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Posted by bjorn niclas on Apr-30-2010 22:13:

2010.05.19 [SF] NIC FANCIULLI + Bjorn*Niclas, SLIDE San Francisco (GUESTLIST)

Im opening for Nic Fanciulli at Slide Wednesday May 19th, should be a really fun night. Presales are only $10 so hopefully some of you SF TA's will come out to support..

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Nic Fanciulli is a young and fresh DJ, producer and remixer - currently one of the hottest rising talents in the UK.
Fanciulli started his career playing the usual round of bars and worked in his local record shop in Maidstone from the age of 16. His first break came five years ago after slipping unmarked mix tapes to Maidstone’s Club Class promoter. After the 3rd tape and a 6-week hunt by the promoter Fanciulli was given a weekly main room residency.

The same year (aged 19) Fanciulli, along with some friends, started two record labels: Portent Records and Portent Plus. The first track signed being Mojolators ‘Drifting’, which was then signed on to Multiply after Pete Tong played it for 14 weeks in a row on his Essential Selection show.
Through Club Class, Fanciulli has gained massive respect from DJs across the spectrum for his unique take on house music. Xpress2 proclaimed him their tip for the top in October 2002, whilst Tong said he was the finest resident in the UK as well as props from Yousef and Seb Fontaine along the way.

In the last year alone, Fanciulli has played for Cream in the UK and Ibiza, for Defected throughout the world, for the Radio 1 weekends in Ibiza, Miami and Cardiff as well as for the Radio 1 Outdoor stage at Homelands & Glastonbury. Plus gigs at Shindig, The Arches, Passion, Circus, Type and he’s recently started a new back-room residency with The Gallery at Turnmills on the first Friday of every month. His room (T2), called Fandango, is purely for Fanciulli to invite DJs he respects and to push the finest new-breed through the ranks – so far including Rocky and Diesel (X-Press2), Yousef, Paul Woolford, Krysko, MYNC, Mark Knight and more to come. MTV tipped Fanciulli for the top in their young-guns series @WMC 2003, he mixed a covermount CD for Mixmag and in May, Fanciulli did his first ever Radio 1 Essential Mix – where Tong described him as one of the finest residents and best up-and-coming producers in the UK. In Dec this year this was followed up by the half hour hot mix on Tong’s show !!!

Fanciulli’s production and remix work (under his Skylark banner) has also stepped up a gear this year, pushing him through as both an artist and DJ. His remixes of Jo Mills’ 4Tune 500 ‘Dancin in the Dark’ achieved ‘Essential New Tune’ status back in XXXX, whilst his remixes of Sandy Rivera’s ‘I Cant Stop’ (Deep Vision), Deep Dish’s ‘Prahna The Dream’ (Yoshitoshi) and Xpress2’s ‘Muzik’ (JBO) clearly illustrate why he is in demand. In August Fanciulli once again achieved Essential New Tune with his own production work (as Sky Lark) with ‘That’s More Like It’.


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Posted by bigperf on May-01-2010 00:25:

should be a good night! Is EDM with a couple of heavy hitting DJ's on wednesday something they are gonna try to get going regularly?

Slide on a wednesday night was my first time clubbing in SF Aug 07. They gotta keep that slide open for the patrons, was a fun way to start my SF clubbing experiences. my gf at the time wanted to go down the slide but she was wearing a dress and that was against the sliding rules.


Posted by EDMDancer on May-03-2010 19:58:

Guess they want to avoid direct competition on Thursday with Vessel. They've done it a few times with big DJs on Thursday with disappointing results, even with Vessel's regular Thursday promoters.

Vessel has already taken the time and energy to work out a formula that works for them, so that they can fill the club even with a local headliner.

Ruby Skye and Slide have all the experience and connections they need to run a successful EDM week night. I mean if Vessel can do it, I am sure they can do it. They just need a little patience to figure out what works for them, like they've found out that promoters are not the key.

quote:
Originally posted by bigperf
should be a good night! Is EDM with a couple of heavy hitting DJ's on wednesday something they are gonna try to get going regularly?

Slide on a wednesday night was my first time clubbing in SF Aug 07. They gotta keep that slide open for the patrons, was a fun way to start my SF clubbing experiences. my gf at the time wanted to go down the slide but she was wearing a dress and that was against the sliding rules.


Posted by bjorn niclas on May-13-2010 03:58:

getting excited for this, one week away !


Posted by bjorn niclas on May-17-2010 19:06:

absolutley love this tune:


Posted by senserecords on May-17-2010 22:19:

nice! I'm looking forward to this...


Posted by DaveT on May-18-2010 00:45:

quote:
Originally posted by EDMDancer
Guess they want to avoid direct competition on Thursday with Vessel. They've done it a few times with big DJs on Thursday with disappointing results, even with Vessel's regular Thursday promoters.

Vessel has already taken the time and energy to work out a formula that works for them, so that they can fill the club even with a local headliner.

