Saturday, July 25, 2009

Japan : Venus Fort entertainment arcade

Odaiba Venus Fort is the first 'theme park-like' shopping mall in Japan. Built in 1999, our guidebooks described it as a "theme park for ladies". We weren't especially interested, but had read (and been told by friends) that it was quite an experience.

Throughout the whole holiday I had wanted to go into a Pachinko parlour, but for one reason or another I didn't get round to it. I was pleased however to find a Pachinko-lite coin-op entertainment game area in Venus Fort. This is where I made the following recording. I slowly weaved around the different types of game, hoping to build an interesting collage of sound.



Recorded on 20 March 2009

<a href="http://binauraldiaries.bandcamp.com/track/venus-fort-games">Venus Fort games by BinauralDiaries</a>

4 comments:

Byobz0r said...

hey awesome recordings man, im living in tokyo and just bought some new headphones, this is a fun test :)

Ollie Hall said...

Hey! Pleased you're enjoying them.

What headphones have you bought?

Byobz0r said...

audio technica A900

Ollie Hall said...

Those look like a serious set of headphones - lots of good reviews online. Enjoy!