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December 13, 2009
Wow! That was good. Rob's "Birthday Bash With Banging Belgian's" involved us all convening in SW9 before a surprisingly queue free entrance to the Brixton Academy. And we were right up the front, great lights, so loud my ears are still ringing 14 hours later and some top tunes.
I can't believe I've not seen Soulwax live before. Augmenting the synth set up with bass and drums they rocked like a proper band but without any guitar solos! Shame they seemed to be over so soon and went straight to Erol Alkan instead of doing an encore[s]. I liked what Erol was playing but his DJing seemed sloppy, trying to do too much with the mixer and generally making a mess of it if you ask me. Maybe he was having a bad [or too good] night.
But it wasn't long before 2 Many DJs were on mashing up classics of all genres with their bizarre animated album covers, just in case you don't know what they are playing. I enjoyed them more than last time,probably for being down the front and sweating it out a bit. it was all good up until "Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time". There's no excuse for that, not even Christmas!
I seem to be alone in not really liking Mixhell who came on afterwards and were all a bit "Look At Me" and had some irritating unnecessary drumalongs. I might have liked them more if they were on earlier in the night maybe. I'd seen what I came for and had probably just had enough by then. I have no idea who was playing before Soulwax came on though.
Why can't DJs just find enough good tunes for a whole set? I suspect that they just aren't written now as fewer DJs play tunes in their entirety any more. Since the popularity of mixers with looping abilities and effects and laptop DJ-ing I suspect that less and less of a whole tune has ended up in any DJ mix, unless its on some dire Ministry Of Sound album or something. So, why bother writing them? Personally I'm not really entertained by by someones ability to punch buttons in time! It doesn't necessarily give you the talent to build a decent tune out of the component parts.
Still it was top night out and hopefully Rob had a good birthday and the Brighton crew didn't have to wait to long for their ride back to the sea. Sam and I got back in no time and were tucked up in bed by 5.30 this morning. It was almost dark again by the time we got up though and I have all manner off aches and pains today, so it must have been good. It had been a long day as we had been over to Walton for a Chinese lunch with Viv, Lucy and Mark, before popping back to see Lucy & Mark's new house in the afternoon. So it was a mad dash back to Brixton for the evening.
Other than that it has been a comparatively quiet week. Although we did queue inthe cold on Friday night to get our copy of the new Anish Kapoor monograph signed at the Phaidon pop-up book shop in Piccadilly. I did get a rough mix of a new[ish] tune, Ostranenie up at SoundCloud and write a couple for posts for my Posterous Blog at stevewilde.com and far too many drinks with Kev on Tuesday.
get yourselves over to the SoundCloud page and leave me some comments on the tune before I finish it. There's another tune coming
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