I hope you all had a fantastic Xmas and fun New Years Eve celebrations. Wishing you all a Happy New Year!
Sydney Harbour Fireworks NYE 2008/2009 By Tracey Nearmy AAP Image
I had great fun celebrating NYE at my home with a few friends, mixing up some choons, washing down tasty tapas Spanish food, with way too many cocktails, Mojito madness! And the trip to Long Island (Iced Tea) almost pushed me over the edge! Then at 2.30am we headed off to the city (scored a taxi no problems) for Spice Afloat a Sydney Harbour cruise/party aboard the MV Lady Rose boat/ship from 3am-10am. Which featured guest UK techno DJ’s Simon Baker and Radio Slave and Future Classic, Lost Baggage and Spice local DJ supports. I had a really fun time! Great music, great crowd. The night/morning is all a bit of a blur to be honest! I’m having trouble remembering some of the great tracks I heard/knew, and danced for hours to. The sun-rise was pretty special, out between the north and south heads, where Sydney Harbour meets the South Pacific Ocean. We were out on the top deck, grooving to the sounds of Simon Baker, cheering the first sun-rise of 2009! Woo!
So, the silly season continues! Here’s what’s on my radar so far, coming up, over January, event and international techno/minimal/deep-tech-house wise in Sydney, not everything is 100% confirmed, things can change etc. More updates soon…
04.01.09 : Carl Craig, Recloose, Radio Slave, A Guy Called Gerald + more @ Days Like This! Festival – Entertainment Quarter
09.01.09 : Jamie Lidell [Live/Band] @ Mad Racket Presents… – The Forum
10.01.09 : Various @ Sydney Festival 2009 – First Night – Sydney CBD
10.01.09 : Mike Monday @ Kink – Nevermind
10.01.09 : Radio Slave, Simon Baker @ Deep As Fu*k Warehouse Party – Secret Location
10.01.09 : Simon Baker @ LadyLux
10.01.09 : Oliver Huntemann, Cicada [Live] @ Switch – The Arthouse
11.01.09 : Simon Baker @ Spice – The Bunker
11.01.09 : Simon Baker @ Little Miss Sundays – LadyLux
23.01.09 : Holy Ghost, Idjut Boys @ Disco Nouveau – Sydney Festival 2009 – Becks Festival Bar
24.01.09 : Claude VonStroke, Christian Martin, Gucci Soundsystem, Unabombers @ Pulse Radio – Yacht Club 002 (Sydney Harbour Cruise) – MV Starship
24.01.09 : Rhythm & Sound (Tikiman), The Bug, Steve Spacek, Mark Pritchard @ Hyper-Dub – Sydney Festival 2009 – Becks Festival Bar
24.01.09 : Mathew Jonson [Live] @ Bread & Butter – LadyLux
25.01.09 : 2000 And One, Ewan Pearson @ Lost Baggage – The Cross
26.01.09 : 2000 And One @ Spice – The Bunker
30.01.09 : Jimpster @ A Reckless Fuss – Civic Underground
31.01.09 : Unabombers @ Bread & Butter – LadyLux
31.01.09 : Paul Woolford @ The Club Club – Chinese Laundry
31.01.09 : Tom Middleton @ Lookin’ Good – The Cross
31.01.09 : Mathew Jonson [Live] @ Deep As Fu*k – The Bunker
So things went a bit crazy at the end of last year, with visiting international techno/minimal/deep-tech-house DJs/live acts partys/events here in Sydney.
I made it out to the ones in red, click them for my blog posts/comments.
Wishing you all a very Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!
Take care over the silly season!
Having some time off work now, I hope to have a chance to write up some more blog posts.
This year has really rushed by me. I would have liked to have posted up a lot more DJ mixes, but I seem to be being very slack on that front.
