrary its what makes the real scenes feature stand out. That and brilliant production, and "esteemed" figures for interviews. Well done RA (and clockwise media) though on another engaging episode!

This is one of the most beautiful doc's i've seen in a while! I think electronic music would be a lot different if it weren't for the japanese scene. This awesome, thank you Resident Advisor

Just to clear things up: Fueiho has been changed in 2015. Under the new law, dance clubs equipped with lighting brighter than 10 lux will be able to apply for the new licence, called Tokutei Yukyo Inshokuten Eigyo, which allows them to open for 24 hours. If they don't serve alcohol, they don't even need this licence. And who drinks alcohol in a techno club? :D

I love this city so much including Soel in Korea and Athens Greece.

such a great series

beautiful

thanks RA

I love Real Scenes.

Making films in Tokyo will be my future

do Melbourne!

love this, tokyo gotta change to keep up the worldwide standard

Get ready for me Tokyo cuz we going HAM.

Had no idea what was going on in Japan, it's sad but hopefully they can do enough to make a change soon. Cool to see Stereociti talking (he's a boss!).

added to playlist

very cool!

Very interesting! had no idea

Impressive docu.

0:22 the photography and camera work 2:58 on this video tho! 👌🏿

タイミングが悪かったのか、取り上げるテーマがずれてるのか、普段の東京のクラブシーンを期待してたので、ﾁｮｯﾄ肩透かしな感じ。 風営法問題が大変な事は知ってます。 でもこのシリーズで見ると、他の都市との温度差が┅💧👽

This brings back sad memories of "The Criminal Justice Act" back in 1994 in the UK.

There is a dark presence brewing in the heart of this country and I fear it might be contagious to those curious 😞

impressive. tokyo number one'

how have things changed since 5 years ago?

Enter the void

I fucking love this series!

Touching documentary! Really enjoyed it. Would anyone be able to point towards the name of the track that starts at 12:00? I went through the (supposedly) complete list of tracks as noted in the description--but I still can't find it!

love tokyo

Great documentary which really sets the tone for the scene in Tokyo; which is very much living in the shadows of club days past. Dommune is a very tiny location and is a good example of a lot of the smaller pop-up venues which close friends and associates put together, I also enjoyed ７３ビル in Yokohama when it was around, but Tokyo really is not an open environment. There is a lot of uncertainty in Japan, in the doc there was general talk on 'the future' but not mentioned was the effects of Fukushima on people in Tokyo and how the atmosphere changed because of that. With Yoichi Masuzoe now in office things seem to keep getting more regressive and closed-up.. time to go underground and more to the outskirts of the area.

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14:18 SVEK Record on the turntable, SK29 Jesper Dahlbäck Sand & Vatten maybe?

I love those pads at 27:33 If there are any other tracks that have pads like that please reply and let me know.

Nice

I don't know if anyone will read this, but... It's July 2017. How is the situation right now??? I'm flying to Tokyo next week and I had hopes of going to a House/Techno event! I follow Dommune, bringing the freshest music in live streams with the best international acts. By the way, brilliant video editing here... Beautiful and cinematic. For a 30min "documentary" so to speak, this is actually very complete and comprehensive. I'm surprised, yet not in a positive way. On the other hand, for those who are able to reach the Guestlist of these really private and very underground parties, it must amazing! Like someone said in the comments below, no bullshit, just a club with sweaty walls and people dancing focused on the music until 6am. Not bad!

Such a great insight of Japan's Electronic music scene. I was already fond of Dj Nobu and Gonno, and the playlist is also a good way to introduce ourselves into it. Iori and Stereociti albums are just great. Do you guys have any advice about other Japanese Electronic/House/Deep House/Techno artists/playlist ??

Guess well have to ship a big quanity of djs and people who want to party to tokyo :D

that guy really was an interesting genius

Anyone know where you can download the goth trad dommune set? Or any of th Dommune sets for that matter

This was a deep and touching episode. I would argue that wouldn't it be immoral of the governing bodies to prohibit self expression? It's as if they'd rather have mindless drones doing repetitive tasks even in the personal lives. This would simply lead to the dismantling of modern artistic culture as we know it.

Wish you'd spoken to Shinichi Osawa about what things used to be like in the past.

was lucky enough to party in Japan for a few nights. absolutely no bull shit. heads down, sweaty basements til the sun comes up.

Hi could someone please tell me the title of the track at 17:47 ? Thanks.

Someday hopefully i will play a gig in tokyo!!

interesting. im thinking about living in asia for a few years. have djayed for 20 years but london is saturated with djs. i can mix techno dnb but getting gigs here is a bit of a joke unless you release music or sign with an agency

it is the same with every genre. eating sleeping practice... :)

What about Roppongi?

日本のみなさん〜がんばってくださ〜い！

Just a mad twisted up thought. Amped up with Frank Zappa - The Central Scrutinizer. Enforcing laws that aren't made yet.

what's the track at @14:30 ?

