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It was a decent night, fun was had by all, but I'm not going to lie and say that it was one for the history books. I'm glad that a lot of friends came out for this; I think I probably spent most of the night just shooting the shit and that was the most enjoyable part.
Vagrant was rockin' it in the front room with a whole swoop of TAs, so that's where I spent the better part of my night. I'm not sure who the other DJs in there were, but they weren't bad either. Arthur Oskan actually threw down a great kickoff to the night in the main room, and I wished I'd spent more time in there because Misstress Barbara was a total letdown.
According to my ears, her set was all over the map. Half of it was house music, and not the real ass-shakin' kind of house. It felt somewhere between progressive house and tribal house, lacking the progressive melodies as well as the tribal soul. I guess it's pretty much what you'd expect if you took techno and slowed it down to a house tempo. I left fairly early, so she *might* have played some funkier tracks, but not for a good long while (the housey tracks really don't count). There was this overall feeling the whole time that she was just playing way under tempo for a HARD set, it would have been OK for a funky set but not for the tracks she played. It made it impossible to get my groove on in there.
Why do I get the feeling she's trying to "bridge the gap" between house and techno, sort of like how Mauro Picotto tried (unsuccessfully) on several occasions to do it with trance and techno? Better luck next time Babs.
I won't get into specifics, but the crowd that night was also packed, drunk, a bit pushy and VERY sketchy. I'm used to seeing all those things at System individually but that may have been the first time I've seen them all at once, especially that amount of sketch. I had to find another spot or tell people to back off several times throughout the night.
In a word: mediocre. Still nowhere near as bad as the Guvernment, but seemed to be a step in that direction. Despite all the hotties in attendance that night, I found myself feeling very nostalgic for the "old" System...
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My party schedule:
2009-02-21 - DJ Attention @ I'm So Popular
2009-06-18 - DJ Annoying @ People Need To Know Where I'll Be
2012-11-32 - DJ Insufferable ɸ Or At Least the Stalkers I Complain About
2048-06-66 - Spastic & Whocares ¶ Although I'm Actually Flattered
9999-45-81 - Tweaker Gimp ☼ I Probably Won't Even Go To This But I Have To Make Sure I Fill Up All The Available Space Here
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