Jazz'N'Bass -Drum'n'Bass174/87 & Jazzy Jungle
Aoyama Hachi · Tokyo, Japan
19:00 – 23:59
Aoyama Hachi is a four-storey club at 4-5-9 Aoyama Building in Shibuya, Tokyo. It opened in November 1995, and Goto joined its staff in 1998 before taking ownership in 2005. The venue uses the building’s second, third and fourth floors: a DJ bar is on the second, the main dance floor on the third, and a lounge on the fourth. Capacity is about 200, and its sound system was made by Kawamoto Audio.
Its music spans house and techno to drum and bass and jazz. The programme also includes reggae, hip-hop, world music and rock. Events have been run by vinylDJ Eiji Takehana, AoyamaHachi, Green Coffee and pe4kyTJ. Artists to play there include Kenta Tominaga, Velocity, Yuta Takahashi and DJ Kensei. In January 2018, police raided the club over alleged breaches of Japan’s no-dancing regulations; three staff members were arrested. Weekend programming sometimes extends to after-hours events.
