From dj.mercenary Sent Wed, Apr 15th 1998, 21:34
From dj.mercenary Sent Wed, Apr 15th 1998, 21:34
The ninja crew played south beach last night, or at least the northern end.
It was the traditional show of neotropic,vadim,herb,choc. weas.
The venue was real nice...couchs, vip, dance floor, 3 bars, pool tables.
They advertised doors open at 8 of course they didn't open till 9:30..After
listening to some pathetic attempts at djing by some amatuers, and an
interesting hard trance set, at 12 neotropic got on stage and assumed the
position. At this point some people moved to the previously empty dance
floor. There were no more than 60-70 in the club at one time, which is
pretty shitty since the club usually carries hundreds.
Anyway Riz played a great set...nice noise, interesting beats, and i loved
the home videos(?)...then vadim spun into her and was doing pretty good for
about 20 minutes then came the old skool....now prior to the show i was
thinking...how could this lineup be any less than good, even though everbody
had mentioned being let down, i didn't see how it was possible...boy was i
wrong..it started with one old skool tune then another, then back to some
smoother stuff, then back to old skool...soon enough i noticed i wasn't
paying attention anymore, i was even starting to notice some of the freaky
raver chics i try to avoid. Eventually the nagging feeling of, "i wish this
guy would just get off the stage already set in", not to say that the
beggining of the set wasn't good..he played some of his better songs and
even layered some songs together with his 4 tables(the turntable tv{sorry
isp} was pretty interesting for a while)which came out pretty good when he
was constructing em, but i guess he got lazy. Nonethless after about an hour
or so he stepped down and ollie from herbaliser got up...honestly he got off
on a bad foot, never even played anything all night that was his or anybody
on ntune that i could recognize. He spun for another hour or so before jake
got up and continued the boredom....
At this point i made my rounds and talked to everyone: interesting findings:
THe whole lot of em was very nice walking through the crowd and talking to
people, shaking hands and such, unfortunately to talk to em you had to yell
in each others ears, it was once again very loud.
-Dj Vadim: only knows how to breakdance a little bit, he says that people
breakdance at all his shows, and he is very proud that england is home to
the best bboys in the world.
-Neotropic:Concerning the album in september she said shes deffinitely
trying to shift her stlye from 15 levels towards what she played live and
that the stuff she played that night is what the album is going to sound
like, some of it was exceprts/samples/portions of what is going to be on the
album.
-Ollie:nothing much, used to be a bboy
-Jake: went up to him and asked him when he was going on and he seemed
surprised that anyone even recognized him.
-Choclate weasel: after being there for 6 hours and only hearing an hour or
so of good stuff i left, didn't see them walking around or anything, if
theres anybody else who stayed for them i'd be interested to hear what it
was like.
nonetheless it wasn't as bad as i make it out to be, i'm just a pessimist.
Enjoyed riz, some vadim, and the occasional good song that was played.
as far as souveneirs i talked the salesman(who was he?) and mentioned that
shirts were 16 at other places(they were 18 last night)
he said, yeah they lower the prices for backwater towns, so depending on
what your merchandise prices were at your show, is your ninja tune
town/backwater rating.
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If you've read this far you get the benefit of privileged schematic
information.
The Rich Coleman -divine ep(005) sold out real quick and is being repressed
and should be back in stores/circulation in about a month
The metic(006) is just starting to be circulated, they have lots waiting to
be sent out to places, Modernmusic is gonna be the place to watch for these
as a shipment will be going there soon.
If you can't find any of their stuff around the best place to look is in
germany, they send a majority of their stuff straight to germany, the
germans love their stuff!!
---The rich coleman is some great stuff, he has been doing electro for a
long time as well as playing lots of instruments, the ep itself is one of
the best so far. THere is one song that is just basically 5 minutes of some
of the best funky, tripped out, wicked fucking electro sounds you can find
and they are all strung togehter to make a song.
The metic ep is also pretty damn good, it is more harsh than the first one,
sometimes sounding very MAS like at points, but still sticks true to some
great textures as well as poignant melodies associated with some schema
material.
Both of these deffinite must gets, and there even at domestic prices!
-+Watch out for schematic in the future they have releases planned and ready
in the double digits...
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