[ As posted on the littledetroit.net forum: ] Hi, yesterday, september the 3rd, I went to check out Theo Parrish and Reggie Dokes in Gent (Belgium). So I could as well tell you all how it went.
I got there with my bike at 23h30 or something. Half an hour after the doors opened. There weren´t that many people there yet. So I stood aside and drank a coke. A few minutes later, some friends of Deinze came in (Stoica and Peter). We had a little chat.. and they introduced me to Jonny McIntosh, who was apparently sitting in the other room (there are two rooms in the culture club, the location of the party). After having a short chat with this nice bloke, I went downstairs and saw that theo parrish was standing there with Stoica. So Stoica introduced me and theo and I chatted for about 30 minutes. I was just a bit confused... cause I´m like one of the biggest fans you know and I never met him before, and he was just plain friendly. This guy is just so devoted to his music. Apparently, he has like this plant in his home in detroit, but it is dieing, because he just hasn´t the time to give it its basic needs (a bit of water once in a while)... he´s just spending every minute of his day on music, you know. More like this guy please! After that John Osselaer and Hans Veneman from the TechnoTourist crew came in, and not much later Red D (Bart Van Neste) started his dj set, wich was filled with classics and new real good tracks (llike the new "aguila" from dj rolando, wich sended shivers down my spine.. those kinda epic tracks sound real intense on a big soundsystem). It was a pleasure to listen to his set. At 1 o' clock, I went to the other room where Reggie Dokes started to play. I witnessed the first half hour of his set. But it wasn´t that interesting.. the mixes were not that good.. and he was playing a bit too much of the mainstream disco for my taste (but then again, I only saw the first half hour of his set, so it could be that he killed it after that). the reason why I left Reggie Dokes was to ensure that I wouldn´t miss the beginning of the theo parrish dj set. Theo came on at 2 o'clock, and he just rocked the place! Real good selection of disco and house tracks, even some jack trax (farley etc..). HE pplayed likes theis extremely interesting unreleased theo parrish (maybe three chairs) track.. 110 bpm, good bassline.. A LOT of live instrumentation, vocals and all that. Great building and plotting track. After that he played what sounded to my ears as a theo parrish edit of "sueno latino". The dope standdard theo beats, over the buidling melody of the original. Maybe something for Ugly Edits #6? I am really looking forward to all the yet to be released theo parrish tracks, cause I can assure you that they sound good... real intense. He is getting better and better every day, tending to get in the style direction of "summertime is here", my favourite theo parrish moment till now. Theo played, as I said, a fine selection of classics (think wood, brass & steel's funkanova, made in usa - melodies, a fingers inc track, club lonely from lil' louis (he started his set with this one), probably some baze tracks, and a sh*tload of other tracks that I forgot about). After 2 hours he started playing some reggae. I had danced my ass of for the past 3 hours or something and needed a rest. I went to the other room where Reggie Dokes allready stopped. Some kinky people resident was delivering the goods. With a nice selection of deep house tracks. Nice. Since I was really getting tired at that point, I decided to take my coat and go home for some sleep (I also had to ride another 30 minutes with my bike...).. All in all: (adapt simpson's comic book store guy voice): "BEST nite EVER". Really.. can´t remember when I danced like that before. I now know that Deep House / Chicago House / Detroit Techno + House / Disco / Soul is the best music to dance to for me. It makes me move my hips.. not like the harder kind of techno, with just makes me move my head. The thngs I will remember, besides the good music, is certainly meeting the people: Theo, Jonny, Hans. All real nice people, KINKY PEOPLE! Ow.. and there were also some real nice girls dancing in my surroundings, and that's always a plus. Cheers, Maarten - http://www.morthenkiang.com/
