This site uses cookies for analytics and to improve your experience. By clicking Accept, you consent to our use of cookies. Learn more in our privacy policy.
Equinox Festival 1998 in Nenoue, Gifu. During Juno Reactor live set at the sunrise. Stage was on the left, but nearly all people turned around to the sunrise to the right and danced to it. 1998年夏に岐阜で開催されたイクイノックス・フェスティバル。日の出の時間帯に行われたジュノ・リアクターのライブ。ステージは左側にあったが、ほぼ全員が右側の日の出の方を向いて踊っていた。
Some back story ….
Cozi started DJ career in Tokyo underground scene around the end of 1997 as DJ Cozi. In the beginning, She was playing only Techno with vinyls.
Then a revolution occupied.
One of her traveler friend / American expats who lives in Japan for years, taught her about ‘ Incredible gathering in the mountain ‘ and recommended her to check it out. So she took his advice and went to an adventure, half day long journey using Bullet’s Train then local train, Bus, then a taxi into the deep mountain area in stunning Gifu prefecture – without any knowledge about what’s comes as her first outdoor rave party experience – Psychedelic Trance Festival ‘ Equinox ‘ in Gifu prefecture in 1998 August.
It made her world got totally up-side down, and her life never been the same after this experience. For her, encounter with Psychedelic Electronic music was like ‘ Fell in to an eternal love ‘.
In the early 1990s, the psychedelic trance culture that began in Goa, India, spread across the globe with travellers.
It was hailed as a revival of the counterculture movement that swept the United States in the 1960s and influenced young people worldwide — The Summer of Love — and came to be known as the Second Summer of Love.
During the first Summer of Love movement, Professor Timothy Leary, who urged people to “ Drop out of existing stereotypical ways of life and turn on ”, Aldous Huxley, author of “ The Doors of Perception ”, and a Poet Allen Ginsberg, who travelled the world giving poetry readings with his masterpiece “ Howl ” and spearheaded the anti-Vietnam War movement, were among numerous influencers active across many fronts.
Inspired by them, a movement emerged that sought cosmic contemplation via psychedelic experiences and explored unconventional ways of living. This was called the New Age movement.
Thirty years later, the Second Summer of Love—an up dated version of New Age movement, inspired by electronic music and technology—swept through the 1990s, engulfing a new generation and spreading worldwide.
In Japan too, it profoundly influenced countless creators, musicians, artists, and thinkers.
What Cozi experienced in Gifu was precisely the surge of that very movement.
Armed with the revelations gained from this experience, her resolve to explore the wider world grew stronger.
A year later, in September 1999, she attended Burning Man in Nevada, USA. There she expanded her international network further, and by late 1999 had resolved to leave Japan. That same year, she undertook a DJ tour of Australia. She participated as a DJ at a festival held in Byron Bay, Australia’s hippie mecca, for the millennium countdown.
Subsequently, she finally travelled alone to the UK on a one-way ticket, and from there she continued her journey to this day.
The second Summer of Love experience in Japan can be said to have embedded the very primal pulse and catalysed a personal alchemy in the formation of the unique artist SUPERCOZI.
This site houses her photographic archive, spanning her experiences at festivals worldwide from 2000 to 2019, organised into two parts. Do take a look.
The album below is a collection of snapshots taken in the late 1990s, when she participated in various Japanese festivals, using vintage Nikon cameras and the portable “Utsurun-desu” camera. Festival names and locations are :
– Equinox Festival 1998 / Gifu, Japan – Vitamin Q 1998 / Nagano Japan – Equinox Festival 1999 / Nagano, Japan – Echo & Nymph 1999 / Yamanashi, Japan – Solstice Festival 1999 / Nagano, Japan – Third Culture 1999 / Shinjuku, Japan
Ambient bar ‘ Bullet’s ‘ and ‘ Mutation Lounge ‘
In 1999, She formed ‘ Hybrid Jupiter Tokyo ‘ which is a collective entity of Freestyle / Psychill / Downtempo DJs, Musicians, Artists, Poets, Performers who has an open mind to collaborate in free style.