Ruby Skye and Slide have all the experience and connections they need to run a successful EDM week night. I mean if Vessel can do it, I am sure they can do it. They just need a little patience to figure out what works for them, like they've found out that promoters are not the key.


If there's one thing I think Slide has that may hurt it for a regular weeknight party, it's that it can be darrrrk inside. Vessel, 111 Minna, other places that have done well on weekday nights on a regular basis tend to be brighter.

Slide kicks the crap out of those other places overall, IMO. But I like it dark!


Posted by Brian Scott on May-18-2010 01:00:

Re: 2010.05.19 [SF] NIC FANCIULLI + Bjorn*Niclas, SLIDE San Francisco

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Originally posted by bjorn niclas

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Wow...dirt cheap.

quote:
Originally posted by bjorn niclas
absolutley love this tune:


One of the best tracks of the year so far...


Posted by EDMDancer on May-18-2010 01:25:

The lighting guy often makes it dark in Vessel when the club is filled with people, so I don't think it matters that much. Vessel somehow is able to get the party vibe going, get people dancing by 11:30pm, and the party takes off from there. I think this is the key. But others might have different perspectives.

quote:
Originally posted by DaveT
If there's one thing I think Slide has that may hurt it for a regular weeknight party, it's that it can be darrrrk inside. Vessel, 111 Minna, other places that have done well on weekday nights on a regular basis tend to be brighter.

Slide kicks the crap out of those other places overall, IMO. But I like it dark!


Posted by bjorn niclas on May-18-2010 05:37:

Re: Re: 2010.05.19 [SF] NIC FANCIULLI + Bjorn*Niclas, SLIDE San Francisco

quote:
Originally posted by Brian Scott
Wow...dirt cheap.



One of the best tracks of the year so far...


TOTALLY AGREE THERE! Awesome Awesome tune..

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cant wait !


Posted by DaveT on May-18-2010 06:25:

quote:
Originally posted by EDMDancer
The lighting guy often makes it dark in Vessel when the club is filled with people, so I don't think it matters that much. Vessel somehow is able to get the party vibe going, get people dancing by 11:30pm, and the party takes off from there. I think this is the key. But others might have different perspectives.


I've only been to Vessel a couple times, but Slide was pretty much pitch dark with like a light on the DJ and a flashing light over the floor and the lights that were INSIDE the bar itself. Ahh, so dark. It was nice. It was like 1015 on a dark night. Orrrr, Ruby Skye when Digweed plays and has the lights turned down as much as possible (sometimes even asking for the projector to be turned off...Diggers is awesome). THen again, I've only been to slide for special events there....so maybe the lighting there isn't usually as dark as it was the few times I've been.

When Vessel was dark (though I only showed up there three times ever...not big on the crowd and sound was bleh), there was still an ambience to the place. Slide kinda has none. It's kinda meant so people can be private in their groups. Like a place for the mob to hang out or something :P


Posted by rizo on May-18-2010 19:34:

quote:
Originally posted by DaveT
I've only been to Vessel a couple times, but Slide was pretty much pitch dark with like a light on the DJ and a flashing light over the floor and the lights that were INSIDE the bar itself. Ahh, so dark. It was nice. It was like 1015 on a dark night. Orrrr, Ruby Skye when Digweed plays and has the lights turned down as much as possible (sometimes even asking for the projector to be turned off...Diggers is awesome). THen again, I've only been to slide for special events there....so maybe the lighting there isn't usually as dark as it was the few times I've been.

When Vessel was dark (though I only showed up there three times ever...not big on the crowd and sound was bleh), there was still an ambience to the place. Slide kinda has none. It's kinda meant so people can be private in their groups. Like a place for the mob to hang out or something :P
Slide has sucked the past few times... actually every time! Either too packed and/or sound sucks. ugh sound for Nine and Umek was just horrible (Umek's set was garbage too). There has been a few good nights at Vessel including Paul Ritch live or Hernan Cattaneo (best SF set yet!). Either way I dislike both venues... although Vessel tends to bring a nice techno/house crowd (and vibe) that rarely steps into that venue. I've missed out on the Burridge nights there too, can't imagine how sick those were Oh Digweed was meh last time too. Seriously, Ruby why did you let a bongo player in? Diggers last hour was the worst I've heard from him too. He used to play crazy epic last hours too What a waste of good mushrooms...


Posted by DaveT on May-18-2010 19:52:

Yeah, the simplest mistake any (and every club, over time) makes is letting someone in with a drum, percussion, or something.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ONE LIKES IT.


Posted by EDMDancer on May-20-2010 22:19:

Did anyone go to this? Review? With Superstar DJ + free guestlist + no competition + the biggest promotion channels, I guess the party should not fail to take off.


Posted by 2tall on May-20-2010 22:44:

decent sized crowd for a wednesday, with a couple dozen hardcore fancuilli fans, some regular party people, and a bunch of left over google-ers from an earlier event. nic played 1130-130. good stuff with nice basslines. but did feel like a wednesday. slide crowd is just weird. vessel has a better grip on the the weekday headliner market.


