Quite quiet on the club-going front
Things will be kind of quiet in Jakarta's club-land this Friday and Saturday following last weekend's overflowing lineup of love- packed Valentine's Day events. If you didn't get your fill of good times or good loving, there's still a couple of special club happenings this weekend to make your night out a little more exciting.
Friday
There's a Samsung "Flash On" party on at Embassy's main room with "famous" singers, "famous" international DJs and a fashion show hosted by "famous" models and partygoers that's supposed to start at 8 p.m. I guess everybody will get on famously. Well, if they're all so "famous", then how come there isn't any more info available?
Downstairs at CO2 will be the "Innovative Communication 2nd Call" party, sponsored by San Miguel with top local progressive hit-men Naro and Riri, including an introduction set by DJ Achdiyat from Moonchild. Will probably start cooking around midnight.
For all you R&B, rap and hip-hop lovers, right next door at Manna House (Taman Ria, Senayan) will be a supercharged "Coast to Coast" party sponsored by D'Makaveli in celebration of their first anniversary, with DJs Stan and Joga from 10 p.m., but apparently Da' Bomb and their other live PA rap-laying cohorts will be missing.
Da Chicks and Rouge (ex-Avalon @Kemang Point, Jl. Kemang Raya 3, South Jakarta) presents "Girl's Rules" with more female DJs than you can spin a stick at, like Manu, Junior, Wawan, Sophie and others. There's a 20 percent discount on all booze until midnight, then a tequila promotion starting at 1 a.m..
Everyone's been ranting and raving about all the hot new DJs from Melbourne Down Under, so now's your chance to check one in person when progressive DJ Luke Chable invades Centro (Dharmawangsa Square, South Jakarta) sometime around 1 a.m. The so-called "Crown Prince of Breaks" was voted "best producer" at last year's Aussie Dance Music Awards, plus he has a new track out called Ride (in collaboration with Bonnici) that was recently picked by Peter Tong as a Radio One "Essential New Tune".
Saturday
Anker Beer Beatstream will host the "Flight 388: Third Airborne -- Destination Singapore" featuring two "runways" of DJ music at Embassy and CO2. There's a fashion show by Look Models Inc.; house and tribal on Runway 1 (Main Room) from DJ "captains" Anton, Romy, Riri and Miko; and techno, progressive and trance from DJ "captains" Naro, Irwan, Ai and Iman on Runway 2 (CO2). Both flights take-off at 11 p.m., should reach cruising altitude after midnight and continue until final destination and landing around 5 a.m.
A deep and funky journey into tribal and progressive house is what will be in store when Singaporean DJ Godwin P plays the launch of Klarity at Centro, along with the club's resident DJs. Besides opening up for a heap of top DJs, he's also got an original studio production called Warped out soon. Show starts at 10 p.m. but he'll be on probably around 1 a.m.
PAL Seventeen and Aziez present "Untitled" at the a2 Club (Alila Hotel, Jl. Pecenongan, Central Jakarta) with two rooms of RnB, Funk, techno, progressive house, classic disco and garage (take your pick!) with DJs Doney (PAL seventeen), Putra (advarklab), Opaz (houselife), Asking 80, Ade, Koko and Edmond.
For those up for an adventure in West Jakarta, there's rumors of a new disco called "Ground Base" located in the Hotel Mega Anggrek, Jl. Arjuna Selatan 4. No concrete reports yet, but judging from the DJ names, it will probably be commercial happy hardcore house music format. Call 536-3044 for more info.
-- Joseph Mangga