Impact! The Music

In a year packed with the best shows of your life, Impact! and the Attack The Music crew are back with a Vengeance, feeding credits until our bodies drop. We grip the bar again and let our feet tap and shuffle us through the night, reinvigorated by every kick pushing us through a night of hi-speed hardcore, DnB, and more. Catch kors k, Maozon, Frums, and many more as we detonate the emerald city in a show you can’t miss, happening in the heart of town at Massive.

A highly acclaimed producer and DJ, kors k is a name almost anyone familiar with Konami’s BEMANI series would recognize instantly. Going all the way back to Beatmania IIDX 4TH STYLE, celebrating his 25th anniversary this year, his eclectic electronic style, taking a kitchen sink approach to the idea of dance music and hopping between genres with ease, has been foundational to dance games. Beyond his talents as a composer and producer, he now also acts as music director for titles like DanceDanceRevolution and DANCERUSH STARDOM. Though he usually plays US shows at conventions, with this upcoming tour, you have a rare opportunity to see him in a proper club environment where his music really shines! Don’t miss this rare opportunity!

Frums returns to bring its off-kilter approach to anything and everything to a live crowd. Known for pushing rhythm game paradigms in arcades (CHUNITHM, Taiko no Tatsujin, maimai) and phones (Arcaea, Cytus II) alike, this cat has been about everywhere you can imagine – and now, hot off a trip to Japan, it’ll perform in the US what it just brought across seas, right here in Seattle!

Maozon is a music producer and DJ based in Yokohama, Japan. In 2013, he entered the “SEE THE LIGHTS” remix contest held by ASY, a project by DJ AKi, STY, and YUUKi MC, and won the grand prize. The song “R.Y.U.S.E.I.” for Sandaime J Soul Brothers, which was his major debut work, won the 56th Japan Record Award and 2016 JASRAC Gold Award. In the same year he also composed the song “O.R.I.O.N.” for Sandaime J Soul Brothers which placed 7th in the top 10 highest selling songs of 2015 in Japan. He continues to compose and arrange music for major label artists as a member of Digz Inc. Outside of his major label work, Maozon is an active composer for a variety of popular music games including Konami’s “beatmania IIDX” and Bushiroad’s “D4DJ Groovy Mix”. Independently he is a pillar of the Japanese club scene, acting as a mainstay in the drum’n’bass scene and regularly performing at clubs across Tokyo. Despite how active his career is he continues to enjoy releasing dance music with independent labels operating worldwide and shares his music production techniques on the twitch.tv livestreaming platform.

A name carrying much internet infamy, W.T. Snacks has been the host of his own weekly online radio show “Midnight Snacks” for over 20 years, showcasing a variety of music from around the world, often with an emphasis on the best electronic music from Japan. Both solo and as half of the DJ duo SNACK ATTACK with DJ HYPE☆GIRL, he’s spent much of the past decade taking the IRL anime and gaming convention scene by storm, performing live sets at dozens of conventions like Anime Central, Anime Expo, MAGFest and beyond. An all-mix DJ to the extreme, Snacks enjoys showcasing the breadth of his musical knowledge in his DJing style, dropping a multitude of genres, from reckless rave, panic pop, warp house, future club, and hybrid twerk, to irregular hi-break, candy hypercore, nu-style festival sound and underground international netstyle. Always looking towards the future while taking inspiration from the past, expect a journey through sound that will move your body like no other!

With a production career spanning over 20 years, T2Kazuya has made significant contributions to the ever-evolving hard dance music scene, particularly within Happy Hardcore, UK Hardcore, J-Core, and Hardstyle. His tracks have been featured in popular rhythm games like Arcaea and StepmaniaX, reaching audiences around the world. Known for reinterpreting conventional melodic genres fused with alien-like sound design, T2Kazuya creates twisted sonic labyrinths in every performance and every release, past, present, and… near future?

Graz is a Seattle-based multi-genre electronic dance music producer specializing in hi-energy rave, hard dance, and hardware chiptune. Releasing and performing since 2005, Graz has played countless shows domestically and internationally. His vision and dedication has cemented as an icon of West-Coast underground dance music and continues to innovate in the genre to this day.

Vixel is a Seattle local DJ known for starting a fire on the floor wherever she goes, bringing together all varieties of hardcore, DnB, UKG, and even blending in some hyperpop action. Don’t miss out!

VIP TICKET INFORMATION:

With a purchase of the available VIP tickets, you gain access to an exclusive meet and greet with the artists at 6pm before the show begins upstairs in the venue! You’ll have the opportunity to take a photo with the performers and some time to chit chat, all before an exclusive kors k set before the main show begins! For said set, at 7pm you’ll gain access to upstairs where he will perform an exclusive BEMANI PRO LEAGUE recreation set!