Anyone go to Mayer & Boratto @ Cielo?

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Posted by bogartgreens on Jun-01-2007 15:54:

Anyone go to Mayer & Boratto @ Cielo?

just wonderin how boratto was as a DJ, been a fan of his remixes and productions..

Posted by DJslantzz on Jun-01-2007 16:00:

yea im wonderin the same...i heard gui was sickk, but was just wonderin if he played BEautiful life

Posted by bogartgreens on Jun-05-2007 15:05:

an actual review...

doesn't look like anyone went to this, but there was a NY Times review on the event, which I thought was pretty unusual, but still cool:

quote:

Most performers are pleased when people in the crowd stop what they�re doing to watch and applaud. But for a D.J. that kind of tribute might inspire mixed emotions. If a dance party ends up feeling more like a concert, is that success or failure?

Not that anyone seemed too worried on Thursday night at Cielo, a nightclub in the meatpacking district. The two headliners were Michael Mayer, the veteran German producer and D.J., and Gui Boratto, a Brazilian who released his debut album, �Chromophobia� (Kompakt), earlier this year. The night was mainly devoted to stripped-down dance tracks. You can call this stuff minimalist, but you can�t call it severe � not anymore.

In earlier years, minimalist German techno provided a stern rebuke to the kitchen-sink populism of mainstream dance music. (In Europe, �mainstream dance music� isn�t a contradiction in terms.) Kompakt, the Cologne-based label partly owned by Mr. Mayer, nurtured a warmer strain of minimalism; Mr. Mayer�s excellent and influential 2002 mix CD, �Immer� (Kompakt), felt like a grayscale dream.

Since then, Mr. Mayer has proved himself a resourceful and versatile D.J., equally capable of assembling a furious techno barrage or a woozy electronic reverie or a crowd-

pleasing house set. No matter what, he makes small gestures sound big, and on Thursday night the revelers applauded each one-note bassline, each slow buildup, each rubbery thwack. For this crowd, Mr. Mayer is a superstar D.J., and that�s how he was treated.

Mr. Mayer�s set ended around 1:30 on Friday morning, and he began again an hour later. In between came a live � that is, computer-generated � set from Mr. Boratto, who started with the basics: a simple kick-drum pulse. But it wasn�t long before some shimmering synthesizers arrived, and there was a cheer as people realized they were hearing �Scene One,� the sublime opening track from �Chromophobia.�

Recently, lots of D.J.s and producers have been trying to find ways to reclaim some of what the minimalists discarded; Mr. Boratto does it with sleek electronic tracks that sound deceptively simple, sometimes even sentimental. If Mr. Mayer�s approach is counterintuitive (he uses clicks and hisses to evoke lush worlds), Mr. Boratto�s is counter-counterintuitive. He knows that sometimes there is no substitute for a good tune.

When he dialed up �Terminal,� one of the best tracks from �Chromophobia,� the four-note bassline added a sugary shot of melody; this was a friendly gesture, and an unpretentious one. And finally, at the end of his set, came his underground hit, �Beautiful Life,� which is even more songlike. There are lyrics (though not many), and there is a memorable music video, available on YouTube. As the refrain � �What a beautiful life, what a beautiful life, what a beautiful world� � cycled around and around, revelers whooped and danced, relearning the power of a catchy chorus.

taken from: www.nytimes.com

seems like it was a good time.