From Maximilien Lincourt Sent Mon, Oct 18th 1999, 15:03
First, a small one, I went to see and hear Farmer's manual last evening. In a short sentence, it was horribly interresting ... At leat there was some Visual to display on the screen ( see below ) and even if the equipment mis-functionned at some point ( or was it a fake breakdown ? ) it was fun to watch and quite hypnotic. Does anyone know what software they used ? Friday night's Chain Reaction was cool, but I have a bit of a mix feeling about it. I arrives at around 21:40, and looked like Monolake was already playing for some time, I thing I head him for about 40 minutes, but it was very nice, could recognize pieces from Interstate and from "Hong Kong", but his show was a bit "nonchalant" ( in french ) seems like he was having problem... when he finished his set, the system kept playing, and he had to run up and close everything. After a small pause, two guys came up and started spining, I assume it was DJ rene and DJ pete ( Substance and Vainqueur ), one of then was actually spinning and adding effects, while the other one picked the vinyls ( and sometime played with the effects ). They played a varied mix of hard Chain Reaction type music, some deep Dub, sounded like some jammin'Unit mixed in with Maurizio and some funky groovy latino bits and pieces ( not long but was fun ). I left at around 1:30AM, and did Scion Played ? before Monolake or after I left ? The visual sucked, they sucked big time, I don't know who was in charge, but they sucked, they had about 4 different types of projection on the screen and they were ordinary; moving circles squares and line, ... Max. P.S. Anyone went to see/hear Scanner Saturday ? any comments ?