At the time, in Nishi-Azabu, Tokyo, where she lived, there was an ambient bar called “Bullet’s”, produced by a Japanese female ambient DJ Hideyo Blackmoon.
Bullet’s was cherished as a venue where music enthusiasts from diverse countries gathered weekly for experimental events. It was here that Cozi began organising the monthly event “Blue Mutation Lounge”. Bullet’s was located a mere five minutes’ walk from the apartment along Aoyama Cemetery where Cozi resided at the time.
Bullet’s was one of the most important venue for the Tokyo underground electronic music / chill-out / ambient scene in the end of 90’s.
Many expats artists and Japanese in art & music & fashion community hosted one-off event or series of experimental gathering that featuring down tempo electronic music with psychedelic twists.
One of the very iconic, popular night at The Bullet’s was ‘ Dakini Night ‘ that hosted by Gio – Respected downtempo label Dakini Records founder and a producer known as Makyo. Young Cozi attended every single events she can and absorbed international-community’s creative air.
As Blackmoon was a producer / directer of The Bullet’s, she gave Cozi monthly slot to organize chill out event. Also she allowed Cozi to use Bar’s DJ equipments during closing time to practice DJ techniques.
In 1999 Spring, Cozi also befriended with Tsuyoshi Suzuki, whom a legendary Psychedelic Trance DJ who lives in London back then, in a ‘ Echo & Nymph Festival ‘ in Doshi Village ( Yamanashi ) where Suzuki and other Japanese Psy-Trance pioneer ARTMAN played 9 hours set each.
Suzuki was also a founder of Matsuri Records, one of the leading Psy-Trance label at the time in UK. As Suzuki came back to Tokyo 1-2 times a year, They made few collaboration events in Tokyo before / after Burning Man 1999 where also Suzuki was attended with Nick Taylor and few other Psy-Trance DJs. Cozi befriended with them and it led her to joining their DJ tour in Australia in 1999 December. During this tour, Suzuki introduced her to Gus Till in Andrew Till’s house in Melbourne on the Christmas eve, which they became a couple and formed Zen Lemonade in 2000.
90’s ‘ Summer of Love ‘ in Japan
Counter Culture Movement in 90’s Japan
Equinox Festival 1998 in Nenoue, Gifu. During Juno Reactor live set at the sunrise. Stage was on the left, but nearly all people turned around to the sunrise to the right and danced to it.
1998年夏に岐阜で開催されたイクイノックス・フェスティバル。日の出の時間帯に行われたジュノ・リアクターのライブ。ステージは左側にあったが、ほぼ全員が右側の日の出の方を向いて踊っていた。
Some back story ….
Cozi started DJ career in Tokyo underground scene around the end of 1997 as DJ Cozi. In the beginning, She was playing only Techno with vinyls.
Then a revolution occupied.
One of her traveler friend / American expats who lives in Japan for years, taught her about ‘ Incredible gathering in the mountain ‘ and recommended her to check it out. So she took his advice and went to an adventure, half day long journey using Bullet’s Train then local train, Bus, then a taxi into the deep mountain area in stunning Gifu prefecture – without any knowledge about what’s comes as her first outdoor rave party experience – Psychedelic Trance Festival ‘ Equinox ‘ in Gifu prefecture in 1998 August.
It made her world got totally up-side down, and her life never been the same after this experience.
For her, encounter with Psychedelic Electronic music was like ‘ Fell in to an eternal love ‘.
