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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, bleepbloop wrote:

quoted 1 line p.s. I realize I shouldn't be whining about this,

> p.s. I realize I shouldn't be whining about this,

You're right, you shouldn't. :-)

quoted 8 lines but I went

> but I went > to Toronto this weekend hoping to catch the Vapourspace set > at Module. I had to drive back the next morning... and I got > fed up when the opening Yakudo drummers hadn't come on by > 1:45am... was this too much to expect? Mark Gage wasn't > supposed to come on until 4:30am.... but the organisers were > so terribly behind in schedule he probably wouldn't have > played until 5:30-6am anyway.... grr...

Well, while Module was running about an hour behind schedule (I left around 5 AM and the Orb was still on, so your estimate was probably right), it *was* a rave. While I haven't been to many myself, the typical main room schedule - at least in Toronto - always seems to be locals from opening (10 or 11) until 1, "big names" from 1 until 5 or 6, and locals again from then until 8 or 9. Not that I've ever made it that late :-) but that's what the sched usually says. Anyway, lateness aside, I had a blast at Module. I was pretty happy with my own set in the side room, and aside from a few people that left when I dropped such tracks as "Girl From Ipanema" and Kermit the Frog's "Green", folks seemed to be digging it. I got to spin a bit longer than expected since things were running behind, and then got to catch the Yukudo drumming troupe who totally rocked the house. MM Morris was up next in the main room, and spun a a pretty sweet and mildly fucked up set. I was expected full-on d'n'b, but he really mixed things up, from weird ambient dub to drill&bass. I also managed to get a look at him on stage and realized that he had been hanging out in the side room for a bit during my set and gave me a friendly nod on the way past the decks, which was pretty cool I guess, especially considering my lack of experience spinning in live situations. Then came Le Petit Orb, who *really* fucked shit up. Alex was spinning everything from pure dub to straight up jungle to something that might've been speed garage, I dunno. Andy was off the the side twiddling knobs and banging keys. The crowd, while sparser than I expected, seemed to be eating it up, even as Patterson threw curve after curve at 'em. I would've liked to have caught the Vaporspace set, but by 5 AM, I'd been there for over 7 hours and just wanted to sleep. I went back to the "ambient" room briefly to pick up my stuff and found that te schedule shuffling had turned it into the hard vocal techno room. I guess the guy spinning must've been some hot shit in that scene 'cause I had to fight my way through a wall of 'spotters to get my gear. All in all, then, it was a good night. If I'd paid for it, I think I would've gotten my money's worth. Greg