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The "talk about your last night out" thread (pg. 16)
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| quote: | Originally posted by ucforange
Agree that Burridge is amazing but uhhh, he's been doing this since the early 90s. Him and Sven are basically peers. |
You know him better than me. I only started listening to him in the last couple years :) |
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| corjay9 |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I guess I didn't think of Robag Wruhme as being a substantially bigger name than Alex Niggemann, but I always find it hard to measure up the relative popularity of DJs at this level. |
He isn't much bigger, granted.. but Robag's got his following. Generally the event poster will let you know what the line up will be.
It does suck though when a bunch of varied DJs are billed together as a lot of the time, unless they know each other well, the vibe and flow of the party tends to suck.
Im going to see Jay Daniel spin tonight.. Detroit house all night at my favorite hole in the wall club. The sound isn't great but the crowd is knowledgable, drinks are cheap and the vibe is always great. |
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| Lews |
Regardless of how well-known Wruhme may or may not be, he should know not to do what he did. As Jack said, he completely killed the vibe. The floor became much sparser and the energy level of those remaining was dramatically decreased. And then he just kept at it, for his whole set. Absolute rubbish.
Shame, because Niggemann was fantastic, and so was Mayer. Extrawelt was enjoyable, at least for me, but definitely not as energetic as perhaps may have been desired. |
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| corjay9 |
Robag will never play Niggemann's style of tech house though.. if anything, Niggemann should have warmed up better. I can only imagine the drop in energy between the 2. I love a lot of Robag's productions, but I understand why you guys felt that way.
So Jay Daniel last night, Detroit native who's Kyle Hall's good friend.. opener was pretty good, dope tracks being played.. but Jay Daniel started off real flat. I dunno if it was the records he was playing were old and used up, or he dropped the volume way down but he was struggling to find his groove and get the crowd fully engaged. He eventually picked it up though, the sound was much better, his set was starting to flow real good, then.. for about 20 minutes he played some 90s NY style hip hop, think Mobb Deep type dirty dusty beats. Was amazing how he transitioned from melodic house and just pitched it down into this nasty crackling hip hop beat. Too bad it was 100 degrees in there, I couldn't handle it and had to take many breaks from the dance floor. |
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| Woony |
Saw Digital Mystikz (Mala, Coki with Sgt. Pokes MCing) last night at a party called Wax Treatment. It's held by the Hard Wax since around 2008 or 2009, I think, on a an actual actual reggae soundsystem. The party has been held outdoors for the last couple of years but due to the heavy storm in europe yesterday it was moved to Chesters, which is basically a pub with a rather small dancefloor. Berghain Resident Fiedel did the warmup with a wild mix of ragge, dancehall and breakbeat techno. Then Mark Ernestus played a bunch dancehall (from a laptop without any transition, curiously). Then DJ Pete with some fairly minimal, wobbly dubstep. When DMZ came on around 1am, the place was packed with sauna like temperatures and air humidity. It was quite fitting however, since people were totally ready for this music. Sgt. Pokes did a short intro and from there, people were freaking out for every drop. At one part, Mala's needle skipped and
Mala and Coki each did about 3-4 tracks, alternating, fairly rapidly mixed of course. I was pretty fascinated seeing this style of drop/cut based, MC-powered DJing live that's completely different from the usual continental, techno/house based DJing. Mala started out like expected, very sparse, minimal, hypnotic tracks. Coki in the beginning played some of his more dub-leaning tracks (damn, these sounded heavy!), getting progressively noisy-er throughout the set, dropping 'Spongebob' near the end. I don't think that kind of stuff has aged particularily well, but does work a crowd, so I don't know. Mala near the end dropped a lot of minimal halfstep tracks with grime-ish vocals on top, which was new to me, might be development of the past few years. Of course, this year being the 10th anniversary of DMZ, they dropped a whole bunch of classics (prompting a huge crowd reaction each time), I remember hearing Haunted, Changes, Lean Fwd and of course Anti War Dub. People seemed to know all these tracks so I was seriously wondering if 50% of the crowd was british or all of Berlin's DMZ fans came together that night.
I had my big dubstep phase when I was 16/17, so finally hearing this music now, five years later, the way it is supposed to be heard was a bit of revelation to me. I've heard some dubstep played on the berghain system before, but on a dedicated system it's an entirely different thing, the way dubstep and especially reggae are constructed suddenly makes so much more sense. |
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| lacksesepsotygh |
I just got back after spending around 3 weeks in Berlin and Amsterdam. Went out most
nights, but it still feels like too few.. In order:
Tresor
About Blank
Arenaclub
Woony Bday Bash (non-RA event), Humboldthain, Berghain/Panorama Bar
Berghain/Panorama Bar
Kit Kat Club
Ava
About Blank
Zur Wilden Renate, Tresor
Hardwax Wax Treatment, Berghain/Panorama Bar
Berghain/Panorama Bar, R19
Dekmantel Festival, Dekmantel Night
Dekmantel Festival, Katharsis
Dekmantel Festival, Dekmantel Night
It's hard to summmarize the whole trip, since it just fel like one night lasting for 3 weeks.
