you wrote : "but the minute his girlfriend came in on vocals (Dani Siciliano)"
is that really his g-friend? that she is definitely a he. granted i've seen a lot stranger things, just wondering though. i'd have to agree, Herbert is probably the best live p.a. i've ever seen. -Pete -----Original Message----- From: stuffed bird [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [313] July party month part 2 Hi list (purists and others), After my trips to London and Paris, and my visit to the 10 days off festival in Ghent the party month continued. An overview with my humble opinions: Wednesday 18th July: 10 Days Off I went to see Derrick Carter who was replacing ear-troubled Garnier but I was blown away by two others: Herbert and Russ Gabriel. Herbert live was one of the most inspiring lives I've ever seen. Sometimes he was just a bit too much 'look what I can do with my machines' and 'look what I dare to do, breaking CD's on the mic and sampling that to make a track', but the minute his girlfriend came in on vocals (Dani Siciliano) and the piano player joined as well it was all about incredibly soulful and deep house music. big up to Herbie! I'd heard Russ Gabriel bringing it deep three years ago, and the man has evolved even more towards the deeper side of music. His mixing was far from flawless, but the tracks made me smile all the way through his set. And he's a nice fellow as well, what with giving me his last record just because he was too lazy to write down his e-mail address for future booking purposes :-) Derrick Carter was a big disappointment. He has given me some of my best nights in the past, but his uptempo, uninspired tech-house that night made me wanna cry. How much can you enjoy the music you play when you start playing promo's that have just been given to you without checking the quality first? Makes you wonder if Derrick isn't playing too much and just cashing in on his incredible talents. I hope he gets back to the deeper, vocal side I so love. Friday 20th July - Monday 23 July: love parade weekend in Berlin We landed at Tempelhof Airport around 9AM, giving us plenty of time for some vinyl shopping. The results can be read in the e-mail following this one. So if you are not interested in my records, don't read it, if you are, prepare to start weeping :-) The first night we went to the No Ufo's party at E-Werk, the once legendary club. Steve Bug absolutely tore it up with his minimal house and techno, a dj to check out! And a fine producer as well :-) Heard some other dj's that night too, but they were a bit to rough and loopy for my taste. All in all a good start. Saturday afternoon saw us checking out the weirdos at the parade itself. Getting a good seat close to a drinks-tent, 25°C and just the right amount of room to be comfortable can turn this parade-thing into quite a nice experience. The pervy-side of me couldn't help but noticing that German girls all seem to be over-furnished in the front, the it-is-love-parade-so-I-need-to-expose-as-much-as-possible attitude didn't quite help the esthetic side of things, but well, you can't have it all now can you? In the evening we went to Tresor, impatiently waiting for Blake Baxter to equal his genius-set of last year, but being blown away by resident dj Senze the minute we walked into the Globus Room (House room). After that Marshall Jefferson proved why I ran away 15 minutes into his gig at Cafe D'Anvers in Belgium a few months back: totally uninspired house with excessive use of the stupid filter effect on the pioneer mixing table. And again he started with this white label acapella naming all the things he - Marshall Jefferson - has done first: bringing a piano into house music, bringing vocals into house music, and blah blah blah, "all rise for the master Marshall Jefferson"... Brother please... Makes you wonder if tracks like Jungle Wonz' 'Time Marches On', 'The Jungle' or Ten City's 'Suspicious', 'Devotion', etc... were made by a different Marshall Jefferson. After two hours of chilling outdoors and checking the basement floor of Tresor - which must be thee most underground place in the world, but way too hard a music there for me - Blake was on, and played a fine set, but not quite near as brilliant as last year. Sunday saw me just lying in bed the whole day and only getting up for the Gigolo Records night at WMF. After some problems at the entrance - some 'crowd selector' thought we were not fit to enter his club until I brought it to his attention that he had just 'approved' the rest of our gang seconds earlier and that the necessary girl/boy ratio was thus well-reached by our ladies first policy - we entered WMF, which I consider to be one of the best clubs I ever visited, apart from the door policy of course :-) The smaller of two rooms had DJ Naughty playing some of the finest tracks I heard in years. Naughty is Fillipo Moscatello, production man behind DJ Hell. I was just totally blown away by his selection and had to run to the dj booth time and time again to ID some of his beauties. Crowning moment was when my 'what's that!?' was answered with a big smile and 'that's my remix of Fisherspooner, it's brand new'...nice :-) I concluded my WMF-blast in the bigger room, where Gigolo-leader Hell played a set that only he can play, making me go out of head the full 3 hours of his set. I returned form Berlin on Monday evening, only to see me rushing to a new club in Belgium where I have been offered a regular guest spot and where I was seen behind the decks smiling away all night playing the records I just bought in Berlin...life can be good! RD, definitely in for a break Interested in Turkey? Visit http://www.turkey.com! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
