AGERO DJ’s
A hype start to this year's All Night Fuji.
The 2017 edition of All Night Fuji was dubbed Inai Inai Bar and took place once again in the Cafe de Paris area at the far end of the festival grounds. The setup alternated between live acts and DJs to keep breaks in the music to a minimum and energy levels in the crowd high. Last year’s edition of All Night Fuji featured established names such as one of the DJs from Orbital. It only took place in the Cafe area. As such the area was overcrowded and not ideal to spend all night.
This year’s setup, alternating between 2 stages, seemed to work much better and kept crowd volume in check. While I didn’t participate all night in this year’s event, I took in a sampling of the night by listening to a set from a trio of DJs dubbed the Agero DJs, which can loosely translate as hype up DJs.
In a roughly 45 minute set, these 3 seasoned Tokyo based DJs, Bryan, Ayashiro and Tasaka, played a back to back to back set switching between one another and dropping tune after tune throughout the set. As things progressed the crowd grew and indeed seemed to get more hyped up. All 3 DJs play a similar style of electronic music, variations of hard house, hard trance, tech house, funky house and more. If it has a hard driving beat and contains funky, bass heavy breakdowns, these 3 play it.
So while each DJ roughly only got about 15 or 20 minutes to play in this b2b2b style, these hype up DJs did indeed live up to their moniker. The crowd was jumping, dancing and shaking with each ensuing buildup and drop from our trio. The 3 friends have evidently played with each other before and seemed to anticipate what tune the next would select. Even though it was 3 different people mixing a short set, the whole thing had a high level of coherence. While the experience was quick and full of energy, I’d recommend seriously interested parties to search out sets from each DJ individually to get the full experience.
