Went to see Adam Beyer at Motor on Friday and couldn't believe the response he got from the crowd. People were going nuts. Of the mostly full dancefloor that I walked into at midnight, probably 75% stayed there and just went manic.
It took people a good half-hour to get sucked into his hard vibes, but by that point I began to feel like I was at a heavy metal show. People were just going for it, dancing like crazy and needing lots of space. Helped me tap into my testosterone. The coolest part about the frantic vibes was the amount of females getting down. Something about attractive women dancing hard to techno and dark DnB is just so cool and sexy! Anyway, walked in at midnight just as he took the decks. Most of the first half of his set was fairly minimal stuff in terms of content. Just percussion and basslines. He would mix in a new record every few minutes, letting the tracks play out long enough for you to get lost in the dense rhythms. A little over halfway through, he mixed in the original mix of "Jaguar" very seamlessly. That got people going nuts and signalled a change of pace. >From there until he finished at 2:30, he started picking up the pace. Faster and harder records with faster mixing. It got to the point that people were pumping their fists in the air, cheering, yelling and screaming. Some young kids even climbed up on the front of the DJ booth and were getting the crowd pumped up. Overall, the energy was massive. Very raw, very primal and very masculine. By the end, I felt like I'd just finished working out. Rarely do I dance so hard that I go home sore and truly dehydrated. Towards the end of the set, I kept thinking to myself "this is what it must feel like to be insane." For real. This was up there with making it through one of Richie Hawtin's six-hour sets. You wake up sore in the morning. I'd do it again in a heartbeat though. Too bad Motor doesn't bring in people like Beyer for their residency's rather than DJs such as Dave Ralph and Stacy Pullen. later JasonB
