PW Indoor with Kabuto, Flore, and Bogman at Platforma Wolff Bucharest

••• SATURDAY, 22 MARCH 𝗣𝗪 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗢𝗢𝗥 KABUTO (Daze Of Phaze, Lair - JP) FLORE (Khidja) BOGMAN Kabuto, one of Tokio's best kept secrets, plays PW as part of a very limited string of European dates. To match an exceptional appearance and Kabuto's freeform house and techno style, we've called up Bucharest originators Flore of Khidja and Bogman to open and close what is shaping up to be one of the most musically-unpredictable nights at PW this Spring. ••• Somewhere far in the Tokyo underground, an under the radar selector has been training with one of a kind house and techno music for the past 17 years. In addition to his low-key LAIR series at Grassroots, a legendary bar in Higashi-Koenji, where he highlights Japanese artists, Kabuto runs an important party called Daze Of Phaze. It tends to host a more melodic contingent than the sleek, minimalist house or hypnotic techno you'd hear elsewhere in the capital, a style best described as a cross between American house and techno and the kind of stuff you'd hear at Frankfurt club Robert Johnson. DJs like Evan Baggs, Andrew James Gustav, Gwenan and Oskar Offermann have made it their Tokyo home, to give you an idea. This hybrid approach comes across in Kabuto's own DJ-ing, which is elegant and smooth, but notably chunky: there are Detroit-style chords, thick acidic basslines and soaring strings, the kind of house music that wears its disco and hi-NRG influences on its sleeve. The mix is seamless, near-perfect, but hardly clinical. There's a warmth to it that seems to define Kabuto, who is known as Aniki - an affectionate Japanese term for "big brother" - to artists and friends across the world. ••• ENTRY 22-23 • free 23-late • 40 lei - available at the door ••• Bar opens at 22:00. Party indoor. Outdoor is free. 1, Dr. Constantin Istrati Street Access through Expirat Halele Carol