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<h2 id="org42d13e1">Events and Trips</h2>
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<h2 id="org48f0688">Events and Trips</h2>
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Here I keep some memoirs of (mostly music) events I&rsquo;ve helped organized, participated in, or attended; I&rsquo;m putting trips I&rsquo;ve gone on here as well.
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<h4 id="org696aca2"><i><a href="./premier_impact.html">Premier Impact</a></i></h4>
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<h4 id="org204aa4e"><i><a href="./premier_impact.html">Premier Impact</a></i></h4>
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A doujin music event in Paris which I helped organize!
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<h4 id="org8e910ef"><i><a href="./wroclaw.html">Millennium Strike WROC.WAV + Wrocław trip</a></i></h4>
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<h4 id="orge19725a"><i><a href="./wroclaw.html">Millennium Strike WROC.WAV + Wrocław trip</a></i></h4>
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I sorta-kinda was support crew here. Also includes general notes on my trip to the beautiful city of Wrocław, Poland.
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<h2 id="org91adc6d">Premier Impact Retrospective</h2>
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<h2 id="org8f67d5c">Premier Impact Retrospective</h2>
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This is a retrospective on <a href="https://paris.reloadreset.net/"><i>Premier Impact</i></a>, a music event we held on the 10th of May 2025.
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A bit of context that&rsquo;ll help illustrate some of the organisational difficulties involved in the event:
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The event theme was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doujin_music">doujin music</a> and generally <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-core">J-core</a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakcore">breakcore</a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_song">anison</a>, though in practice we gave DJs complete free reign as to what to play and the event was better characterized as &ldquo;we invite our friends to play good music&rdquo;; it&rsquo;s perhaps best understood in relationship to other similar events<sup><a id="fnr.2" class="footref" href="#fn.2" role="doc-backlink">2</a></sup>. These events are already common elsewhere, but not aren&rsquo;t yet established in France, despite there clearly existing a sizeable audience for them &#x2014; our aim was thus to start putting this on the map here in Paris.
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<h4 id="org5225e4f">Searching for a Venue</h4>
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Since this was our first event<sup><a id="fnr.3" class="footref" href="#fn.3" role="doc-backlink">3</a></sup> we went into this without existing contacts and without a confirmed audience. Largely because of this<sup><a id="fnr.4" class="footref" href="#fn.4" role="doc-backlink">4</a></sup> we mostly committed to finding a venue that would let us host the event <i>for free</i>.
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We originally got a reply from <a href="https://les-amarres.org/"><i>Les Amarres</i></a> on <i>April 4th</i>, so we were in communication with both them and <i>Spot 13</i> in parallel, but we only got confirmation they&rsquo;d be available on <i>April 15th</i>. They let us hold the event in their venue for free, so accepting immediately was a no-brainer. They even gave our staff free drinks and meals<sup><a id="fnr.11" class="footref" href="#fn.11" role="doc-backlink">11</a></sup>!
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Only now that we had a venue we ready to formally invite guest DJs and start putting publicity out. Promo went out on <i>April 24th</i>, less than 2.5 weeks until the event.
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<h4 id="org08b0494">TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES; Our Act</h4>
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Those that were present around the end of the event might have seen Apt and I frantically faffing about with two DJ controllers, three laptops and a bass guitar. We ran into two kinds of technical issues during our set.
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Looking critically, behind the scenes&#x2014;and to some extend unfortunately also on the stage&#x2014;this was an organisational mess. Some of this definitely could&rsquo;ve been prevented &#x2013; Apt and I take full responsibility for the original error of failing to secure a venue in time. Other hecticness in the planning wasn&rsquo;t really preventable&#x2014;there&rsquo;s a reason this post opens with a description of our schedule&#x2014;but will be avoided in the future. It was a learning experience for sure.
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<h2 id="org7a76e3a">Wrocław/Millennium Strike WROC.WAV</h2>
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<h2 id="org22ccd9c">Wrocław/Millennium Strike WROC.WAV</h2>
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Alex, <a href="https://apt-get.xyz">apt-get</a>, <a href="https://x.com/a_nrvnqsr">mercury.lamp</a>, pachy and myself were in Wrocław<sup><a id="fnr.1" class="footref" href="#fn.1" role="doc-backlink">1</a></sup>, Poland between April 30th and May &lt;END DATE&gt; for <i>Millennium Strike Live WROC.WAV</i> where apt and merc were performing (B2B, under alias <i>Re;iwa Diabolik</i>). Shout out to pachy for finding time and money to join us last minute; I am very very glad he was able to be there, it wouldn&rsquo;t have been the same without him.
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Basically all the time in Wrocław before the event was spent on&#x2026; actually preparing the set, which hadn&rsquo;t really been started yet, so we were mostly inside the hotel &#x2014; this had much to do with apt and I being busy preparing for <a href="./premier_impact.html">Premier Impact</a> and everyone just generally being busy. Alex, pachy and I were technically free, but I was also trying to make stuff happen for <i>Premier Impact</i> still, and we all kinda hung around for moral support.
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<h3 id="orgb1f4f1a">Wrocław</h3>
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With us primarily being there for the event and it being a really busy period, I don&rsquo;t think any of us had really read up on the city very much. Safe to say we were all very pleasantly surprised! Wrocław is an absolutely lovely city; real student town energy with lots of young people, very warm hospitality and a very homely, casual atmosphere in restaurants as well.
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Wrocław has really cool architecture, a pretty eclectic mix of styles and old and new stuff. Lots of old defensive works that I believe were built after the Mongol invasion. Quoting Wikipedia:
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Overall Wrocławians made a strong impression on me as warm, hospitable, humorous and headstrong people. Wrocław had a very active anti-communist resistance that they are very proud of, and they&rsquo;ve kept that history very alive, both visibly in the city scape but also in their endearing fashion sense.
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<figcaption><span class="figure-number">Figure 10: </span><i>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wroc%C5%82aw_Dwarfs">Wrocław Dwarves</a> that abound in the cityscape are emblematic of the resistence. Their appearance traces directly from Dutch</i> kabouters, <i>so they were a strangely familiar sight.</i></figcaption>