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The ultimate fight...
Yoji Biomehanika
VS.
Dj Proteus
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LOL
Anyways, John 00 Fleming would smash them all
Here's an interesting little article...
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Play Another Day
By Alex Roche
Ever been diagnosed with lung cancer? Well, John Fleming has and after years of chemotherapy, he went on to become one of the most respected names in UK trance, regularly playing Godskitchen and touring the world as often as we have hot dinners. Is this man the Lance Armstrong of the dance world?
"The [Australian] people are mental! Not in a bad way, but on the dance floor it’s so good to see people enjoying their music with so much enthusiasm and excitement."
"I’m just thankful of every day given to me," he tells me in a cheery, thick Brighton accent. "I love life and I’m just thankful for the second chance life’s given me. I’m out to do something I love for a living – I love music and I want to work with music until the day I die. I lost everything when I went into hospital. I just love every day – I’m not sitting in a bank looking at my watch going ‘Come on 6 o’clock, I wanna go home’."
He also loves Australia and its wonderful, beat-lovin’ people. "The people are mental! Not in a bad way, but on the dance floor it’s so good to see people enjoying their music with so much enthusiasm and excitement. Say I’m playing with Sander Kleinenberg, someone playing completely different music to me – in Australia, the same crowd will get as excited for him as for me, whereas in the UK, that wouldn’t happen. If they’re into my sound and Sander went on or vice-versa, they’re all booing. In Australia, they get into both of you; the crowd just adjusts to the sound."
Standing behind the decks in clubs all over the world for 20 years, you get to see some weird shit. "The weirdest thing happened when this guy – must have been off his fucking trolley – he thought that I was standing behind the bar. I was trying to point out the turntables and CD mixers to him, saying ‘Bar’s over there mate’. He started to give some real attitude because I wouldn’t give him a drink, so he picked a fight with me. We had a full-on fight! One thing he didn’t know was that I used to be a professional kick-boxer. He broke a bottle and tried to swing for me - I just had to slap him a few times to let him know who was boss. And I did all this without the record running out!"
Club culture is notoriously decadent. Does it ever bother John that the music he has loved for two decades is just a night on the pills for a lot of people? "Not at all. I would rather be in this club culture than in my local pub full of beer-monsters, cause I think those places (pubs) are genuinely dangerous. If alcohol was in tablet form, it would be illegal. Nine people died of ecstasy related deaths in the UK last year, while 15 people died eating peanuts – that puts it into context doesn’t it?"
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http://www.threedworld.com.au/features/John%2000%20Fleming.htm
Mixing and smashing someone @ the same time... >*

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American composer John Cage on his aesthetic of silence
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