same here... driving 800 miles in two days took its toll on me.... it was definitely worth it though!! :)
On 11/28/06, marina pure sonik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
too much fun. i'm still reeling from it. :::sigh::: LOL On Nov 28, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote: > sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiit. these > sound like way too much fun! > > tom > > On 11/28/06, Wojtek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So the Wizard killed it this past weekend, in one of his few >> stateside >> appearances, both of which happened to be within driving distance of >> where I live. >> >> His three-and-a-half hour show in LA started with the fast-paced >> "Call >> of the Wild", and continued with other pacey techno tracks, with a >> nice sprinkling of a few of tracks from Minimal Nation for good >> measure. About a third of the way into his set, Jeff started playing >> various classics and old school goodies. As Marina said before >> me, he >> played "Work it To the Bone", Chip E.'s stuff, and then, he started >> playing Detroit classics! After he transitioned into playing the >> older tracks, he dropped Reese and Santonio's "How to Play Our Music" >> and the place went wild! He then went on to jam on the 909 for a >> bit, >> and continued with obscure acid and early Detroit techno. One of the >> highlights of the Detroit part of his set was the way he programmed a >> slightly syncopated 909 beat and blended X-Ray's "Let's Go" into it >> and kept the two going for the duration of the track! >> >> In that night's show alone I heard more Detroit classics than all of >> the other Detroit dj's I've heard combined! (yes, he dropped Strings >> of Life and Jaguar, too, the timing of which worked very well, >> though). It truly was an enjoyable show for anyone who's into the >> harder side of techno, and definitely a treat for anyone who enjoys >> classic Detroit techno, made even more enjoyable by the fact that he >> played late 80's Chicago acid alongside some New York house classics >> like the above mentioned "Work It to the Bone" and an instrumental >> version of "Searchin'" on Nu Groove, for added musical context. If >> all those Detroit and Chicago classics weren't enough, he also played >> a a version of Basic Channel's Phylyps Trak (the track called >> Axis, on >> the Phylyps Trak ep) alongside the more straight ahead techno, and >> that had just sealed the deal for me as probably the best techno show >> I've ever seen; along with Mills' next day appearance a few hundred >> miles up the road in San Francisco. >> >> His saturday gig was also on point. He played the 909 live (again), >> along with a little sample he played off a cd that sounded like a >> repeating ping-pong noise (which he also incorporated into the set he >> played the night before). He layered that over the somewhat minimal, >> introspective, or just plain old Mills-y-sounding tracks at a few >> points throughout the evening, to a good effect. >> >> Now, just to keep us old school Detroit fans happy, he even dropped >> Derrick May's Wiggin' (in its original version, alongside the New >> York >> and Chicago classics he played the previous night) before moving >> on to >> the harder Tresor stuff; however, the classics focus that night was >> definitely on the Tresor side of the Berlin-Detroit connection. He >> played quite a few tracks from the x-102 and x-103 albums, a few Rob >> Hood tracks, and towards the end he even dropped Maurizio's >> hard-as-nails Ploy, which to me was the summit of the evening, making >> the the energy at the venue feel like what I would imagine the old >> Tresor club in its heyday to have felt like. A few tracks from >> Minimal Nation were there too--just like during his LA show, and the >> musical selection was kept current by some newer techno tracks by >> Sleeparchive and a Joris Voorn track (from the newer tracks that I >> recognized). Apparently he also "did something amazing" with a >> Basic >> Channel track at the SF show, but I got there too late to witness it. >> >> I don't know if these two shows are representative of how Mills plays >> now, but if he usually plays with this much intensity, creativity and >> variety nowadays (as opposed to some of his recorded minimal/loopy >> techno sets I've heard in the past), then he has my vote as the >> world's best techno DJ/live act (oh, the live 909 action...) These >> were by far the best techno shows I've experienced. >> >> Wojtek >> >> P.S. For those interested, he has a new album coming out in January >> >> >> On 11/26/06, Wojtek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Mills ROCKED IT in both LA and SF this weekend!! It really was a >> > techno lovers'/313ers' heaven at both shows. A longer review will >> > follow. >> > >> > Wojtek >> > >> >> > > >
