Meet Jérôme Daniel, AKA, “DJ DANDELION,” the lovely fellow from Normandy, France who I was introduced to by Malin and Bastion from Cologne (featured in my last post!) Jérôme is one very friendly and obviously supremely cool cat as you can see by his digs and general stance! I learned from our mutual pals that music flows through Jérôme’s veins. Whether he is organizing the MESS MY MIND 60s weekenders (legendary events I’m told,) or spinning trans-world tunes from the banks of the Seine up to the sources of the Amazon at DJ Dance Parties in his home of Le […]
Malin and Bastian
Malin and Bastian – I met this lovely couple on the streets of Shimokitazawa a little over a year ago, visiting Tokyo for their first time from Cologne, Germany, (and Dusseldorf, and I think Stockholm as well, maybe Australia too – I’m not even sure I caught it all the first or second time) but I met them actually on their honeymoon, though it seems these two have been lovebirds for a very, very long time, their love going back a way, to all these aforementioned places. And they were indeed lovebirds, cute as can be, “two peas in a […]
Majoo and Ruffy
After a great trip to Nagoya, I was back on home turf in Tokyo when on my way home from work I spotted this VERY cool couple in Shibuya coming out of HMV with what looked like a sizable haul. Ruffy and Majoo introduced themselves and though they were in a bit of a rush to get to the next record store before it closed, they were happy to give me some of their time for Tokyo Record Style. And when I found out that they have a record shop in San Francisco, and were on a buying, selling, and […]