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Mauro Picotto(Techno??)
Hey all,
I found this review of an upcoming Picotto gig in a dublin club listings magazine. Just wondering what everyone thinks of him at the moment and his apparent conversion to techno? Personally i was never really a big fans of his but for some strange reason he's very well liked here in ireland? This mags a fairly no holds barred one btw.
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Mauro Picotto
Saturday 21 December, Venue-Temple Theatre
Apparently this is going to be Mauro Picotto's last ever appearance as a trance DJ. After that he's switching to techno, where he will presumably be met by a lot of confused idiots chinstroking themselves to death as they try to figure out what the fuck is going on.
Because over the last couple of years Picotto has achieved a level of popularity(in Ireland especially) that long ago surpassed the limits of what is considered polite in techno society. What's more, he has done it by playing appallingly unfashionable music(hard trance) in a Dublin Venue(the temple theatre) that is about as respectable as anal sex with the family dog.
There are those who would argue that the trance masses have made picotto Irelands favourite International DJ,seeing off the likes of Carl Cox and Judge Jules. Singles like Komodo and Lizard lurked in the upper regions of the Irish chart for an indecent amount of time, and those who look old enough to get into clubs routinely pack out every gig he plays.
So is Picotto committing career suicide by ditching the melodic, muscular trance that made him a superstar? In a word, yes. As mentioned above, techno purists will be waiting to spit all over whatever he does in their precious genre while the chances of his current following going with him into baldieville seem slim enough.
The whole thing makes a bit of a mockery of the boundaries that music fans like to set up between each other. Picotto has actually been drifting towards techno for quite a while. His current sets are chock-full of the likes of Dave Clarke and Chris Leibing as they are with white labels from his BXR stablemates. But this publicly pronounced move is certain to alienate his loyal fanbase. With six more major UK dates between this one and the end of the year, you'll have to wonder if it'll be up-yours techno all night at those gigs? For tonight, its best to expect BXR favourites from the man himself, his engineer Ricky Effe(playing live) and the new pretender to the BXR throne, Belgium's M.I.K.E.
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