Rainbow Disco Club - the hidden festival gem of Japan - is back at Elevator for a night beyond space and time. If you were at the previous editions featuring San Proper and Tim Sweeney, you have an idea of the trip you're in for. If not - you'll have to find out.

 

"I always wanted to become an astronaut, I was building my own spaceships with lego and engines and headphones... a recording studio, especially when you work with a lot of analogue gear and you switch off the lights and you only have the blinking lights from the synthesizers, it's very much like a spaceship - I'm traveling."

 

 

Headlining is Move D, aka David Moufang - one of the modern electronic musicʼs most beloved souls with a deep musical history - his roots span the 60s and 70s jazz, psychedelic, rock, soul and early electronica. Move D's grandmothers were both classical concert pianists. He can still remember favorite childhood moments, sitting under the piano as they played, surrounded and lost in the sound. Move started DJing in the late 1980's, playing funk, soul, hip-hop and proto-house. In the 90s things began to move fast with the birth of his Source Records label, early productions (including his debut Move D LP ʻKunststoffʼ) and the beginnings of a 26 album relationship with a close friend, the late Pete Namlook.

 

Since then, Moufang has become an unassuming heavyweight in house music as a producer for countless forward-thinking labels (Modern Love, Workshop, Smallville, Warp, Running Back, Uzuri and Electric Minds among others), a collaborator (projects like Magic Mountain High with Juju & Jordash and Reagenz with Jonah Sharp) and a truly original selector. Not one to slack off, his live and DJ performances have been on par with (if not superior to) his studio work, pulling from all corners of dance music in order to create an experience that attacks the hips and head in equal measure. His releases touch on house conventions but are delivered in his own inimitable style, leaving everyone - from longtime fans to the uninitiated— with their jaws on the floor and their hands in the air.

Supporting is Japanese scene leader, RDC resident and graphic designer Kikiorix. Besides the festival, you can find him rocking clubs like Vent, Womb, Contact and Air, solo and as part of the Tresvibes crew, who launched one of our favorite new labels of late with Vis Rev Set. His set warming up for San Proper was one of our favorites in the club - warped disco and house with warm grooves, otherworldly and familiar at the same time. Rounding it up are fast-rising producers Motel77 and Shanghai residents Carlos.