Live in the Boiler Room

selection getting so deep and broad i think it deserves its own s/d. i'll start with one i keep returning to from late last year, mr. g. so thrilling to watch him get DOWN. jammin the mpc and mixer.

http://boilerroom.tv/mr-g-live-in-the-boiler_room/

faves? anyone been there? what is it like?

they've have some v good online streams

was listening to the Blawan one today. haven't heard any others to compare it with, but it sounds like Blawan if you can imagine that.

Big fan of the Kassem Mosse one from a while back.

Nina Kravitz was banging out the acid trax last night....very nice. Any sign of a recording of Ben UFO's epic 4-hour set?

so many. love seeing the l.a. ones with low end theory crew.

is it a club situation? or just a room with shit set up and 20 (or less often, looks like) people standing around?

definitely the latter

It's more like one or two hundred (at least ime). I've been to a couple of boiler room parties but I never watch them bc I hate streaming.

But yeah, the ones I went to were just in some random loft, not a club.

my favorites are quite old now - actress, the hessle audio takeover (#47) and the rustie warp takeover one

the Sydney one was in a real club, but that club used to be the basement of a Spanish restaurant's kitchen, so

So is this a generic name that can be applied to shows all over the world? Kinda baffled by the concept but I really dug the SND set somebody posted on their thread:

SND. anyone like them?

It's the people who run it that make it the Boiler Room, not the location.

Bicep from last summer. Similar tracklist to their Fader mix, which I also recommend to anyone who likes that kind of thing.

dixon and ame from last year.

Daniel Avery Boiler Room set is amazing but short.

dixon and ame from last year.

― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Thursday, 21 February 2013 23:21 (Yesterday) Permalink

YES.

"The bell has been silent... for much too long..."

It's the people who run it that make it the Boiler Room, not the location.

yeah the Peanut Butter Wolf one was at his house! the 12-hour set on 12/12/12. I watched that one (well a couple hours of it). And the Optimo / Move D was cool (with the Barnt track that everyone freaked out over), linked in the Optimo thread I think.

I've been to a couple of boiler room parties

how do they do the invites? just curious. on their website it's like DON'T EMAIL US FOR TICKETS YOU CAN'T COME.

oh yeah and the Tim Sweeney one from November was good

I've been to a couple as well. Invites were through the venue owner for me and my friends. Very limited though. Room seemed to be 1/4 full and they weren't letting anyone else in. Good vibe but awkward setup. DJ with back to the crowd, crowd all facing Djs back. Very strange.

my faves are:
nina kraviz from last year. slow burning techno which is just my kinda thing.
prosumer
craig richards
move d
optimo n move d

DJ with back to the crowd, crowd all facing Djs back. Very strange.

it's all for the camera, right?

funny, it never really occurred to me how weird it would feel to be in the room and look at the backs of the performers.

the dixon and ame is prob the best dj set of last year, imo.

I listen to the kassem mosse one all the time and marcel dettmann is very cool too.

there was a tune on the ame & dixon one (at 35 mins) that i've been trying to id for a while. i heard it a few years ago and shazamed it and got this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP18OuIazKA

but a set list for the ame & dixon boiler room id's it as this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twDDBUi1w3c

but in the youtube comments there are ppl saying this sounds identical to this track;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVaAN6HImHU

ridiculous really...

is this people ripping off each other's track or something? or just a dixon edit of one of the above?

yeah those 3 tracks sound extremely similar..some ripping off must have occurred. idk which one dixon played

how do they do the invites? just curious. on their website it's like DON'T EMAIL US FOR TICKETS YOU CAN'T COME.

― dmr, Thursday, February 21, 2013 6:45 PM Bookmark

You have to be on their list. For me, it was just a matter of knowing the right people.

brotherlovesdub, were the ones you went to the ones run during decibel this fall? I guess those were a bit more crowded than your description, but if so, we missed each other.

yes, I was there for those Boiler Room at Substantial events. I suppose maybe half full? Still seemed like they could have fit another 50-100 people in there without much of an issue.

