[313] 313 haiku
I couldn't resist either... :) rustle my ideas wasted on the floor tonight what is a freak now? cheers! Chris > > here`s some good link for the haiku stuff: > http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/#howtowritehaiku - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [313] curious?
This made me dig out my CD copy of "Live and Final Fridge" by General Magic & Pita on Source Records from 1995. Some funky tracks recorded from a bunch of sampled fridges :) cheers Chris >>The fridge at the grocery store behind the bakery counter sounds >>for all the world like percussion from a Surgeon track. > > I've heard that when Surgeon is on tour he calls up the bakery on his cell > phone and asks to hear what noises the fridge is making...then he either > approves or disapproves of them for his new tracks. ;) > > Timo Maas go the idea from him... > > MEK > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [313] Cybotron
> Sean Deason wrote: > oh, and why is it that I seem to remember the name of Brad Pitts character > in the movie "Seven" to be Jeff Mills?? my sanity has been slipping lately. > anyone recall what the characters actual name was? ha ha... that reminds me: i was watching "Gonna Git You Sucka" on video a while ago and I noticed that co-production credits went to a Carl Craig... This *can't* be the same one, can it? :) cheers Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [313] Internet Monopoly
why don't you try getting the site hosted off-shore? ;) Chris -- >From: "Javier Drada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > MG has been in contact with the owners of other sites like Gotta Have House > and it seems we are all being hit with the same thing. What the f*^%k is > going on. I urge all of you to follow up on this info. The future of > Underground Radio is now under attack on the net. We couldn't get FCC > licensing for FM broadcast and now we are being urged to pay fees to > broadcast on the net. What is that? I can understand of you are making money > off of your webcast but most of us do this simply to promote quality > underground music. > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [313] Davy Jones Locker
>> >> i think its probably more relevant to the drexcyia mythology and the >> drexcyians being sea-bottom dwelling descendants of africans who were thrown >> overboard from slave ships en route to the colonies >> > Jamil Ali wrote: > > Where'd you find out about that? Sounds interesting. Can you give us a > link or something? > I just did a web-search for "the middle passage slave" on google.com and came up with a heap of sites. Last year I read a book which mentioned it. It's called "Flash for Freedom!" by George MacDonald Fraser, an historical novel about the Atlantic slave trade in the mid-19th c before the Civil War. It's a great read (very addictive) and there are notes at the back with references to proper historical texts for further info. I dug it out and found this: note 30. 'Slaves certainly were thrown overboard on the approach of patrol vessels (see the case of the _Regulo_ which drowned over 200 in the Bight of Biafra, and the reported case of the clipper captain who was said to have murdered over 500 by dropping them with his anchor chain, both quoted in "The Shameful Trade" by George Kay)'. happy reading, Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
online mix track id
to atone for my off-topic rant here's a question that should be a little bit more on topic. due to tight financial circs i've started downloading mix-sets off the web and burning them to cdr for my hit of new music. needless to say, there's some cool stuff out there - thanks to those who make it possible. one track which gees me up despite the low sound quality is the first track on the Frankie Knuckles 1987 WBMX mix set on the deephousepage? I get the feeling it's something classic and easy to ID. Is it available anywhere (on CD preferably)? cheers Chris
Re: [313] 70's rhetoric!!!
ok i've been sucked in... > Laura wrote: > > Worked at a few major corporations myself. Only comment I can make is that > they REQUIRE watchdogs both for ecological, political, sociological as well > as a myriad of other reasons. > this is exactly the problem and it's not new: they hold a disproprtionate amount of *political* power. if they stayed out of politics, paid their taxes and respected the law like most other small businesses then i guess no one would complain as much. but is it not true that in the US, for example, the two major political parties are heavily funded by corporations and therefore often legislate for their benefit? why do brutal private prisons exist? they don't save the tax-payer a cent... but of course, if you don't actually vote at each election and think/talk about to whom you give it - and protest like hell when your state or country doesn't have a legitimate, transparent system for counting your vote (!!!) - you deserve what you get: bread and circuses. "The Land of the Fat" - i love it :) Chris
Re: [313] Electro
you may also wish to check out the recently released "Hard Disk Rock (Don't Stop)" by AtomÂ. i'd say it's great electro but i'm a rather biased source... =) the southern outpost guys and girls are cool too. Chris http://vibragun.com.au
Re: [313] Bass booty ?
