Description: At the world’s premier DJ competition, the DMC World DJ Championships in the UK, DJ duo KIREEK achieved the unprecedented feat of winning five consecutive titles and have finally released their first album, “ONE in TWO.” A music video for “LED ROCK” was produced from the tracks included on the album. Please enjoy the world of “LED ROCK,” filled with abundant homages to music culture.

This new work by HIFANA, “TEJIME,” released after a nine-year hiatus, was unveiled on the first day of the Reiwa era and was created with the Japanese traditional celebratory ritual of “tejime” as its inspiration, in order to grandly celebrate a new era. When it comes to HIFANA, they are pioneers of Japanese anime music videos. Animation synchronized with music. Strange and humorous characters. We wanted to present each element in an extreme style. Using cel shading, a technology uniquely developed in Japan, this is a fully CG animated work created entirely by one person.

The world premiere of the stage art work THE TRIP -Enter The Black Hole-, led by Jeff Mills, was performed in Tokyo on April 1, 2024. This is the world premiere of THE TRIP -Enter The Black Hole-, a stage art work co-produced by Jeff Mills, the world-renowned DJ and pioneer of Detroit techno, and COSMIC LAB, one of Japan’s most innovative visual teams. With black holes as its theme, Jeff Mills handled the overall direction, script, and music, while COSMIC LAB expanded his vision of the cosmos and way of thinking through visual direction. In addition, Juju Togawa, who like Jeff Mills has been active since the early 1980s, joined as a singer, and choreographer Hiroaki Umeda, internationally acclaimed for his cross-disciplinary work spanning contemporary dance and digital art, was also part of the production. The stage costumes for each performer were designed by Hiroshi Ochiai of FACETASM, one of Japan’s leading fashion brands. This live expanded cinema work, a journey to the farthest reaches of the universe and an exploration of the deepest depths of the mind, was performed at ZEROTOKYO, equipped with a visual system developed by COSMIC LAB and state-of-the-art sound facilities.

Special rebroadcast of the XR live show from “NEWVIEW DOMMINE Vol.7”! LOST TAPES MIX is a conceptual DJ set made possible by digitizing a large number of open-reel tapes unearthed in the attic of the “Misono Universe Building.” The mix primarily features recordings made in the 1960s and 70s by the actual house band of “Cabaret Universe,” with many arrangements by Taro Kidan. An XR live stream set on a virtual universe that faithfully recreates in CG the peak of the original Misono Universe in 1956. The DJ and VJ played from the COSMIC LAB studio in Osaka, while virtual lighting joined the session remotely in real time from an undisclosed location in Tokyo via VPN, with the final output streamed from the DOMMUNE studio in Shibuya. UNIVERSE 1956- https://www.universe1956.com/ COSMIC LAB https://cosmiclab.jp/

EYE (BOREDOMS)'s new project "FINALBY( )" with COSMIC LAB & Niimi Taiki & Kanta Horio COSMIC LAB, which explores the expansion of perception through spatial expressions where the visible and invisible intersect; Kanta Horio of the art-engineering group Ponoor Experiments, who explores the relationship between sound and machines based on physical phenomena through art and system development; programmer Taiki Niimi, who handles everything from circuit design to sound synthesis; and Shinji Mashiko, who has worked with BOREDOMS for many years as sub-director—through this collaboration, they create a new audiovisual experience centered on device objects. It made its debut on the WHITESTAGE at FUJIROCK FESTIVAL’21.

A showcase using “QUASAR,” a musical instrument developed by COSMIC LAB that plays sound and visuals simultaneously. A live session with Plant Records, led by DJ YASA, formerly of KIREEK, who achieved the remarkable feat of winning the DMC World Championship five years in a row. YoshimiO (OOIOO) and TOKIO AOYAMA also took part in this work.

At the world’s premier DJ competition, the UK’s DMC World DJ Championships, the DJ duo KIREEK achieved the unprecedented feat of five consecutive titles and has finally released their first album, “ONE in TWO.” A music video for “LED ROCK” was produced from a track on the album. Please enjoy the world of “LED ROCK,” richly filled with homage to music culture.

This new work by HIFANA, “TEJIME,” their first in nine years, was released on the first day of the Reiwa era and was inspired by “tejime,” a traditional Japanese celebratory ritual, in order to grandly celebrate the beginning of a new era. HIFANA is, after all, a pioneer of anime music videos in Japan. Animation synchronized with music. Strange and humorous characters. I wanted to portray each element in an extreme way. Using cel shading, a technology that was uniquely developed in Japan, this is a full CG animation created entirely by a single person.