12:20 Track Id??

What was the building the people were viewing out of at 11:40?

Name Of the Last Track Please? Amazing video :)

A large part of this reading between the lines is the issue of legal use of cannabis in public. This is the law the Fuehi laws are shielding. If you can't even dance in public, you sure as hell aren't free. These huddled masses are yearning for it.

I want to stay @ tokyo

the song at 24:00 is dope BUT I CANT DANCE TO IT

Anyone knows track id at 19:29 ? because i couldn't find it in description

track at 11:59?

15:57 18:37 25:25

でもやるんだよ！

Soup!

I depressing take on a great club scene.

I would have thought that the Japanese clubbers would dance like robots, not doing the robot but actual beep boop beep robots......!

Can you guys do one for Manila?

このシリーズ好きでいつも拝見させて頂いてます。 まさか東京を取り上げてくれるなんて思いもしなかったんで期待しましたが 風営法がどうたらこうたら、音楽の事に一切触れずに頭からつま先までひたすら風営法。 はっきり言って日本人の自分からするとつまらないです。 法律がテーマならテーマで良いけれども結局これからどうしたいのか？何をしたら良いのか？アーティストやオーディエンス達それぞれどんな方法があるのか？全く結論、答えが見えて来ませんでした もっと自分の知らない日本の音楽シーンが見えてくるのかと思いきや何も目新しい紹介も無い、アンダーグラウンドで頑張ってるDJの紹介も無い、これを見た人達が少しでも日本の音楽シーンに興味が湧く事も貢献する事も無いだろうし活性化する事も無いでしょうね

everywhere u go, people always say d same old things. regardless of what the topic even is. Surely nightclubs r merely d symptom of some larger problem then. Little wonder that "loud music and kinetic movement" has come 2 b used 2 drown out this inanity. Only reasonable thing to say is that this form of escapism (retreating into the senses) is not acceptable by the larger community. Perhaps due to being SO-CALLED overly self indulgent or hedonistic, and thus unsustainable. So that this alone has become cause for predatory groups 2 take advantage of these people who stray into them,. Picking them off one by one or locking them in, so that they are isolated from the larger community (along with their innate tendencies and behaviors), perhaps as some means to weed out unfavorable characteristics in the populace. Such as inability or unwillingness to delay gratification (at the core of surplus creation and building into the future). Although by this stage, such subcultures have come to play a critical role in the socio-economy, as a psychosocial release mechanism or pressure vent, and even more importantly, to keep the larger number at the base of the social pyramid, lest it topple over from being too top heavy if too many people were to rush to the top (which is already the case). What better way to dissipate energy in an unfocused way after all. But the even larger question to ask is, why we are building these power silos to begin with and what do we eventually plan to do with them? Some say that war is nothing but an orgasm, to dissipate energy when too much power has built up. It has no role in the creation process in technical terms, and thus may be a destructive force. Yet this penting-up or bottling effect is also merely a means by society to multiply its energy & spur social movement (by always needing something new to appease this dissatisfaction). So that based on this social model, the only true satisfaction we can ever hope to have is when we're dead. But only if we're "good", and that too only after we've finished paying for all the crimes we committed while we were alive. Although that may just be a mental device or abstract conception to manipulate physical action and human behavior. In fact, fear as a restraining force has always been far more favored than knowledge or information, because of the aforementioned problem with social structure. I.e. people falling (or being pushed!) from the middle or the top of the pyramid to provide a livelihood to the bottom feeders, lest they grow too dissatisfied themselves, and start heading upwards to threaten those on the higher levels! So that by this stage, such sacrificial offerings to the gods of lust, money and POWER are prerequisite to any society, and often times, these people who serve as statistics, are in fact produced for this purpose an no other. They can be called the SURPLUS POPULATION

Chris (Mnml Ssgs) clarifies some points : intersticessg.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/notes-on-real-scenes-tokyo/

is satoshi tomiie not japanese?

偉いもんで チャラ箱が無視されとるね

dear resident advisor i think you should be ashamed.. pay the artists behind the tracks u've used in this video the respect that they deserve and get the tracklist right!

>Fueiho

I am usually fun of this series but maybe coz I am Japanese, I am not a fan of this video. Yes some people in the scene had tough times but Music in Tokyo or Japan still has a strong music market. Why not focusing or pick up the great record stores in Japan instead of talking about negatives ? Why not talk about some of legendary clubs like Yellow or maniac love and the history of Tokyo scene than just a Fueiho?

Draconian... No wonder all the Japanese flock here to Hawaii LOL. At least they can fin party here.

Shanghai please

i hate how japan can be the most backwards country in certain areas. this isn't going to bode well for when Tokyo hosts the 2020 Olympics.

this is frustrating to watch

lol