Quickly, a few things I got out to over the last couple of w/ends…
A Guy Called Gerald – Awesome! He performed a live set for more than three hours out of two laptops, using Reason software. Music was very proto-type, deep, minimal, analogue sounding techno. I loved it, some of the best techno music I’ve heard this year. Quite a variety of sounds/styles. Sounds similar to John Tejada, Joel Mull, Minilogue, Mathew Jonson, Steve Rachmad and early 90’s Detroit techno. Was nice to hear some elements of 808 State (he was a founding member) – Pacific State/Pacific 202, and of his classic track – Voodoo Ray. Some really nice ambient sections as well. I would love to see him play again.
Sammy Dee (Berlin, Perlon) – Friendly guy, nice Berlin style minimal/tech-house tracks! I only recognised a couple. Pitty he only played for just over an hour, before the back to back action with locals took over with all manner of sounds/styles. We didn’t have the time/energy to make it to Spice to see more of him play afterwards. Cool little party with friendly people, made some new friends.
Paco Osuna – Far from tight mixing every so often, bad timing of effects/loops, and not very interesting music (bangin’ techno for the first half, uninspiring minimal later), so I didn’t get much enjoyment out of it myself. Strange, as he was pretty good at the Minus party at Week12End in Berlin, July 2007, an off night for him perhaps? I’m guessing un-serviced vinyl decks are part to blame. Also at the same party… Audiofly (well, one of them) – Great to hear a peak time set of deeper music for a change. Nice minimal/tech-house tracks, a little tribal flavour, knew a few tracks, tight mixing, set didn’t really build towards anything though, but I enjoyed. More fun than the previous Lost Baggage party.
I’m looking forward to buying this Mix CD when it comes out! Check out the track-listing! That’s a lot of music!
Disc 1: Mizuiro Mix
Tadeo – Circunbalation I (Alex Under View)
Mikael Stavöstrand – Stol
Minilogue – In A Distance
Minilogue – Loud
Minilogue – We All
Forss – Journeyman
Yagya – Snowflake 2
Basic Channel – Remake (Basic Reshape)
Basic Channel – Q 1.2
Gel Abril – Your Face Is A Mess (Itamar Sagi Remix)
Ici.eme – Gran-Dii-Ree
Matthias Tanzmann – Rugby
Minilogue – Ghost (Dub)
Heiko Laux – Waves Ahead
Robert Babicz – Enjoy
Prompt – Ambee
Matthias Tanzmann – Keep On (Boris Werner Keep On Truckin’ Mix)
Vitalis Popoff – Lethe 1
Westley Matsell – Diffusion 27
Model 500 – Starlight (Echospace Dub)
Prompt feat. Onuba – Zora
Dub Kult – Crypt (District One Remix)
Julius Papp – Bole Beats
Kenneth Graham – Fire, Water, Machine
William Kouam Djoko – Hard Loving (Acapella)
Johnny D – Déjà Vu
Je Dávu – I Zebra
Dosem – Beach Kisses (Joris Voorn Edit)
Linus Quick – CopyPasteCut (District One Remix)
Cobblestone Jazz – W
Tigerskin – Peter’s Secret Weapon
Solomun – Black Rose (Trickski Remix)
H.O.S.H. & Stimming – Radar
John Thomas, Barbara Goes – Mother’s Dance #2
System 7 / Derrick May – Altitude (Mayday Mix)
The Martian – Star Dancer
Ambivalent – R U OK (Acapella)
Polder – Topdrop
Dubfire – Ribcage
Emmanuel Top – Stress
Silicon Soul – 3am (Balance Beatless Version)
Jerome Sydenham, Tiger Stripes – Elevation (Radio Slave One More Kiss Remix)
Elon – Snorting Pinky (Justin Maxwell Remix B)
Sascha Funke – Mango (Berlin Calling Edit)
Paul Kalkbrenner – Moob
Sascha Funke – The Fortune Cookie Symphony
Goldie – Timeless
Joakim – Peter Pan Over The Bronx
