I sincerely hope someone went to check out this in Perth!! I think Alton must have been a very late addition to this party but can't be sure, it's just that he wasn't mentioned in the lead up media and advertisements. It is so unfortunate we couldn't have had him on the East Coast. I think the Stateside cancellation in Sydney has to do with the fact that the Stateside crew have Derrick Carter out and are touring with him around the country, so they are committed to that.
Here is some info on the party Alton played at on an Australian dance site - would love more info from people on 313. Science Fiction 4 @ Belmont Racecourse, Perth (31/12/00) http://www.inthemix.com.au/cgi-bin/newspro/viewreview.cgi?newsid978523660,26 960,x Here's what it says about Alton Miller... "Alton Miller did not attract a huge crowd at any time during his set of three hours. Was this due to his name being relatively unknown? In any case, he played a variety of music, from flowing groovy house to breaks to harder tech-house." Added comments: he is known, it's just that it wasn't pushed in a big way and to the right crowd (due the late addition??) and he needs to play East Coast (ie Melbourne & Sydney) too to get that love. The house/deep house/tech-house scene is really blowing up here now. It was too late for me to go to Perth, so I caught Carter on NYE at a big house party here Respect Is Burning (done in connection with the French guys) and he was on the money - he is always good for me. Others here in Melbourne ventured out to Welcome 2001 (less well attended than last year's 2000) to catch Richie Hawtin who drew good reports but seemed to be playing to a large crowd. I have heard really divergent reports of Samuel L Sessions that night on the decks but he does seem to be making a wave with his productions and his mix-CD A Samuel L Session On Monoid is tight. Next day I caught Adam Beyer, Joel Mull and Christian Smith at this day party called Summadayze and left thinking Beyer was technically excellent whereas the other two were fairly average over all.
