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From:
Wendy K
To:
Richard Barnett
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Date:
Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:14:32 +0100
Subject:
[idm] Essential Festival 2000 Dance Day 15th July [Brighton UK]
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Richard - Glad you enjoyed it - I felt the same as you did about Fatboy, was disappointed at Freq Nasty (I dont have his album), but heard a great little crew Digidub at the Firestarter tent. I can add: Luke Slater - awesome techno in its purest sense, Laurent Garnier with a sax player at the beginning of his set in dreamy jazz house and Vadims old skool knowledge test with Kela and the breakdancers was large for me....only sad i missed the roots day :(
quoted 42 lines Wow; a great day!>Wow; a great day! > >Highlights: > * Coldcut: the best I've ever seen them live; VJamm'd versions of More > Beats & Pieces, Timber, Natural Rhythm, Panopticon, Atomic Moog 2000, > the Extreme Possibilities section from JDJ, and a couple of other tracks > I didn't recognise. > * The weather: neither baking hot nor pissing with rain. > * The Herbalizer: band with 4-piece string section playing great stuff > * Indian Rope Man: band + sitar = fat sounds -- the first thing I saw, so > it made a good impression > >Lowlights: > * Fatboy Slim: the 45 minutes [at the start of his 2-hour set] seemed to > consist of about 80% crowdpleasing tunes that didn't do anything for > me -- and I like him; too safe compared with Coldcut, who were playing > at the same time > * Bentley Rhythm Ace: big, soupy sound from which the occasional fragment > emerged of melodies I recognised > * Taking 2 hours to get out of the car park afterwards :-( > * No rappers with The Herbalizer > * Kid Koala playing on Sunday & not Saturday :-( > >Also checked out parts of the sets of DJ Vadim, DJ Scissorkicks, Freq Nasty, >Midfield General, Subtropic, Cakeboy, Les R(h)ythmes Digitales: all more or >less excellent. > >Lots of DJing going on, and I was surprised not to hear people playing more >of their own released tracks: eg Scissorkicks, Subtropic & Freq Nasty >didn't play anything I knew from the album each I've got of their stuff. > >Highlights are being streamed at http://www.thesiteofsound.com. > >I found a reference to a Cakeboy CD release "Stupidinformationhighway"? via >a Google search; can any list member comment on this? > >-- Richard > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org
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