Hip hop, as everyone knows, is a genre which, even though very popular in Indonesia's nightlife, doesn't get much attention when it comes to big events involving international DJs, unlike the other clubbing music such as house and most importantly trance, with avalanches of international big names coming almost every week.

So, when I heard that GrandMaster Flash was coming, you could be sure I was saving myself all for this event - one not to miss! See, GMF is the real father of Hip Hop DJing in the US and in the world, proclaiming himself the "First Person who has made turntable into a music instrument". And what happened in that legendary, unforgettable night in Blowfish, which adds up to the exceptional events 2009 has to offer so far?

Covering an event is like completing a marathon, including running the whole distance. Why? Well, simply because we start far before Day D of the event itself. Negotiating a media partnership with its modalities, preparing news, writing and sending newsletters regularly, creating online banners, adapting biographies needed to enhance the promo, buzzing the events through the local online networks. Sometimes, you get to think that the work takes so much - but when you do what you love, as indonesiaclubbing was founded by our love to nightlife & clubbing scene in Indonesia, to be able to provide a better, bigger archive of online documentations in the forms of venue directory, events, interviews, photos, news and more, well, you don't count the hours any longer.

But then, there are nights like the night between Friday to Saturday, on the 19th of June 2009, that justifies all the hardwork we have been doing for almost three successive years. Nights when I mix my business of being photographer/online journalist/vlogger/site manager or whatever you may want to call it with pure, simple pleasure under the skin of a clubber.

Earlier at the day, Blowfish informed us that, at the most unfortunate event, GMF had refused all interviews - even the in-house interview Blowfish usually conduct with all their international DJs. Anyway, the little bit of disappointment quickly evaporated, for we could hardly wait for the night to come, at the promise of having a fab party. We chose a winner for two invitations to the event, and after having texted them the news, I spent the beginning of the soiree googling and browsing everything about GMF, found some of his interesting music and started to listen, a sip of Chardonnay now and then helped me to relax before I got out and hailed a cab to Gatot Soebroto.

At around 11 PM, finally we arrived at Blowfish - the familiar fluorescent violet lights welcoming our eyes, and my oh my, it wasn't even midnight and Blowfish started to get jam-packed. Delicious opening set by Blowfish DJs and GMF's manager.

It was only at 1:30 AM that the real show began. Some DJs, having no intentions to communicate with the public or simply too shy to talk, often do nothing more than leaving their crowd to the music. But, as we are all familiar with what hip hop is, playing music only is not enough. Gestures, flow and the way the DJ or MC communicates with the crowd are also important. And there, in those matters, are what make us call Joseph Saddler the GrandMaster Flash: not only he is experienced, but he is the crème de la crème of Hip Hop DJ - involving some serious oldskool hip hop mix and remixes, making his crowd cry for more, he was so succesful in bewitching them to go wild, crazy, simply by screaming "Jakarta! Jakarta! Jakarta! You want more??"

Circulating inside Blowfish was honestly impossible during several hours where GMF sat on his throne. People trembled, they laughed, cried, sang together in an endless echo through the night, following the Messiah of the Night: the Hip Hop Prophet GrandMaster Flash.

And the GrandMaster seemed content - he must be enjoying his time so much being there.

On my side, I was happy to get loads of beautiful people on pictures - this would only be the beginning, sincerely humming some rap songs from the 90s, and after over a hundred nice photos, I finally decided to put my camera back to its bag and it was time for me to get my own freak on!

And it was at 4 AM, all battered from a whole week full of work, I left the club, thinking that it must be indeed for this kind of event that I felt all my work spent on indonesiaclubbing paid off.