Secede – Born In A Tropical Swamp
Quiet Village – Gold Rush
Sensorama – Aspirin (Global Communication Remix)
Disc 2: Midori Mix
Âme – Doldrums
Imps – Bubble And Squeek
Nick Solé – Children
Les Chocolats – Ride The Beat
Kaoru Inoue – The Secret Field (Todd Terje Remix)
Nova Nova – Prayer
Elitechnique – Electric Evening
Elitechnique – Spectral Escape
Len Faki – My Blackapella
Len Faki – My Synthapella
Prawler – Phat Laces (Harada Remix)
Paul Nazca – Flash
Mood II Swing – Move Me
Prawler – Phat Laces (Harada Remix)
Henrik Schwarz – Leave My Head Alone Brain (Acapella)
Ricardo Villalobos – Easy Lee (Smith n Hack Remix)
Minilogue – Ghost (Dub)
Sean Deason – Psykofuk
Agnès – Daaahhhh
Agnès – Treat Me Bad
Radio Slave – Tantakatan
Blamstrain – A Song For Jonas
The Aloof – Going Home
Christian Smith & John Selway – Illusion (Version)
Yagya – Change
Feline 9 – Heavy
Gegenheimer – Spiritual Love (Acoustic Raw Demo Version)
Kettel – Coddle
Carl Craig – Attitude
Flying Lotus – Brainfeeder
Joris Voorn – Moog Bits
Poni Hoax – Faces In The Water
Joris Voorn – Additional String Bits
Robert Babicz – Dark Flower (Joris Voorn Magnolia Mix)
Joakim – Are You A Vegetarian?
Tantra – A Place Called Tarot (Idjut Boys Re-Edit)
Joakim – Peter Pan Over The Bronx
Leftfield – Rhino’s Prayer (Album Version)
Rhythm & Sound – King In My Empire
Marc Romboy – Elif
Minilogue – Old Water
Markus Dolic – Blood
Martin Landsky – FM Safari (Patrick Chardronnet’s Silent Snake Remix)
Jimpster – The Last Tape
Marcello Giordani – Respect Yourself
Carl Craig – At Les
Innerzone Orchestra – At Les
Radiohead – Nude (Ripperton $9 Mix)
Aphex Twin – Heliosphan
F.U.S.E. – Into The Space
Spinvis – Mare Frigoris
Most of the tracks used have been heavily edited, and according to Voorn, sometimes he “only used the break or the intro.” Speaking about the mix on his MySpace, Voorn said that “the process of making this mix has been more like painting with sound rather than mixing the end of one track with the beginning of another. Working this way has been very interesting for me and made the project into something very different than a conventional DJ mix CD.”
Long-term fans of Voorn won’t be surprised by his approach to the mix, as his FUSE compilation from 2005 saw him use a similar methodology. This time around, however, he’s using a higher frequency of smaller loops to create a sound collage that relies less on the individual tracks themselves. Continuing on his MySpace blog, he added that he “won’t be pleasing everyone with these mixes, some listeners will be happily or uneasily surprised, but at least it’s pushing my own boundaries in a technical, but even more so, in a musical and artistic way.”
He’s playing in Sydney at Kink @ Nevermind on the 7th Februrary 2009!
His set in March 2008 on the MV Lady Rose (Sydney Harbour boat cruise) was one of my fave sets/parties in 2008. I’m looking forward to hearing him play again.
Went to the Global Gathering event on Sunday here in Sydney, held at the Entertainment Quarter in Moore Park, in the Hordern Pavilion, Royal Hall Of Industries, Forum and concrete surrounds.
Kraftwerk. Awesome, once again! Such a unique, minimal, fantastic live show, quite theatrical with the curtain closing/opening during the show to reveal new costumes and robots! Simple, beautiful, pure, electronic music. They were the main (only) reason we went to this event. I never would have thought I’d ever get see them live, and now I’ve seen them twice, very happy!
