lol excellent report and glad you had a nice time, tristan sure does look after folks ;0) ...
gotta see the pic of RT, ha ha classic! > > > > > Now that I'm finally over my jetlag I'll try to recall the main points of > my London vacation. Trouble is I'm doing it after a week of Bristolian > indulgences :-D > > First and foremost - Tristan was a great host. A big thank you goes out > to > you sir. If you ever need a place in Minneapolis you've got it. > Now onto the story... > > Got in on Saturday morning around 9am - missing the Werk boat party the > night before. From what I heard it was good but not as good as last year. > To make up for it we went to the Cntrl*Alt party at the Telegraph just > around the corner from Tristan's flat. Primarily an electro/IDM/breaks > night. The Telegraph (for those that haven't been there) is a Thai (?) > restaurant/lounge with a big back room. It wasn't much of a place before > I > was told but they've redone it with a bigger and better soundsystem and > nicer decor. They had a small dance floor in the main front room by the > bar - small area but big enough to hop around. Good mix of electro and > drum & bass going on in there with Po-Ski, Shelley Parker, Abstrakt > Knights, and others. Ventured into the big back room early on but the > sounds were of the wonky "funky breaks" kind so we hung out in the front > until a little later when Point B came on. Wow, that guy was fantastic. > He was working off his laptop creating some unpredictable and surprising > electro. His music never fell into a rut but there was definitely a > groove > there. Highly recommended. From what I remember from the rest of the > night - Radioactive Man sucked eggs. Never heard him live before but I do > have a mix tape of a live set from a few years ago and I swear that he > played the exact same songs in the exact same sequence that night. > Compared to the rest of the music that night he was 10 years behind. > Can't > believe this guy is a member of Two Loneswordsmen! After that I think I > lost it to some jungle/d&b in the front room and then again in the big > room > at the end of the night. I think it was NoYeahNo that ended the night > with > f*cked up d&b noise in the Sh!tmat vein. Loved it. > > Eh, then what.... > > Lost on Sunday (loosing track of days already by this time). Before that > Tristan took me down to Co-Op @ Plastic People. Tried to blag our way in > since we were only going to be there for about a half-hour and we got > there > so early. Didn't work but the price was worth it for me. Can't wait to > go > back there again. Thank you very much Tristan for taking me there! > Brilliant club - DJs - soundsystem. So clean and clear with super fat > bass > rumble. Quite a small space but really the optimal size. I can see how > Co-Op can just go off. Wooden dancefloor (actually don't think I didn't > see anything else during my whole trip), wish more US clubs would install > wood floors. Who was playing.... uh, I think it was Daz-I-kue on the > decks > when we got downstairs and it was already bouncing like bumper cars. The > club had *just* opened. I was immediately hoping around like a muppet and > by the end of our half-hour visit had managed to soak through my t-shirt. > Tristan pointed out Phil Asher when he arrived and I knew we were going to > miss one hell of a night. Ah well, I got an early taste of it and I can't > get it off my mind. > > So, off to my first Lost experience. Waited in line with Hanna and > Tristan > (Tristan was #1 by the way). Seemed to take forever for them to get it > together but once in the club was interesting to explore. A good size > space, multiple rooms, a bathroom attendant (lol). What else could you > ask > for (maybe a better choice of liquor)? Eh, so there was a great big red > cube in one room where no DJs were but some pleasant ambienty music was > playing. Followed people into the main room which was dark and already > full of fog. Now I know where they got the name Lost from. Max Duley's > set - really great mood setter for the night. Slower deep techno put my > head in the same dark space my body was in. He later said he wasn't happy > with it but I think everyone else was. The rest of the night quickly > became a blur. Oliver Ho was on next and it was a seamless transition > from > Max to Oliver. Didn't quite realize that Max was done. Don't really > remember much from Oliver's set except that I stayed on the floor except > for the occasional run to the bar while there was still room to move. > Steve Bicknell's set had me leaving the floor for the first and only time > that night. Wandered around into the front space which was set up into a > huge lounge area. Rhythm & Sound were kicking back with a fantastic mix > of > reggae/dub. Stood around there for a while looking around for familiar > faces as every sofa & chair was taken. Finally found people sitting down > behind me against the wall. Chilled out there for a while and then went > back in for Spirit/65D Mavericks and Jeff "Bells in 7" Mills. Never heard > Spirit before. They were good but felt that something was lacking just a > little bit. They were working off laptop and as Tristan pointed out it > seems like they were sequencing tracks like a basic DJ set instead of > using > all the tools and technology available to them in the laptop. I don't > think that was far off from what was preventing me from really getting > into > it. They had their moments though. > Jeff Mills - I was pretty mashed by this time so I can't recall specifics > anymore. I made a bet and lost. > Ended the night back in the R&S room bopping on a floor that was sticky > like fly paper. That is until someone spilled a beer and then I could > skank with the best (or worst) of them. > > That, my friends, is part one.... > > next - the loot I found laying around in a record shop. > > MEK > > PS - pictures of Rob Taylor shredding on the air guitar soon to arrive on > my new Flickr page > > > www.midnightbeats.de www.kube72.com www.detroitimpression.com
