Record Store Day at Deus Asakusa 2020

Record Store Day at Deus Asakusa 2020

We’ve got an annual event we are stoked to support, “Record Store Day (RSD)”, normally held every April. And surprise, surprise it was almost nixed this year due to that lil’ ol’ global COVID-19 pandemic. Then the gals & guys had a light bulb moment, they devised a cunning plan to hold the event in three parts, or as they called them“RSD DROPS” plonking them on the calendar a month apart in August, September, and October. Wanting to support this fantastic event, Deus Ex Machina Asakusa jumped at the chance for both the September and October RSD DROPS.

Brilliant days washed in the tickle of the deepening autumn, made the chosen weekends a couple of mighty fine festive time. For these, its first events since opening in the Spring, Deus Asakusa organized guest DJ sets, vintage vinyl-record & cassette-tape flea markets, and a hand-print silkscreen workshop to decorate tees and totes with Deus Records logo art. The flea markets and workshops were set up during daylight hours while after dark was saved for dimming the lights and grooving to the DJ sets. Both night and day the guests who stopped by were served up sublime music, delicious food and intoxicatingly delightful drinks.

– The September (26/27) Drop: A vintage vinyl-record & cassette-tape flea market held together with Face Records & Tasteet production. DJ sets starred DJ Yogurt and DJ Conomark, members of and crowd favourites of the DJ line-up previously at Deus Harajuku’s Trapdoor.

– The October (24/25) Drop: Back by popular demand, a repeat of the vintage vinyl-record & cassette-tape flea market, alongside a hand silk-screen print workshop where guests hand-print their own T-shirt with Deus Records logo art. DJ sets hosted by DJ Moodman also a member of Trapdoor’s DJ line-up, along with two new faces to Deus but representing the local downtown area, DJ MAS aka SENJU-FRESH! and DUBINCH.

After the year that was, event-goers sincerely enjoyed getting out and digging through the vinyl crates, striking up conversations with fellow music-lovers, and for a lot of folks, trying their hand for the first time challenge of hand printing a silkscreen t-shirt. The heartwarming scene of children cautiously hand-printing their mom and dad’s tees left a warm friendly impression to the downtown vibe. The live DJ sets kicked off in the evening and the turn-out of families with children enjoying the tunes resulted in a fun atmosphere where both kids and grown-ups alike got together having a great time. The talented DJ‘s had Asakusa grooving all through the nights.

Since the closure of Deus Harajuku in March, this was really the first opportunity in a long time that Deus has had to gather with a group of likeminded people, Deus regulars, new locals, and DJ fans, all of whom came together for a healthy dose of that special sauce, good vibes. Although gatherings in this new day and age will probably have a completely different look and feel to what we were used to but participating in these RSD DROPS, gave us an up-close sense that with music people will genuinely enjoy themselves no matter the circumstances.

We can’t wait to see everybody again soon!

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一年に一度、レコード屋さんの日、レコードストアデイ。
毎年4月に開催されているが、今年は新型コロナウイルス感染拡大の影響を受け、
RSD DROPSとして,8,9,10月の3回に分け開催された。
デウス浅草店でも、この素晴らしい日を祝う為、
9月、10月に参加することに。
浅草店で初めてのゲストDJセット、レコード&カセットテープのフリマ、
デウスレコーズアートの手刷りTシャツ& トートのワークショップを開催した。

秋の訪れを感じる爽やかな週末
一日中音楽を楽しめる日となるよう昼の部、夜の部とテーマを変えて行うことに。

昼の部は、レコードのフリマと、手刷りワークショップを。
9月は Face Records&Tastee T Productionとレコード&カセット等のフリマを開催し、
10月はレコード&カセットのフリマ、そしてデウスレコーズアートを自分で手刷りできるTシャツワークショップを開催。
真剣にレコードを掘る人、音楽話に花が咲く人、
初めての手刷り作業に一喜一憂する人。そして、子供が両親に一枚ずつ刷ってプレゼントする素敵親子。
下町人情溢れる暖かい一コマを垣間見れた時間。

