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Junkie XL: Amazing set, horrible crowd.
WHAT. THE. FUCK?!??!!??!!?!?!?!?
So... Kate and I went to the Arcadia festival tonight to see Junkie XL. Granted, we weren't expecting all that much, being that it was a nerd festival and all, but hey, I play World of Warcraft for 20 hours a week and program video games, so who the fuck am I to talk. Anyways, we got there at around 9:45pm and had the honor of sitting through "generation 8-bit". You know, I won't lie to you, liked their attitude and all, but there's only so many minutes, let alone hours of straight up video game music you can handle before wanting to go ballistic. After a few hours, some bad called the "mini bosses" came on, and I'll give them credit where credit is due for knowing how to play their instruments and not just mixing gameboy muzak bullshit with some awful beats, but still, going from Megaman 2 to Mario Brothers to Castlevania, is just like, ya whatever.
Anyways, 1am finally rolls around and the long awaited Junkie XL steps up to the stage. Kate, myself, and our two friends weren't really sure what to expect since it was a massive nerd fest and all, but man were we ever fucking happy to hear that he busted out into fucking OWNAGE set of pure Junkie XL productions and remixes. I'm too hammered atm to give anything close to a setlist, but let's just say I went absolutely insane when he played his collab with Sasha from a few yeears back: "Beauty never fades". But man, FUCK. I've never in my 1.5 year tenure here ever been remotely unimpressed with the sort of parties that go on, but FUCK. By the time he got on, the 500 people in the venue turned into about 90, and about 20 of us (the 10 that weren't huge fucking nerds, and 10 people that fucking WORKED there) were actually dancing. CHRIST! It makes me fucking SICK that a DJ and producer of his calibre had to be exposed to this sort of bullshit. Why the FUCK would the promoters of this party book someone like him knowing that the party would be filled with unappreciative dickwads? Makes me fucking sick to my stomach.
Anyways, Junkie XL fucking DELIVERED. He played a fucking disgustingly good set of banging prog and techno, with basslines that absolutely ripped the fucking CEPSUM apart. When 2am rolled around and he was done, he dropped some speaker-shattering feedbacky type brown noise on the system and walked off the stage, basically giving the promoters a huge "FUCK YOU" for booking someone of his massive talent for such a shitty crowd. It was pretty hilarious seeing some random lacky employee runing up there a minute later to figure out how to turn the shit down, in the meantime with myself and Kate screaming begging for more.
ANYWAYS, Junkie XL would fucking RAPE Aria, and he fucking needs to be booked there and shown how rocking of a fucking city this is. For the first time sinec I've moved here I've felt ashamed of our nightlife, and for fuck's sake, that needs to be rectified ASAP.
Forgive any typos please, I'm fucking hammered, but that doesn't change the fact that there's a balance that needs to be fucking restored.
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"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
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. If I ever can afford a good computer Im gonna buy WOW so I can have something to do all day.