Starting with ‘The Man-Machine’, also playing ‘The Model’, ‘The Robots’ (performed by actual robot versions of themselves, f**king cool!), ‘Numbers’, ‘Trans-Europe Express’, ‘Radioactivity’, ‘Showroom Dummies’, ‘Computer World’, ‘Computer Love’, ‘Tour De France’, ‘Boing Boom Tschak’, ‘Musique Non Stop’. I got spine tingles from ‘Autobahn’ again. I listened to that album 100’s of times as a kid in the mid-late 1970s, yeah I’m that old! And I think they also played ‘Home Computer’ and/or ‘It’s More Fun To Compute’ and possibly a couple more. They didn’t play ‘Pocket Calculator’ though. Was odd most people stood motionless watching them, those sounds had me moving with a huge grin. Fantastic!
The Orb. Great to finally see them live. I wish I got to see them in the very early 90s when I was really into them though. I used to love chilling out to the ambient, psychedelic sound-scape, dub/dance sounds of their ‘The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld (Deluxe Edition)’ and ‘Aubrey Mixes: The Ultraworld Excursions’ CD albums.
They performed live, four guys on stage, a drummer, a rapper/MC on the mic, and then two other guys (one of them being main man Alex Paterson) behind decks, laptops, synths/controllers etc. A fun mash up of noises, sound-scapes, breaks, deep basslines, and slow techno beats. Starting with a cover of Eminem – ‘Without Me’ which was funny/bizzare. Also heard ‘The Muppet Show’ theme cut up with Electric Six – ‘Gaybar’ over some serious frantic beats, the ‘Star Trek’ theme, a guitar riff from a Pink Floyd song (can’t remember it’s name) floated in and out of the mix. It was really nice to hear their tracks ‘Little Fluffy Clouds’, ‘Perpetual Dawn’, ‘A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld’, and I think ‘Toxygene’ was played as well. I liked! I don’t think much of the crowd had any idea who they were or what to expect, not helped by playing between trance acts.
DJ Sneak. You always know what to expect from him, that same old, jackin’, boompty, old-school, house music, with vibes of hip-hop, with some girly vocals, and splashes of latino piano and percussions. Fun to hear some blasts from the past too, Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You, followed by Daft Punk – Around The World. I had a boogie to his set. Yep, the kids don’t understand rolling house grooves, they can’t dance continuously, they just want to go from big breakdown to build every few minutes, or they lose interest, which they did. The act on before, that went over time, that I’m not even going to name, was such horrible cheese, I expected it was going to be bad, but it was even worse than I thought possible. I’ll tell you where you can shove that tumpet. I can’t believe the kids like that crap.
Fisherspooner. Was one of the guys, not sure if it was Warren Fisher or Casey Spooner, being quite funny on a mic, with female DJ Lauren Flax on CD decks. As expected lots of buzzy, synthy, stonkin’ electro-house sounds were played, tight mix though. They played their track ‘Emerge’ with live vocals, which was cool. They didn’t play ‘Just Let Go’ though, which I would have loved to hear, about the only two Fisherspooner tracks I like/know.
Some un-expected blasts from the past got mixed up during their set, in remix form… Outlander – ‘Vamp’, Reese (Kevin Saunderson) – ‘Rock To The Beat’, also heard Darryl Pandy’s vocals from his and Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk track – ‘Love Can’t Turn You Around’, and another classic female vocal from an early house song I’m having mental blank on, something like ‘Finally’, or ‘We Are Family’. It was all a strange mix of sound/styles but it somehow seemed to work. A bit of an odd warm-up for Kraftwerk though.
Seems to be a big nod to older music happening at the moment.
Heard about 15 minutes of Sasha outside whilst Joanne ate a German sausage (the food that is) in the food area at the back. It’s good to see nothing has changed in the world of plod, sorry prog, with more time without beats than with, or maybe it was just the lack of bass on that outdoor system. Although people in the crowd complained of too much bass, not a well setup system I guess. I don’t think that style of music suited being outdoors in the sun. Heard a bit of Gorillaz Sound System whilst having a sit down in the Hordern Pavilion, I wish I hadn’t, heard them that is. I couldn’t resist asking Joanne a number of times, in my Nigel (Spinal Tap) accent… ‘Is This A Joke?’, they are basically just a bad commercial dance cover band.
