radioboy(herbert) was as amazing as you'd expect, quite mental and he had a good onstage presence in a mad professor style.
peaches\gonzales\pan sonic were rock n´roll glitch hop gab core - tastic! Francois Kevorkian - amazing DJ, really, really deep house and techno and he had a huge studio rack of effects that he knew inside out, he was really into it too...seems to be the only one of those New York old timers that actually still buys records, heard the surgeon mix of birmingham by rue east and son dos on los hermanos amongst others. soul designer - quite good, fabrice lig and two other guys (one on percussion the other various electronic 'stuff') rocking it, a nice live feel with that fabrice lig melodic sound but quite beefed up. jon tejada - brilliant deep techno set with nice scratching\dicking around...anyone who heard it know that technasia tune he played?? soulcenter - probably my highlight, ultra funky brinkmann stuff...it was amazing seeing a couple of thousand kids going mad to his weird breakdowns. tiga on afterwards was quite dull in comparison. mills - the sound was a bit ropey which was kind of annoying but his set was amazing, loads of energy and huge video screens showing you what he was doing(trainspotter drool...) and a long 909 workout. he seemed to have some control over the visuals too, messages flashing on screen and countdowns into tunes which added to the atmosphere. hawtin - the best i´ve heard from him in a while, ultra minimal deep stuff only getting hard towards the end, much more interesting than usual. he started off mixing a dubby minimal tune into some other beatless minimal track, it was ages before you heard a kick drum. bear in mind that's 3 awesome days condensed into a few lines, Sonar really was amazing. it was a real eye opener seeing so many people really getting into decent music for a change, kind of re-affirming i.e. 8,000 kids jumping about to luomo's deep house laptop-bop don't see that every weekend! most people even seemed to leave the main area on friday night when John Digweed came on which was quite a statement, the most obviously commercial DJ of the weekend getting one of the worst crowds. i'll definitely try to make it back next year and would highly recommend it to everyone. chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
