On Tue, 9 May 1995, Jeff Linacre wrote:
quoted 1 line Wheeeeewww, what a weekend I just had at Tribal Gathering,
> Wheeeeewww, what a weekend I just had at Tribal Gathering,
Oh yes. Just slightly good.
Good things:
Orbital.
Orbital playing Belfast.
Orbital then playing Chime.
8000+ crowd reaction to Orbital playing Belfast then playing Chime
Chatting to Orbital for an hour earlier in the day :)
Richie Hawtin playing hard house
Plastikman. What can I say? Completely and utterly stunning, twas all
new material, fantastically, arranged, tweaked etc etc. He used only 4
pieces of equipment that I could see; what looked like a 303, a 606(?), a
sampler and a hardware sequencer.
Jeff Mills taking off where Hawtin left off, playing the hardest, most
intelligent and non-cheesy hard techno/acid set I have ever heard, for two
hours, into the sunrise... The slowest (most intense moment) being UR's
Jupiter Jazz at about +8)
LFO on the ferris wheel
Free water, as much as you could drink...
Cool security who knew exactly what was going on.
The sights and sounds in the Tribal Tent when Air Liquide were on,
basically this huge fuck off oval tent, with support posts in an innner
oval arrangement, in this innner oval everybody was swaying and going
generally mad to the music, in the outer oval there were just thousands
of happy people sat down watching and rolling. An amazing sight that will
live with me for a long time.
Bad points:
Current physical laws prohibit one from being in two different places at
the same time, which meant I missed in order of most pissed off about
missing: 808 state, darren emmerson, carl cox, laurent garnier, Luke
Slater, tanith, dag, gayle san etc etc etc...
Some cunt leaping on top of Prodigy's equipment in the middle of their
set, hence cutting it short after maybe 25 mins...
Advertising posters for Moby's and FSOL's new LPs everywhere. Hmmm,
they're not commercial!
I cannot really think of anything else to criticise. Very smoothly organised.
quoted 5 lines I didn't see them at TG I was too busy shakin my thang to Billy Nasty,
> I didn't see them at TG I was too busy shakin my thang to Billy Nasty,
> my friends did and were not impressed, apparently they only played
> Outer Space in full, and the rest of the set consisted of them starting
> a track then cutting it short with the MC coming in too loud. They were
> wicked at Brixton tho'.
I was in the press pit for all of their set. Was totally electric, Keith
the dancer is just a complete and utter loonie, oozing anger etc etc. got
some great pics of his tonsils as he screamed into my camera...
Unfortunately some tosser decided it would be a really cool thing to leap
on top of Liam Howlett and his equipment stack, fizz buzz, humm and it
was all over, I moved on to Richie Hawtin
quoted 3 lines The sound in the Starship Universe tent was shit when the DJs were
> The sound in the Starship Universe tent was shit when the DJs were
> playing, couldn't really be heard at the back. So bad I couldn't deal
> with it for Carl Cox's set.
I though the sound was just about right, loud but not painfully so, I
spent all my time right at the front for all the acts though.
quoted 2 lines Plastikman, what I saw of RH didn't impress me, I think maybe he was
> Plastikman, what I saw of RH didn't impress me, I think maybe he was
> suffering technical problems.
Well, his technical problems must be the envy of the techno world. Easily
the slickest live set I've very seen, basically a refinement of his Djing
technique, cutting and rising bass and treble, altering the time base,
genreally whipping the crowd into a frenzy. It was all new material as well.
quoted 3 lines Despite these disappointments I had a great w/e and I'm looking forward
> Despite these disappointments I had a great w/e and I'm looking forward
> to more events SOON! Seems like all the legal events coming up are almost
> exclusively Happy Hardcore/Drum n Bass/Jungle.
Both Reading and Glastonbury have sizable techno components this year.
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