It was an ok event, nothing special apart from Kraftwerk and The Orb, but I had fun. I’m glad it wasn’t a sell out event, I think they got maybe 10,000 people, and were expecting double that. So it was pretty easy and quick to get in, get around, get drinks, get in toilets etc. You could tell production costs had been cut, but it didn’t spoil my day or the acts I saw. Any negative thoughts were wiped clear once Kraftwerk started. It was great having them play last, made for a happy exit.
A small turn out, but makes for a much more comfortable night in this venue. I really like the Civic Underground, it’s probably my favourite club in Sydney. Lots of great minimal/house music was played by Matt Aubusson, and French guests Pepperpot and Oliver A for the couple of hours we were there. Infact we heard more excellent music here within 20 minutes than we did our entire night at the last Lost Baggage.
Not well attended, not much vibe, crowd seemed younger than usual for a LB party. Style Of Eye played bangin’ electro-house type stuff, full of massive white noise breaks/builds, which is what I expected, but not really a fan of, he had that room going off though. Shonky was dissapointing, playing unmemorable, pumping, tech-house choons, pushing the mixer beyond it’s limits, making for bad sound. I was hoping to have heard some of his original deep, bleepy, minimal goodness, the sounds that put him on my radar, but it wasn’t to be, left after 45mins, after waiting hours for him to start.
Tom Clark @ Pulse Radio Present… Tom Clark @ Kink – Nevermind : 01.11.2008 : Photo by FriniK from ITM.
Here’s a fantastic, well written review by holzmarktstr 25 (It looks like someone likes Bar 25 in Berlin) on ITM, check it out first then read my thoughts below…
Nevermind is a newly renovated club at 163-169 Oxford Street, in Darlinghurst. There have been a lot of different and separate clubs (and club-nights) upstairs at this spot on Oxford Street over the years; ‘Suzie Q’s’, ‘Havana Club De Luxe’, ‘Mylk Lounge’, ‘Tantra Bar’, ‘Byblos’, and many more. I think this might even have been where the old ‘Zoom’ was in the early 1990’s. Before my time in Sydney, but I have friends who went, shouts to Justin and Murray.
I think 2005 was the last time I went to this venue, it was Suzie Q’s at the time, and I saw The Hacker [Live] & David Carretta [Live] who were both excellent. I also remember seeing James Holden at a Sweet Chilli night there a couple of months earlier, sneaking away from a Chris Liebing party at the Gaelic Club the same night, that was a musical contrast! Liked James Holden’s sounds better.
So, back to Tom Clark @ Kink. This night was co-presented by Internet radio station Pulse Radio. Pulseradio (as it used to be) has some history in this same venue, it’s where their launch party was held, back in 2000, the club was called Tantra at the time. I performed live as TECHiONE that night (photo at bottom of this page). That party was a huge success, the venue reached capacity at 11pm, with a long line of people still wanting to get in left outside. Times have changed huh! I had weekly DJ radio shows on Pulseradio from 2000-2007. It’s under new management now.
So, Nevermind… I was really impressed with how the club is set out and set up. It looks great, feels comfortable. Check out these photos of the renovation work, and how it turned out when completed. Some interesting artwork around the place. A good sized dance-floor space, nice bars, friendly staff. A++ would visit again for sure.
Minimal lighting, but not much needed with the excellent visuals/graphics they have setup in front of, and behind the DJ booth. Finally a club in Sydney, Australia catches up to the ubercoolische looking DJ booths in clubs and at parties in Europe. I imagine it’s a mesh/screen of 1000’s of small red, green, blue LEDs interfaced to a computer, emulating dots on a TV. It’s very impressive, very bright too! It would look even better if they kept those Oxford Street light blocking curtains behind the DJ booth area closed. I mention this because it distracted me. VJ Morph was doing a great job with visuals.
