Labyrinth Sets

Track list and pictures:

http://tropical-house.com/labyrinth07/labyrinth.htm

Before there was Soundcloud I posted my sets on a London-based electronic music discussion group called "4four."  Around February 2007 I posted a set there from a guest spot I did on Frisky Radio.  The next month I received an email from a promoter in Japan who asked if I was interested in coming there to play.  Well of course I was very interested but I don't hold my breath on such offers, knowing that one pans out for maybe every 4 that don't.

This one panned out fantastically well into a weeklong trip to Japan and the most amazing festival experience and dj experience of my life!  From the friendly people that picked me up at Narita airport to the dance marathon (most I have danced in my life) over 3 days and nights and a lineup that included Adam Beyer, Minilogue, Three, Donato Dozzy, Dave Mothersole, D-Nox, Alex Smoke, Aril Brikha, Cobblestone Jazz, Surgeon, Ryan Elliot and more, to the final days hanging out together in Tokyo, this trip was a life-changing experience.  It was right after the first Tropical campout and totally inspired me to keep doing Tropical in an outdoor setting.  Can't say enough about it, how well it was organized, how well the artists were treated, how amazing the crowd was, or the 48-cabinet Funktion One Sound system that tickled our ears.  An absolute delight!

So getting booked here both in 2007 and 2008 as a very underground - ie less famous - artist than pretty much every other international dj on the bill is one of my top life accomplishments :)  I think I am overall a much better dj in 2013 than in 2007 but this was a party I went all out in my preparation for and I would still be proud to play this set today.  

Timing-wise this was around 4am-6am Sunday morning, I think my set was actually 3am-6am but the first hour did not get recorded.  I played after Surgeon, and before Aril Brikha, through the sunrise, with the first part in darkness and last hour in light, you will feel the change in the music I'm sure :)

Enjoy this set from the most enjoyable party imaginable :)

Ben Annand Live at Labyrinth Festival, Gunma, Japan, September 16, 2007

OCCA recorded playing at Balance for Mindgames in October 2021 at Hodaigi Campground, Gunma, Japan.

Mixer: Alpha Recording Systems 6700
Time: Sunday afternoon 4.5-hour closing set

OCCA - Mindgames - Balance (October 2021)

The Monk recorded playing experimental music on his personal home stereo--a rather large Funktion-One system up in the mountains, tuned by his ears for his ears--for Mindgames at Balance. October 2021. Hodaigi Campground, Gunma, Japan. 

(Note: volume level is intentionally low at the beginning. Adjust your ears, not the volume.)

Mixer: Alpha Recording Systems 6700
Time: Saturday closing set after Wata Igarashi

The Monk - Mindgames - Balance (October 2021)

Recorded live at the Labyrinth Festival, Sept 2013.
The set was a tribute to Pete Namlook who passed away the previous year.
Thanks to all @ Mindgames
http://mindgames.jp
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lnR7Ow3qfo&t=7s

Live @ Labyrinth - Pete Namlook Tribute

recorded Live DJ mix at THE LABYRINTH 2010.

THE LABYRINTH 2010

recorded DJ set at The Labyrinth 2013
2013.09.15 at Naeba Greenland

THE LABYRINTH 2013

A recording of Peter Van Hoesen's hybrid dj/live set at the Labyrinth 2014 (September 14th, 2014).



 

Peter Van Hoesen: Labyrinth 2014 (Hybrid Dj/Live)

The Canadian producer offers up his live set from Labyrinth festival 2010.

RA.240 Mathew Jonson

We're happy to present the recording of Sebastian Mullaert and Ulf Ericksson's live/dj set at the Labyrinth 2015. Seb and Ulf played the first night, entitled "Full Circle". It was a set where everything came together beautifully and organically, crowd and artists and music, and we all felt it was something worth sharing.

Here is the full 3.5 hour recording, together with a few words from Seb and Ulf: 

"For me, everything comes and goes in circles. And like everything else these circles are unpredictable; spiralling and reformulating like a kaleidoscope. Manifestations of patterns in this very moment; Consciousness.

I played the first edition of Labyrinth, had a few returns during the years and now returned for the 15th edition. Russ and Yasuyo, together with their Mindgames crew, have always performed their festival with a focused and radical mind; one intention, one passion - to create a psychedelic experience of dance surrounded by the Japanese nature. While the festival has grown in many ways since my first episode at Labyrinth, this radical focus on the mind-altering experience and the true love for dance have remained the same, with no sign of resignation.

This year I shared the stage together with Ulf Eriksson; a friend who has become a very special creative collaborator. To be a part of Labyrinth and to play this specific gig is the most magical experiential puzzle of moments I've shared with Ulf. This is an experience that will continue to remind us why we are doing this – why we are part of this ever shifting circle, spiralling into inspiration upon aspiration - something that never stops. I'm forever thankful to Russ and Yasuyo both for giving us the opportunity to play, sharing this recording and also creating a series of experiences and stimulations, resulting in each of us that listens as individuals becoming a part of something bigger and more all-encompassing – a circle that connects us beyond the realms of materialism, into the unpredictable.

Russ, Yasuyo and the Labyrinth are a true source of inspiration and a reminder to all of us in love with dance and electronic music that there is no end to the power of experience. 

