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Put the Needle on the Record: Austin: Glaude, Feelgood, Collins, D:Fuse
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| tmft |
What's happened in Austin? I haven't posted in a while, so I'll do a massive quick review in reverse chrono order.
Put the Needle on the Record: 2004 movie reviewing the state of Electronica, centering around WMC 2003 & spiralling out from there. Good movie, it dragged at times, even for 88 minutes. Lots of T & A shots (Many, many, many T & A shots). Ample Quotage from local A-Town DJ, D:Fuse. Worth seeing, especially if you pay $1 for Monday night at the Drafthouse. Also really, really made me excited about Miami WMC 2006!!
Donald Glaude, Red 7, Saturday 21st. What a great show. Red 7's first show--good sound system, excellent layout. The 2 stages, (outdoor & indoor) have no sound bleedthrough. People were dancing outside in the 51 degree rain, but I was inside dancing my ass over as Glaude dropped the heat.
Go-go dancers wearing short skirts. Me to my friend C: ohmygod, look a t how short her skirt is, is she wearing underwear???
C to me: I actually like a little longer skirt.
Me to C: that skirt cannot be any shorter.
Glaude played til the cops shut the place down at 2:40. Show rating: B+. (minuses for the bathroom being broken)
Feelgood, Karma, Thursday 19th. I loved Feelgood when he came to Sky in November. The sound system at Karma was terrible that night (muddy, muddy, muddy), & Feelgood was not making me Feel Good. Quite a pity as I was very excited about the show. I'll see Feelgood if he comes to Austin again. If I'd come from out of town, I would have been VERY disappointed--he didn't start til 1, despite the flyers saying 12:30 & it being a school night. Plus Karma was too full of shiny 19 year olds who didn't care about the music.
Show rating: C-
Sandra Collins, Vue, Saturday 14th. I stayed in town to see this, & it was worth it, despite Sandy starting an hour late. Vue is always a good place for a show, & Collins rocked. I loved "Edge of Seventeen".
D:Fuse, Vue, New Years Eve. NYE is always amateur night, & this was super amateur night, "LETS GET BOMBED". My sister was visiting from Boston, which also put a certain damper & no fun zone on the evening. I had to wait 35 minutes just to get A drink.
My sister at 11:15 pm: It's past midnight in Boston, can I leave now?
Me: No
My sister at 11:40: Everyone looks the same in Austin--same striped shirt on the guys, same hair on the girls.
Me: & everyone is an individual unique snowflake in Boston??
My sister at 11:55: How many people do you think are actually having fun here?
Me: between 20-80%
My sister at 12:20 pm: 2 guys walked up & kissed me on the cheek. They looked the same. I'm leaving.
After the NFZ left, D:Fuse came on & played a good set. However, the crowd was way drunk & more about being drunk then listening to music.
Show: B-
The interesting thing about "Put the Needle on the Record" was it was covering "the scene", & 3 of the DJs extensively quoted (DFuse, Feelgood, Glaude) had all come through Austin within the month. |
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| Matthias |
| quote: | Originally posted by tmft
Feelgood, Karma, Thursday 19th. I loved Feelgood when he came to Sky in November. The sound system at Karma was terrible that night (muddy, muddy, muddy), & Feelgood was not making me Feel Good. Quite a pity as I was very excited about the show. I'll see Feelgood if he comes to Austin again. If I'd come from out of town, I would have been VERY disappointed--he didn't start til 1, despite the flyers saying 12:30 & it being a school night. Plus Karma was too full of shiny 19 year olds who didn't care about the music.
Show rating: C- |
I had to cancel on the gig due to lack of sleep, exhaustion from work. Though reading this makes me feel alot better about my final decision. I have alot of respect for Feelgood and enjoy his work, but playing over a muddy system to an indifferent crowd isn't something that I would wish to make a hour round trip for. I wasn;t too happy with Karma's system when I played there NYE and when the resident DJ came back after an hour into the set wanting to get back on I was like "whatever..have fun lol" |
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| Matthew D |
| damn ... :( that story es no bueno |
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| MERiDiAN5i2 |
| quote: | Originally posted by tmft
My sister at 11:40: Everyone looks the same in Austin--same striped shirt on the guys, same hair on the girls.
Me: & everyone is an individual unique snowflake in Boston??
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people in austin ARE boring compared to the boston crowd... too many yuppies and clueless conformists, college kiddies, fashion whores, etc etc.. |
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| Dirk W. |
| quote: | Originally posted by MERiDiAN5i2
people in austin ARE boring compared to the boston crowd... too many yuppies and clueless conformists, college kiddies, fashion whores, etc etc.. |
oh god. please let me stay nice, dont use the word conformist....
i have to start laughing at phrases like that, which in turn, causes me to laugh at people like you and then everybody gets their panties in a wad and i get grounded for a week. |
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| Slow Motion |
This is my opinion.