That three track soundalike thing is weird. And none of them sound quite like the one used in the Dixon/Ame set (which sounds amazing there).

Dixon is really secretive about what he plays, I'd assume it's his edit or something. Years ago I remember he mailed me about a (negative) review and we had a good back and forth, and I was talking about some track I liked at the time and he said something about a dub version being better and was like "you will never hear it."

Probably sounds bad but if DJing is your trade it's pretty wise, same way he generally doesn't allow his mixes to be given away for free either, at least relative to others.

Ronan did you hear the Loopsize EP with "Retrospective" (the relentless guitar hook house tune in the second half of the Boiler Room set on it)??? I love it so much.

Which one is that? I'll definitely know it as I listened to that mix a lot. I really like the Dixon edit of Jimpster, like Fleetwood Mac house but trancey enough to avoid the increasingly irritating "everyone here is too drunk" Terje party vibes.

I don't know if it's just me but I feel like Dixon and Michael Mayer have almost swapped in the last year, Innervisions and specfically Dixon's music feels more strict and really close to what Superpitcher or other Kompakt people would do whereas Mayer is more house than before .It's kind of an interesting flip.

I posted all the youtubes on the unsurprisingly unpopular LOOPSIZE thread I started:

LOOPSIZE

The track from the Boiler Room set is the first youtube.

Definitely agree that the Dixon/Ame set is like an amazing epic Mayer or Superpitcher set circa 2004.

It actually has a very specific late 2004 vibe for me, that moment when things were very house and trippy and warm and crunchy but before minimal coalesced into a full-blown thing and not as fetishistic w/r/t deepness or the 90s as 2007 was.

I am mildly sympathetic to Dixon's POV vs the deluge of edit 12s. I think it's good to encourage the production of one's own edits.

Boiler Room isn't funded by Red Bull or Scion or some gaming peripheral operation?

When I was there they had a free bar provided by some terrible new alcohol product

everyone watch the erykah badu one

I mean it is seriously, I don't even know

It's a big fuck you from her. Thom Yorke's one is also shocking. It's amazing how a seasoned musician like him seemed to not have a single clue about flow and sequencing. And I haven't even talked about the mixing yet.

I used to be able to podcast these but haven't been able to for a while. Has anyone else had trouble?

I was at the Thom Yorke one, seemed OK at the time although I haven't gone back and listened to it again.

Podcast seems to be broken to me, but they're mostly on soundcloud for dl?

Weird that Boiler Room went from being something run from the offices of Platform magazine (a terrible, terrible VICE rip-off) into this huge, gloabal thing innit?

It's the people who run it that make it the Boiler Room, not the location.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 21 February 2013 22:33 (2 days ago) Bookmark

I was at the Thom Yorke one, seemed OK at the time although I haven't gone back and listened to it again.

Podcast seems to be broken to me, but they're mostly on soundcloud for dl?

Thanks Toby, I'll try there.

i had to go home but those i know who made it to the dixon + ame afterparty on the stubnitz last year said it 'renewed their faith in partying'

OK that Dixon & Ame set is amazing. Obsessed with this now: https://soundcloud.com/sixthfloydrecords/konstantin-sibold-unreleased . I can see the comparison to Superpitcher, track sounds a lot like Mushroom or the Carsten Jost remix on Immer.

That (fantastic) Sibold track's just been released: http://www.beatport.com/release/secret-weapons-ep-part-5/1036838

Never had time to listen to the Ame/Dixon mix last year, so thanks to everyone here reminding me about it - I listened to it twice yesterday and am an hour into it again today. Absolutely wonderful - any other mixes that it reminds anyone of?

global communication in the mix is fucking inspired.

