From Andrew Duke Cognition Sent Tue, Apr 20th 1999, 13:15
From Andrew Duke Cognition Sent Tue, Apr 20th 1999, 13:15
Will: Thanks very much for the review/info. Andrew :) Will Samuels wrote: > --- Andrew Duke Cognition/In The Mix > <xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > Hello. Could those who attended the Crosswire > > benefit in Los Angeles this past saturday please > > post > > reviews of the show featuring Shake, John Tejada, > > and Divine Styler to the lists please. Thanks Andrew > > My pleasure. I won't really get into the art aspect of > the event, even though alot of it was pretty cool. > First on was Divine Styler, they performed as a five > piece band. I thought the acoustics of the room made > their performance sound kind of bad. Maybe the other > people that were in front of the speakers should > comment on them. I was busy talking with Anthony > Shakir during their performance. So I'm not the best > one to review them. > > John Tejada spun after them and I was very impressed. > The last time I saw him spin he played alot of really > great Balil, lush Detroit techno, and tech step drum n > bass, but that was at a small club, O2. So that is > what I was expecting to hear. Instead, he played some > really awesome minimal techno and his mixing was very > tight. I remember he played the new Cari Lekebusch on > Hybrid, the new Conceiled Projects (Adam Beyer) on > Code Red, Cytrax 08, some Red Planet, and then started > edging into the Detroit techno. I remember hearing a > very small part of Inner City - Good Life for just a > VERY short while. Some of the people that have seen > Tejada spin a few times in the past said that they had > never heard him spin so well. It was a very impressive > set! > > Anthony Shakir took the decks after him. The first > couple of tracks he played were sort of vocally house > tunes. He did some cool mixing and tricks. He also > threw on Inner City - Good Life. Shake then put on two > copies of a Basic Channel record and was going nuts on > the mixer. He was going back and forth, scratching, > back and forth, and played around with the two copies > for a while. He also did doubles of other tracks, such > as Shake's track - "The Floor Filler" (Frictional 06), > Alan Braxe's - Vertigo (Thomas Bangalter remix), and > some other tune that sounded like Jeff Mills (I'm > pretty sure it was). He also threw down some more of > his tunes such as "Plugged In" (also from Frictional > 06), "Fact of the Matter" and "Travellers" from the > Tracks For My Father ep on 7th City (SCD 008). He > played a very cool electro track from The Advent, and > even an old as dirt track from Heaven 17. He had > incredible mixing skills! I think it was a little too > much for the dancefloor, because more people stopped > dancing and started watching him go nuts with the > mixer and tables. > > My friend Eric later commented that he thought Shake > was the best mixer he had ever seen. His only regret > was that Shake didn't play more electroish stuff > (because that is his favorite style). > > After the event, about 6-7 of us hung out with him. > And he told us about his music, the Detroit scene, > etc. He is a really cool guy and funny as hell. The > whole night was a great time. > > My friend Ben was asking Shake about Da Sampla stuff. > Shake said, that he didn't like his tune "With A Piece > Of Ice" (which appears on the Claude Young - Dj Kicks) > > and that he didn't even own a copy of it. He did say > that he was going to do a Da Sampla lp. I don't think > it's going to be in the same style as the earlier > stuff. I don't know maybe it will. > > I definitely can't wait to hear more stuff from him. > The Waiting For Russel ep (Frictional 08), and Tracks > For My Father on 7th City are SO GREAT! > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Andrew Duke Cognition/In The Mix 1096 Queen St #123 Halifax NS Canada B3H 2R9 TEL 902-422-7132 FAX 902-422-1262 http://www.globalserve.net/~cognition In The Mix show 579:Pole(Kiff SM)/KymSerrano(Spelunk)