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Review: Guy Gerber and David Duriez @ Sonic
I got the club around 1:45am. It took a while for the place to fill up, and even longer for the party to get started. I was really anxious to hear Guy Gerber hit the decks. During Sean Miller's set, my brother and I were having a good laugh at some "sketchy" dude who was sitting crouched in the corner, looking like he was contemplating something very serious. He must have been sitting there for at least 30 mins or so. A little while later, my brother says to me, "Dude, the guy that was crouching in the corner is in the DJ booth." Next thing you know, that guy started playing. It was Guy Gerber. To me, that's pretty cool how he was analyzing the party like that very inconspicuously crouched in the corner like that.
I have mixed feelings about Guy Gerber's set. It was good, but it just didn't seem like it fit the occasion. At the beginning, he was very Richie Hawtin sounding, but he progressed into song after song of very long, proggy, almost trancey like builds. They were good songs, but the crowd wasn't feeling it, and I'm not too sure how I felt about it in that kind of a club setting. It was a very good set, but it would have been more suited for an outdoor beach party, or something of the sort.
Next was David Duriez. He started off with a bang, and the crowd ate it right up. He played lots of banging tech house stormers, but he wasn't as twisted as I expected him to be based on what I had heard from his Radio FG sets. I was still very impressed with his set though. It was a great melange of techno, tech house, and a sprinkle of minimal. I really liked how he kept teasing Mazi & Duriez - Chicago a Wake Up Call all night. This has a very spooky, calm-before-the-storm, what-the-fuck-is-he-going-to-do-next?!, kind of sound. He was also doing some really cool stuff with teasing a few common vocals throughout the night.
I only have 2 complaints about his set. After about the first 45 minutes of his set (which had me smiling for the entire time), he all of a sudden plays Nic Fanciulli - Lucky Heather and Pete Heller - Simpler one after the other! I don't know where that came from...
Also, he didn't play the 2 tunes that I wanted him to play. I was dying to hear them all night, but he didn't play them:
Humantronic - Dancing Travellers
Der LokalMatador - Kombinat (100 Remix)
Other than that, his set was great.
I have been to two of Sonic's "new platform" Saturdays (Stacey Pullen/Gene Ferris and this one), and I am very, very impressed. Please keep it up! I was talking to quite a few Sonic regulars that were saying, "I've never heard anything like this at Sonic before, this is AWESOME!" I'm loving this return to the very thing that drew me to that space in the first place - fresh sound.
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Bah! This makes 2 awesome events I've missed in TWO days!