スーパーコージは1997年末頃、東京のアンダーグラウンド・シーンでDJ Coziとしてキャリアをスタート。当初はレコードでテクノばかりをプレイしていた。
ところがある日、革命が起きた。
日本に長年住んでいたアメリカ人トラベラーの友人が、彼女に「山で信じられないような集会がある」と教え、それをチェックするように勧めた。そのアドバイスを受け、半信半疑で行ってみたのが1998年8月に岐阜県で開催されたサイケデリック・トランス・フェスティバル「Equinox」で、彼女にとって初めての野外レイブ・パーティー体験となった。
そのフェスティバルを体験した後、彼女の人生は一変した。
サイケデリック・エレクトロニック・ミュージックとの出会いは、彼女にとって『永遠の恋に落ちた』ようなものだった。
What is the Second Summer of Love?
In the early 1990s, the psychedelic trance culture that began in Goa, India, spread across the globe with travellers.
It was hailed as a revival of the counterculture movement that swept the United States in the 1960s and influenced young people worldwide — The Summer of Love — and came to be known as the Second Summer of Love.
During the first Summer of Love movement, Professor Timothy Leary, who urged people to “ Drop out of existing stereotypical ways of life and turn on ”, Aldous Huxley, author of “ The Doors of Perception ”, and a Poet Allen Ginsberg, who travelled the world giving poetry readings with his masterpiece “ Howl ” and spearheaded the anti-Vietnam War movement, were among numerous influencers active across many fronts.
Inspired by them, a movement emerged that sought cosmic contemplation via psychedelic experiences and explored unconventional ways of living. This was called the New Age movement.
Thirty years later, the Second Summer of Love—an up dated version of New Age movement, inspired by electronic music and technology—swept through the 1990s, engulfing a new generation and spreading worldwide.
In Japan too, it profoundly influenced countless creators, musicians, artists, and thinkers.
What Cozi experienced in Gifu was precisely the surge of that very movement.
Armed with the revelations gained from this experience, her resolve to explore the wider world grew stronger.
A year later, in September 1999, she attended Burning Man in Nevada, USA.
There she expanded her international network further, and by late 1999 had resolved to leave Japan. That same year, she undertook a DJ tour of Australia. She participated as a DJ at a festival held in Byron Bay, Australia’s hippie mecca, for the millennium countdown.
Subsequently, she finally travelled alone to the UK on a one-way ticket, and from there she continued her journey to this day.
The second Summer of Love experience in Japan can be said to have embedded the very primal pulse and catalysed a personal alchemy in the formation of the unique artist SUPERCOZI.
This site houses her photographic archive, spanning her experiences at festivals worldwide from 2000 to 2019, organised into two parts. Do take a look.
Planet Dance #1 / Festivals 2000~2016
Planet Dance #2 / Festivals 2016~2019
セカンド・サマー・オブ・ラブとは？
１９９０年代初めに、インドのゴアで始まったサイケデリック・トランス文化は、トラベラー達と共に世界中へと広がっていった。
それは、１９６０年代の米国を席巻し、世界中の若者たちに影響を与えたカウンターカルチャー運動、サマー・オブ・ラブの再来と言われ、セカンドサマー・オブ・ラブと呼ばれるようになった。
