i got the chance to road-trip from detroit to chicago for the addictive party at the metro smartbar. it was a nice venue. in the basement bernard badie and larry heard played house all night long. upstairs harry the bastard started things off playing records i've never heard and probably won't ever hear again. metro area followed up with a shoutout to 313er rob theakston saying something about him being in jail for doing really bad things!!! maybe rob could provide some details of his offenses. robert hood finished up the night with decks and machines.
first off, i didn't spend much time in the basement later in the night. bernard badie started out playing in the basement with some really nice house, no classics, just contemporary deep house. we then went upstairs to see metro area. i haven't ever bought any of their records before, but i just gotta say that those guys make really cool music...such an amalgamation of so many genres, and yet so unique and fresh. rob hood played with decks and machines. i could tell he had a 909 and decks, but did anyone else get a chance to see his whole set-up. he really rocked it out cutting up and scratching. all his mixing was really clean. starting in with wu-tang and then just punishing the crowd with a hard fast minimal assault. it was really great. he even performed a new track with a woman doing live spoken word over top of what may have been an acetate??? the crowd seemed up for it too as they probably don't get to hear much techno in chicago. i didn't get to spend much time listening to larry heard. maybe someone else could let me know about his set. there weren't many people at the party and there was always room to dance. good sound, good music, good venue, good, good, good!!! -sam __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