夜の部は、早めの時間でライブDJセットを開催。
DJ 陣は 原宿店で開催していた DJ イベント Trapdoor でも
お世話になっていた DJ Yogurt , DJ Conomarkが 9月に、そして10月は DJ Moodman ,
今回初登場の東京の下町地元代表のお二人 DJ MAS aka SENJU-FRESH! DUBINCH
が浅草の夜を盛り上げてくれた。

原宿店クローズ後、久しぶりの方から、ご近所の方、DJのファンの方々と様々な面々が集ってくれた。
ライブDJセットは夕方から始まり
音楽と踊るのが好きな子連れの方も少なくなく、
大人からキッズまで一緒に誰もが楽しめる空間がそこにはあった。

新しい時代でのイベントは これから変わりゆくものであろうとは思うが、
人はどんな時でも、心から楽しめるということを今回改めて実感することができたのでは無いでしょうか。
また、皆さん直ぐにお会いしましょう。

Special Thanks

RSD Japan

東洋化成株式会社

Face Records

Tastee T Production

All photos and Film by Keisuke Tanigawa 

Deus Records Social Media 

Deus Records Instagram 

Deus Records SoundCloud 

Deus Records Japan Online Store 

Deus Records Spotify 



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Sabtu pagi, 17 Juni 2023, menjadi hari yang ditunggu-tunggu oleh 250 peserta reli sepeda motor dan 80 kontestan flat track race di Bali. Itu merupakan acara Rally & Camp Tasik Adventure keempat yang diselenggarakan oleh komunitas pecinta motor trail vintage yang lebih dari sekadar menggemari motor dual purpose era 80-90-an. Dikenal sebagai Trail Asik Adventurer, AKA… Tasik Adventure yang telah menunggu setahun untuk merencanakan dan mengerjakan nya demi tidak mengecewakan siapapun yang ikut berpartisipasi.

Coba kamu bayangkan , ada dua sisi koin berbeda pada event kali ini. Yang pertama adalah Reli. Mereka memberi nama Challenge "Tantangan", menjadikan setiap peserta sebagai "Penantang" Challenger. Jadi, di tempat parkir Sangeh Monkey Forest, sambil menikmati keteduhan pohon jati raksasa yang awet muda, 250 Penantang parkir untuk menerima kode QR untuk etape pertama rute reli. Seluruh perjalanan adalah 3 etape dengan 3 titik pemberhentian. 4 jika Anda menghitung tujuan.

Ada beberapa motor keren di sana, Honda XR, Yamaha DT, Suzuki TS, Suzuki DR, dan beberapa custom modern, motocross dan scrambler. Sekitar sepuluh atau lebih, mereka berbaris di titik start dan memulai rally dari sana. Misi setiap orang adalah menyelesaikan setiap tahap dan berhenti di 3 titik pemberhentian untuk mendapatkan kode QR untuk bagian berikutnya. Keindahan Bali selalu menjadi pendamping, saat kami terbang di sepanjang kombinasi jalan aspal, jalan pedesaan, dan jalan tanah di daerah Tabanan. Kami perlahan-lahan terbang tinggi dan semakin tinggi ke perbukitan dan pemandangan sawah dan hutan akhirnya habis, sebenarnya lebih seperti perlahan menjadi satu ketika kami sampai di tujuan. Bali Outbound Farmstay (BOF) yang juga menjadi tempat berkemah semalam. Jika Anda mengumpulkan semua kode QR Anda, Anda mendapat medali Rally sebagai bentuk penghargaan.

Sisi lain dari koin yang disebutkan sebelumnya, atau event kedua, adalah balap jalur datar (flat track). Atau dalam hal ini jalur dengan landasan yang tidak rata karena tempat mereka membangun jalur itu berada di atas tempat yang dulunya terdapat dua sawah terasering. Jadi titik start finish lebih tinggi dari jalur lurus pertama dengan penurunan pada tikungan pertama dan sedikit menanjak pada tikungan kedua. Saat kami masuk ke BOF, kami sudah bisa mendengar suara motor flat track dan sorakan penonton yang berkumpul. Kami parkir dan membuat jalur jalur seperti lebah.