You can see the visuals/graphics in action at Nevermind in these YouTube clips below. Probably best not to take too much notice of the music in these clips. Can’t people clap in time with the music anymore?
So, how’s it sound? They have a Funktion-One sound system, with some satellite speakers around the venue. It’s decent, loud and clear, but not very bass heavy I thought. Not like the massive bass the Funktion-One system had at Mad Racket last time. Actually the volume and bass levels seemed to be up/down the whole night at Nevermind. I’m not sure if that was DJ mixer error, or lack of audio processing, compression/tuning etc. I’m sure they are still working the bugs out of the system, being a new club etc., but it has potential to be awesome.
We got treated to some horrible audio feedback when Tom Clark first started up, using vinyl records, unable to bring the volume level up. It sounded like the turntable needles were feeding back through the system/monitors. I wonder, with the amount of DJs using CDs now in Sydney, it’s quite possible the system was setup and tuned with CDs, and never had vinyl run through it before, I wouldn’t think so, but that’s what it sounded like. Anyway, a laptop was quickly setup, guessing either his or someone else’s Serato/Final/Traktor-Scratch system, the sound/volume was restored, and Tom got things under way.
As far as music… Tom Clark played a lot more darker, tougher, colder sounds than I expected. With him coming out of Berlin’s summer I was perhaps expecting more musical, deep-house style minimal flavours, or maybe that’s just what I wanted to hear, that’s not really his sound though. I’ve seen Tom play in Sydney a few times now, every time he’s been out I think, right back to his first gig at Crunch.
I didn’t know much of what he played on the night, but I liked it. It was fun to dance to, good, solid, minimal, techno/tech-house music. Unfortunately only about 30 people in the club felt the same and actually danced, which probably didn’t encourage him to set the floor on fire. A lot of it sounded like stuff that could be on his Highgrade label, although I didn’t recognise any tracks. I’m sure there was quite a bit of Format:B stuff played. There were no real stand-out moments for me though, where I had a burning desire to ask for track IDs, nothing that memorable. He finished up 30 minutes earlier than his 3 hour set time. I hope his set after at Spice was more appreciated.
The young/new-to-clubbing (I felt old here) ‘trendy’ crowd (see here) that were the majority of the 100-200 people there earlier didn’t seem very interested in the sounds/music, or in being in the club for very long, short attention spans? lack of patience? Probably not happy with the lack of MOS style sounds. The place was pretty much empty by 2.30am just as Tom Clark finished up. I’ve never seen a club empty out like that before, it was quite strange to witness.
I think it’s going to be a real challenge to get an older or music loving/focused crowd back to an Oxford Street club, and to change people’s perception of the Kink brand/sound. I was never a fan of Kink before (I doubt I would have got let into the Arthouse), but I like where they are going with their sound/style now. I’ve heard rumours of some good minimal/techno internationals coming up.
I hope Nevermind succeeds, it just needs to find a good supportive crowd. A lot of thought, time, money and passion has gone into putting this club together, and that deserves to be supported. I look forward to my next visit to Nevermind.
I just wish it wasn’t on Oxford Street, Darlinghurst. It’s a scary place to be out at night on the w/ends now, such an aggressive, ugly vibe. There are packs of ethnic, roided up guys walking around seemingly just looking for, or to cause, trouble! It’s not good. This used to be the funky, trendy, gay friendly ‘place to be’ in Sydney back in the day. It’s sad what it has become now. What happened? Why is there so much violence around now? This happened just up the road, about 30 minutes after getting into the club, I’m glad I missed it!
Deetron @ The Club Club – Chinese Laundry : 25.10.2008 : Photo by Hobietje from ITM.
So, it sadly seems not many Sydney techno people are interested in Deetron anymore. I think there were no more than maybe 8 people in the Cave at Chinese Laundry who knew who he was, and even less who had probably seen him play before amongst the 50 or so people in there whilst I was there. I think everyone was in the other room for DJ Hyper.
