saw theo play at cielo last night. amazing function 1 system they have in there. theo started out real nice. some thumping, pretty mainstream-but-good disco, some ugly edits, occasionally mixed with a track of his own. but after not too long he started doing that high eq stuff, and way too often...every minute or so even, total overkill -- started getting irritating and predictable. that sound system was great, but +theo it was evil. he also seemed to play at least 3 james brown tracks in a row, with loads of flair, but i got a little bored..he dropped some acid track a little later (i think it was his own 1987, not sure, but it was very familiar), but by that time we had to leave before we got permanent hearing damage. cielo was mostly full of tourists and random idiots, which i didn't expect for the monday deep space night. i had only seen theo dj once before, on a much smaller system, and i liked it. but now i understand why people have complained about his eq-centric mixing style...it was really, really irritating. and his track selection wasn't totally doing it for me either, tho he was working it...i now have pretty mixed feelings about theo as a dj...
ps clubs who have seating almost entirely "reserved for v.i.p.'s" suck.
