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Review: EXPOSED w/ Luke Morrison
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| Jeff Button |
So I know, I am a part of this weekly event and some might take this as a lame spam offering, but whatever....... review time.
Once again Gregor (from bringthebeats) booked an artist who prior to the event I had never even heard of. I thought my knowledge of the scene, music, and dj's overall was pretty good - but this guy just knows how to dig for the undiscovered (very much like Carey did for Boa, Sonic - but more on the progressive tip).
Luke Morrison, who resides in Edmonton, has been running out west and in the process has developed a sound that he can truly call his own. I learned tonight that not only is he 25 years of age, but he's also knee deep in his academics, law school at that. Apparently him and Brad Copeland have had some pretty insane nights together both in Alberta and Ontario, and tonight proved to hold true to that trend.
I was slotted to play the opening slot once again for this night, and I couldn't be happier with the role I have been given. Theres nothing more rewarding for me than to lay down a proper set, and have the headliner thank me for setting the table for him to do his thing. I had picked up a lot of nice groovy techy gems, and just wanted to set a constant pace to build some momentum for Luke and Brad to take over and deliver the goods. At around 12:30, I dropped my last track, and Brad and Luke took over to unleash a gem of a back to back session.
Brad started things out as he usually does - steady, pumping prog, that instantly got the crowd moving. No longer than two tracks in, Luke plugs in his headphones and drops two of his own. This continued for a good hour or so, just constantly feeding off of each others tracks - all keeping a constant flow throughout, and had the crowd drooling the entire time. The thing I liked best about the chemistry between these two was the fact that they played the crowd to a tee. When it seemed the crowd was slowing down, a melodic track would be dropped. When it the crowd was ready for something a bit more pumping - one of them would answer the call. The back to back set was the most consistent display of a tag team set I have seen live. Seriously.
Place thinned out pretty good towards the end of the night, and with a solid group of 'heads' remaining, Luke played an encore - and the crowd responded with a warm applause of approval. A lot of people said it reminded them of Sonic, there were also quite a few people who said it reminded them of System. For me, it reminded me that there is still a large demand for this genre in the city, and that this will be a night were people will come to expect this type of quality.
Sorry for the extended write up, but it's pretty rare these days that I feel an event is worthy of this type of review. There were several TA's in attendance for this who I'm sure will agree with me.
The music for the entire night was recorded, and once previewed by the dj's we will decide whether it will be released. If it is, I'll post it in this thread. Also, I took some pretty great videos as well which I will post up too.
Good seeing Eug, Del, Ari, Sasha, tyson, daves, dan88, vickyvale (longtime!!) and forgive me if I have forgot to mention you. I hit the vodka soda's hard tonight. Still buzzing large. Thank you for all who came out, and I look forward to the next bringthebeats installment with Ricky Ryan on October 5th.
Good night :) |
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| _EuG_ |
Thanx for the hook ups jeff !!!
It was a sick party... i cant wait to do a crazy party at this club. This place definatly has lots of potential. Lexicon Avenue is gonna be sick at that venue. I love how you get a stemp and it allows you to go in and out of the venue, you get hungry and you can go across to dominon for a snack :toothless , its sort of like beba but a lot more hardcore.
Music was great all night. I wasnt inside the entire time so i cant comment on the flow of the set, but for the time that i was on the dancefloor, there wasnt a moment that i was standing still. The smooth proggy goodness was like cottone candy in my ears :gsmile: . Even when i sat on stage to just chill out, i couldnt resist and had to move my hands and body to the beat. |
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| musicsnob_NOT |
I decided to check it out last minute with a friend. Got there pretty early and the place was pretty empty but it filled up nicely later on, although I wouldn't call it busy.
I have always thought the Mod Club would make a great spot for our scene and it is amazing (although I hate getting to it). Music was very good, and the crowd was having fun...what more can you ask for.
Don't know how busy it has been the last few weeks but I know I plan on going there more when I get back from Europe.
Hope the DJ's approve of the recordings...looking forward to them. |
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| CraveTheRave |
| Luke is a good friend of mine and I know how talented he is. Glad to see that he's getting it done out east and making a name for himself there. Good to hear you guys enjoyed the party. |
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| psyrel |
My 1st time at an Exposed party (but being in Trinidad on the beach made up for that) and I was curious to see how Mod Club would work with a dj setup as my previous times there it's always been for concerts. The stage setup does make it difficult to feel close to the djs and the light setup does have that "bow to us mere mortals" effect happening esp. at the very end (holy yellow light).
But ok, the music. Got there shortly before midnight to find a comfortable sized crowd and Jeff playing to the masses. Good energy to his set and he got the crowd nicely warmed up. What I like about here (and most College St places) is that it's very informal, some people are dancing, others chatting at the bar or just sitting down and relaxing.
Brad and Luke were so much fun, they worked together in such a complementary fashion. Brad knows how to do the monster beats and lay it down proper for the dancing fans and I was rather impressed with Luke's wide musical scope. I left to use the washroom at one point exiting the room on a somewhat glitchy trancey track and walked back in to some tribal sounds. All in all, I can probably sum up their duo as being "all over the place BUT in such a fun, good way".
Cheers to all at Exposed and the BTB crew! |
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