JMRTNKO! please stand by... <martinko@netcom.com> said:
:heard through the vine that carl craig no longer has anything to do with
:planet e and that his father and ex-girlfriend are running it now. can
:anyone back home confirm this?
:
:any info or idea on how this will affect future releases?
Meredith Ledger has been charge of day-to-day
operations at Planet E for quite some time now.
I think someone's imagination has gotten the
best of them.
Carl spun at a Planet E-sponsored party here about 5 days ago...
They were habding out Psyche/BFC promos.
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: Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 15:25:50 -0500
: To: planete@mich.com (Planet E Communications, Inc.), 313@hyperreal.com
: From: macqueen@pilot.msu.edu (Matt MacQueen)
: Subject: (313) Sardine Bar - The Roof Is On Fire!
:
: At 12:41 PM 5/24/96, Planet E Communications, Inc. wrote:
: >I want to personally thank everyone that showed up for the party last
: >night, especially the kids that came in from out of town. The vibe was
: >good, the dj's were on, and we partied old school style until 3AM.
:
: I want to thank Planet E, Seventh City, and M-Plant for throwing
: this gig! I was such an incredible party, I haven't felt "that feeling"
: since the Metroplex 10th annivarsary bash. I mean, this was a small,
cool
: bar, more like a gathering of friends to celebrate detroit techno. Good
: wine too! God I am still feeling in a daze from the spellbinding tunes,
it
: was so great. It was like Carl Craig, Dan Bell, Rob Hood and Claude
Young
: just wanted to get together and have a blast with gear and records, much
to
: the delight of the technoheads who came for the funk. It was such a
: relaxed, no-attitude affair. You gotta love that.
:
: I will give an overview, maybe any of the 25 or so netters I saw
: there will jump in with more detail whenever.
:
: Arrived, mad food and drink everywhere, lots of friends and familiar
faces.
: Great space, the Sardine Bar, perfect atmosphere, candles, people dressed
: up, (Claude in a suit!!) big open door at the end with a view of the
: Detroit horizon and you could walk out in back for fresh air and a keen
: view of the Renn Cen.
:
: Carl takes to the decks first and pours out some of the classic BFC
tracks,
: chicken noodle soup, etc. and then into all the detroit classics as sort
of
: a warm up, people still really socializing and eating, chilling... Nude
: Photo, Round Three, Sound on Sound, Numbers (of course). Very smooth,
: perfect tracks for the mood and people starting to really grove and
dance.
: The perfect cool night air is coming in through the giant door and the
: night takes on a golden hue.
:
: Then Claude takes the helm and heats things up big time, going nuts as
: usual, better each time I see him. You know the routine, doubles,
phasing,
: cut-n-scratch... Jaws drop, cheers, and he didn't even loosen up his
tie.
: JAM THE BOX! He chopped M500's Night Drive Through Babylon and No UFO's
: back and forth and up and down before it was all over with and that was
: just over the top for most everyone, wow.
:
: Finally Rob Hood gets behind his gear and delivers the best live PA I've
: personally ever seen. Hard to describe, even. Funky and tonal, but
plenty
: HARD. Calculated but he was doing a little free-playing over the top
too,
: a combo of sequenced arrangements and live improvisation that really
: worked. Tonal arrangements somewhat resembling his recent cuts on
: Metroplex but a bit uptempo, but nothing I directly recognized from his
: past work. Also cool that he did it from a very small gear kit. Bliss.
: People really getting into it, it was a PA "for the floor." Astounding
: arrangement. And between cuts he'd play a 30 second of so sample of a
jazz
: tune while he set up his next track, big smiles for that. And Scott
: Stephanoff deserves big credit for the visuals.
:
: Let me explain. Scott is one of the Cement Space artists (who hosted the
: M500 live PA, indicentally) and and does really cool kinetic sculpture
and
: video art in Detroit. Not your usual ravey fractal programs, this was
: minimal imagery and graphics, stark, and calculated -- the visual
: compliment to Rob Hood's music. When Rob went on this huge green glow
: turns on from under his table, so that he was lit with a deep green light
: from underneath while he worked - eerie. And on either side of him were
: these two welded sort of rusty tall skinny iron boxes. In each one of
the
: boxes was a small, thick green plate of glass, (like welder's glass) and
: behind the glass were video monitors playing really cool art that Scott
was
: video mixing live as Rob worked the gear. Scenes like giant monolithic
: block floating above shots of detroit, the M-plant logo doing various
: tricks, and concentric circles chasing each other in time to the music,
: geometic and very cool... minimal. :)
:
: Hood got huge cheers when he finished, and deservingly so. He went into
: dark techno near then end with plenty of real time tweaking and deep
techno
: sounds that recalled a combination of Minimal Nation synth and percussion
: with the funk of Movable Parts. The best.
:
: Then Carl spun some great housey techno for awhile more while Dan Bell
got
: his gear soundchecked and sorted out some technical difficulties.
Finally
: after he went on and in his true style kicked the minimal traxxy funk.
: People were *really* dancing and grooving, lots of smiles and cheers from
: Carl, Cladue, and Rob. Some DBX sounds I recognized and very 909 based +
: his trademark "flying saucer" type synth sounds over the top. The RZ-1
: trax clap was in full effect as usual and he deliverd that whomping
: percussion workout. A hightlight was a "D-B-X" voice sample put through
: filters and tweaked like he did with "losing control" and he got madd
: cheers for that trick. Great, wish it could have been longer, but PA's
are
: always that way I guess. :)
:
: Then Dan spun on into the night and just a really great time overall,
: almost like a meeting and re-energization for the techno community. Carl
: got on the mic and thanked everyone who performed, big applause and
cheers.
: I hope to have some images up on a webpage near you soon, to be announced
:)
: There were a lot of folks with cameras and Dale L. was elbowing me out of
: every decent shot so check his website for the better shots. hahah ;)
:
: The only thing that sucked was my speeding ticket on the way home.
(thanks
: for nothing, FARMINGTON). Why the hell is 696 still 55mph anyway? But
: even that couldn't kill "that feeling" from the party. With the Jacob's
: Optical Stairway CD going, everything smoothed out anyway.
:
: Thanks again to the organizers and big shouts to all the supporters, too
: many to name (from near and far, Colombus!) who showed up.
:
: "We don't need no water, let the motherfucka' burn!" :)
:
: ________________________________________________________________
: Matt MacQueen artists in charge of expert systems
: macqueen@pilot.msu.edu
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