I remember Deetron’s first visit to Sydney way back in the early 2000’s, his records got lost in transit, and my record collection was called on to help him out, that was a great night/set!
Unfortunately on this occasion, he pretty much cleared the floor/room with his sounds, starting very deep with the lovelly nu-disco track ‘Afterski’ by Ytre Rymden Dansskola and then working his way through some deep, house, techno, tribal sounds. I just don’t think the usual young Chinese Laundry crowd understood the music, too many deep, rolling house/tribal grooves, not enough (electro-ish) musical hooks for them to mentally grab on to, to keep them interested. I know he’s been heading towards a more soulful house/deep-house sound for quite sometime, taking in disco/nu-disco, jazz, funk influences, but he’s still playing a lot of tribal, bongo, loops, which surprised me. He used them as bridges between melodic tracks, and as layers in the mix to cut against, which is cool, but I felt makes for too much variation in sound intensity and audio quality, especially when going from/to old (thin sounding) vinyl records, new (fat sounding) records and CDs, quite a dynamic range contrast.
I think the problem is with me though. I’m probably now too used to the sound of CDs being used, hearing compressed flat, minimal tracks blended together, with next to no dynamic range being experienced.
It’s worrying there is a whole new wave of kids clubbing now who have probably never heard that style of Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Ben Sims, multi-deck techno mixing, tweeking the EQs, cutting faders, using records as tools and layers, mixing up old classics with new releases, and lots of variations of intensity in a mix. It’s been a long time since any of those guys have played here actually. Plus, most of the punters who would know of those guys and have seen them play in Sydney in the past, probably don’t club much anymore, if at all.
Some track IDing on the night…
Ytre Rymden Dansskola – Afterski Moodymann – I Can’t Kick This Feelin When It Hits Moodymann – Shades Of Jae Chez Damier – Untitled (KMS049) MDIII – The Pressure Cooker (Phil Weeks Remix) Deetron – I Believe Dop – I’m Just A Man Ralph Sliwinnski – Pox Rox (Johnny D Remix) Idjut Boys – Sarbeni Drums Sui Generis – Speaking Terms Aural Distortion – Plasma (Peter Dildo Remix)
I’m guessing this below was played too, I’ve not heard it yet, but I’ve read Deetron is a fan…
Christian Vance – Tiger Snake
Nice tunes, but it just felt like the wrong music for the crowd, and the lack of numbers, lack of understanding and energy/support from the dance-floor didn’t get the best out of Deetron, who does have some amazing skills when fired up, and is a very talented producer.
I was only there for the first hour of his set, so things may have got better later on. I hope so.
I left behind those tribal, funky techno sounds about 5 years ago, and not being a huge fan of old-school house, funk, disco, jazz music, I was probably not going to get that much enjoyment out of this set anyway. I do still buy the odd Deetron production here and there though, I used to buy everything he released in years gone by. Most recently I bought the Henrik Schwarz remix of his “Let’s Get Over It”, which is a really nice track, and I’m usually not a fan of vocals.
I don’t think Deetron would have had a very memorable time this trip to Australia, gig wise. I feel sorry for the guy. A dull gig in Sydney, and I heard due to flight problems he missed his gig in Melbourne on the following Saturday, and his make up show on the Sunday in Melbourne at Ffour was not that well attended, but probably better appreciated than his gig in Sydney. I hope it wasn’t all that bad. Best of luck next time Sam!
My fave band for almost 20 years and I’ve never seen them perform live in the flesh.
I’m not sure if they ever performed in Adelaide South Australia, where I lived before moving to Sydney in late 1994. I think Depeche Mode’s last visit to Australia was in early 1994.
Awesome news! They’re doing a world tour in 2009… Tour Of The Universe! A new album in the works too.
I’m going to see them this time, even if it means travelling OS. I wish I got to see them in the 80’s or 90’s. I wonder if they will ever return to Australia?
