I've not heard a positive review of Stacey's performances in quite a
while... :(
On Jan 14, 2007, at 7:59 AM, Dave Pinter wrote:
So some friends were in town and wanted to go out and were excited
to hear that Stacey was in town for a night at the Sullivan Room.
The five of us got there early and luckily avoided the $15
admission (saved $75) The Sullivan Room is closing for a bit to do
some renovations, I think a new sound system is on order. So this
was billed as a pre-renovation blowout bash. There were even 2-1
drinks till midnight...sounds pretty good right?
The unfortunate thing about it was everyone who spun sucked. It
could be I'm suffering the let down from expecting too much. The
opening dj's; Function (Infrastructure), Victor Ridi & Fong
(Minitek), Sleepy & Boo (Basic NYC) played not one interesting
track. The sets sounded like a mix of minimal tracks from the sale
bin and a few old Transmat and Rob Hood numbers thrown in because
Stacey was there. I was ready to leave more than an hour before
Stacey started. But I decided to stick with it and have another
drink. (more alchol seemed to help)
'Do NOT miss this rare NYC visit from the techno innovator on this
very special night.' Said the flyer. As soon as Stacey took to the
decks, I thought finally, amateur hour is over. Stacey started with
a vocal sample of a guy talking about soul. Good sign eh? Well that
was the last bit of soul I heard in the half hour before I gave up.
Maybe it was that Stacey forget to restock his record bag with
something new and ditch the pounding NYC house tracks circa 2000.
Reguardless the New York University frat kids who showed up seemed
to like it. Hope that gives you an indication of where the bar was
set.
I would have been mad if I'd parted with the $15 to get in, instead
it was rather sad that there is still such a shortage of
challenging and INNOVATIVE music in NYC.
-dave
