Quite quiet on the club-going front

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