> In a message dated 12/21/2000 11:17:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Are you thinking about the "Short Dick Man" track by DJ Funk? That has got >> >to be one of the funniest tracks ever made. My friend has a copy that he >> >keeps because it's just too damn funny not to. > I remember hearing the Gillette version (? it was a while ago) dropped at a 4 turntable club night in Spain: everyone went nuts - really funny :) Chris
Re: [313] bc stuff
i always thought that the basic channel set up is/was analogue. isn't that right? but i think chain reaction artists like fluxion use reaktor. there's a monolake demo included with the software - or at least with the version that i've got (haven't used it yet though). chris t > someone recently posted something about the software that basic channel etc > use. do you have any idea what kind of eq they use? at the risk of sounding > pathetic, the kick drum on the main st records is truly wonderful. as are > the rest of the records, of course. great songs, sounds, singing, mixing, > those guys really know how to use space & silence. yum. > > oh yeah the luomo CD is great too, funny, funky, futuristic. > > p-d > > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
ghettoes of the mind
> stuff, while the LPs are almost all still in print (including Sweet Exorcist > & Rhythm Invention... the only two bad albums they ever released...) yeah the warp cd is a bit odd but the sweet exorcist that came out on touch has some cool tracks on it imo. there's one track there called "ghettoes of the mind" which brings me to my question: when i was in tokyo a few years ago i saw a cd in the hmv jazz section which was called "ghettoes of the mind". for some reason it caught my eye but i didn't buy it (japanese music consumers are amazingly spoilt for choice :) unfortunately i can't remember the name of the artist and would like to track it down. i keep seeing the phrase pop up. can any of the jazz/ groove heads on this list help me out? i've asked this on a few lists and searched the web a few times to no avail... chris t
Re: [313] Jazzy Detroit Techno weather report
> Fittest", in particular) and the early 70s Miles Davis stuff; "Bitches Brew" > is perhaps the LP that kick started that deep jazz funk fusion off, though I this album has some very deep funk on it imo. believe the hype. perhaps also with some relevance to 313: "On the Corner" for the "repetitive beats" tangent or "Dark Magus" for the brief drum machine-y bit. how about Herbie Hancock's "Rockit"? :) but yeah, Deep Space is great. Flanger is nice too. > many have been mentioning L. Naverre..St.Germain //Rose Rouge check it if > havent yet much as i like this track, i kind of agree with Philip McG.'s earlier comments: do a bunch of blue note samples and jazz-y solo riffs etc in a techno/house track make it jazz? perhaps the genres overlap in their emerging alongside a social phenomenon of sorts - jazz began as a form of dance music, right? - as well as the combination of european and african musical elements (to a greater or lesser degree). i saw a programme on improvisation a few years ago (I think it was produced/presented by Derek Bailey) where house djs in New York said that their sets are not usually planned beforehand but take form through interaction with the responses of the dancers (as well I guess with other djs and whatever inspires them at the moment). chris t
Re: [313] get ready to rock...
