Hi peepz, As July has been officially named party-month at the stuffed-residence I had quite some blasts these last days. A review:
Thursday 12 July: called some mates, got into the car and drove to Paris to check out what could have turned out to be one of the last Garnier-dj sets ever. The man is suffering from hearing problems and cancelled almost all of his gigs for the rest of the year and it remains to be seen if he will ever return to the decks. With this in mind the night was rather a mixed feelings one. Now most of you will know Garnier as a techno dj, but the Rex being his home he plays allnighters there where he proves just how diverse his tastes are. The first two hours were so deep and so house that I just kicked myself in the head for not going to his Rex-residencies sooner... After the guest Laurent finished in true Garnier-techno-style: deep, melodic, full of strings and diversity. If this was goodbye than it was a good one! Got back to Belgium in time for the Axion Beach Beats-festival, the dance counterpart of Beach Rock. Still tired of the Paris-trip I wanted a slow start and headed over to the House-tent to check Llorca...to be blown away from the very first track I heard... This man single-handedly delivered all that I ever wanted from a house set: deeper than deep basslines, heavenly vocals, chicago jack trax (DJ Pierre Phuture mad me totally wild) and steaming us grooves. Talk about a wake-up call... After two hours of partying we definitely needed a break and crashed on the beach to check out Dreadzone on the main stage; and although I'm not to fond of their ragga-styled vocals and basslines, they did deliver a great show and earned everybody's respect. On to the techno-tent for Stacey Pullen! He had to take over from T-Quest, who was boring me to death with his hard, looped techno, and did this in tremendous fashion. Whereas the crowd went mad to the beats of T-Quest, Stacey made'em go even more mad to more-than-beats. I know where my preferences are... After an hour of Stacey Pullen we had to move again to the house tent, where master Carter was going to drop some jackin' beats...and so he did. The first hour was a bit predictable, but the second hour he gave all he can give, which in his case means rump-shaking beats and a capella's thrown in at the right time. My ears were getting a bit tired by the end of his set, so I decided to call the dancefloor a day and headed over to the techno tent once more for the last hour of DJ Hell. And no regrets there! To my delight Hell's dj sets are going more and more into the direction of his label-efforts. Delicious 80ies influenced techno mixed with 'real' 80ies beats and jackin' house tracks always make my day :-) I headed home a happy camper... A good sleep had to get me back in shape for the first day of the Ten Days Off festival in Ghent (formerly 10 days of techno). I had been looking forward to this one for some time: Joe Claussell of Body&Soul, Ibadan, Spiritual Life came to bless us with a 3-hour set! And blessing was indeed the word! I have NEVER heard anyone put that much passion and variety into a dj-set. The dj before him played nowadays typical house set: fast, uninspired, looped disco beats. And the crowd was digging it in the way that you are dancing to beats just because everyone else is and just because it's a party, but there ain't no true emotion in there, but when Claussell started he immediately dropped the BPM to a true house-level (120/125) and started working the EQ's like only NY-dj's can do. Giving us beats only when we needed them, and then mixing 'Groovin La Chord' with some Kerri Chandler track making the whole venue go absolutely insane. It's hard to describe the feeling I got when he suddenly powered down the 1200 and played 'Is this love' by Bob Marley... Some 1000 people singing 'Is this love, is this love, is this love that I'm feeling' when Joe faded the track out during the chorus is just simply magical. At that moment you realize that you are not on a house party, you are not on a techno party, you are just listening and dancing to music. And all those house and techno purists alike, all those dj's playing to the formats, all those arty farty let's follow whatever the hype is types can just retire and get it over wit Interested in Turkey? Visit http://www.turkey.com! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
