[Tokyo 2019–2020] Where Will You Go for New Year's Eve? [Recommendations: Techno and House Only]

With just one month left in 2019, details of New Year's Eve events are being confirmed one after another.

This time I will pick and recommend countdown events you cannot go wrong with.

Please consider them as a way to close out dance music in 2019, and indeed the 2010s.

TOKYO Countdown 2020

This is the event I can confidently call the best countdown event this time.

Röyksopp, VITALIC, BURAK YETER, UMEK, Felix Da Housecat, Alex Metric, Monika Kruse, DUSTY KID, Stefano Noferini…

—the lineup gives an overall impression of many veterans, but simply assembling this many names for a countdown is remarkable.

Above all, the main floor is exclusively techno, and the choice to call it TOKYO Countdown 2020 is brilliant!

It is also fantastic that Japanese techno heavyweights and key figures Q’HEY and Ken Ishii are in the lineup.

Apparently some EDM will play on the secondary floor too, so people who moved from EDM into techno should enjoy it as well.

Maya Jane Coles and Anja Schneider Come to Vision Tokyo!

After focusing almost exclusively on EDM for several years, Vision Tokyo has recently recovered its house and techno character and increased its quality events. For the countdown, Maya Jane Coles and Anja Schneider, two talented female techno DJs, will appear.

Maya Jane Coles and Anja Schneider are well known to techno fans, but may be unfamiliar to people who started listening recently.

There are excellent female techno DJs besides Charlotte de Witte and Amelie Lens in the world, so I hope you use this opportunity to get to know them.

[A Grown-Up Event] I Went to “WET Sessions ft Anja Schneider,” but Anja Schneider Canceled, So I Relaxed over Drinks, Haha April 13, 2019

On Friday, April 12, I'm Going to Kuala Lumpur's Techno/Tech House Party “WET Sessions ft Anja Schneider” April 10, 2019

[Japan Visit Imminent] Female Techno DJs Take Over Tokyo This Weekend, and Maya Jane Coles at VENT on Friday, March 22 Will Be Insane Too! March 19, 2019

Agoria Appears at WOMB!

It is unfortunate that lately it has started hosting EDM and Trance events too, but it was originally a top club for quality house and techno.

WOMB brings in fantastic DJs for its countdown events every year.

Two years ago it invited Nicole Moudaber; last year, Josh Wink; and this year, Agoria will appear.

The main floor will also feature DJ Sodeyama, known for releases on Nina Kraviz's label трип (Trip), so you cannot go wrong musically.

For all that, WOMB clearly still cares most about house and techno.

VENT and Contact Tokyo Have a Stronger Underground Feel

VENT

Contact Tokyo

The 2020s Will Be Even More About Techno and House!

For quite some time, this site has argued that “techno and house will take the world by storm in the 2020s”.

Globally, techno and house have firmly become the main genres, and in 2019 that wave belatedly reached Japan too, bringing many quality techno and house events.