Let us continue to remind each other, again and again, circle by circle, moment by moment into eternity."

- Sebastian Mullaert

"To play the Labyrinth festival has always been a bit of a dream of mine. Why, I do not know exactly. Maybe it's because it takes place far away, in Japan. Maybe it's because of all the stories you have heard from the festival. Maybe it's because of the unique tribal mystic that surrounds it, in combination with the nature of the location. Maybe it's because of the small group of artists, who all become like family for a few days. I do not know. But what I do know is that this dream has always been there and I am sure I share I it with a lot of musicians and DJs around the world. Anyway, 2015 I was lucky enough to be offered a slot, due in large part to my collaboration with Sebastian Mullaert, who already played there many times, both as Son Kite and as Minilogue.

So there we were behind the Labyrinth tipi, me and Sebastian, ready to go. Or, rather, not ready at all. We had prepared each to our selves but never found the time to meet up and rehearse together. I remember that Sebastian looked at me just before the set, and said something like: "I will not be sad or disappointed if things do not go well". I guess he was trying to calm me down since he knew I was kind of nervous. Anyway, off we went and thankfully, for some unknown reason, it was one of those gigs where everything just felt right.

So here is the recording. I still have not listened to it, and I do not think I will. I think I prefer to stay with the live memory of how it sounded. But I do hope that you will listen to the set, and that it will give you pleasure and meaning, just as my memory of it."

- Ulf Eriksson

Sebastian Mullaert & Ulf Eriksson - Live @ Labyrinth 2015

A live recording of Patrick Russell's set at The Labyrinth 2015. Patrick played the final day, Monday September 21st, from late morning to early afternoon.

2015年のLABYRINTH出演時、最終日の朝遅めの時間にプレイしたPatrick Russellの希少な録音音源がこちら。

Patrick Russell: The Labyrinth 2015

2016年のラビリンスにて、日曜朝にプレイしたIshqのライブセット録音音源がこちら。

A recording of Ishq's live set on the morning of September 18th at The Labyrinth 2016.

Ishq in the Rain: Labyrinth 2016

Tobias. live at Labyrinth Festival 17.9.11

What did we do before Soundcloud existed?  Well we started with mixtapes, then moved to mix cds for a while.  Things started going digital around 2005/2006, and there was a gap before Soundcloud was founded in 2007 and of course took some time to become standard for djs posting live sets.  

In that little interim we had a bulletin boards called 4Four.  It was here that my mix post of a set I did for Frisky Radio in early 2007 caught the attention of Labyrinth Festival in Japan, and I was asked to play this exceptionally good event for the first time in September 2007.  It was the top dj experience of my life!  Maybe the top dance experience too, I really represented out there. 

I was honored to be asked back in 2008.  Things were a little different with the weather very wet; this was the last year at the Gunma location.  As well, I had all 4 wisdom teeth removed a day or 2 before flying and I was a mess.  I did pull it together for this set, though I will say it was not easy!

This is a unique set due to timing, around the same time music availability was transitioning from vinyl to digital, there corresponded an explosion of music in a previously neglected genre, minimal techno.  For me, the minimal revolution went way too far, and often wasn’t groovy enough for me, but there was a sweet spot of funky, trippy minimal music which I explore in this set from 2008.

I too, was transitioning from vinyl to digital at this time, and that showed in my mixing setup, which was 2 technics turntables, a first-generation serato interface, and my mac powerbook.  A few years later when my laptop died, I bought and switched over to CJ2000s.

Labyrinth is one of the top underground festivals in the world, it sells out of 2000 tickets in one day every year.  It was the kind of party famous djs made plans to attend even if they weren’t playing that year, and you know that’s rare!  The experience re-set the bar for outdoor parties for me, and has been an inspiration for Tropical, though on a smaller scale, ever since.  If you ever get the opportunity to go, take it!

https://www.facebook.com/mindgamesjapan/
www.mindgames.jp

Live at Labyrinth Festival

Ben Annand Labyrinth Festival Japan 2008 (part 2)

160 kbps i found on the web. if anyone has this in better quality hit me up, please :)

http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/

mnml ssgs mx12 pt3: donato dozzy @ labyrinth 2008

Please enjoy this recording of So at the Labyrinth, September 23, 2018.

So: The Labyrinth 2018

All compositions written, produced &amp; performed (not DJ'd) by A Guy Called Gerald using Propellerhead's Reason only.
  
Recorded live at Labyrinth Festival 10th Anniversary, Naeba, Japan Sept 18th, 2010. 

(C) 2010 A Guy Called Gerald 
info@guycalledgerald | http://guycalledgerald.com

LIVE at Labyrinth Festival Japan

Fairtilizer 15214 - DONATO DOZZY - mnml ssgs mx12 pt1  donato dozzy   labyrinth 2008

Fairtilizer 15218 - DONATO DOZZY - mnml ssgs mx12 pt2  donato dozzy   labyrinth 2008

Petar Dundov live @ Labyrinth Festival Niigata Japan 16.09.2012

Opening words and song from The Labyrinth 2019, October 13th, Sunday afternoon, post Typhoon Hagabis. Played by The Monk.

Words taken from an interview with Robert Fripp conducted in 1979. Full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k96zkPrXQh4

Labyrinth Sets

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