----The Orbit's 3rd Birthday Pardee!---
line up : 7-8.30 nigel walker
8.30-10 john berry
10-10.45 hardfloor
10.45-11.45 alex night
11.45-12.30 cjbolland & cisco
12.30-2 jeff mills
well, it could hardly fail to be brilliant, so when they first
told me i couldn't go in coz of dress restrictions (i had shorts on) i
nearly cried, but i blagged my way in, and thank god i did!
when i first walked in, we were handed a glass of champagne, and
confronted by the toga clad legions, well, there were a few anyway. :)
they had the usual excellent light show, and also four huge balloons, about
2 metres across which were abruptly ripped from the ceiling and bounced
about the place which was an awesome sight from the gallery... :)
the first two dj's were pretty good and played some cool stuff,
but i was stocking up on energy and drink for the 10-2 onslaught...
hardfloor played a very hardfloor set, nothing unusual, but still good,
and great to dance to. alex night was ok, too, but it was cj and jeff
mills that i was really looking forward to, so i didn't pay too much
attention to his set.
when cj came on, he played a brilliant set which wasn't prone to
the water dripping from the ceiling into the instruments which had killed
speedy j a few weeks ago... there was a lot from the 4th sign, and some
other stuff i didn't recognise, but it was quite hard and everyone was
into it, which was cool - i'm so used to crappy clubs, finding this on my
doorstep(ish) is so relieving. the atmosphere is so good as well, people
shaking your hand, passing drinks, joints. all very idylic. a cool break
from the world outside...
jeff mills. if you've ever seen him live, then you'll know what i
mean. wow. :) he started his set with a voice saying about the start of
the solar system, forming of the planets, then speedily on to detroit, it
having the hardest techno on the motherf*cking planet, and were we with
the underground? "yes!" "Are you with the underground!?!" "YES!!" and
then came the first song of X101 waveform transmission vol.1 which we know
as the jumping song... the beat gets faster and faster, you jump faster
and faster...try it, it's fun. :)
he played mostly his own stuff, but it was amazing to watch how he
worked the decks like a concert pianist, you couldn't really tell what he
was doing half the time because his hands were moving so fast! at one
point, a record jumped, so he spun it back, it started in time, jumped
again, so he took it off and chucked behind his back! value entertainment!
if you ever get the chance to see him, don't pass it up, the man
was born to spin the discs.
jAmz
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