From Will Samuels Sent Tue, Apr 20th 1999, 01:33
From Will Samuels Sent Tue, Apr 20th 1999, 01:33
--- Andrew Duke Cognition/In The Mix <xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > Hello. Could those who attended the Crosswire > benefit in Los Angeles this past saturday please > post > reviews of the show featuring Shake, John Tejada, > and Divine Styler to the lists please. Thanks Andrew My pleasure. I won't really get into the art aspect of the event, even though alot of it was pretty cool. First on was Divine Styler, they performed as a five piece band. I thought the acoustics of the room made their performance sound kind of bad. Maybe the other people that were in front of the speakers should comment on them. I was busy talking with Anthony Shakir during their performance. So I'm not the best one to review them. John Tejada spun after them and I was very impressed. The last time I saw him spin he played alot of really great Balil, lush Detroit techno, and tech step drum n bass, but that was at a small club, O2. So that is what I was expecting to hear. Instead, he played some really awesome minimal techno and his mixing was very tight. I remember he played the new Cari Lekebusch on Hybrid, the new Conceiled Projects (Adam Beyer) on Code Red, Cytrax 08, some Red Planet, and then started edging into the Detroit techno. I remember hearing a very small part of Inner City - Good Life for just a VERY short while. Some of the people that have seen Tejada spin a few times in the past said that they had never heard him spin so well. It was a very impressive set! Anthony Shakir took the decks after him. The first couple of tracks he played were sort of vocally house tunes. He did some cool mixing and tricks. He also threw on Inner City - Good Life. Shake then put on two copies of a Basic Channel record and was going nuts on the mixer. He was going back and forth, scratching, back and forth, and played around with the two copies for a while. He also did doubles of other tracks, such as Shake's track - "The Floor Filler" (Frictional 06), Alan Braxe's - Vertigo (Thomas Bangalter remix), and some other tune that sounded like Jeff Mills (I'm pretty sure it was). He also threw down some more of his tunes such as "Plugged In" (also from Frictional 06), "Fact of the Matter" and "Travellers" from the Tracks For My Father ep on 7th City (SCD 008). He played a very cool electro track from The Advent, and even an old as dirt track from Heaven 17. He had incredible mixing skills! I think it was a little too much for the dancefloor, because more people stopped dancing and started watching him go nuts with the mixer and tables. My friend Eric later commented that he thought Shake was the best mixer he had ever seen. His only regret was that Shake didn't play more electroish stuff (because that is his favorite style). After the event, about 6-7 of us hung out with him. And he told us about his music, the Detroit scene, etc. He is a really cool guy and funny as hell. The whole night was a great time. My friend Ben was asking Shake about Da Sampla stuff. Shake said, that he didn't like his tune "With A Piece Of Ice" (which appears on the Claude Young - Dj Kicks) and that he didn't even own a copy of it. He did say that he was going to do a Da Sampla lp. I don't think it's going to be in the same style as the earlier stuff. I don't know maybe it will. I definitely can't wait to hear more stuff from him. The Waiting For Russel ep (Frictional 08), and Tracks For My Father on 7th City are SO GREAT! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com