On 11 Sept 2000, "electric seth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've seen surgeon DJ a number of times in england and to be honest have > always found him fairly dull...hard and fast but somehow missing thet little > extra funk, Ruskin, however is worth the money... still rock-hard but he > does know how to work a crowd. ...this is very true!!! I had the experience of seeing both Surgeon & James Ruskin (round about March/April this year) on the same night one after the other. I'd seen Surgeon before and he had been quite good, but nothing outstanding. James Ruskin, I hadn't seen at all and to be honest I wasn't expecting much more than 'heads down' - BANG...BANG...BANG all night long (too hard for too long, not much else happening scenario). After the warm up (courtesy of Stuart McMillan - brilliant as always) Surgeon was on first and was quite good but a bit too many of the 'cut and paste' mixes, sometimes too frantic for the more melodic stuff to get breathing space. Don't remember the tune selection being inspiring either. By the end of his set he playing more of the harder percussive stuff and the crowd was into it (including me I might add). James Ruskin then came on and was really really good, I was highly impressed. It just suddenly got funkier when he was on and he was really working the mixer to get the most out of his music - sometimes subtle, sometimes cutting it up - but always keeping you guessing. Can't really remember now what they were playing other than James Ruskin finished with Planetary Assault Systems "Voodoo" on Peacefrog, I only remeber this as it's just about the most mental tune ever, but still funky. I think as long as they play in that order, it would definitely be worthwhile to see. Cheers, Niall. ))\ )) o ___ )) )) (( \(( (( ((_(, (( ((...
