Whoooh!!! Sheesh, does it ever stop in Europe? =) It'll be my turn
that's for sure when I head off to Berlin for 10 days of techno...(or
fill in the blank) fun at m + m, Love Parade and Tresor later on today.
Lord, give me strength...
G.
stuffed bird wrote:
Hi peepz,
As July has been officially named party-month at the
stuffed-residence I had quite some blasts these last days.
A review:
Thursday 12 July: called some mates, got into the car and
drove to Paris to check out what could have turned out to
be one of the last Garnier-dj sets ever. The man is
suffering from hearing problems and cancelled almost all
of his gigs for the rest of the year and it remains to be
seen if he will ever return to the decks. With this in
mind the night was rather a mixed feelings one. Now most
of you will know Garnier as a techno dj, but the Rex being
his home he plays allnighters there where he proves just
how diverse his tastes are. The first two hours were so
deep and so house that I just kicked myself in the head
for not going to his Rex-residencies sooner... After the
guest Laurent finished in true Garnier-techno-style: deep,
melodic, full of strings and diversity. If this was
goodbye than it was a good one!
Got back to Belgium in time for the Axion Beach
Beats-festival, the dance counterpart of Beach Rock. Still
tired of the Paris-trip I wanted a slow start and headed
over to the House-tent to check Llorca...to be blown away
from the very first track I heard... This man
single-handedly delivered all that I ever wanted from a
house set: deeper than deep basslines, heavenly vocals,
chicago jack trax (DJ Pierre Phuture mad me totally wild)
and steaming us grooves. Talk about a wake-up call...
After two hours of partying we definitely needed a break
and crashed on the beach to check out Dreadzone on the
main stage; and although I'm not to fond of their
ragga-styled vocals and basslines, they did deliver a
great show and earned everybody's respect.
On to the techno-tent for Stacey Pullen! He had to take
over from T-Quest, who was boring me to death with his
hard, looped techno, and did this in tremendous fashion.
Whereas the crowd went mad to the beats of T-Quest, Stacey
made'em go even more mad to more-than-beats. I know where
my preferences are...
After an hour of Stacey Pullen we had to move again to the
house tent, where master Carter was going to drop some
jackin' beats...and so he did. The first hour was a bit
predictable, but the second hour he gave all he can give,
which in his case means rump-shaking beats and a capella's
thrown in at the right time. My ears were getting a bit
tired by the end of his set, so I decided to call the
dancefloor a day and headed over to the techno tent once
more for the last hour of DJ Hell. And no regrets there!
To my delight Hell's dj sets are going more and more into
the direction of his label-efforts. Delicious 80ies
influenced techno mixed with 'real' 80ies beats and
jackin' house tracks always make my day :-) I headed home
a happy camper...
A good sleep had to get me back in shape for the first day
of the Ten Days Off festival in Ghent (formerly 10 days of
techno). I had been looking forward to this one for some
time: Joe Claussell of BodySoul, Ibadan, Spiritual Life
came to bless us with a 3-hour set! And blessing was
indeed the word! I have NEVER heard anyone put that much
passion and variety into a dj-set. The dj before him
played nowadays typical house set: fast, uninspired,
looped disco beats. And the crowd was digging it in the
way that you are dancing to beats just because everyone
else is and just because it's a party, but there ain't no
true emotion in there, but when Claussell started he
immediately dropped the BPM to a true house-level
(120/125) and started working the EQ's like only NY-dj's
can do. Giving us beats only when we needed them, and then
mixing 'Groovin La Chord' with some Kerri Chandler track
making the whole venue go absolutely insane. It's hard to
describe the feeling I got when he suddenly powered down
the 1200 and played 'Is this love' by Bob Marley... Some
1000 people singing 'Is this love, is this love, is this
love that I'm feeling' when Joe faded the track out during
the chorus is just simply magical. At that moment you
realize that you are not on a house party, you are not on
a techno party, you are just listening and dancing to
music. And all those house and techno purists alike, all
those dj's playing to the formats, all those arty farty
let's follow whatever the hype is types can just retire
and get it over wit
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