Posted by DaveT on May-20-2010 23:07:

a promoter shouldn't just give up now trying something in a different venue because of one crowd's experience. You can change a crowd's culture over time.


Posted by EDMDancer on May-21-2010 15:03:

The Ruby Skye/Slide management probably wouldn't spend that much money on changing a crowd's culture over time. It costs a lot to hire a top DJ.

Slide tried a few times with Vessel's promoters, and indeed the promoters' regular folks showed up, but behaved differently from when they were at Vessel. It must be the party atmosphere that is tied to the venue.

I am sure they know how to create a party atmosphere consistently since they've been in business for 10+ years and have been doing that at Ruby Skye every weekend. Maybe they just need to figure out how to do a scaled-down version at Slide. I mean, you can't throw a Ruby Skye like party at Slide, simply because you don't have this kind of budget.

quote:
Originally posted by DaveT
a promoter shouldn't just give up now trying something in a different venue because of one crowd's experience. You can change a crowd's culture over time.


Posted by rizo on May-23-2010 22:39:

quote:
Originally posted by EDMDancer
Did anyone go to this? Review? With Superstar DJ + free guestlist + no competition + the biggest promotion channels, I guess the party should not fail to take off.
friend told me last night that fanciulli was good but was cut off at 130. volume was turned down on him and bjorn played the last 30 minutes. she said that fanciulli wanted to continue but wasnt allowed to. dont know about that one and thats from her point of view yet i wouldnt be surprised if true. and of course the crowd was a douchepocalypse.


Posted by bjorn niclas on May-24-2010 00:15:

quote:
Originally posted by rizo
friend told me last night that fanciulli was good but was cut off at 130. volume was turned down on him and bjorn played the last 30 minutes. she said that fanciulli wanted to continue but wasnt allowed to. dont know about that one and thats from her point of view yet i wouldnt be surprised if true. and of course the crowd was a douchepocalypse.


nah, thats not true. Nic was only scheduled to play till 1.30am and had an early flight and it started to die out at around 1.15am, i wanted him to play longer and kept trying to get him to close out, but he said he was tired. He is really nice and friendly and we kept chatting through out his set. Then after that, I got to play around 3-4 tracks and around 1.40am ish there was only about 15 people left, so the management wanted to close it down. Im sure if Nic wanted to play longer, they would have stayed open till 2am no doubt.

Crowd was not as bad as people say, there was a nice mix between some die hard EDM / Nic Fanciulli fans, to regular Slide Wednesday crowd to lots of young Google peeps coming from a big Google Convention..

I know everyone have their favorite places to go to in the city and some are no doubt better then others, but once in a while different promoters and clubs get to book interesting, new or different talent that normally never plays in SF, or very rarely, so personally i just think that's really great cause i really wanted to see that particular talent. yeah, i might not like one venue compared to another, but at least i get to see a particular talent cheap or sometimes free due to guest list. Not sure why that would ever worth complaining about.

Think in general, SF is very unique with its EDM scene and the talent that comes through to play. whether that's on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, its definitely way better then alot of other cities around here in the US..


Posted by rizo on May-24-2010 03:27:

quote:
Originally posted by bjorn niclas
nah, thats not true. Nic was only scheduled to play till 1.30am and had an early flight and it started to die out at around 1.15am, i wanted him to play longer and kept trying to get him to close out, but he said he was tired. He is really nice and friendly and we kept chatting through out his set. Then after that, I got to play around 3-4 tracks and around 1.40am ish there was only about 15 people left, so the management wanted to close it down. Im sure if Nic wanted to play longer, they would have stayed open till 2am no doubt.
that makes more sense. like i said it was her pov. not mine.

quote:
Originally posted by bjorn niclas
I know everyone have their favorite places to go to in the city and some are no doubt better then others, but once in a while different promoters and clubs get to book interesting, new or different talent that normally never plays in SF, or very rarely, so personally i just think that's really great cause i really wanted to see that particular talent. yeah, i might not like one venue compared to another, but at least i get to see a particular talent cheap or sometimes free due to guest list. Not sure why that would ever worth complaining about.
its worth complaining to get a discussion going about whats wrong about a certain venue and essentially help the venue and promoter make it better. this has done before for other venues here on TA. i mean who really wants an off-beat bongo player? or loud ear hurting sound? thank god for my earplugs! of course some suggestions are harder than others if not impossible like the usual crowd at whatever venue it may be. good thing theres choices in the city. and a venue has never stopped me from going to see x artist but i have my limits, e.g. im planning on sos but not cattaneo just because it'll be on the night of the white party. thankfully i caught cattaneo earlier this year (at a venue which i dont really like i may add) and missing him is not going to kill me. theres kontrol the weekend before and lee burridge the weekend after to hold me off as well. oh and its nice that both of them will be at two venues i do actually enjoy!



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