Sounds pretty cool. Obviously the destination for hipsters all over.
Cool to hear. Quite a percentage of people I know have visited or even li On Nov 17, 2007 9:27 AM, kent williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After seeing PanSonic the other night -- who were awesome but techno > if your idea of techno is surround sound recordings of buildings > falling down -- last night started with going to hear Ricardo > Villalobos' Narod Niki event. I'd been trying to meet up with James > Hurlbut all week, and ran into him at the coat check. > > For a techno event it was kinda nuts. The AdmiralsPalast is a fairly > swanky venue with a dancefloor and seats in the balcony. The night > started out with a pretty good german Jazz band (who later joined the > laptop group), who were playing swing classics like "fascinating > rhythm" and "bei mir bist du schön." After about an hour of that, > ricardo and an as yet unidentified crew of fellow laptoppers came out > and started slowly building up to a techno beat. After a while of > that, which was a little unfocused, the musicians from the jazz band > filtered back in and started jamming, and a bit after that they seemed > to have some prearranged loopy stuff to play -- almost like they had > sheet music with one bar loops and someone was calling out which loop > to play. This built up into something very interesting sounding, as > though the band and the techno guys were meshing. The pianist > particularly knew how to complement the loopiness of techno with some > loopiness of his own, but more inventive than just playing the same > one bar figures. > > After that, the guys playing instruments straggled off the stage to > some acclaim, and the focus became more on Ricardo's usual minimal > thing. This was fascinating enough to me -- someone on stage was > doing a great job of juggling a lot of sounds in the mix, so you'd get > a half dozen twittery, plinky sounds coming in and out in rapid > succession. > > On the other hand, about 20 minutes of that was plenty for me -- my > main complaint of the minimal stuff is that often they hit a plateau > of energy and just stay there for way too long. Plus, DJ Pierre was > playing down at the 103 in Kreuzberg. So James and I had a comical > misadventure finding the club, and persuading the door guy that we > were not only willing to pay to get in, but that our shoes and > unfashionable glasses wouldn't turn the place nicht so coolische. > Seeing Pierre for me was awesome -- he's a polished DJ technically and > was able to perfectly bounce back and forth between vocal house and > straight up acid jams. He even mixed out of 'Acid Tracks' into > 'French Kiss' which on the one hand is a pretty obvious move. On the > other hand, if you go see DJ Pierre, you want to hear him drop those > tracks. > > We finished the night tottering into the Turkish Döner stand on > Skalitzer Strasse and devouring french fries with mustard and garlic > mayo. If you come to Berlin get everything with the KnoblauchSauce. > It rules. > -- --- Michael Kuszynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.planerecordings.com New York, NY