> If GV busted out the new Vestax, that'd be one thing. I doubt it's marketed > for him though. I actually thing it might compliment his show well. But he's > been publishing music for close to ten years if I'm not mistaken and I think > his live show is supposed to have a little humor to it. For instance, you > might see GV use it live, but you wouldn't see Cajmere spin with it. did green velvet end up doing any shows in .au at all with the fall-out from the homelands thing? i would have liked to check out his live set. he's got some great lyrics. chris
music and politics
> > Call me dumb but I always wonder how it is that Mills' music is considered > in such theoretical terms, even he speaks of it in this way. I guess if I > composed I would be very intuitive and mood-based and think not in terms of > theories but emotion and experience and concepts based on that. Not that it > would be like conventional music necessarily, but that would be the driving > 'scale', if you like. > i had a think about this and my back yard theory, for what it's worth, is that because music is invisible and intangible - something ambiguous (electronic music particularly so) - people try to describe its properties etc by likening them to those of other abstract things that we might be conscious of such as emotion, metaphysics, the future - maybe even (some) drugs or humour. maybe that's why we all get so into talking about it - it's all part of coming to terms with the experience.. chris
Re: [313] Possible Futures
> of the music, but with the interface one manipulates it with. In the > future we might see these all-digital networked mixing stations with > goggles and datagloves as an interface, but I believe the basic > manipulation techniques will still be similar to manipulating vinyl. The > controls may be virtual and the music may be just bits streaming from a > network server, but the hand movements will probably stay similar (if not > the same). oh no... i can see it now: the big labels and electronics companies pumping money into research to create The Ultimate DJ As Rockstar. i can read the reports already: "from the jesus christ pose he slammed the mix into some fatboy slim classics with a swift crotch grab. then a dj ho wearing a neon light had to give him a fresh towel to mop the sweat from his brow." have a good weekend all chris
Re: [313] FW: [dnb-prod] Its about evolution, man...
> > And saying that about hip-hop producers is crazy - the likes of Dr Dre > barely sample at all now. There is some brilliant techno-style production on > the new Wu-Tang record that would interest me if I were making techno - this > song I Can't Go To Sleep kind of chops up a loop of Walk On By by Isaac > Hayes, and in one instance almost recreates a 'backspin' effect in there, > and there is a track Careful (Click, Click) with a kinda skeletal backing - > it's minimal techno, almost. Then Gravel Pit RZA said in this SonicNet > interview is his kinda take on Deeelite's Groove Is In The Heart, weird as > that sounds... I think it's crazy to segregate styles like this or reduce > them to formula. > speaking of techno-y hip hop is anyone else digging the Analog Brothers CD "Pimp to Eat"? It's an analogue synthesizer "theme" album starring (kool) Keith Korg and Oscillator Ice (t) (who are the other 3?) and a bunch of analogue synths. It's pretty cool - lots of fruit and nut flavour :) chris
FW: [thewire] TV Victor, anyone?
this came through from the wire mag list about two recent tresor releases. chris -- >From: "alexei monroe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [thewire] TV Victor, anyone? >Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 9:17 AM > > >>Has anyone heard the "new" TV Victor CD on Tresor? Worth getting? I >>understand it's ambient, some of it is about seven years old, and there's >>some involvement from Moritz Von Oswald. > > It depends what you're after and how much you love early 90s ambience. The > "timeless deceleration" of a phrase over 70 mins. (Disc 1) is a fascinating > concept. Unfortunately the phrase in question is pretty complacent and > almost twee one and since that I think could only be rescued from torpor by > some heavy textural interventions that never arrive. There's also no obvious > quality contributed by Moritz and I think the Wire review definitely > overstated the merits of the album, which is perhaps the weakest Tresor I've > heard. > > On the other hand its good to see the quality of Mills' new Tresor release > (Metropolis) recognised in the new issue. If you had reservations about > Mills becoming too tasteful or complacent on recent albums this may at least > partially restore your faith. There are still a few fairly twee ambient > tracks but several outstanding tracks that for me represent his most > impressive work since X-103. > > _ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > -- eGroups Sponsor -~-~> > eLerts > It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! > http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/13/_/473762/_/973142837/ > -_-> > > UNSUBSCRIBE = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > TheWire List Info Page: http://www.msu.edu/user/forddavi/wirelist.html >
Re: [313] Mellow Mills (liner note dribble)
