This was posted on another list by one of the people that played last night...I figured since this party recieved so much discussion the review is in order...I guess I'm glad I stayed away from it except for Aux 88 and Kevin.
<Oh my lord, I feel for anyone who came to Zoraks. Maybe its just me, but that party was fucking AWFUL. Sure there were like 1500 people, but most of them were cheezy ass abercrombie & fitch wearin, Bud-Lite chuggin (oh yes there were tons of jock frat boys with their shirts unbuttoned dancin with a bud lite in one hand). And it was like 150 degress inside the whole time (gee, "climate control"?). The sound was pretty much shit in both rooms (st andrews sound, definately no "40,000 watts of turbosound - ESPECIALLY upstairs). The music was pretty much shit. In the main room i heard recloose who, well i didnt really enjoy to say the least - very "musical" but very boring as well. I guess if your into that kinda stuff. Then i think it was Nelz, who was actually pretty decent (not really my style of music - but he did know how to keep some energy in it), then some sorry ass jungle dj playing for a while trainwrecking every mix, then we had Aux 88 who I didnt really catch much of, but wasnt really that into either. Juan atkins played some good music, but COMPLETELY trainwrecekd EVERY mix beyone beleif (either he doesnt try or he really doesnt know how to mix , it was pretty bad). By the time kevin saunderson came on (who was rippin some shit up) i was ready to die from heat stroke so we left. And well Im not really gonna comment to deeply on the music upstairs - I'd love to hear anyones review of my set who were there, but it was exactly what i expected. 90% of the kids had a MC505 and played some presets, most of the sets were almost nauseatingly boring. Like the same ONE boring rigit beat with like 1 droning sound going on for 30 minutes and like maybe a few snare drum fills every 16 bars. Then of course nobody thought to bring a mixing board but me so we had everyone using my board all night and nobody apparently had a clue about how to run sound because every time i came back up they had stuff pluggin into the wrong inputs, the levels all cranked up to max so the sound was pure distortion coming from the speakers...(granted the sound system was weak as hell upstairs, but when it sucks its not gonna be better just cuz its louder). Then of course there was no planning or effort into any of the upstairs lineup, time slots, people were just unpluggin each others shit so they could play, there was NOWHERE near enough room to play, i think only about half the live pas even showed up (i think there were like 3 or 4 downstairs and like 6 or 7 upstairs). did i mention it was like 1000 degrees? what a fiasco. This will more than likely be the last party i play for those guys..... -dj space ace