Keseruan seutuhnya pada acara, disaat tingkat kesulitan tambahan dimasukkan ke dalam jadwal sore hari menarik perhatian yang sangat luar biasa. Mereka berhasil menarik sekitar delapan puluh peserta, terbagi dalam 4 kelas: Kelas Mesin Horizontal, Kelas FFA 4T Max 250cc, Kelas FFA 2T Max 250cc Flat Track, dan Kelas FFA Big Bore.

Antusiasme untuk balapan flat track sangat terasa. Kegembiraan tumbuh saat kami melewati babak penyisihan dan membangun sesuatu yang luar biasa untuk final setiap kelas. Tidak ada kata menahan, mereka hadir untuk memenangkannya. Pembalap dari setiap komunitas bersaing sengit di setiap kelas. Nama-nama seperti Maulana Sandi, Dewa Dimas, Harris Manasi Ride, Nova Rider Sing Mebekel, Ferry Rider Sing Mebekel, Bontok Giga MX, dan lain-lain tak main-main, sebagian besar dari memamerkan skill mereka tanpa mengesampingkan sportifitas dan keselamatan.

Trek dengan permukaan tanah liat merah keras yang kering memberikan tantangan. Di awal, para pembalap disuguhkan dengan bagian menurun pada tikungan pertama, setelah itu mereka memeras gas di bagian trek lurus sebelum berputar ke kiri lagi tapi kali ini menjadi bagian menanjak pada tikungan kedua. Itu memaksa mereka untuk menggabungkan keterampilan balap trek datar mereka dengan banyak teknik motocross. Pada akhirnya, semua pembalap bersenang-senang dengan debu tanah liat merah yang menutupi segalanya dan semua orang.

Saat matahari terbenam ke arah cakrawala, saudara dan sahabat motoran kami meraih pecahan cahaya terakhir untuk mendirikan tenda mereka dan dalam persiapan untuk berkemah malam. Matahari menghilang di balik Gunung Batukaru memberi semua orang pemandangan yang menakjubkan, tetapi segera menyelimuti kami dengan udara yang jauh lebih sejuk dari dataran tinggi di Baturiti Tabanan ini.

Percakapan tentang rute reli dan balapan flat track mengalir dari pintu tenda semua orang yang berkemah, yang lain membaringkan tubuh mereka yang lelah untuk mengantisipasi perjalanan keesokan harinya, perjalanan yang relatif santai ke Pantai Pasut.

Dengan begitu, acara Rally & Camp Tasik Adventure 2023 pun berakhir. Sampai bertemu lagi tahun depan, salam untuk semua penantang, pengalaman yang luar biasa.

Berikut daftar pemenang Kelas Flat Track:

Flat Rack Horizontal Engine Class Winners:
1. Chiko GTT Bali
2. Panduk Pisaga Delodan
3. Andika Monkey Brothers

Flat Rack FFA 4T Max 250cc Class Winners:
1. Nova Rider Sing Mebekel
2. Ferry Rider Sing Mebekel
3. Bontok Giga MX

Flat Rack FFA 2T Max 250cc Class Winners:
1. Sandi Maulana
2. Dewa Dita
3. Eponk Road Country

Flat Rack FFA Big Bore Class Winners:
1. Dewa Dimas
2. Haris Manasi Ride
3. Sandi Maulana

Saturday morning, June 17, 2023, was a highly anticipated day for 250 motorcycle rally participants and 80 flat track race contestants in Bali. It was the Fourth Rally & Camp Tasik Adventure event organized by a community of vintage trail motorcycle enthusiasts who love more than fanging about on their dual-purpose motorcycles from the 80s and 90s. Known as the Trail Asik Adventure Community, AKA… Tasik Adventure people had waited a year for the follow up and none were disappointed.