>> >> >re: jeffs liner notes on his records: >> > >> >am I the only person that thinks its all total dribble? >> >I mean, really! I have to agree that some of it is a bit laboured - esp. some of the stuff on the axis site which i looked at recently. I didn't need notes to understand waveform 3, say. On the other hand he's expressing himself and he's asking questions which is the important thing I guess. I have some jazz cds which have some laboured liner notes too - some of which are by the artist.. I haven't heard much since From the 21st. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on that is pretty cool. chris
Re: [313] Re: [[313] Planet Mu night]
> What does any of this have to do with 313?? > perhaps rather tangentialy, track 16 on IT's From Beyond compilation. btw there are some interesting electro tracks on the new Jega cd. chris >
Re: [313] Detroit Techno in England
> Point taken, but remember that the Orbit went fortnightly a while back > because it souldn't sustain weekly any more. And their line-ups are much > more oriented towards UK DJs than they used to be, for financial reasons, > I'd guess. > > isn't that all one needs most of the time? a good vibe, pa and a funky beat to get the party started. if i can afford to check out a star occasionally, then that's a treat. one of my better nights out recently was at a free club on a sunday night with local djs... chris
Re: [313] Jesus H. Atom Heart
>>... several have mentioned Him and wondered at His kraft and werks; >>but no one has yet to tell of the miracles to be found when He takes up >>the guise of Geeez 'N' Gosh and testifies about His life with Jesus... > > Ah, Quad, always the cunning linguist. This is definately worth checking out > if you're into the minimal, clicky house sounds, whilst being original in > its composition and concept, as one would expect from Mille Plateaux. Your and atom heart! > guess is as good as mine as to whether he's serious or poking fun at > religion, and well, who cares? Just check out the track titles: > to my mind there's so much loaded in the concept from simple punning to playing on the big gospel influence on house. possibly it could relate to how some people relate to music in some circumstances... :) anyway the music is awesome - very funky to my ears. the beats are fat and the sounds fresh. all the friends of mine who've heard it love it. has anyone heard or played this out? i'd *love* to hear it mixed over a good pa (señor coconut too). chris (rather biased...) http://vibragun.com.au
Re: [313] Surgeon & Ruskin
> Theres an interview with surgeon up on dissonance. I like surgeon's work, i > think he is doing awesome stuff with techno... throbbing and bassy, murky > and percussively powerful with innovative noises and rhythms... > i quite like force & form. what do people think of his ambient CD with mick harris? i've been meaning to get that one for ages. > Ruskin is not as exciting but is still pretty fine... in a somewhat similar > veign but surgeon is darker for the most part... again the big wall of bass > with drones, pads and blips over the top... not for the faint hearted but > can be a lot of fun.. > speaking of which, i recently picked up Speedjack's "Surge" CD on r&s (the clark - lofthouse double has really grown on me). Is this a recently released compilation of ep tracks? it's a pretty cool release imo. chris
Re: [313] Reynolds
although i don't share some of his enthusiasms (eg. hardcore) i actually don't mind simon reynolds' writing. i became a big fan when someone pointed me to his brit-pop rant (it reminded me of a few brit-pop fans i knew) and his best of worst of the year are usually fun to read - i think he (finally) discovered a jeff mills dj set in the last instalment :) i like his argument about modern commercial rock music, writing and fandom being "ambient". as for mocking his subjects - giving them a stir - isn't that what being a writer and critic is partly about? sometimes the fires have to be stoked... chris > I guess our responses to it are subjective, too, but I still feel that it is > revisionistic in some ways - an international focus I can deal with, but it > is UK-centric. He centralises the UK and marginalises America and he > demonstrates a profound lack of empathy for his subjects, mocking them > rather > than trying to see things from their vantage point. I have major ideological > problems with his book on many levels but I think he is a fine writer and > there are parts of it I may agree with. Just my 2 cents. > >>I've read the Reynolds and to use the term Revisionism, i think, is a little >>strong. Perhaps the focus isn't on Detroit/Chicago exclusively but that >>doesn't make it a revisionist text just more of a UK bias. It is subjective >>journalism after all, which he makes clear. > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: [313] Kenny Larkin