Cottam!

had a bit of a heavy heart this eve and it's doing some good. honestlee

Next Tuesday! FunkinEven & Kyle Hall b2b Omar s detroit & Theo Parrish and more!

nice

there's actress too. it's shaping up to be the best boiler room yet.

the ted talks of techno

Do ted talks have chat rooms during live talks

the ted talks of techno

― the late great, Friday, February 13, 2015 10:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

+1

dammn

grumpy about webcams tbh

not sure how a locked-off camera pointed at a 2-hr DJ set is comparable to smug techno-utopianism?

i really like how they put the DJ in the center of the crowd too, although you do get absolute twats crowding the decks and practically piggy backing on the DJs, i don't know how patience is kept

only seen a couple of these, lutz and koolt in uruguay was an enjoyable set, some good hawaiian shirts to go along the genial sounds

https://www.mixcloud.com/wowsets/nicolas-lutz-boiler-room-part-1/

what is smug techno utopianism? i have no idea what that strawman even is. i just don't want to be on a webcam and i don't want to deal with other idiots who love to be on a webcam, which is like 50% of the crowd at a local spin-off of the boiler room concept called ... "c0ntrol room". barf

i mean i'm glad i get to see all these cool sets but at the same time it can be hard on the being-here-now energy that makes a party worthwhile ime (is that smug techno utopianism?) to turn it into a worldwide vlogging event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn-2BWFKWZI

i think TH meant TED talks trade in smug techno-utopianism? did derrick may do a TED talk?

oh ok, that makes sense

i think the comparison to ted talks is otm in the sense that the aura of performing professionalism has overshadowed the premise of free-flowing idea exchange. i don't know if there was ever a similar utopian element to the boiler room concept internally but when it became a thing i remember being excited by the feeling that the floodgates of dance music, deejaying and party knowledge were about to be opened. now it is obviously just another brand riding on the social media model of participants doing the work for its benefit, not that it ever pretended to be anything else. anyway, not the kind of work i'm excited about doing at a party. just my .02.

idk techno but i found the snd one of this on youtube and it looked rather odd with those two in the middle of a room in laptop glare, especially given mark fell's prior quotes

I'm far more comfortable with an audience reacting negatively to what I do, than reacting positively. Like if I’m DJing and people start to nod their heads or move about a bit, I really find it quite unpleasant.

smug techno utopianism = ted

I haven't really paid attention to br in a long time but the ones I was into enough to return to were:

That kutmah one in the airstream or w/e it is, where he'd lost his laptop and so played suicide and os mutantes records, prob my fav one
Thomalla
Dakim

There are so many online mix places and great online radio stations where you can search for mixes that I don't see how any of these places will really be able to preserve their online brand or whatever. There was an interview w/ the ppl who started it that some online publication put up recently and they were talking abt focusing more on classical and jazz shows so maybe there will be more ted for other genres in the future

always enjoy discussion of techno

david pleat.

shit i meant to say david pleat

Anyone following Rewindgate (coming out of the Sherelle session w/Riz La Teef)?

uhhhh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4_KD9UhdCE&t=19m45s for the novices like me who didn’t immediately realize that googling “Rewindgate” would just take you to a bunch of dispiriting Reddit pages talking about YouTube Rewind

Apparently this interloper was the previous DJ

I saw it getting passed around on Twitter, apparently enough for Riz La Teef to delete his account, then a lot of djs coming to his defense:

I feel sorry for Riz La Teef. He publicly apologised to Sherelle for the wheel up on Boiler Room & she accepted. He got caught in the moment and twitter cancelled him. Over what he thought was paying a compliment. At FWD people used to lean in from the crowd & do that every week.

