Yellow,
Thesaurus Nishiazabu B1-B2F, 1.10.11 Nishiazabu. Minato-ku
Tokyo, Japan
Formerly known as Yellow and Spacelab
Yellow, eleven is the new name of the same space that once
held Tokyo's most revered club.
Yellow
Information...
Yellow opened the door on 12 December
1991. It was produced by the same team who owned the legendary
club called "P.PICASSO" in nishiazabu and "CAVE"
in shibuya. This venue was created for the purpose of having
the place to do a party called "WORLD CONNECTION",
which has been bringing top DJs and performers from overseas
and also to have DJ K.U.D.O.'s "TRANCENIGHT" party.
It's a second biggest venue in Tokyo at that time. Here we
can try anything we want, be experimental and we named it
"SPACE LAB YELLOW". We invited Victor Rosado from
New York as the opening DJ and 2000 people gathered.
Francois Kevorkian's first appearance
in February 1992. Started publishing YELLOW MAG in September
on the same year. In December 1993, started Yellow's record
label "EAST EDGE". The first vinyl 001 by DJ K.U.D.O.
sold out right away.
On 24 December 1994, we had the very
first performance of Lolleata Halloway, it was also the first
appearance at a club in the world. In November 1995, we threw
a massive techno rave party "MADE IN HEAVEN" at
laforet Iikura, which featured drum'n'bass floor (then jungle)
at first in Japan.
In April 1996, One night big rave party
"SOUND OF UNIVERSE" held at laforet Iikura and it's
compilation album was released from Toshiba EMI. Extensively
refurbished in May and since then we are keeping this style
which convey the mood of both big club and small friendly
club.
DJ Mag
Club Review...
Located just a few streets away from
Tokyo’s notorious red-light district, there’s
a charmed seediness to Tokyo’s basement rave den Yello,
which is neither as technologically obsessed nor as expansive
as many of Japan’s more high profile venues.
Effortlessly cool rather than mindlessly cutting-edge, Yellow
boasts the same soundsystem that was used in New York’s
Paradise Garage with a crowd that favours the intimate, engulfing
textures of quality deep house.
Appropriately, the likes of Kerri Chandler, Maurice Fulton
and François K are favourites here but you’ll
equally find DJs like Crosstown’s Damian Lazarus warping
it out.
“An amazing sound and crowd to match,” says Wagon
Repair’s Mathew Jonson. “Nothing beats the energy
that you get on dancefloors of Japan and Yellow is the best
example you’ll find.”