I've got Metaphor too and I like it. It's got a nice delicate feel too it - very cool. Chris > He also did one Lp on r&s called Metaphor. Similar sounds and a different > approach, equally as good IMO.. came out around (god) 97? 98? There was a > wild carl craig remix of one of the tracks of that lp called catatonic.. well > worth hunting down.. > > well its been a while since i've been on 313, just resubbed.. any of you old > originals still around? :) > > > peace > jason m > adel, aust. > > > >>Just finished listening to Kenny Larkin's "Azimuth" for the first time, I DO >>NOT know how I let this thing slip through my fingers for so long, its >>beautiful! Is this the only album he has released where he did the >>production work?? I'm just blown away. >> >>Casey >> >>- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
the establishment
I thought that i'd add my 5¢ worth on this under/overground discussion. A lot of the arguments are familiar to me from other lists and musical genres but recent experiences have thrown a new light on things - esp. the corporate experience. I started a graduate law degree last year (after not getting far with my BA and missing uni life). One of my lecturers gave me another definition of "underground" which is a lot like what a few other people have said - ie. that the underground is the part of society which can't or won't communicate with the "mainstream, official" society. Another angle I've recently discovered which one might relate to the music industry is life as a law graduate. If you perform well enough at law school you may be selected for a clerkship and perhaps employment at one of the big firms. There you will work very hard, sometimes at all hours, on cases involving large corporations and their loot and you'll be encouraged to do so with the prospect of becoming a partner at some distant stage in the future. You will probably do this for about 10 years at which stage you would have either burnt out and left the industry or you may be one of the "lucky" few to move a step higher in the pyramid. All this time you will have been working for a set wage (a generous one perhaps relative to other jobs) with no idea at all as to what the partners are raking in. This is true, I'm discovering, of a lot of jobs in the city where you have to conform to certain patterns of social behaviour if you are to be a part of the very powerful corporate system. A lot of people are reluctant to play that game and so choose to work outside that system. These people are usually more concerned with ideals such as justice and fair play - or in the case of the music industry, music. Chris
Re: [313] Good Thread!!
I'm not sure what would be the rarest record(s) in my collection, but I was pretty pleased with myself when I picked up Arthur Russel's "World of Echo" LP and a sealed "mint" copy of Indian Ocean's "Schoolbell/Treehouse" 12" on Sleeping Bag, both for a mere $5 au. :) chris
RE: [313] downtempo 313?
Isn't Bill Laswell another person originally from Ann Arbor? He's done some pretty interesting downtempo stuff (as well as some pretty ordinary stuff too). The 2nd CD on that Axiom Dub compilation has been in my player a lot this past week - been addicted to that Mad Professor track. chris
Re: Industrial
Greg Earle wrote:
>
> Someone else mentioned Coil. They're playing live at Sonar. 'Nuff said.
Cabaret Voltaire seem to be an example of an industrial group with some kind
of a techno connection. Like a lot of the 313 artists they've had
pretentions to funk with varying degrees of success ("The Conversation" is
my favourite).
Apparently there's a remix of a track of theirs by Derrick May but I haven't
heard it. Anyone know what it's like?
Chris
Re: [313] Atom Heart (was calling planet e...)
> * > >> >>Anyone know who does that electri-beats 'n vox version of Bowie's "Ashes >> >>to Ashes" I heard on the rahdio this PM..?, >> Dan wrote: >> >it's one of the MASK releases ... so I'm guessing maybe Jega? >> >> Nope... it's off a LP called 'Pop Articielle' by Lassigue Bendthaus (aka >> Atom Heart). -- > > BTW, I recently dug out Flextone for a spin and was pleasantly reminded that > it's the most 'this listy' of Uwe's projects. I think a few of his more recent, upcoming projects could be 'this listy': The new Señor Coconut Kraftwerk covers album in an 'authentic' Latin conjunto style. The Atom electro ep "Hard Disk Rock (Don't Stop)" which will be the second release on my label, Vibragun. And wait till you hear Jesus.. Seeing as I've plugged one of my label's releases I'd might as well also mention the first imminent release, the "communication problems" compilation sampler ep, which has a couple of tracks that are sort of 'this listy'. chris http://vibragun.com.au
Re: [313] oliver ho (was Re: [313] rolling?)
speaking of Regis, I saw a copy of Gymnastics cheap in town. What do people think of that? Usually I'd buy cheap imports on spec but I'm pretty poor at the moment (uni + bills...). For that reason I'll probably be missing out on Oliver Ho and Herbert... :( btw did I hear right that Mick Harris is doing a remix for for one of Ho's labels..? chris > > it is sequential 1 with a damon wild rmx, isn't it? yeah, i also like it > very much. regarding to the regis album, is there a release date so far? > > also, anyone heard the new downwards, lino24 by regis? very good imo, with > extreme industrial approach > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >In a message dated 5/10/00 1:19:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >><< new oliver ho album? is it on meta? can anyone give me info on this one?