— Plastician (@Plastician) February 12, 2019

Finally getting around to actually listening to the set though and it's great

fffffffff that track is hard tho

good tracks, good energy, thx for sharing

what a dumb thing to be dumb about

never forget (33:30)

https://youtu.be/EVj6T6CEqs0

What exactly is the problem with this?

overly familiar, apparently ... awkward sure but, like so many things nowadays, imo doesn't really justify the level of public dragging

Reloads are part of the culture though. Kids these days etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45HGMokjpGw

i kno right?!?

not usually the dj that dials in the reload herself but ?

what do you mean?

it's not usually someone reaching into the DJ booth forcing the rewind on the DJ... it's usually the DJ doing it themselves no? might be wrong

oh i see, no you're not wrong

track is crookers' "bust 'em up (slick shoota starts di helicopta edit)" btw

Yeah it is usually the DJ that wheels it up but the UK has a long and proud tradition of DIY rewinds from the punters

this sherelle set!!!

so damn good, my favorite 160 set on the boiler room since dj earl in LA, so much energy, so much vibes

Loving this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPSH0Og0FH0

Shanti >>>>>>

i'm still totally taken with the Mama Snake set from last year

https://youtu.be/BMCMHpCXwJA

oops here...it's the best Boiler Room set I've heard in the past year. just incredible selection and mixing. perfect atmosphere!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCMHpCXwJA

It bugs me how often the crowds seem disinterested, they could be at an indie rock show for all the arms folded staring with intensity.

thanks for your contribution

I never really paid any attention to Boiler Room (perhaps because there are just so many of them) but I could see how a disinterested crowd might bug someone. Theres a super theatrical crowd guy that appears on some of the Belfast Boiler Rooms and is now something of a celebrity because of it, but I don't know who's sets he appeared on. I saw a clip but he made me a little anxious!

Do people actually and actively watch Boiler Room crowds? I tend to just open the video, then leave it playing while I tidy up etc and treat it like a mix I've downloaded. Watching a bunch of 20-year-olds attempt to go viral in the background doesn't really seem fun.

I have no idea, but I think unlikely! I don't much much about BoilerRoom but I use youtube a lot and end up seeing part of it* even though I rarely actually watch anything.

*a picture of a 12", almost certainly

Probably hard to let yourself go and be in the moment on camera (with an audience of snarky commenters)

of all the boiler rooms i have partially watched, and there are several, the crowds seemed appropriately interested

Randomly, this set from outdoors in Prague came on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWhs9VR_ldA

Really like the first three or four records, I'm converted!

Do people actually and actively watch Boiler Room crowds?

I watch the DJ for at least a bit, the act of DJing is still a magical thing I don't fully understand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_qewI-1cEs

It’s got that classic Chicago boompty-boomp 🍑

Chris Korda now, this boiler room thing is alright! Poch in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Rbu0i1p3g

new boiler room series is p fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b93mPtumdUI

sometimes the boiler room facebook notifications pop up at an opportune time

would I like to listen to Tzusing's set in Shanghai from 2016 as I work from home today? sure, boiler room

thought this would be about helena hauff doing a live set from her living room earlier.
watched for 15 mins.
was really good.

yes! lovely bit of darkness while she smoked and drank and danced around her room.

agreed.
LOOP t-shirt and constantly slurping on her beer.
kept dancing towards the camera with a cheshire cat grin.
loved it.

DJ EZ just played a filthy remix of jorja smith's "be honest"

^ 24-hour set going on rn

insanely good

Noticed he went for a piss break about twenty minutes ago - hope he puts a long track on and sits down for a full roast at the front of the table at some point.

This is really fire.

yup - has been wall-to-wall bangers for the past 1h30 we've been watching...

only recognised a few tunes but still vibing (on my couch) - testament to the quality

I rolled the rug back to throw down to Boo! but the cat wouldn't get off the sofa and feel the vibe.

just dipped in again... still crushing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1iQQxBimw

why did I go to bed last night instead of this

some of this has been honking but in like a great way

Final 15 minutes!

This is really More Fire

Oi!

If this doesn't end with a 1-2 of "Bound 4 Da Reload (Casualty)" and then some 187 Lockdown I will be disappointed

belatedly enjoying the Helena Hauff quarantine Boiler Room - thanks, mark e and Thee Macallan 18 Year

(Aux 88! Minimum Syndicat!)

Solomun!
Acid Pauli!