Just so you can get it straight in your head, there’s two very different sides to this coin. The first one was the Rally. They hung it under the banner of “Challenge”, making each partaker a “Challenger”. So, in the carpark of Sangeh Monkey Forest, which enjoys the shade of giant ageless teak trees, 250 Challengers parked up to receive the QR code for the first leg of the rally route. The entire ride was 3 stages with 3 stop points. 4 if you count the destination.

There were some amazing bikes there, Honda XR’s, Yamaha DT’s, Suzuki TS’s, Suzuki DR’s, and some custom modern motocross and scrambler bikes. In lots of ten or so, they lined up at the starting point then let them out for the event. Everyone’s mission was to complete each stage and stop at the 3 stop points to get the QR code for the next bit. Bali’s beauty was the constant companion, as we flew along a combination of asphalt roads, rural roads and dirt tracks in the Tabanan area. We slowly winded up high and higher into the hills and the views of rice fields and forests finally ran out, actually, it was more like blurred into one when we reached our destination. Bali Outbound Farmstay (BOF), which was also to be the overnight camping spot. If you collected all your QR codes you got a Rally medal as a form of appreciation.

The other side of the aforementioned coin, or second event, was the flat track. Or in this case staggered track because where they had built the track it was over a spot that had once held two rice terraces. So the Start finish straight sat higher than the return straight with a drop on the first turn and an uphill bit on the second. As we were pulling into BOF we could already hear the flat track bikes and the assembled crowd cheering. We parked up and made a bee line track side.

What an absolute corker of an event, the added degree of difficulty jammed into the afternoons schedule made for the most marvelous distraction. They’d managed to attract around eighty participants, split over 4 classes: Horizontal Engine Class, FFA 4T Max 250cc Class, Flat Track FFA 2T Max 250cc Class, and FFA Big Bore Class.

The enthusiasm for the flat track races was palpable. The excitement growing as we whittled down through the heats and building to something of a crescendo for the finals of each class. There was no holding back, they were in it to win it. Racers from each community fiercely competed in each class. Names like Maulana Sandi, Dewa Dimas, Harris Manasi Ride, Nova Rider Sing Mebekel, Ferry Rider Sing Mebekel, Bontok Giga MX, and others were letting nothing slip, flaunting their skills without compromising sportsmanship and safety. Mostly.

The track, with its dry hard red clay surface, presented challenges. Off the start, the racers were presented with a downhill section on the first turn, they hit the gas on the bottom straight before spinning left again but this time into an uphill section on the second turn. It forced them to combine their flat track racing skills with a slew of motocross techniques. In the end, all the racers had fun with the red clay dust lay across everything and everyone.

As the sun dipped towards the horizon, our compadres and accomplices grabbed the last shards of light to set up their tents in readiness for a night of camping. The sun disappeared behind Mount Batukaru affording everyone a magnificent view, but immediately enveloping us in the much cooler air of these high grounds here in Baturiti Tabanan.

Conversations about the rally route and the flat track race flowed out of the tent flaps of all those who camped others bedded their weary bodies down in anticipation for the next day's ride, a comparatively leisurely meander down to Pasut Beach.

With that, the Rally & Camp Tasik Adventure 2023 event came to an end. Until we meet again next year, greetings to all challengers, what an amazing time.

Here is the list of the days winners:

Flat Rack Horizontal Engine Class Winners:
1. Chiko GTT Bali
2. Panduk Pisaga Delodan
3. Andika Monkey Brothers

Flat Rack FFA 4T Max 250cc Class Winners:
1. Nova Rider Sing Mebekel
2. Ferry Rider Sing Mebekel
3. Bontok Giga MX

Flat Rack FFA 2T Max 250cc Class Winners:
1. Sandi Maulana
2. Dewa Dita
3. Eponk Road Country

Flat Rack FFA Big Bore Class Winners:
1. Dewa Dimas
2. Haris Manasi Ride
3. Sandi Maulana