Re: [313] rolling?
cheers to all for clearing up the meaning of "rolling" - I guess that's rolling as in rolling one's eyeballs... > rolling is being on e. as for the vicks, started back in the hardcore days of > the early 90s. meant to be pleasurable while on e. don't think I could do that in public - probably more fun at home. > and as for sydney, there was plenty of vicks being rubbed on when i lived there > in the early 90s. I wasn't as into it as much then so I probably didn't notice people out of it as much as I do now. I think it's ok as long as people act responsibly - it's their own body - and more fun than getting bashed while 19 and drunk at an RSL... There seem to be some sensible words in the hyperreal site. > in fact i remember vicks t shirts being sold on oxford > street, along iwth lucozade t shirts. I do remember those... chris
rolling?
Jeff Richards wrote: > all these 14-18 year old kids laying around on the > floor rolling thier ass off. that is not my cup of + -stacey wrote: > music and parties more than that 21 yr old sittin in the corner rubbing vicks > all over them saying how cool the music sounds while rolling. Its more about erm... what's "rolling"? and where does rubbing vicks come into it...??? sounds bizarre... don't think I've heard of that in Sydney. wishing I had a copy of Green Velvet's "Flash', chris
re: (313) Feb/Mar Mixer reviews (in advance)
> Flame). The other tracks are bland and predictable. Now watch, I'm going to > end up playing out somewhere with this guy who would have read my review, and > I'll be forced to explain myself in person. I gave Cristian Vogel a bad > review here in Mixer and almost ended up running into him in Berlin. I > actually did meet his SuperCollider partner, Jamie Lidell. Luckily I left > town right before Cristian got in. Whew, that was a close one. > No offence, Alan, but if I was a musician and I happened to meet you, I probably wouldn't ask for an explanation of a bad review unless there was a bit of a lull in the conversation; I'd probably be a lot more bummed out by your saying that you were relieved to have not run into me than by saying my tracks were poor. Anyway, I bought the Supercollider CD last week after a recommendation from a friend but I'm a bit disappointed with my first listen. I was sold on the tweaked r'n'b angle but the thing Iike about a lot of r'n'b is how obscenely clean and sweet the production is (the clips are nuts too), whereas this CD seems to be trying to marry r'n'b with a rougher warpish style. While on the topic, I have to admit to being a little disappointed also with some of the r'n'b styles on the last Model500 CD which were a bit flat. I did like the track with Rob Hood though (nice lyrics :) There's a little bit of that drum sound on that recent Larry Heard album Genesis which works well - mainly because the album a lot more low key (if that makes sense). Chris
(313) new kraftwerk - sorta
speaking of new Kraftwerk releases have people here heard (of) the new Señor Coconut album by atom heart? It's Kraftwerk covers done in latin style (rumba, cha cha cha, cumbia etc) and it's pretty awesome. I can't go back to the originals... :P Apparently it's got the kraftwerk seal of approval. Chris
(313) innovator in Sydney
> >>Just got home (early Monday morning) from seeing Derrick spin at Seven (a >>relatively small club) in Melbourne. He played way better than he did at the >>NYE party. > > Derrick played great on NYE, everyone there was familiar with who he is and > what he does, the vibe was warm and friendly, it's just that the sound > wasn't all that. He had no control over the sound levels. > of the sets he played in Sydney over the past year or so none seem to have gone quite right for me. Which is really frustrating because I love the Mayday Mix CD. Sound problems at the one last year in particular made that set a bit off but I had an enjoyable night nonetheless. I was really looking forward to his set a couple of weeks ago at the Metro where there's a nice PA, but last minute stress with some friends of mine before getting there meant that I had a bit of a bummer and left early. Which is a pity because the tunes he played were pretty cool (no way back!) and apparently he did a bit of a meet and greet afterwards... btw do any Melbourne list-members know of any interesting events there next weekend? (except for the What Is Music? festival that is, which I'll catch in Sydney the week after) Anything worth missing the Scratch Perverts in Sydney for? Chris