Most positive (Berlin): Kobosil at Berghain, 138 at About Blank, Ben Sims at Tresor, Digital
Mystikz at Hardwax Wax Treatment, cheap lodging, cheap tasteless german lager beer, unidentifiable
turkish candy, and delicious döner. And of course Woony gaining 1 year of wisdom.
Most positive (Amsterdam): Andy Stott at Dekmantel Night, Squarepusher at Dekmantel, Paula Temple
at Katharsis, Rodhad at Dekmantel.
Most negative (Berlin): Didn't get in to about blank the first night. My friend was accused of using
a fake stamp at Berghain our last sunday there.
Kit Kat Club was an odd one as well. Went on a monday, which isn't supposed to be a fetish night.
You still had dancefloor wankers in every corner. Fat guys with limp dicks in their hands staring
at both men and women while jacking it. I have no idea what kind of music they played. I was too busy
keeping a distance from streams of ejaculation.
Also, Ava Club sucks. Terrible place. Don't go there.
Most negative (Amsterdam): Toilet wristbands/stamps(??) to be able to take a piss. It's like this everywhere.
Why not just charge 1 EUR more upon entry? Bons/tokens/whatever you call it to be able to buy drinks. Terrible
system. Insane price for lodging (1500 EUR+ for 1 week, 3 people). |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Last week I was at a house party and got chatting to some guys who turned out to be DJs. As well as discussing our mutual love of Andrew Weatherall they invited me to a free night they were putting on this weekend at Distrikt. Distrikt is probably Leeds' only dedicated dance music bar. In fact, it's the only place in the city you can go to any Friday or Saturday night and find a DJ playing good music and a floor of people always dancing. Although it's a tiny basement bar (maybe 150 capacity) and entrance is always free, they've managed to book some serious names there, people like Derrick Carter, Green Velvet, DJ Food, etc.
I very nearly didn't go out last night because I've injured my knee playing football and walking to the shops yesterday was an exercise in agony. The knee recovered though and I'm glad it did, because the night was off the chart. The guys I'd been chatting to played a four hour set of slow-as-hell disco-house-funk grooves which was great in itself, but then they handed over to two guys called JammHot. I've never heard of them before but they absolutely smashed it out of the park. People were dancing on tables, jumping around - it was like being a club at peak time, not a bar that's supposed to shut at 2.00am. They were playing disco-ish house but they were really rinsing the energy out of every tune. They also dropped some stone cold classics - Moodymann, Gat Decor, Everything But The Girl and (early) Daft Punk stand out in my mind. The place stopped serving at 2.00am but they carried on for another half hour and the bouncers had to throw everyone out to close the place.
It was one of the best sets I've heard all year, and one of the best nights of dancing I've had, and I was pretty much sober - I only had two or three drinks all evening. Just goes to show you never know when and where the best nights out will come from. |
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| lockedgroove |
| never stop going out, SYSTEM-J. I always enjoy reading your accounts of the night. |
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| enydo |
SYSTEM-J is one of the only reasons I still glance at this site.  |
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| weidenkind |
Hydra/Blueprint party at Studio Spaces in London on Bank Holiday sunday: huge techno lineup, with hood, ruskin, mills and rodhead playing in the warehouse.
top notch event, only let down by the insane heat. can only recommend this series as they really put an effort into it.
left halfway through mills' set unfortunately as I was knackered and his first hour was a bit dull, but heard great things about rodhead closing. shame he only started at 8am... |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by lockedgroove
never stop going out, SYSTEM-J. I always enjoy reading your accounts of the night. |
You're making me blush.
Had a solid but unspectacular night at Back To Basics on Saturday. A 7/10 kind of night: no terrible tunes or boring sets, but not quite enough great moments either. Adam Shelton was the guest DJ along with a couple of the residents. It was pretty much all tough, percussive, retro-flavoured house throughout the night, but what was missing for me was a few more skin-tingling lush moments to go along with the tough beats. We stayed until 5.30am and could probably have seen things out, but Tristan Da Cunha's closing set kept oscillating randomly between filler and decent tunes, so every five minutes it was "Shall we go? Oh wait, this new tune is pretty good. Let's give it ten minutes."
One thing I noticed was that the levels seemed to be all over the place for Shelton and Tristan's sets. I know some tunes are just much better produced or mastered than others (especially if you're playing ancient tracks next to modern ones) but there didn't seem to be any effort to match the levels. At times it felt oddly quiet and then a real ear-splitting beat would come in a few minutes later. Weird. |
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| Woony |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
every five minutes it was "Shall we go? Oh wait, this new tune is pretty good. Let's give it ten minutes." |
I swear, DJs have the telepathic sense to play something good every time you're about leave, even if the last three hours were straight garbage.
As for my weekend, this guy from London, Roberto, played an absolutely sublime afternoon set yesterday. Very restrained, not too banging, four hours of fantastic deep, groovy, diverse techno. I really can't emphasize enough on how much balls it takes to play that restrained over four hours in that room. Even most of the residents will start dropping 130bpm bigroom bangers by 3pm. I also shazamed some fantastic sounding cuts that he dropped and later at home they all sounded too dull or deep to really be club material, which also is a sign for masterlcass DJIng, I think. Super impressed, one of my sets of the year so far. |
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