figured this would be of interest to most of y'all
got there and i'm not sure who was playing downstairs. upstairs the
mainroom was still closed (i guess due to sounds system issues). took
about 8 minutes for the dj to play spastik (yawn!). great track, but not
really appropriate for that moment. some djs have no clue.
huck went on and housed it up retty good, but everyone was waiting to get
upstairs. finally they opened it up and drifted in to see mills already
behind the decks. now- we all know i've had issues with mills in the past,
and i wasn't expecting much. so first- the good news... he didn't redline
the system!!! there did seem to be some issues with volume fluctuation
between tracks, but it was never disorted.
now for the bad news- i wasn't watching, but from what i could here, there
is no way mills was using three decks. in fact, barring 2-3 scratches
9which weren't all that great) there was nothing mills did up in that
booth that myself or a million other people couldn't have done. he mixed a
highly typical selections of detroit records at a rate of about one every
3-4 minutes. and a lot of the mixes weren't even that tight.
after about 2 hours of this, saunderson went on and cranked the energy up
a few notches. it was more the sort of 'clubby' detroit sound i expect
from kevin, but after 2 hours of the crowd hanging onto mills out of
obligation rather than inspiration, you could tell people were hype.
still- left after 30 more minutes. saw stacey pullen and kenny larkin in
the house. not sure if either actually played.
so there you have it. detroit, um... takes miami.
not a bad party, but...