第一次サマー・オブ・ラブ運動では、『既存のステレオタイプな生き方からドロップアウトし、ターンオンしろ』と問いたティモシー・リアリー教授や、『知覚の扉』を書いたオルダス・ハクスレーや、名作詩集『吠える』を引っ提げて世界中でポエトリーリーディングをしたり、ベトナム反戦運動を牽引した詩人アレン・ギンズバーグら多数のインフルエンサーが多方面で活動していた。
彼らの提唱する、今までとは全く違う、サイケデリックな体験を通して宇宙的な思索に耽り、型にはまらない生き方を模索するムーブメントはニューエイジ運動と呼ばれた。
それから３０年後に、エレクトロニックミュージックやテクノロジーを起爆剤としてヴァージョンアップしたニューエイジ運動、セカンド・サマー・オブ・ラブは新世代を巻き込みながら９０年代を通して世界に広まり、日本でも多くのクリエイター、ミュージシャン、アーティスト、思想家に影響を与えた。
コージーが岐阜で体験したのは、まさにそんなムーブメントのうねりだったのだ。
この体験から得た啓示とともに、もっと世界を探求したいという彼女の決意は固く、それから１年後の１９９９年９月にはアメリカ・ネヴァダ州でのバーニングマンに参加。
そこで更に国際ネットワークを広げ、１９９９年の暮れには日本脱出を決意。その年の暮れにはオーストラリアでのDJツアーを敢行。ミレニアム・カウンドダウンを、オーストラリアのヒッピーの聖地バイロンベイで開催されたフェスティバルにDJとして参加。その後、ついに片道切符で単身渡英し、現在に至る。
日本での第二次サマーオブラブ体験は、SUPERCOZIというユニークなアーティストが形成されていく上で、まさに原始の鼓動を埋め込み、パーソナルな錬金術を起こす役割を果たしたと言えよう。
当サイトでは、２０００年から２０１９年にかけて、世界中のフェスティバルを体験してきた彼女の写真アーカイブを2部に分けて収納してあるので、ぜひチェックしてみてほしい。
Planet Dance #1 / Festivals 2000~2016
Planet Dance #2 / Festivals 2016~2019
90’s Japanese Summer of Love Archives
The album below is a collection of snapshots taken in the late 1990s, when she participated in various Japanese festivals, using vintage Nikon cameras and the portable “Utsurun-desu” camera.
Festival names and locations are :
下のアルバムは、彼女が様々な日本のフェスティバルに参加した９０年代末に、ニコンのヴィンテージカメラやポータブルカメラ『写るんです』を使って撮影したスナップ集である。
フェスティバルの名称と開催地：
– Equinox Festival 1998 / Gifu, Japan
– Vitamin Q 1998 / Nagano Japan
– Equinox Festival 1999 / Nagano, Japan
– Echo & Nymph 1999 / Yamanashi, Japan
– Solstice Festival 1999 / Nagano, Japan
– Third Culture 1999 / Shinjuku, Japan
Ambient bar ‘ Bullet’s ‘ and ‘ Mutation Lounge ‘
In 1999, She formed ‘ Hybrid Jupiter Tokyo ‘ which is a collective entity of Freestyle / Psychill / Downtempo DJs, Musicians, Artists, Poets, Performers who has an open mind to collaborate in free style.
At the time, in Nishi-Azabu, Tokyo, where she lived, there was an ambient bar called “Bullet’s”, produced by a Japanese female ambient DJ Hideyo Blackmoon.
Bullet’s was cherished as a venue where music enthusiasts from diverse countries gathered weekly for experimental events. It was here that Cozi began organising the monthly event “Blue Mutation Lounge”. Bullet’s was located a mere five minutes’ walk from the apartment along Aoyama Cemetery where Cozi resided at the time.
1999年、彼女はフリースタイル／サイチル／ダウンテンポのDJ、ミュージシャン、アーティスト、詩人、パフォーマーらで構成される集合体『Hybrid Jupiter Tokyo』を結成。
自由なスタイルでのコラボレーションにオープンな姿勢を持つメンバーが集まった。
当時彼女が住んでいた東京・西麻布には、日本人女性アンビエントDJであるHideyo Blackmoonがプロデュースするアンビエントバー、『Bullet’s（ブレッツ）』があった。
『Bullet’s（ブレッツ）』は、毎週多国籍の音楽マニアが集まり、実験的なイヴェントをやるベニューとして愛されていた。ここでコージーは月例イベント『Blue Mutation Lounge』の主催を開始する。『Bullet’s（ブレッツ）』は当時彼女が住んでいた、青山墓地沿いのマンションから徒歩でわずか5分の距離にあった。
Bullet’s was one of the most important venue for the Tokyo underground electronic music / chill-out / ambient scene in the end of 90’s.
Many expats artists and Japanese in art & music & fashion community hosted one-off event or series of experimental gathering that featuring down tempo electronic music with psychedelic twists.
