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Paul Oakenfold @ Aria saturday June 29!! (pg. 3)
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| elkhedewi |
my friends emailed aria and were told he's spinning from 3-5am...
which is it Biggy?
3-5 is def cooler |
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| RealJazz |
| I'd prefer it was 4-6. I don't plan on getting there til 3:30 or so. Are the lineups bad at this time?? We have tickets. |
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| SpoutnicK |
Prior to his Ibiza trip, Paul had been running a successful soul/jazz night at The Project in Streatham. On his return from the white island he persuaded the owner to let him run an after-hours ‘Ibiza reunion’ party. An attempt at a Balearic music policy had failed Paul one year earlier: the crowd just hadn’t been ready to hear so many musical styles mixed together in one night, let alone in one DJ’s set, but by 1987, and coupled with Paul’s sheer enthusiasm and showman’s talent for setting a musical mood, attitudes were changing. The night was a complete success, and led to what was to be – alongside Danny Rampling’s Shoom – one of London’s, and England’s, first major acid house nights: Spectrum at Heaven in Charing Cross.
Spectrum grew out of Future, a night held in The Sanctuary, which annexed the much bigger Heaven club. Many never thought Spectrum (suitably subtitled ‘Theatre Of Madness’) would succeed: a 1500+ capacity club on a Monday night? Forget about it. And at first they looked to be right. For the first few weeks, attendance was low, leaving Paul and co-promoter Ian St Paul in dire financial straits. Then, suddenly, the vibe was out and the queues were literally going around the block. And a new phase in club culture had begun.
Spectrum continued for a couple of years, changing its name along the way to Land Of Oz. New initiates to the scene (as almost everybody was) marvelled at the full-on atmosphere of the place: hands reaching up into the sweat hazed air, laser lights pulsing and washing over the smiling crowd. Alex Paterson (later of The Orb) DJed in the VIP chillout area (the White Room), while Paul created his now trademark fervour in the cavernous main room.
Alongside running a seminal club night, Paul’s production career had also begun by 1988 under the name Electra, working with long-time collaborator Steve Osborne. By 1990, with his work on The Happy Mondays’ frugadelic Wrote For Luck and then Hallelujah (on the Madchester Rave On EP), Paul had created two of the cornerstone records of the indie-dance scene, a hybrid that demystified acid house for kids who’d been raised on a musical diet of guitar, bass, and drums. Paul was one of the guest DJs at The Stone Roses’ legendary Spike Island gig, and his work with Osborne on The Happy Mondays’ classic Pills, Thrills And Bellyaches LP (NME’s 1990 Album Of The Year) won the pair the 1991 Brit Award for Best Producer.
Remix galore followed, for Mondays labelmates New Order; Massive Attack; The Shamen, and Arrested Development among others, as Paul and Steve began trading under the name Perfecto. If the name was little known at first that soon changed with the 1992 Perfecto mix of U2’s Even Better Than The Real Thing. The track, with delicious irony, attained a higher chart position on release than the original song, thus signalling a watershed in the history and growth of dance music. |
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| mastercongo |
| quote: | Originally posted by RealJazz
I'd prefer it was 4-6. I don't plan on getting there til 3:30 or so. Are the lineups bad at this time?? We have tickets. |
with tickets there is no lineup ;) |
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| TechnoFreak |
| quote: | Originally posted by TechnoFreak
So what's the nights schedule... who's playing when? |
No one answered my question... Biggy, who's playing when??
Thanks |
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| Biggy |
12h00 to 2h30 Nic B
2h30 to 5h00 PAUL OAKENFOLD
5h00 to 7h30 One
7h30 to 10h00 Maus |
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| moose1111 |
Why is Oakie playing so early?
and who is One? |
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| DJHappy |
| It's safer, plenty of time to go to the airport after in case they forgot to give him a ride :tongue3 |
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| moose1111 |
lol!
It defintly makes my Howells vs Oakie decision a lot easier!!
Howells for 3 hours plus Behrouz... vs... Oakie for 2:30 hrs too early in the night..
No comparison there! |
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| Czaoth |
| awesome oakie's set is extended 30 minutes :happy2: :happy2: :happy2: |
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| ahlamalek |
| it isn't extended, it got moved 30 mins earlier... |
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| Czaoth |
how so? it went from 4-6 to 3-5 and now 2.30 to 5.00
that looks extended to me... |
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