i was a sonar virgin; part of me wished the crowd stayed the size
of the first day where you could actually spot people & get a tan.
crowds cant be a low at a festival, so i guess i was pretty HIGH
most of the time...
getting there a day early & seeing lots of people i never saw again.
but got to meet a few bods in the real world... like where did
andy weatherall end up djing?
1st day was wicked, ran from cinematic orchestra to tuxedomoon.
enjoyed mum & dad & a few other things in that tent... spent a while
upstairs with the exhibitors & met mucho muchacho who'd been recording
with dj vadim. gave us a couple of dope 12"s, plus this compilation
of mainly us, & some spanish rappers called pachecho...krush was
awesome, but a scenario with a couple of taxi drivers (& i speak spanish)
put me off going back to sonar @ night... although the sound worked
for krush because his set worked with the echoes as sound, the rest
of that place was awful...
they had the music @ the beach b4? move it back...
best moment of all was being spotted in a record shop by the flipside
crew who i dj'd with a year earlier & then being clocked by a college
radio dj from new orleans... it outerwebbed me.
caught some well inneresting stuff in the evenings of both days, but
the best part for me was getting into the real world for a few
days & diggin how many record shops were in barcelona if you got
to em before they closed at 1pm!
things outside of sonar were interesting as well.... the slew of
record shops you could fall on if you managed to get out the door between
10am and 1pm. the pure arabic cd store & a few hidden gems i'm not
telling anyone about unless you fancy a slew of dirt cheap 80's pop.
there was an
experimental music festival going on @ the joan miro musuem & the
wrongfestival, on sunday professor angel dust called up & said
"come round our restaurant and eat exotic flowers listening to exotic
music". why not?
most creative use of a warehouse space i'd seen all week:
the chilled OVEN was way over in Poble Nou the music was wicked,
the food the most amazing i've ever eaten anywhere... so many places
to lounge for a drink, and then out came these amazing persian dancers
from usbekistan... every sunday, angel dusts girlfriend is trying to
bring some eclectica different kinda dance on the stage so that &
the projected images makes a great wind down, although its open thurs
thru sunday & during the week/ends they pull back the tables & dance.
a lotta locals near the macba were complaining after sonar, was in a
shop when someone came in with a petition to have the event moved
from the hood. oh dear, guess we stopped a few people having siestas, then...
woops!
quoted 24 lines surprised to see no-ones thoughts on Sonar...did no-one but me go?
>>
>>surprised to see no-ones thoughts on Sonar...did no-one but me go?
>>here are some first thoughts:
>>
>>HIGHS
>>Wobbly
>>DJ /Rupture
>>Anti-Pop Consortium
>>Balago
>>Massimo
>>Richie Hawtin
>>The guys from Progressive Form (the best thing by 100000 miles)
>>nice people on the stalls
>>
>>LOWS
>>Missing the thursday
>>Safety Scissors laptop being stolen
>>Cex
>>Pansonic & Peaches (jesus christ, what was the point?)
>>Wechsel garland (not dreadful, just disappointing)
>>Jeff Mills (see above)
>>The cavernous sonar by night
>>
>>perhaps ill go into more detail later
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