Hey,, I checked Roland last Saturday in Adelaide... I had my reservations before going to the venue, that this would be just another rave...The promotion was rave, the venue has been used a million times (for raves) and there were 2 faceless rave djs headlining next to Rolando... When I got to the 'rave' HMC was playing pretty damn hard, it was 1:15...at 1:30 a promising ambience had filled the old church of St Pauls...what would it lead to? Well, it lead to Knights of the Jaguar, as I had predicted, but beyond that the rest of Rolandos set was not what I thought it would be.
What I had expected was a set of soulful detriot influenced techno, and i hoped to hear some electro... more z tracks,. basically I was thinking along the lines of the astek mystik cd, but, unfortunately (for me at least) that was not it. After Knights of the Jaguar it was pretty much linear techno from there on, dush dush dush chigaching chigaching. But dont get me wrong, the mixing was tight as it gets, nice eq's to get some air in those flares and those glostiks pumpin, but the atmosphere was not quite enuf to hold my attention, and maybe Ive heard 1 too many bangin tek traks in my lifetime... I only wish that we could have had this party in a small 200 person club, where the focus wouldnt have been on how many dance steps you can fit between the beats and whether your e would run out before your glowstik! Is Rolando playing any other gigs besides the 'big one' in Melbourne? Cheerz. 3je [hi.de.ho q.p long time no c!] > Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 07:51:33 +1000 > To: "'Cyclone Wehner'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > 313 Detroit > <313@hyperreal.org> > From: Quest Pond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [313] Rolando > Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Yup! Saw his Sydney concert and this was truly >amazing!!. I would say 95% of >people were dancing all though the set. A smooooth mix >of classic UR and new > techno and not scared to get a little dark at times >and certainly no grilled > cheese. A few highlights for me was kwerk numbers >during a short electro >tip, and final frontier. Technically he was near >perfect- fast on those >EQ's. >He goes near the top of my all time fav dj's. > Quest > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cyclone Wehner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 15 August, 2000 1:45 > > To: 313 Detroit > > Subject: [313] Rolando > > > > Did anyone go to check out DJ Rolando in Sydney and Adelaide? I heard they > > were amazing. > > > > Peace > > > > Cyclone > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
