I think you were too focused on the piano player... Or else Dani was ill and replaced by Herbert's roadie :-)
Nope, Dani Siciliano is most definitely a girl, you can always contact Herbie through www.matthewherbert.com and ask if you do not believe me! RD On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:08:20 -0400 "Grammenos, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >you wrote : >"but the minute his girlfriend came in on vocals (Dani Siciliano)" > > >is that really his g-friend? that she is definitely a he. granted i've seen >a lot stranger things, just wondering though. > >i'd have to agree, Herbert is probably the best live p.a. i've ever seen. > >-Pete > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: stuffed bird [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:52 AM >To: 313@hyperreal.org >Subject: [313] July party month part 2 > > >Hi list (purists and others), > > > >After my trips to London and Paris, and my visit to the 10 days off festival >in Ghent the party month continued. An overview with my humble opinions: > > > >Wednesday 18th July: 10 Days Off > > > >I went to see Derrick Carter who was replacing ear-troubled Garnier but I >was blown away by two others: Herbert and Russ Gabriel. Herbert live was one >of the most inspiring lives I've ever seen. Sometimes he was just a bit too >much 'look what I can do with my machines' and 'look what I dare to do, >breaking CD's on the mic and sampling that to make a track', but the minute >his girlfriend came in on vocals (Dani Siciliano) and the piano player >joined as well it was all about incredibly soulful and deep house music. big >up to Herbie! > >I'd heard Russ Gabriel bringing it deep three years ago, and the man has >evolved even more towards the deeper side of music. His mixing was far from >flawless, but the tracks made me smile all the way through his set. And he's >a nice fellow as well, what with giving me his last record just because he >was too lazy to write down his e-mail address for future booking purposes >:-) > >Derrick Carter was a big disappointment. He has given me some of my best >nights in the past, but his uptempo, uninspired tech-house that night made >me wanna cry. How much can you enjoy the music you play when you start >playing promo's that have just been given to you without checking the >quality first? Makes you wonder if Derrick isn't playing too much and just >cashing in on his incredible talents. I hope he gets back to the deeper, >vocal side I so love. > > > >Friday 20th July - Monday 23 July: love parade weekend in Berlin > > > >We landed at Tempelhof Airport around 9AM, giving us plenty of time for some >vinyl shopping. The results can be read in the e-mail following this one. So >if you are not interested in my records, don't read it, if you are, prepare >to start weeping :-) > > > >The first night we went to the No Ufo's party at E-Werk, the once legendary >club. Steve Bug absolutely tore it up with his minimal house and techno, a >dj to check out! And a fine producer as well :-) Heard some other dj's that >night too, but they were a bit to rough and loopy for my taste. All in all a >good start. > > > >Saturday afternoon saw us checking out the weirdos at the parade itself. >Getting a good seat close to a drinks-tent, 25°C and just the right amount >of room to be comfortable can turn this parade-thing into quite a nice >experience. The pervy-side of me couldn't help but noticing that German >girls all seem to be over-furnished in the front, the >it-is-love-parade-so-I-need-to-expose-as-much-as-possible attitude didn't >quite help the esthetic side of things, but well, you can't have it all now >can you? > >In the evening we went to Tresor, impatiently waiting for Blake Baxter to >equal his genius-set of last year, but being blown away by resident dj Senze >the minute we walked into the Globus Room (House room). After that Marshall >Jefferson proved why I ran away 15 minutes into his gig at Cafe D'Anvers in >Belgium a few months back: totally uninspired house with excessive use of >the stupid filter effect on the pioneer mixing table. And again he started >with this white label acapella naming all the things he - Marshall Jefferson >- has done first: bringing a piano into house music, bringing vocals into >house music, and blah blah blah, "all rise for the master Marshall >Jefferson"... Brother please... Makes you wonder if tracks like Jungle Wonz' >'Time Marches On', 'The Jungle' or Ten City's 'Suspicious', 'Devotion', >etc... were made by a different Marshall Jefferson. > >After two hours of chilling outdoors and checking the basement floor of >Tresor - which must be thee most underground place in the world, but way too >hard a music there for me - Blake was on, and played a fine set, but not >quite near as brilliant as last year. > >Sunday saw me just lying in bed the whole day and only getting up for the >Gigolo Records night at WMF. After some problems at the entrance - some >'crowd selector' thought we were not fit to enter his club until I brought >it to his attention that he had just 'approved' the rest of our gang seconds >earlier and that the necessary girl/boy ratio was thus well-reached by our >ladies first policy - we entered WMF, which I consider to be one of the best >clubs I ever visited, apart from the door policy of course :-) > >The smaller of two rooms had DJ Naughty playing some of the finest tracks I >heard in years. Naughty is Fillipo Moscatello, production man behind DJ >Hell. I was just totally blown away by his selection and had to run to the >dj booth time and time again to ID some of his beauties. Crowning moment was >when my 'what's that!?' was answered with a big smile and 'that's my remix >of Fisherspooner, it's brand new'...nice :-) > >I concluded my WMF-blast in the bigger room, where Gigolo-leader Hell played >a set that only he can play, making me go out of head the full 3 hours of >his set. > > > >I returned form Berlin on Monday evening, only to see me rushing to a new >club in Belgium where I have been offered a regular guest spot and where I >was seen behind the decks smiling away all night playing the records I just >bought in Berlin...life can be good! > > > >RD, definitely in for a break > >Interested in Turkey? Visit http://www.turkey.com! > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Interested in Turkey? 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