Dunno if I told you or not but I am dj ing barcelona the weekend of the 6th & 7th. One of which is an amazing club about an hour and 30 mins drive north which is utterly astounding...
Basically an acid house rthing with a live set from zero 1 who released stuff as random xs on djax.... Placid -- http://www.acid-house.net Everything you wanted to know about acid house On 6/5/03 3:54 pm, "Greg Earle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll be in Barceloneta from the 4th to the 12th, moving up nearer the CCCB > on the 12th for the festival. I'm sure there'll be some sort of 313 > meetup whether formal or informal - you can't help but run into each other > at the CCCB! > > The only really good reason to bitch about Sonar is the godawful mausoleum > they moved Sonar Noche to from the Pavella de la mar Bella. The Pavella > and the beach was a big part of the appeal. Who can forget being out on > the patio when the Sun rises over the Mediterranean? (Extra special > element for Americans: having the smell of clouds of cheap Hashish waft into > your nostrils out on the patio.) > > Now, as for the lineup ... Sonar tends to be this odd mish-mash of the > daytime (and night) IDM with the nighttime Big Name Bangin' DJs. I suspect > this reflects the taste of the organizers along with a desire to crowd-please > - > i.e. the Spanish like their Techno hard and bangin', and nighttime Sonar > has served up the goods quite well in that dept. the 3 years I've gone. > > This has led to Sonar being somewhat narrow-cast in range, as can be seen > by the fact that the intersection of Movement/DEMF and Sonar is only > Jeff and Rich. Want 313? Want Electro? Want Tech-House? Want <insert > your favorite sub-genre here>? You won't get it at Sonar. Curiously, > for the adventurousness of some of the bookings (I disagree with Ken Odeluga > here - I can't wait to see The Soft Pink Truth [half of Matmos], for > example), the organizers are playing it far too safe these days and > aren't willing to consider anything special or out of the ordinary. For > example, it's the 10th anniversary of Sonar - Rich wanted to do a 6-hour > closing set at the Sonar Village at the CCCB (4-10) playing a 10-year > retrospective. They refused and would only offer him his usual 2-hour > banging set at night. Grrrr. That would've been kickass. > > - Greg > >
