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Five Years of Samurai.Fm

Reported by Tristan Ingram on May 7, 2008

In five years of service, samurai.fm has established itself as one of the most respected and trusted guides to global contemporary music. Through hosting exclusive shows from artists, labels and organisations at the cutting edge of their field, it has become the destination for discerning music fans from around the world.

 To celebrate five years of forward thinking broadcasting, samurai.fm will be hosting a series of exciting events in London and Manchester as well as the station's spiritual home of Tokyo during May, showcasing samurai.fm residents alongside some of our favourite artists.

 We celebrate in London on Friday 23rd May with a rare appearance from the reigning king of the Scandinavian cosmic/Nu disco scene : Lindstrom. Previewing brand new material from his forthcoming album, he will be performing an intimate live set at one of the East End’s best kept secrets – the 300 capacity Visions Video Bar in Dalton. This is one gig not to be missed! Tickets will be available in advance online at www.samurai.fm/event and at Phonica Records in Soho.

 Supporting him will be NYC legend DJ Cosmo, (one of the few artists to guest at David Mancuso's Loft parties), alongside London blog/DJ and production duo Allez Allez - two cats who are swiftly gaining recognition as the savviest tastemakers in the blogosphere and some of the local samurai residents.

 May 4th sees samurai.fm programming the Sunday evening of the www.futuresonic.com festival at Manchester’s Deaf Institute . Get Physical's moonlighting superstars Junior Boys will be dishing up a fine plate of their delicious deep disco, with live performances from DC Recording’s Kelpe and the incredible James Rutledge under his Pedro moniker.

 On Saturday 24th May the action moves to three floors of club Unit in Tokyo, where we link up with Real Grooves to present live performances from Dandy Jack and Butane showcasing an album release, alongside samurai.fm residents and friends. This is the first samurai.fm event at Unit after years of supporting the infamous RG events at the soon to be closing legendary Space Lab Yellow club.

 We hope you can join us to celebrate 5 very special years of groundbreaking music at one of the parties and we look forward to another 5 years of online innovation. NEW MUSIC RADIO.

 Sunday 4th May

Futuresonic @ The Deaf Institute - Manchester

135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester, M1 7HE, UK.

Junior Boys DJ

Kelpe Live

Pedro Live

Tramp

samurai.fm DJs

8pm - 2am

Tickets 7 ADV / 9 DOOR

Advance Tickets -  online www.futuresonic.com

Friday 23rd May

samurai.fm 5th Birthday @ Visions Video Bar - London

588 Kingsland Road, London, E8 4AH, UK.

Lindstrom Live

DJ Cosmo

Allez Allez

Future Sound of Clapton

Mamiko Motto

9pm - 4am

Tickets 8 ADV / 10 Door

Advance Tickets - online - www.samurai.fm/event + offline - Phonica Records - Soho

Saturday 24th May

Real Grooves + samurai.fm @ Unit - Tokyo

Dandy Jack

DJ Butane

Aquira

Salloon Djs: Sisi

Ozmzo aka Sammy

Yo

Unice Djs: John Connell

Nik Muthafunka

Hash

11pm - 6am

Tickets Door only - 4000 yen/3500 yen with flier

www.realgrooves.com

www.unit-tokyo.com