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I had a fun night, nice to be out with friends. It’s been a long time since the whole ‘gang’ has been out together. Tom Clark<\/strong> was good, but I felt much more musically inspired last time he played Mad Racket a couple of years ago. I hardly knew anything Tom Clark<\/strong> played this time. Not much train-spotting to report, I’m pretty sure I heard these…<\/p>\n \nMartin Buttrich<\/strong> – Well Done The last few there may have been played by Jimmi James<\/strong> who stepped up and mixed a few back-to-back towards the end of Tom’s set.<\/p>\n I think there may have been a couple of Phage & Daniel Dreier<\/strong> tracks, and another Gasier<\/strong> track played during Tom’s set as well, can’t remember the exact titles at the moment. I’m sure a lot of what he played was probably new\/forthcoming releases, possibly some from his Highgrade label, he was using mp3s via a Serato Scratch or Final Scratch setup with an Apple notebook.<\/p>\n I personally felt much of what Tom Clark<\/strong> played wasn’t that memorable, not many tracks with hooks. There were only a couple of those ‘wow, what’s this track?’ moments. Not enough melodic elements for me, but it was good dance-floor minimal tech-house\/deep-house grooves. I would have liked some tougher intensity, a splash of techno, a little variety, it was all pretty deep, nothing too challenging. To be bluntly honest I felt a little bored. I probably would have liked DJ T.<\/strong> @ Kink musically better, but was turned off by the venue.<\/p>\n Sydney’s Stick Figures<\/strong> who played live prior were great! They have some great minimal\/tech tracks\/sounds now, and have mostly moved on from all the electro-house\/clash sounds they had last time I saw them, years ago at the Spanish Club. <\/p>\n Jimmi James<\/strong> was the only Mad Racket DJ I got to hear for 10-15 minutes before Stick Figures started up, I liked the tracks he played, nice to hear some more tech\/techno sounds, he loves that Heartthrob<\/strong> – ‘Golum’ track, as do I.<\/p>\n Attendance wise, there were probably half as many people as were at the previous Mad Racket with Claude VonStroke<\/strong>, which made it more comfortable and less hot this time, but I felt a bit of a vibe\/energy lacking from the crowd, a lot of people sitting, and the crowd thinned rapidly after 3am.<\/p>\n For those who missed Tom Clark<\/strong> If you’re up for it, you can catch him again in Sydney this Friday 13th at Bread & Butter @ Ladylux.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.madracket.com.au<\/a> I had a fun night, nice to be out with friends. It’s been a long time since the whole ‘gang’ has been out together. Tom Clark was good, but I felt much more musically inspired last time he played Mad Racket a couple of years ago. I hardly knew anything Tom Clark played this time. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMartin Landsky<\/strong> – Let Me Dance (Sebo K<\/strong> Remix)
\nMatthias Tanzmann<\/strong> – Procon
\nGrindvik<\/strong> – Surface
\nPaul Ritch<\/strong> – Winter Ceremony
\nGaiser<\/strong> – Bukl
\nSamuel L. Session (Feat. Paris The Black Fu)<\/strong> – Can You Relate?
\nFuture Beat Alliance<\/strong> – Remember
\nAudion<\/strong> – I Gave You Away\n<\/p>\n
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\nhttp:\/\/www.myspace.com\/tomclarkhighgrade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"