ishi played a great set of hard/clubby techno, apparently not the
least bit impaired by his bizarre disco tshirt.
kenny larkin probably played a good set of loopy almost-bangers, but
due to that goddamn conga etc player on the side of the stage i
really have no idea what he sounded like
luciano (who twice i thought i was going to see do a live pa; instead
he dj'd both times) plays actual techno. it was almost weird. his
set (what i saw of it) at outpost was kind of a yawner, but his
paxahau stage set was good, straight ahead (german) techno. a few
times hawtin came up from backstage to celebrate a track with
luciano, so there ya go.
speaking of outpost, mathew jonson was great.
carl craig did a nice little speech to the crowd before his set,
which considering where he was and the history, was pretty cool. he
then went on to play a whole bunch of really good records, with more
bump content than he might normally do. his mixing was his usual non-
mixing, but so what. he did actually say "i'm Carl Craig and i'm
here to play you some records" -- so no one said anything about
djing... heh. he really had the full attention of the waterfront
stage; felt like a very special moment. he uses FS2 now, for anyone
who cares.
hawtin's underground stage performance on monday night was typically
good (again, what i saw of it -- it was TOOOO packed down there,
exactly like you knew it would be). b/c i can easily get into that
hawtin "space" on a night like that i was disappointed that it was
impossible to really stay there, but whatever. i said to my friend
later how, while i really am happy for rich and all the success, and
esp his appearance at this fest and the support it showed, it's sorta
unfortunate for us old folks when you can't even stand in a room to
see him anymore for all the otherwise-NASCAR-loving e'd out milford
kids randomly yelling "Richieeeee!". ah well, such are the trappings
of super stardom. and for what a blazing success the fest overall
obviously was by monday night, who gives a sh*t about me standing in
the corner mumbling about the good ol' days.
missed deetron on the underground stage which was unfortunate but in
the words of DJ Bone, he ripped it up.
missed DJ Bone entirely because he was foolishly not booked. and
then stuck in Amsterdam until monday... such problems.
still trying to figure out what kraftwerk is doing in a UR label review.
have to laugh at an otherwise reliable Free Press writer making the
The Surgeon/Surgeon mistake, to the tune of a full paragraph and a
little bio about The Surgeon's involvement with Regis, BMB, etc..
Ooops.
octave live "live band performance": is it me, or was the only band
up there made by Akai?
i missed 100% of sunday. DO NOT drink the beer at Woodward Avenue
Brewery.
and someone please buy juan a cheeseburger.
On Jun 1, 2005, at 9:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not that I don't like Theo or KDJ but I'd like to hear about more
techno at
Fuse-In
who slammed it? Any new tracks heard? Anyone catch the Brown
Brothers live
set on the mainstage? Ken Ishii?
am I not reading through enough posts?
MEK
