You should have seen him at the Movement afterparty, that was great. You just had to see who was dancing to appreciate that. Everyone has good and bad gigs. Sometimes I see my favourite DJs in Sydney and they're never as good as Melbourne and it's made me realise the effect locale can have. I hope hugging people doesn't mean you do or don't validate their music otherwise we're all going to have to retract a lifetime of hugs to lovely people who have terrible records at home. ;)
> now that it is still fresh in my memory, I will try to review the closing > night from 10 days off (with my last efforts - so don´t mind the typo´s). > Well.. let me say first that I only checked the main room, I actually only > wanna talk about Jack De Marseille and Derrick May. > > 2h - 4h: Jack De Marseille : > ---------------------------- > > Man man man..... is this guy boring. Loop techno some boring electro... no > sample in 2 hours time.. All synth work, quite progressive. Very boring, and > too hard. I was actually getting p*ssed of by this guy, so what I hoped was > that at 4 am Derrick Would come up, push Jack away and say "this is how you > do sh*t" and then take two copies of strings of life and double the > beginning part up (the strings). But this was not the case... > It was even worse than that: Derrick gave Jack a warm hug (the crowd > cheered). I thought Derrick would have tought "Oh my god, I hope I never met > Juan, look what happened because of me, all that boring loop techno". But > no... > > 4h - 7h: Derrick May : > ----------------------- > > When Derrick came up, it was my first moment of joy from the evening, he > opend up with "son dos" from los hermanos and then played "dj gregory - > attend", wich got me moving the first time of the whole evening. I > actually was screaming! Great track. > > But then the nightmare began. He played boring clubtrack after the other... > it was uninspiring.. nothing special.. it was actually just the same style > as jack de marseille did before. I couldn´t believe my ears... It was the > worst Derrick May set I heard in my whole life. I mean... how long can you > dance to a loop? > > I left after one hour of Derrick May, no second to early. > > A big big dissapointment.. > > He has the records, he has the skills, why torture us with loop techno > (of the really boring kind), if he can make the most wonderfull mixes. Why? > Easy money? > Start the discussion please. > > Another 'going out disaster'. I actually never had a good techno night out, > never! Probably going to the wrong places. Where is Theo or Shake when you > need them?! > > Cheers, > Maarten > ---------------------------- > my musical interests > http://www.morthenkiang.com/ >
