Congratulations are in order for the organisers of the Give Us The Night campaign, their gig in the Temple Bar Music Centre on Saturday was a resounding success, it looked like all the rooms were full towards the end and I had great fun playing for the first time on the main stage there! We all only had twenty minutes each to play but I managed to fit eleven records on, my original boasting of “20 records in 20 minutes!” had to be downgraded quite a bit due to the intake of alcohol and I ended up playing not as much ghetto bootie as I was going to. (It’s easier to mix that stuff in really fast) Anyway here’s what I played:
- Product 01 - I Like It Loud [Buckfunk 3000 Remix] (Bowwow) (John Averill asked me if this was a Dexter track!)
- Dexorcist - Nu Contact (SMB Records)
- Kitbuilders - Disco Obsession (Breakin Records)
- Jimmy Edgar - I Hate When People Make Tracks Like This (Detroit Undergroind) (this one was the cut-up-remix of Will Smith’s “Miami”)
- 313 Bass Mechanics - Pass Out (Breakin Records)
- Buckfunk 3000 - Too Much Booty (Bowwow)
- Michael Forshaw - Cheerleaders (Semi Automatic)
- DJ Assault - G String [Black Blackford Electro Mix] (Rat Records)
- Dirty Hospital - Space Me (Rottenrow)
- Unknown Artist (it’s Warlock actually) - Dead Letter Drop (Whitelabel) (Sunil Sharpe correctly identified this as a grime-ish bootleg of 3 Phase “Der Klang Der Familie”)
- Squarepusher - Red Hot Car (Warp) (around five people came up to me afterwards asking “What was that last track you played!?”)
Overall a great night’s entertainment, Corrugated Tunnel had the place rocking at the end of the night. It’d be naive to think that club opening times will suddenly be reviewed and pushed back to a later time straight away, but if we keep the pressure on and keep the movement going we could see some changes in the (probably far) future, in my opinion. Like a lot of the guys have been saying in the news features about this, our age group traditionally don’t vote, that’s a big thing we need address and hopefully change. If every clubber out there was also a voter then people in power would take us a lot more seriously.
But enough about the politics of dancing, I’m off to the Mutek festival in Montreal for a week, I probably won’t have a chance to update the site while I’m over there so be good! Bye!