One of the very iconic, popular night at The Bullet’s was ‘ Dakini Night ‘ that hosted by Gio – Respected downtempo label Dakini Records founder and a producer known as Makyo. Young Cozi attended every single events she can and absorbed international-community’s creative air.
ブレッツは90年代末、東京のアンダーグラウンド電子音楽／チルアウト／アンビエントシーンにおいて最も重要な会場の一つであった。
多くの外国人アーティストや日本のアート・音楽・ファッションコミュニティの関係者が、サイケデリックなひねりを加えたダウンテンポ電子音楽をフィーチャーした単発イベントや実験的な集いのシリーズを主催した。
Cozi befriended with Blackmoon in the 1999 spring. Soon after this, they traveled to Burning Man 1999 / U.S.A together as members of Zavtone magazine international camp. Later she wrote a short SF story ‘ Diary of Geisha=Borg Agent – Borg goes Burning Man 1999 ‘ on the magazine based on the experience.
As Blackmoon was a producer / directer of The Bullet’s, she gave Cozi monthly slot to organize chill out event. Also she allowed Cozi to use Bar’s DJ equipments during closing time to practice DJ techniques.
コージーは1999年の春にブラックムーンと親しくなり、その後まもなく、日米共同出資のテクノ雑誌、ザヴトーンの国際キャンプメンバーとして共にバーニングマン1999（アメリカ）へ旅立った。
後に彼女はこの体験をもとに、同誌に短編SF小説『芸者＝ボーグエージェントの日記 – ボーグ、バーニングマン1999へ行く』を寄稿した。
ブラックムーンはブレッツのプロデューサー兼ディレクターであったため、コージーに毎月チルアウトイベントを企画する枠を与えた。また閉店後にはバーのDJ機材を使って練習することを許可し、彼女のDJ技術の習得に貢献した。
Tsuyoshi Suzuki & Matsuri Records
In 1999 Spring, Cozi also befriended with Tsuyoshi Suzuki, whom a legendary Psychedelic Trance DJ who lives in London back then, in a ‘ Echo & Nymph Festival ‘ in Doshi Village ( Yamanashi ) where Suzuki and other Japanese Psy-Trance pioneer ARTMAN played 9 hours set each.
Suzuki was also a founder of Matsuri Records, one of the leading Psy-Trance label at the time in UK. As Suzuki came back to Tokyo 1-2 times a year, They made few collaboration events in Tokyo before / after Burning Man 1999 where also Suzuki was attended with Nick Taylor and few other Psy-Trance DJs.
Cozi befriended with them and it led her to joining their DJ tour in Australia in 1999 December. During this tour, Suzuki introduced her to Gus Till in Andrew Till’s house in Melbourne on the Christmas eve, which they became a couple and formed Zen Lemonade in 2000.
1999年春、コージーは当時ロンドン在住であった伝説的な日本人サイケデリックトランスDJ、鈴木剛とも親交を深めた。
鈴木と日本のサイケトランス先駆者ARTMANがそれぞれ9時間のセットを披露した、山梨県道志村で開催されたフェスティバル『Echo & Nymph Festival』で二人は出会い友人となった。
鈴木はイギリスのサイケデリックトランスシーンのパイオニア的存在であるレーベルの一つ、『Matsuri Records』の創設者でもあった。鈴木が年に1、2回東京に戻ってくるたびに、1999年のバーニングマンの前後に、東京でいくつかのコラボレーションイベントを開催。このイベントには、ニック・テイラーや他のサイケデリックトランスDJたちも参加しており、コージーは彼らとも親交を深め、年末のオーストラリアDJツアーを鈴木やテイラーたちと共に敢行。その際の1999年のクリスマスイブに、メルボルンのアンドルー・ティルの家で、鈴木が彼女をガス・ティルに紹介し、2人はカップルとなり、2000年にZen Lemonadeを結成した。
Photos & Collages by Supercozi / All Rights Reserved