― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)
Can. Not. Wait.
― Andy, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)
Have. Fun!
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)
i think my friend has an extra ticket for APT if anyone needs one, email me i guess.
― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― geeta at mark's place (mark s), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― ferris b (bnw), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― geeta at mark's place (mark s), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― geeta at mark's place (mark s), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)
u&k: did mayer play "UNTER NULL"??
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)
If I'm going to DIE then I want you to kill me. But don't eat me, etc.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)
we want show reports now!!
― geeta at mark's place (mark s), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Beta (abeta), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)
"Jane is Panda Bear from the Animal Collective singing over DJ Casio's mix"
-Man, that sounds fantastic. What type of stuff did DJ Casio play?
― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― disco graphy (disco stu), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― discocaine (disco stu), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― disco stu (disco stu), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)
"-Man, that sounds fantastic. What type of stuff did DJ Casio play?"
Hmm, it wasn't stuff I knew, but mostly minimal house, and a couple of 80s sounding tracks that were almost acid, but really good, and the set segued into Mayer nicely.
― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 November 2003 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 November 2003 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 November 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 27 November 2003 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)
jeeeez jess, do hipsters really affect your ability to have a funnn time?
― Beta (abeta), Thursday, 27 November 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 November 2003 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 November 2003 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 November 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― disco & chips (disco stu), Friday, 28 November 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 November 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)
also heiko voss - "i think about you" = TUNE
― disco stu (disco stu), Saturday, 29 November 2003 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)
but i'm like that.
― geeta, Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Beta (abeta), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Beta (abeta), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)
Got off the plane, went straight to venue, arriving at 10pm. Not five minutes later, a tall guy w/glasses approached me: "Are you Matos?" It was Alex in SF. He and his girlfriend, the Inexhaustible Jen (who danced more than either of us, and we danced damn near the entire time), are great people. It would've been good anyway but meeting them there that early (esp. since I don't really know anyone in SF) was a godsend.
Apparently nightspots close up at 2-ish but this went till quarter to 4. I was expecting Mayer to slow-burn forever but he didn't; he maybe gave us 15 minutes of ambience before slowly bringing in the beats, and it took him maybe 25 minutes more to rev up to full speed. God knows the crowd was totally up for it--can't remember the last time I was in a room full of people who wanted to dance AND DID. Reports I heard from NYC was that it was to some degree trainspotter hell; none of that here. I broke my own vow not to trainspot once, when he put on some ridiculous pile-up of a record that built into circuslike chaos and then exploded, subsided, and built up again.* He played a track from his new EP that killed, the first major peak of the night. He played with mood, of course, but not to the degree I expected--mostly this was a good-time crowd and he responded in kind.
Reinhard Voigt did a PA after Mayer's two-hour set, and he was ace as well--I thought, well, OK, hard techno after a smorgasbord of stuff, maybe I'll sit while he does this. Not a chance. Nothing groundbreaking about what he was doing, but he tweaked his presets and got his effects with so much apparent, obvious love for what he was doing--and did it so well--that Alex, Jen and I were all just going for it. Mayer followed with another hour plus of mostly shuffley stuff to wind it down. No Kylie, but none needed. I haven't had that much fun in a while. Ned, you're going to be a happy man.
*And of course I can't remember what the record was called! I'm around the corner from Amoeba, though, and surely they'll have it or something like it. And yes, Ned, I'm at Cafe Cole on Haight. Which reminds me: It's 2:30pm right now. I'll be at the cafe a bit longer and then I'll be at Amoeba from, oh, let's say 3pm to 5pm. If anyone is in SF and would like to hook up/hang out/say hello, I'm wearing a houndstooth check button-down shirt and have short hair sticking up all over and nerd-chic glasses. I also have long sideburns and two, possibly three chins. Come say hi!
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 29 November 2003 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 29 November 2003 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)
I am pleased. :-) Just waiting for Vahid to swing by later this evening...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 November 2003 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 29 November 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 November 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)
i didn't trainspot at all! and yes, it's because i was too busy dancing. i caught mayer grinning at me because i was literally out there the whole time shaking my ass. big up the dancing massive...
― disco thinks about you all the time (disco stu), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― disco loop (disco stu), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― disco stu (disco stu), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― disco stu (disco stu), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)
it's an odd thing when someone who "simply" spins records can be said to have gotten "worse".
that's the thing with dj-ing though! it's not simple to do something really special with two records and a mixer. it's a really great metaphor for the age of pharmaceutical mood and informational manipulation we live in today.
― disco stu (disco stu), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― disco stu (disco stu), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― disco stu (disco stu), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)
See you on the flipside
― hector (hector), Sunday, 30 November 2003 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 November 2003 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)
**Matos please please please post that Signal to Noise thing with /rupture on yr blog. I'm aching to read it.
***Me and Jen both had a blast. Absolutely fucking fantastic. And Matos is a great guy so if he ever comes to your town you should all hang out with him.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 30 November 2003 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― scissors (Honda), Sunday, 30 November 2003 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 30 November 2003 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)
There was this one track that had this kind of disjointed melody for a breakdown that was just unbelievable.
If someone recorded any of the tour let me know
― hector (hector), Sunday, 30 November 2003 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 30 November 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, seconded. I'm glad I spent most of my dancing time for his set than Voigt's, which while functional was comparatively one note -- Mayer was Der Genius. Hurrah for Vahid for the ride, meeting Hector and Dan Regan and seeing Spencer. Yay goodness! Now I sleep.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 November 2003 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)
he and mayer were pasty-assed and resplendent in matching wifebeaters. mayer is quite a dancer and crowd-pleaser. he started his set with closer musik's "maria" and then through some emo-house and then bouncing along for a long time in jazzier territory in the vein of sami koivikko or luciano. at the top of his set he ambushed us with lfo's "freak", i think that may be what hector was talking about? i also heard lots of the softer speicher tracks, some vocal pop i didn't recognize and not a lot of hardcore schaffel.
now why did i miss t. raumschmiere two weeks ago? i heard he destroyed his equipment at the end of his set, maximum rock and roll style! :(
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 30 November 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)
sounds like it was the matmos remix.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 30 November 2003 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 30 November 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)
Fabric 13 although great doesn't do Meyer justice, his handling of time is nice, doesn't rush into anything and is comfortable getting the crowd where he wants to when he wants to.
― hector (hector), Monday, 1 December 2003 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 December 2003 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― uts ocsid (disco stu), Monday, 1 December 2003 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)
The crowd was super cool, probably 50%+ of the crowd was music journalists/record store employees/dj's, like one of those early punk shows where everybody in attendance went on to form their own band....I wonder if we'll hear this show's influence in future LA techno events? I hope so.
― tylero, Monday, 1 December 2003 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)
Oh, I am, I am.
So Tylero, you're LA area too? Ya shoulda introduced yerself!
probably 50%+ of the crowd was music journalists/record store employees/dj's
And band members -- my friend Stacie Lyons from Hello Fever was getting down.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 December 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)