New Year Service

For a crash course to Tokyo’s underground hip-hop scene, you can hardly do any better than this action-packed night at Nakano’s tiny Heavy Sick Zero basement club. Rough-and-ready rap duo The Lefty lead the lineup that also includes names like Saboten, Ill-Sugi and Fortune D – certainly unknown quantities to your average clubber, making New Year Service even more worth attending. Finally, when the guy in charge of the visuals refers to himself as Rokapenis, you know you’re in for a wild ride.