Hmmmmmmm... Going to the "shows" and not searching for the music seems to be the major prob in Austin. When people start calling my gigs "shows", I will retire for DJing. You are going to the wrong places to hear the wrong DJs.
On Friday the 20, we had Proton Sessions at Barcelona. Toddy B opened and I played from about 12:15 till 2:30am. We had over 200 people and it was by far the best gig I've played in Austin to date (and I lived their for 7 years). People were going off to tracks that I thought were pushing the edge... Perfect environment to experiment with new sounds.
Sure, you can go hear "the Big Names" at some "show" or you can get down to something a little more sophisticated and underground. Much respect to what many of those guys did 5 years ago. But, it sounds the same to me.... just banging tracks. No wonder it draws the kids. I don't believe in going through the motions.... I believe in making you shake your ass while educating on some of the lesser heard styles. The masses go for the "Name"... the Heads go for the MUSIC.
Proton Sessions brings you cutting edge music from up and coming DJs and artists. The big guys can't even get the tunes that get dropped at these events, b/c WE DON'T GIVE THEM to the "Big Guys".
We are the future... stop looking at the past. Ahead of you is where all the excitement is :) Wouldn't you agree?
-LC |
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| Dirk W. |
| lance, youre okay in my book :) |
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| tmft |
Hi Lance-
I wanted to make the Barcelona show, but was in bed by 9:30 pm on Friday (long week at work).
I've heard your Proton sets & liked them.
I've always called listening to live music a "show" ever since my first (seeing Cure on the Wish tour back in '92). I meant no disrespect, to me "I'm going to see Lance's Gig" sounds utterly unnatural, & "I'm going to Lance's Show" rolls off the tongue.
My post was my opinion on the shows (gigs??) I've been to lately.
I hope to make it to your next time at Barcelona- |
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| Slow Motion |
Fair enough... and thanks for the compliment. I was not trying to call you out in any way (or your opinion), but your reviews brought these thoughts up in my mind. So, thanks for your understanding.
And I look forward to seeing you at a Sessions sometime soon :)
-Lance
ps thanks Dirk ;) |
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| DJ Cubano |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slow Motion
This is my opinion.
Hmmmmmmm... Going to the "shows" and not searching for the music seems to be the major prob in Austin. When people start calling my gigs "shows", I will retire for DJing. You are going to the wrong places to hear the wrong DJs.
On Friday the 20, we had Proton Sessions at Barcelona. Toddy B opened and I played from about 12:15 till 2:30am. We had over 200 people and it was by far the best gig I've played in Austin to date (and I lived their for 7 years). People were going off to tracks that I thought were pushing the edge... Perfect environment to experiment with new sounds.
Sure, you can go hear "the Big Names" at some "show" or you can get down to something a little more sophisticated and underground. Much respect to what many of those guys did 5 years ago. But, it sounds the same to me.... just banging tracks. No wonder it draws the kids. I don't believe in going through the motions.... I believe in making you shake your ass while educating on some of the lesser heard styles. The masses go for the "Name"... the Heads go for the MUSIC.
Proton Sessions brings you cutting edge music from up and coming DJs and artists. The big guys can't even get the tunes that get dropped at these events, b/c WE DON'T GIVE THEM to the "Big Guys".
We are the future... stop looking at the past. Ahead of you is where all the excitement is :) Wouldn't you agree?
-LC |
So I need to forward new tunage to you then ;)? |
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| Slow Motion |
Bring on the tunes man.
I'm doing another comopilation for proton radio due out in the late spring.
So, with that being said upload away or shoot it over on yousendit.com
70.128.165.185 port21
UN: lccd
PW: protonradio
Take care
-Lance |
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| racing4hoes |
I was here at the proton session along with all the other "shows"
that tmft wrote about sans the movie. I must admit I was dancing my arse off to your style on Friday and as I already previously mentioned I brought two new cats into your sound on that night. I love going to the "events" to hear good music, unwind from the normal, get my stuff autographed, and meet new people. As long as Im into the music I could care less about who shows up for the event. Wait, I take that back because I can go off on some of these events where 2/3 of the people there dont know wtf is going on but just show up. Thanks for signing my afterhours flyer and I wish I could hear what Toddy was telling you when he was pointing at me as you were signing the flyer :whip: :clown:
-ryan |
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