hey matty macq >anyone go to the 3 Chairs party? I also heard lots of good about the Soft Curls tent... Raiders live PA, etc.
raiders were INCREDIBLE -- not what i expected at all! i love 1 track on each pigna release (which makes them hard to buy as an import argh), and the album i thought was good but not that great -- i find a lot of this stuff a little too slick or "cool" or something on record...but live, it was all raw house and techno, huge basslines, so deep...i missed it but toe said he even played a track that sounded like what prescription would sound today... i didnt hit the 3 chairs party, was playing at a sketchy psychothrill afterparty (was asked 2 days in advance haha, fun tho), but friend who went said it was really great. kdj was still spinning shock value rock or whatever as reported earlier this year, but theo and especially malik were apparently great! (?). i also missed dez (andres) on the waterfront stage on sunday, bummed, but he sounded incredible also -- apparently playing dope old 80's r&b, fun disco, even deelite "groove is in the heart", quickmix style, 30 seconds of each track then something else quick list of my favorite stuff: smackulator (saying hello and talking sh:t to all their friends thru the vocoder as they entered the tent haha....and all sounds from a dr660 -- nice!) raiders! cosmic force legowelt (not doing his nrg style stuff, but electro and technoier stuff) scan 7 - minimal techno perfection!!! nobody listens to techNO...did that track get released anywhere? slum village -- no comparison to the subtlety of their recorded stuff, i hate how hiphop gets mixed live, you cant dance to vocals...but the homage to odb was dope, cosmic force was about to piss his pants and was rapping all the lines before them, including ones they missed...he shoulda been on stage! model 500 - cosmic cars, clear, 2 minute instrumental of no ufo's, and the best -- the dirty version of technicolor! tech-ni-color mother-f---er! bunker live (legowelt vs orgue electronique) - their set ended right when it had developed into some of hottest acid house/techno i have ever heard. tlr - creme label boss playing great set of dutch classics, pumped to hear stuff like i-f's superman and electronome's no landscape thats about all i saw actually, not counting alexander robotnick, whose dj'ing sucked, but his black wifebeater style was cool. he started out playing instrumentals of his own stuff and singing over it, which i wouldve liked, i just caught the crap... redman before kms was ok, the last song for the smokers was a dope 4/floor hiphop anthem thing, hot, and i didnt notice he only said kevin "saunder" as someone else said...i heard saunderson? maybe my roll was just starting. i did think it was a bit uhh stupid and lame to have all this hype for proggy kms dj set, when juan had just played legendary sh:t live, but typical, whatever i missed A LOT of really great stuff (hardly even saw minto ha!) but it was a blast, and i'm excited to hear how much of a success it really was -- turned out much much better than i expected, hardly any difference from previous years! and there were some nice changes -- reallllly glad they put all the banging stuff with little or no melodic content/dynamic range in the underground cave and put the really more underground stuff in the musicalogical where you could hear and hang out more comfortably. i was even invited to play live there sunday but i was soooo exhausted and uhh 2 hour advance notice ugh..sketchy and disorganized as always but whatever haha! ohh another thing i liked was the LACK of a huge corporate sponsor, no big bacardi ads or hit-you-over-the-head advertising in general, pretty lowkey sony and molson banners, very nice! there was no AC, no ice, a fire, and a blackout in the pontch -- it was hellish. hadnt stayed there since the 2nd year, never again...anybody stay at the ramada, was it ok? i stayed there fri night and it was really chilled out and super nice and the room was essentially a fully equipped apartment...kitchen and living room with bedroom in seperate room...nice! blah blah i go sleep now
