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Soundcloud:

He offers it as a free 320kbps download, but the Japanese DJ encourages people to donate money to the disaster in Japan which I think is a great idea to raise money for the needy.

Tron: Legacy R3CONF1GUR3D (set to come out April 5th) is an album Disney Records is releasing. It has a bunch of artists re-working tracks from the score of the movie done by Daft Punk.

Tracklist:

01 The Glitch Mob: “Derezzed”
02 M83 vs. Big Black Delta: “Fall”
03 The Crystal Method: “The Grid/Game Has Changed”
04 Teddybears: “Adagio for Tron”
05 Ki:Theory: “The Son of Flynn”
06 Paul Oakenfold: “C.L.U.”
07 Moby: “The Son of Flynn”
08 Boys Noize: “End of Line (Boys Noize Remix)”
09 Kaskade: “Rinzler”
10 Com Truise: “Enron Part II”
11 Photek: “End of Line”
12 The Japanese Popstars: “Arena”
13 Avicii: “Derezzed”
14 Pretty Lights: “Solar Sailor”
15 Sander Kleinenberg: “Tron Legacy (End Titles)”

Looks to be a cracker and I can’t wait for it to come out in my opinion. Also if you visit their website: www.tronsoundtrack.com and view source, they have done a nice bit of ASCII art of someones face but I can’t make out whom, which is a nice little ‘nerd’ touch they’ve added.

Only highlight of this blog entry would be the catching the bullet train to Narita airport, why? The train is nicer inside than any of our Australian planes.

Walking through perfectly clean streets the morning after new years eve celebrations. I do not know how they keep their cities so clean yet there are no rubbish bins anywhere! Me infront of the Hachiko. We weren’t able to grab a photo of this statue previously while we were here because there was always so many people infront of it! If you’re wondering that’s my snowboard wrapped in bubble wrapped by JAL airlines.

The awesome ‘NEX’ bullet train and they even had a place card at the back of each seat explaining each carriage, it such a smooth ride and took us to the airport with ease.

The plane we were about to board, little did we know about the delays that were upcoming. I guess the food they gave us on the flight was pretty good so we were satisfied with that, they even gave us ice cream!

We stayed in a hotel over night in the Kuala Lumpur airport before catching another flight back to Australia, the room was huge, as we were so used to tiny closet sized bedrooms in Japan. The bathroom was bigger than our previous room and bathroom in Shibuya so that was a big smack in the face. The view wasn’t exactly stunning but picked up a lovely sunset.

Last official day in Tokyo so we thought we would try to do a bit of sight seeing so we caught a train to Aoyama-Itchome then a transfer subway to Akabanebashi where Tokyo tower is. It was the first time catching a subway for us and from the initial expectations we thought would involve lots of pushing and squishing into train carts like sardines as what we have seen on TV and such but it was the complete opposite, quite empty and I’m guessing that’s because of the holiday season and being new years eve and all.

Pictures above is the Oedo line of the Subway we caught and the park map of Tokyo tower

Edit: 9th March 2011 - I totally forgot about this last blog entry that I didn’t end up posting so I’ll try to finish it to the best of my memory.

Knowing that today would be the last day we would get to roam around Tokyo before flying back to Malaysia then heading home we decided to use our JR passes as much as possible and we ended up doing a full loop on the JR line visiting stops throughout the trip.

We ended up heading back to our apartment and decided to pack before preparing ourselves for counting down 2010 and knowing that we have to be out by 10am tomorrow to grab a bullet train to Narita airport.

We didn’t go crazy for new years eve but rather we went to a 270yen bar where we just binged and ordered food that we possibly had interest in and stocked up nicely on beer for the night (cocktails for Chloe). There was an item on the menu that was ‘fried prawn’ after having a few drinks down I thought this was tempura and I was very excited, little did I know. They were prawns with the shells still on just lightly cooked in some sauce. It was a different taste but I guess food is food.

Pictures above show me washing down the prawns with some beer and Chloe getting a bit tired now that we’re reaching midnight.

We didn’t spend countdown in a club/pub/venue but we thought it would be nice to venture the large intersection in Shibuya and see what would be there. Little did we know there was tens of thousands of people there! We were right at the back only coming with about five minutes to go before 2010 was over so I thought it would be a good idea to start a little rolling stampede into the centre of the intersection. Being the polite, conservative Japanese people are they found this to be a bit of a shock with an aftershock of other westerners (who were also a bit rowdy and intoxicated) joining into the fun and having the police try to keep us in line. Not a bad way to bring in 2011 in my opinion!

We made our way home knowing that tonight would be the last night we would spend in Tokyo 2010.