On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Friday- August 4, 2000 LavaLourne Fine Arts with johanson Charles Gallery > > The Blue Room > dress attire: shades of blue > > Free Admission, drinks > Doors @ 7p.m til 6am > Artist: Ko > > Live Detroit Music > > K.Hand - acaciaRecords,Detroit > Mike Clark - agent X > Terrence Parker -Intangible Records > V.I.N.C.E. > Keith Worthy 100% pure > Oh jeez, do I have to come to Detroit EVERY weekend? I was going to see Kelli years ago in Chicago when the bathrooms flooded and submersed the power cables for the PA ... and Friday Kelli was hanging in the booth Friday night but I never got to say hello.
I was able to hit Motor Friday night for Claude Young and Dave Angel. Claude was absolutely smoking. So intense that I felt like chilling after 20 minutes and going back to the study for Hannah. I must say I'm basically in love with her as a DJ. She played a lot of really lovely latin tracks, some house and some disco. The first time I saw DJs was at a gay club in '77 and she pulled out a few tracks I haven't heard since then. Bill Van Loo was in the study when I arrived, and pulled out Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters" -- next time Bill play the other side, first track -- the one with the goofy pygmy singing at the starrt. That's the stuff that I was hearing on boomboxes in the halls of my high school! All I have to say is with people playing stuff like this, Detroit has a unique chill DJ thing going on, that I love... Claude and Dave got short shrift from me, timewise. This isn't a criticism really, more a reflection of what a few years of hearing DJ sets a couple of times a week. But there's a certain kind of techno set that's become standard in Europe -- lots of hard banging tracks that are hard to tell apart. They may have played more adventurous stuff when I wasn't in the room, but what I heard was kind of monochromatic. Not bad, but this is the mainstream of techno right now, and like always, the interesting stuff is happening on the edges. And I have the utmost respect for both guys as producers. I just wish I could hear more of that stuff. I met a load of people from this mailing list, and saw some people I've met before. Rather than forget someone, thanks to everyone, especially Steve Lammers, Brooks (? last name?) and Aaron Bennet who took me to Dennys in the burbs. It's cool to meet people with that encyclopedic knowledge of the music. Every time I come to Detroit people go out of their way to make me feel at home. If you can get out to Iowa we'll do the same ;-)
